> Frater: Fr Spencer  rightly raises the other side of 'The Question': I
do not see why +Jensen would get his surplice in a knot over priestesses
(which he opposes-sort of but for the wrong reason) when he will let
laymen(and by inference laywomen-in his theology what is the difference)
preside at the Eucharistic assembly. I am sure the word 'Mass' is never
uttered in his domain. Blessings. GDVW+
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Dear Fr. Scott:
> I am very happy to see that Archbishop Akinola has spoken so unambiguously
> concerning the recent innovations in some parts of the Anglican world. I
> wonder if he also considers Archbishop Jensen a "revisionist" since, for
> starters, he and his diocese teach that laymen can celebrate the Holy
> Communion. I wonder if he was say the same for the new American groups
> that ordain women? I suppose it is all a matter of "whose revision" and
> "which apostasy" we're talking about. Isn't that "subjective" and
> "relative" as well?
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> Fr. Glenn
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> From: charles scott <crscottblu@...>
> To: faith life <faithandlife@...>
> Sent: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:45 am
> Subject: [FaithandLife] from GAFCON
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> Judith Sudilovsky
> Ecumenical News international
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> Jerusalem
> The worldwide Anglican Communion, embroiled in a long-running controversy
> about homosexuality, needs to be rescued from "apostates," Nigerian
> Archbishop Peter Akinola has told 1,000 Anglican leaders meeting in
> Jerusalem.
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> “Our beloved Anglican Communion must be rescued from the manipulation of
> those who have denied the gospel and its power to transform and save,
> those who have departed from the scripture and the faith,” Archbishop
> Akinola said at the June 22 opening of the Global Anglican Future
> Conference, or GAFCON.
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> The standoff in the 77-million-strong Anglican Communion was triggered in
> 2003 after the US Episcopal (Anglican) Church consecrated V. Gene
> Robinson, an openly gay divorced father, as a bishop in the U.S. state of
> New Hampshire.
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> Anglican leaders who oppose the actions of the US church have organized
> the Jerusalem gathering. Many of the almost 300 bishops at the GAFCON
> meeting have said they will not attend the once-every-10-years Lambeth
> Conference in July that brings together the world's Anglican bishops. (The
> Anglican Communion office has said that more than 600 of the 800 invited
> bishops have registered for the conference in Canterbury, England.)
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> Anglican leaders reported to be planning to boycott the Lambeth Conference
> include Church of England Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, once seen as a
> potential Archbishop of Canterbury.
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> Sydney Archbishop Peter Jensen told journalists on June 22 that the
> Jerusalem meeting and the bishops' absence from the Lambeth Conference in
> July should be viewed as a "button" pointing to the enormity of the
> problem.
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> "Our absence will be helpful in that it forces the issue," Archbishop
> Jensen said. "It will help them focus their minds, and I hope the result
> will be a helpful convention which will pull us all together."
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> In his address to the Jerusalem meeting, Archbishop Akinola condemned the
> Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, for issuing invitations to the
> Lambeth gathering to US church leaders who consecrated Robinson as a
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> Archbishop Williams "was not interested in what matters to us, in what we
> think or in what we say", he said.
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> The Nigerian archbishop rejected what he called the "revisionist
> leadership" of the Anglican Communion. "A sizeable part of the communion
> is in error, and not a few are apostate," he said. "In the wisdom and
> strength God supplies, we must rescue what is left of the church from the
> error of the apostates."
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> Earlier, at a media conference, Archbishop Akinola described Williams as a
> "brother", whom he loved but with whom he is not able to agree about
> certain things of faith. "We want to rescue the communion. How that is to
> be done I have no idea," said the Nigerian archbishop.
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> Ugandan Archbishop Henry Orombi told the press briefing, "The Western
> church brought its religion to us and we embraced it, and now the Western
> church is contradicting what it brought to us."
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