Posted on 10/12/2004 4:52:52 PM PDT by sionnsar
The Chancellor to the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, David Booth Beers, has called for a special meeting of all the ECUSA Diocesan Chancellors, and has set the date for October 20 in Orlando, Florida at the World Center Marriott two days after the Lambeth/Eames report is due out in London.
According to an orthodox bishop who spoke to Virtuosity on the grounds of anonymity, Beers will be doing "damage control" for his boss Frank Tracy Griswold. Several sources told Virtuosity that this is the first meeting of all chancellors ever.
"It looks like Griswold is in serious trouble," said the bishop.
Griswold has already seen the report as he will post his response to it immediately after the report is released on October 18 and he has apparently set in motion wheels to prevent wholesale departures from The Episcopal Church.
"He knows it is bad news for him and he wants to get ahead of the orthodox and his revisionist bishops to tighten down the Episcopal Church," said the source.
Clearly Beers has one objective. He will use his position as national chancellor and Griswold's personal attorney to strike fear into diocesan chancellors. What he will say is this. If you don't hold the line on the properties of fleeing priests who think they can take their properties with them, be assured I will come down on you like a ton of bricks and invoke the Dennis Canon and sue you.
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How does clark get involved in these things?
Thanks for the post and the ping.
I keep hearing that a lot of the Bishops who voted for the dark side are considering retirement to escape the hell on earth that they have created.
clark?
I didn't realize his Griswalds middle name is "Tracy". hmmmm
This is not happy news. Just this morning I was contemplating if it would be better to jump ship and join a conservative, traditional Lutheran, Presbyterian or Congregational parish.
Maybe he changed it from Brucie.
Wow, that's a great link, Fifth Business and Sionnsar! Thank you!
In the name of all that is Holy, why would you do something like that? If you can't find enough like-minded folks to join you and plant your own orthodox Anglican parish affiliated with the AMiA or some other continuing Anglican Province, then search out an existing one within commuting distance. In case you've not been listening, the Lutherans, Methodists, Presbyterians, and just about every other mainline denomination, are all playing patta-cake with the homosexual lobby and will eventually find themselves in exactly the same state as ECUSA. You've been "listening" to this crap for the last 20 years...there's probably another 10 years of "listening" before these other mainliners get to where ECUSA is today. Is that what you really want - another 10 years of fence-sitting and keeping your mouth shut so that no one accuses you of being homophobic?
There's not much I can say in response except maybe I've been caught up in choosing between lifelong tradition and my desire to hear the word of God in Church rather than politics and pc commentary from the pulpit.
We are fortunate here to have a completely orthodox archbishop who is not shy about laying down the law on homosexual marriage, pro-abort politicians taking Communion, etc. etc. and an old-fashioned Irish dreadnought priest with no biggod nonsense about him.
Of course, if you're unfortunate enough to be in a parish that's been taken over by the Kum-by-yah crowd or the short-haired "nuns", it's a different story. So you have to check.
ha! what are short-haired nuns?
That was a shorthand reference to the radical lesbian-feminist cadre who are trying to bring female priests into the Catholic church. No thanks - been there, done that with the Episcopalians.
As a young college grad, I was all in favor of "priestesses" in the ECUSA - but personal experience changed my mind. Our former ECUSA parish was a "training parish" where young ordinands did a year or two of service at the largest parish in the diocese before striking out on their own as rectors or assistant rectors in smaller churches. So I saw every woman ordained in the Diocese of Atlanta over a period of about 20 years. With a single exception, none of them were qualified - most couldn't preach, couldn't counsel, and couldn't perform their priestly functions properly. Many were neurotics looking for self-therapy, many were radical feminists who didn't have a "call" except to spread their political agenda, one was an actual lesbian living with another woman (at least they fired her, but times have changed, they probably wouldn't fire her now). The only one who was a decent pastor is 100 percent behind the homosexual "bishop" - no doubt influenced or browbeaten by her more radical sisters.
I feel very strongly about this - and a couple of well-meaning Catholic laymen and women in our new parish who were thinking that maybe ordaining women wouldn't be such a bad idea got an earful!
Lutherans are not playing "patta-cake" with the homo lobby. While there are heretics who might claim to be Lutheran, they do not represent the orthodox church of believers.
ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who by thy Holy Spirit didst preside in the Council of the blessed Apostles, and hast promised, through thy Son Jesus Christ, to be with thy Church to the end of the world; We beseech thee to be with the Council of thy Church to be assembled in thy Name and Presence. Save them from all error, ignorance, pride, and prejudice; and of thy great mercy vouchsafe, we beseech thee, so to direct, sanctify, and govern them in their work, by the mighty power of the Holy Ghost, that the comfortable Gospel of Christ may be truly preached, truly received, and truly followed, in all places, to the breaking down the kingdom of sin, Satan, and death; till at length the whole of thy dispersed sheep, being gathered into one fold, shall become partakers of everlasting life; through the merits and death of Jesus Christ our Saviour.
(JL, who was educated in an Anglican school, and still considers the King James Bible and the Book of Common Prayer to be the greatest and most inspired works ever written in the English tongue.)
Very good advice.
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