Although alternative “gender-neutral” rites are available on a trial basis,
Marriage vows between Thing 1 and Thing 2.
Posted on 08/25/2017 8:31:08 PM PDT by marshmallow
A PROPOSAL to amend the Book of Common Prayer (BCP) of the Episcopal Church in the United States to change the marriage rite and catechism may be brought to the General Convention next year.
Although alternative “gender-neutral” rites are available on a trial basis, after a decision by the 2015 General Convention, the US Prayer Book catechism continues to state that marriage is between a man and a woman. Members of the Task Force on the Study of Marriage which was commissioned by the 2015 Convention to study “the impact of same-sex marriage and rites of blessing on our Church” are concerned that the current arrangement is unstable.
“When we expanded the marriage canon, we gave expression to the Church’s teaching about marriage in the Declaration of Intention,” the minutes from a meeting of the Task Force in March state. “We have embraced a core teaching of our understanding of marriage. This could be the basis of whatever catechetical teaching is written for the BCP revision.”
The proposal has alarmed traditionalists within the Church.
(Excerpt) Read more at churchtimes.co.uk ...
Why not just make the whole prayer book religion neutral?
And the destruction of Christianity proceeds apace...
I never thought our society was so fragile. We faught a civil war and world wars and America will collapse without a shot fired. This all stems from gay marriage and that has become the Trojan Horse. A side effect of America rejecting Christianity as founded,will bring societal rot to fill the vacuum and Islam.
It’s all in the second half of Romans 1.
The Episcopal Church might as well change the Bible... oh, look, they already have.
Demonic.
The Episcopal church will continue to have ceremonies and parties; they just won’t be real marriages any more.
It is not a problem while on Earth for man to think they can change God’s laws, but come judgment day some will find God did not change his laws and he over rules their changes
After the vandalization of the 1928 Prayer Book, why would anyone be surprised at any desecration by the Episcopal Church?
However, America's strength and vitality have been weakened by internal moral rot and decay--the destroyer of civilizations.
President Trump and his supporters see this for what it is and are determined to eradicate the moral rot and reverse the decadence.
Millions of Americans are blind to what's going on, and millions don't care because they're reveling in the moral rot.
America's survival depends upon the strength, power, and determination of the ascendant portion of its population.
You're right, a godless nation cannot survive.
America is desperately in need of a Christian renaissance.
Although alternative “gender-neutral” rites are available on a trial basis,
Marriage vows between Thing 1 and Thing 2.
The Book of Common Prayer
Blessing of the Marriage
Most gracious God, we give you thanks for your tender love
in sending Jesus Christ to come among us, to be born of a
human mother, and to make the way of the cross to be the
way of life. We thank you, also, for consecrating the union of man and woman in his Name. By the power of your Holy Spirit, pour out the abundance of your blessing upon this man and this woman. Defend them from every enemy. Lead
them into all peace. Let their love for each other be a seal upon their hearts, a mantle about their shoulders, and a crown upon their foreheads. Bless them in their work and in their companionship; in their sleeping and in their waking; in their joys and in their sorrows; in their life and in their death.
Finally, in your mercy, bring them to that table where your
saints feast for ever in your heavenly home; through Jesus
Christ our Lord, who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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