ACNA '09: Provincial Council endorses Covenant; Expresses solidarity with Communion Partners
June 22, 2009
BEDFORD, TX: Dallas/Fort Worth - The Anglican Church in North America Provincial Council has endorsed the Anglican Covenant and expressed solidarity with the Communion Partners.
The Covenant is a four-part document that outlines the basics of the Christian faith as Anglicans have historically understood and practiced it. It also provides for accountability among Communion members. The Covenant was initiated by the 2005 Windsor Report which in turn was prompted by the crisis in the Anglican Communion created by the deviation from Biblical teaching and morality in North America.
On Sunday 22 June 2009, the Provincial Council unanimously adopting the following resolution:
Resolution on the Anglican Communion Covenant
Resolved, under provisions of Canon I.1.1 of the Constitution and Canons, the Provincial Council of the Anglican Church in North America expresses its readiness to adopt the proposed Anglican Communion Covenant (Ridley Cambridge Draft) at an appropriate future meeting of the Provincial Council.
Further Resolved, that the Provincial Council of the Anglican Church in North America expresses its solidarity with the Communion Partner Bishops in North America in the hope that individual dioceses and other churches [Covenant 4.1.5] might be encouraged to adopt the Anglican Communion Covenant whether or not the Provinces of which they are a part have chosen to do so.
Unanimously adopted by the Provincial Council of the Anglican Church in North America at its meeting on the Third Sunday after Pentecost, 21 June A.D. 2009.
The Communion Partners is a group of Episcopal Church bishops and clergy who are working for a return to orthodoxy within that Church. They are strong supporters of the Covenant and have been very involved in the Covenant development process.
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| Cennydd | Posted: 2009/6/22 22:37 Updated: 2009/6/23 0:17 |
Home away from home   Joined: 2005/10/30 From: Los Banos, CA, Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin Posts: 6684 |
 Re: ACNA '09: Provincial Council endorses Covenant; ...I need not remind everyone that Katharine Jefferts Schori, the "Presiding Bishop" of The Episcopal Church, has said she will not countenance the discussion of the Covenant at General Convention, and therefore it is a dead issue with her, and presumably, the Executive Committee and the General Convention itself.
It is also highly probable that Bonnie Anderson, the president of their General Convention, won't raise the subject. Therfore, as far as The Episcopal Church is concerned, the Covenant apparently is a dead issue. If any of the Communion Partner bishops act to have their dioceses agree to it, and they sign it, you can be sure they will hear from Mrs Schori very quickly. Bishop Love, are you listening? And her action is very predictable, if her past performance is any indication. Cennydd |
| DJ1943 | Posted: 2009/6/23 1:51 Updated: 2009/6/23 1:51 |
Home away from home  Joined: 2007/11/30 From: Ohio Posts: 240 |
Re: ACNA '09: Provincial Council endorses Covenant; ... If I were Jefferts Schori, I'd be worrying about my legacy. Unless she does an 180 degrees,Church history will not treat her well.
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| Cennydd | Posted: 2009/6/23 2:17 Updated: 2009/6/23 2:18 |
Home away from home Joined: 2005/10/30 From: Los Banos, CA, Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin Posts: 6684 |
Re: ACNA '09: Provincial Council endorses Covenant; ... I can just imagine her now: "Grumble, grumble....how DARE they do this to us!! We OWN the Communion! They bow and scrape to US!"
Then her pet Mynah bird sits on his perch in her office and screeches "SUE! SUE! SUE!" Sorry, Kate....we just DID it to you! Get used to it!  Cennydd |
| Sodslaw | Posted: 2009/6/23 4:47 Updated: 2009/6/23 4:47 |
Home away from home  Joined: 2007/8/3 From: Orthodox Bunker Posts: 330 |
Re: ACNA '09: Provincial Council endorses Covenant; ... This is a new Church with the name Anglican and there are many many others. Canterbury only recognizes TEC and until they give formal recognition to ACNA it is just another American continuing church. Nothing wrong with that, especially since Canterbury is apostate but a group of IBM programmers that leave IBM and get together to program computers are not IBM.
We need good Christian witnesses in the USA but at the moment the ACNA is not the Anglican Communion. Before studying for a law degree you check to see if the school is accredited and if you will be acceptible and vocationally interchangeable. The ACNA should either have got approval/acceptance from Canterbury, or they agree to be an independent church body in the Anglican tradition. Good to see Lawrence Harrison today, he is a neat priest and he was the best thing ever in San Joaquin. Good luck to this new church, Jack Iker would be better off leading his folk to Rome IMHO! |
| yendor | Posted: 2009/6/23 6:13 Updated: 2009/6/23 6:13 |
Just can't stay away  Joined: 2007/11/3 From: Posts: 86 |
Re: ACNA '09: Provincial Council endorses Covenant; ... You make an interesting point about recognition, Sodslaw. But there is one major difference between ACNA and other continuing Anglican churches : ACNA is recognised by the majority of the Anglican Communion, even if it does not yet have a stamp of approval from Canterbury.
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| Cennydd | Posted: 2009/6/23 12:30 Updated: 2009/6/23 12:30 |
Home away from home Joined: 2005/10/30 From: Los Banos, CA, Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin Posts: 6684 |
Re: ACNA '09: Provincial Council endorses Covenant; ... You're right, of course, yendor. Somehow, the "stamp of approval" which has thus far come with recognition by Canterbury just doesn't seem to be all that important anymore.
What IS important is the recognition granted by those in the Communion who see the Great Commission as FAR more important than the issue of "who IS and who ISN'T a member." Rowan Cantuar seems to have lost sight of that, and it's time that we reminded him. Are you listening, your Grace? Cennydd |
