Thank you, Mthr. Ellen.
***** [Reported by David Virtue:]
"But clearly the decisions of GC2009 are having an impact. A VOL reporter at the Convention Center ran into The Rev. Ellen Neufeld of the Diocese of Albany with her sandals in her hand. She said she had just left the HOD as a Deputy. She took her sandals off, shook off the dust from the soles, and walked out."
XIX. Of the Church.
The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
As the Church of Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Antioch, have erred, so also the Church of Rome hath erred, not only in their living and manner of Ceremonies, but also in matters of Faith.
XX. Of the Authority of the Church.
The Church hath power to decree Rites or Ceremonies, and authority in Controversies of Faith: and yet it is not lawful for the Church to ordain any thing that is contrary to God's Word written, neither may it so expound one place of Scripture, that it be repugnant to another. Wherefore, although the Church be a witness and a keeper of Holy Writ, yet, as it ought not to decree any thing against the same, so besides the same ought it not to enforce any thing to be believed for necessity of Salvation.
XXI. Of the Authority of General Councils.
[The Twenty-first of the former Articles is omitted; because it is partly of a local and civil nature, and is provided for, as to the remaining parts of it, in other Articles.]
The original 1571, 1662 text of this Article, omitted in the version of 1801, reads as follows: "General Councils may not be gathered together without the commandment and will of Princes. And when they be gathered together, (forasmuch as they be an assembly of men, whereof all be not governed with the Spirit and Word of God,) they may err, and sometimes have erred, even in things pertaining unto God. Wherefore things ordained by them as necessary to salvation have neither strength nor authority, unless it may be declared that they be taken out of holy Scripture."
Just saying......
Thanks to TexAnglican for this wonderful link:
I can't bear to write about General Convention at the momemt. I am spending too much time in prayer. What will I say to the parish I am supplying for tomorrow? I am not up to the task of explaining what GenCon has done. And yet, I will be the clergy on site. I must be able to explain. I pray and believe that the Holy Spirit will guide me and give me the words.
From Fr. Matt Kennedy: 104 yes, 30 no, 2 abstain
Actually, I feel a little ill and very sad.
It seems that both Stand Firm and Titusonenine are unavailable this morning. Just what has happened in Anaheim? It doesn't bode well.
