The Presiding Bishop in Scotland and England - more
New additions to the Presiding Bishop's visit to Scotland and England from Thinking Anglicans:
Scottish Episcopal Church General Synod
... the following videos are now online.Primus’s Charge - this is what the Primus said during the opening Eucharist of the Synod
Address to Synod by +Katharine Jefferts Schori - the Presiding Bishop of the US based Episcopal Church
An interview with +Katharine in which she discusses the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the work of the Sisters of St Margaret in Haiti (who will receive the offering from the Synod Eucharist) and her own impressions of the Scottish Episcopal Church.
From Southwark Cathedral:, with remarks from the Dean of the Cathedral later in the day.
It seems to me that love must, by its essential nature, be always unconditional. We welcome Katharine Jefferts Schori to this pulpit because we love our sisters and brothers in the Episcopal Church of the United States; not because she is female, or a woman bishop ahead of us, or has permitted a practising lesbian to become a bishop (As it happens she couldn’t have stopped it after all the legal and proper canonical electoral processes resulted in the election and nomination), we welcome her because she is our sister in Christ.The lesson from the Hebrew Scriptures is enormously topical. Disaffected Anglicans have been threatening to ‘walk separate ways’ for many months. Abram and Lot travel together and their herdsmen bicker and fight, in modern translation there is 'strife' between them. They reach agreement to take separate paths and settle down and so their mutual belonging as members of one family is secured.
Read all the dean's remarks folks. Here's just one more bit,
"It may be that some Anglicans will decide to walk a separate path. I believe the Chapter and congregation of this church will walk the same path as the Episcopal Church of America, the links are deep in our history, especially here. Their actions in recent months have been entirely in accord with the Anglican ways of generosity and breadth. They have tried to ensure everyone is recognised as a child of God. They have behaved entirely in accord with their canon laws and their freedom as an independent Province of the Church, not imposing or interfering with others with whom they disagree but proceeding steadily and openly themselves."
If you're wondering if we have friends in the CoE....
Posted by John B. Chilton![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.episcopalcafe.com/lead/nav-commenters.gif)
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June 15, 2010 2:22 PM
So much more real than deciding who gets to carry a crosier or wear a mitre!
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June 15, 2010 2:47 PM
Southwark is a great diocese. I am actually visiting friends who reside in it this very moment. One of the finest confirmation services I ever attended was there, with music and dance representing the diversity of nations that live and worship in this community South of the Thames just near London Bridge. Pray for them as they prepare for a new Bishop, the just retired Bishop was also a great friend of TEC.
I suspect that many of us no longer think the center of the Anglican Ethos is found in Canterbury or Lambeth. It actually never was. They are the seats of the civil church, the heart and identity of Anglicanism are more to be found in places like Southwark than there.
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June 15, 2010 3:10 PM
The symbol of Episcopal office is the ring and cross. The primatial staff would not have been used outside her own jurisdiction even if Rowan had not asked. Rowan and his advisers know this. They should never have mentioned it. It was petty, stupid and silly for them to focus on the hat, because that's all the mitre is.
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June 15, 2010 3:12 PM