Posted on 10/08/2016 4:03:18 PM PDT by marshmallow
The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Pope Francis have commissioned 19 pairs of Anglican and Roman Catholic bishops from across the world to take part in united mission in their local areas. The bishops, selected by the International Anglican Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission (Iarccum) were “sent out” for mission together by the Pope and Archbishop from the same church were Pope Gregory sent Saint Augustine to evangelise the English in the sixth Century.
“Fourteen centuries ago Pope Gregory sent the servant of God, Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, and his companions, from this holy place, to preach the joyful message of the Word of God,” Pope Francis told the bishops. “Today we send you, dear brothers, servants of God, with this same joyful message of his everlasting kingdom.”
Archbishop Justin Welby told them: “Our Saviour commissioned his disciples saying, ‘Peace be with you’. We too, send you out with his peace, a peace only he can give.
“May his peace bring freedom to those who are captive and oppressed, and may his peace bind into greater unity the people he has chosen as his own.”
The commissioning and sending out came in the setting of a Vespers service, led jointly by Pope Francis and Archbishop Welby, at the Church of Saint Gregory on the Caelian Hill in Rome.
The service was one of the highlights of an ecumenical summit organised by Iarccum to mark the 50th anniversary of the meeting between Pope Paul VI and Archbishop Michael Ramsey in 1966 – the first such public meeting between a Pope and an Archbishop of Canterbury since the Reformation. The summit, which began at the weekend in Canterbury and is continuing in the Vatican, will also mark the 50th anniversary of the Anglican Centre in Rome.
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“Sent on a “united mission” despite being disunited in their beliefs.”
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The US branch, the Episcopalian Church USA, is about as far left as you can get, denomination-wise.
LOL! Pope Francis needs to repent and evangelize himself and his fellow Shepherds in the Vatican.
Soros thinking is what needs to be “Sent Out”, and pronto. To the ash heap.
Another cause: the papacy. I wonder why Protestants didn't think that the Church needed an earthly vicar to, er, watch the store, like the pope, coming from the Latin pater, the FIRST pope being St. Peter, from the Latin "petra," or rock? Simon Bar Jonah. A.K.A. St. Peter.
Perhaps there's also some lacking in venerating Mary. We venerate saints and WORSHIP God. I think some Protestants might even think we worship Mary. That shows how little they know about the ancient Jewish culture where the son's mother held a lot of influence in the home.
Also there is the "high" and "low" Anglican church: https://gotquestions.org/high-church-low-church.html
That sounds like high and low Mass to this Catholic.
MAYBE the Anglicans have seen the conversations and meetings between the Roman Catholic Church and all the Orthodoxies and thought that a good idea. Talks can't hurt.
Edicts, yes; talks, no.
The more I read about Pope Francis’ beliefs and utterings, I see a pattern emerging that is very much like the heretical path the Episcopal Church and SOME of the Anglican Communion have pursued. I pray the Roman church comes to her senses.
My guess is Pope Francis is working toward reuniting with the Anglican communion.
I doubt it. When pope Benedict brought the Anglican parishes over, the ones most against it were the liberal bishops. Wasn’t ecumenical don’t you know to take parishes from the Anglicans. I’m just glad those parishes slid in under the wire. They were fairly conservative and were suffering greatly in the Anglicans “Church”
I think it’s great that Bishops are going out and seeing people in real life, instead of being insulated like CEOs. Iirc, one Church of England bishop (a native of Africa, I think) make a pilgrimage across his diocese on foot, talking to people wherever they stood.
I think this is a great example. It seems to me that American Catholic bishops do a lot of administering Confirmation, and a lot of administration, but can’t get cut loose to find out what the situation on the ground is really like. The Bishop’s mission field is every human in his diocese.
Regarding Mary: there is no question that she is to be honored, loved and respected. She is Jesus' earthly mother and holds a place that no other person holds. The problem is that the RC religion has elevated her as our mediator and co-redemtrix. All the crazy RC religion doctrine in the world will not change what non-Catholics see, which is that the RC religion worships Mary. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck ....
While I can certainly believe it is abused by corrupt people (both applicants and churchmen), an annulment is very specific in that it requires an existing condition at the time of the marriage (a pregnancy, closet homosexuality, mental illness, etc. - again, AT THE TIME OF THE MARRIAGE). Ted Kennedy’s first wife contested the annulment of their marriage publicly because she knew he had no grounds for it under Church law. Anyone who thinks they’ve fooled God with a fake annulment (or granted one) will face judgment like the rest of us; I wouldn’t want to be in their position.
Also, we view all of the saints as mediators, asking them to intercede on our behalf.
A Catholic who marries outside the Church without permission contracts an invalid marriage. There's no need to be "well connected," nor does it matter "what money can buy". It's the easiest annulment in the books.
None of this is to endorse what your acquaintance did, of course. I'm just pointing out that you're mistaken if you think his case somehow required some sort of extracurricular help. It's very ordinary, and very straightforward. Any priest could have explained that to him, BEFORE he married in the Lutheran church. Did he bother to ask?
BTW, the state divorced them first. Why does all of your wrath come against the church -- who, in effect although not in intent, merely ratified what the state had done -- and none against the state?
In the eyes of the RC religion, his little boy is a bastard.
This is false. In the current code of canon law, there is no concept of illegitimacy. But even when there was, children of a marriage entered into in good faith by at least one party were always considered legitimate.
As if he couldn't tell the difference here. It's pathetic already. LOL.
The New Religion of Ecumenism of Vatican II marches on...and not one Novus Ordo bishop to condemn it. If Pope Gregory and St Augustine were still alive they wouldn't even recognize it.
"For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus" -1st Timothy 2:5
The issue here is that of mediator as described in 1 Tim 2:5. Can Christians ask other Christians both in heaven and earth to pray and intercede for them? Christians on earth - absolutely! Christians in heaven - I don't know. Do the prayers and intercession of Christians in heaven or earth equate the mediation described in 1 Tim 2:5 ? No! No! No! If you disagree then you place your doctrine above God's Word OR you've contorting God's Word to satisfy your doctrine. 1st Timothy 2:5 tells us that Jesus in the one (not "a one', He's "the one") mediator between God and man. That settles it.
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