I am unaware of *any* PECUSA/ECUSA/TEC/whatever-they-are-today dioceses having broken with "815" (New York, TEC); there has been talk but no action -- though individual parishes have left, and I know others are preparing to do so.
There are those of us Continuing Anglicans who are not in any way whatsoever in communion with the heretics of 815. We might also be considered also the un-Entish/Anglican hasty ones, but for us enough was enough.
However, on the ECUSA/TEC diocesan level San Joaquin is breaking the ground in this direction. And I will also say I've known +Schofield for a couple of decades and more; he may make a dramatic stand if he really has to, but otherwise "showboating" is simply not his style.
K, I would just like to remind you that our tangled history is the reason we Anglicans are slow to respond, by the assessments of others. I could wish we had the quick trigger fingers of the Orthodox -- but we don't. We'd shoot too many of our own if we did.
This thing is playing its way out, and I suspect there will be enough action in short order to satisfy everyone's interest (even the Orthodox *\;-) -- stay tuned!
I have come to believe that Bishop John-David is a truly great Christian. I now pray for him daily. He bears his sufferings as a witness to Christ. I am deeply convicted to pray for him and his flock.
"K, if you take a look at my blog you'll see I am in no mood for sarcasm: in our parish we buried a saint yesterday, the second such I've known (in my estimation) in my lifetime."
May his memory be eternal! By the way, I was kidding, s. I enjoy your gentle sarcasm!
"I am unaware of *any* PECUSA/ECUSA/TEC/whatever-they-are-today dioceses having broken with "815" (New York, TEC); there has been talk but no action -- though individual parishes have left, and I know others are preparing to do so."
I meant foreign dioceses or national churches.
"I could wish we had the quick trigger fingers of the Orthodox -- but we don't. We'd shoot too many of our own if we did."
Ah, well you should try it. We have a long history of hurling anathemas and sometimes a little communion breaking is good for the Body, like a good purgative.
"This thing is playing its way out, and I suspect there will be enough action in short order to satisfy everyone's interest (even the Orthodox *\;-) -- stay tuned!"
Well I hope so. We do worry about the Anglicans. As I have observed before, Anglicans are certainly, at base, the most "Orthodox" in mentality of all Westerners. Its almost as if we have a family stake in what happens.