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"There is, in the end, only one thing that speaks to revisionism. We must break fellowship. It is already happening. At the recent meeting of the primates in Ireland a number of primates refused to share Holy Eucharist with Frank Griswold. A number of Episcopalians have already left the communion, others will follow. Some will leave in the near future; others will wait until after General Convention 2006, pending whether or not ECUSA repents. Whether sooner or later, it is the only solution barring the miracle of repentance on the part of ECUSA. Common Cause is rapidly becoming the only viable solution."
This is the most perfectly Orthodox/Patristic comment I have read by any Anglican since I first began reading these threads on what is going on in the Anglican Communion. I won't quote any of the Fathers on this...I've done that countless times. Allow me to add, however, that it isn't simply a matter of breaking communion, of refusing to share the Liturgy with heretics, its also about where you all go, since there is very little sense or spiritual profit in leaving the heresy of ECUSA to simply go off into a sort of religious and theological wilderness, proclaiming one's "ecclesial assembly', as the Romans might say, as the "One, True Anglican Church" or a sort of "purified Anglicanism" as Fr. Sanders puts it. The Church exists today as much as it did in, say, the 4th Century. That is where you should go...either as a group to Rome, or further East into Orthodoxy.