Sunday, 13 January 2019

Anglican Essentials Wales


Source: Anglican Essential Wales


From their web site: "Anglican Essentials Wales is a national movement of lay and ordained Welsh Anglicans united in their common commitment to upholding orthodox faith and practice. Drawn from across the various traditions of the Anglican Church we are dedicated to the propagation of the unchanging gospel of Jesus Christ in a post-Christian Wales.

Our purpose is to:
  • provide a forum, a rallying point, and an identity for all "orthodox Anglicans" in the Church in Wales
  • provide a voice for this constituency to the leadership of the Church in Wales, to other Anglican constituencies, and to the world
In the rapidly changing culture of Wales, where the Christian Church has moved from central to sidelined in half a lifetime, Christians need to present the unchanging gospel of a Saviour who is the same yesterday, today and forever. How should the Church in Wales attempt this task?  What should change and what shouldn’t?  This will be focus of our 2019 conference on Missional Anglicanism."

Details of the inaugural conference may be found here.


Thanks to regular commentator Whamab for this link.

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12 comments:

  1. Anonymous13 January 2019 at 11:47

    Let’s hope that those remaining traditional Anglicans in South Wales support the Missional Anglicanism conference on Friday 15th - Saturday 16th March 2019. It is interesting to note that this conference is being hosted within the parish of Wales’ premier traditionalist parish, St Martin in Roath. On their parish literature they state ‘Here we teach and celebrate the Christian faith in the beauty and order of the Catholic tradition of the Church’. With the generous resources and support of that vibrant parish behind this scheme it bodes well for a successful venture.
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    1. Anonymous14 January 2019 at 17:45

      I hope there will be a lot of support for this conference and not just from the South. I have already booked my place and shall be coming down from the North Wales coast. If enough of us are committed enough it could be the start of lots of new worm casts in every diocese.
      Anglican Misfit

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  2. Simon Stylites14 January 2019 at 00:06

    Sadly they won't find any welcome from the Bishopette nor her scurvy crew at Llandaff.

    Grumbles on the Green report that at this morning's services, the Dean announced the appointment of a new Canon Residentiary to arrive in May. She (but of course!) is said to be the current Vicar of Thornbury in Gloucestershire, Rev Dr Jan van der Lely.

    A bit of internet sleuthing will reveal that she is part of Modern Church, a group utterly opposed to everything traditional about Anglicanism. One of their vice-presidents is Darth Bazza (but of course!) and another is Martyn Percy.
    https://www.modernchurch.org.uk/mc-events/173-modern-church/our-history/7-who-we-are

    Moving in these circles no doubt landed the good Rev Dr her job at Llandaff.

    Why a small cathedral needs three canons in residence, when the whole diocese is crying out for more priests, is beyond me. Presumably it's to cover for the Dean's manifold inadequacies.

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    1. Lux Et Veritas14 January 2019 at 07:32

      I believe she's also aremarried divorcee.

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    2. Caiaphas must go!14 January 2019 at 07:46

      Another Canon Residentiary?
      It appears Caiaphas, the Capon and the Toad are becoming increasingly desperate to force out the existing Canon Residentiary.
      Why Canon Preece would agree to walk into that nest of vipers is quite beyond me.

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    3. 166214 January 2019 at 08:46

      Just in time for the dud in the Deanery to publish his annual work of fiction too........ the Cathedral accounts.

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    4. Dick Pickles14 January 2019 at 09:44

      So those who fail to obtain preferment in England continue to wash up as flotsam and jetsam on the tide in Llandaff - one could be forgiven for thinking the Church of England is busy chucking all its dead cats over the neighbour's garden fence!
      Very few will have any notion of the language, culture or history of the Church in Wales, so is it any wonder that its very existence is in question?

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    5. Gabriel14 January 2019 at 09:59

      Was the post advertised or is it another Caiaphas stitch up?
      The ears in the walls report the new Canonesse to be arriving in May but the smart money on The Green suggests she will arrive in time to enjoy June's jolly to Santiago da Compostela.

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  3. Anonymous14 January 2019 at 13:36

    Here we have yet another non-Welsh speaking cleric to be welcomed by all the other English speaking only senior clergy in the Principality. But don’t be too down hearted. Yesterday, after the service, I realised there are advantages for Welsh speaking Anglicans.
    Being the Baptism of Christ, we had printed bi-lingual service sheets, suitably dumbed down. One OT reading, but no NT reading and no Psalms, even though the Gospel was short. No meaningful, recognisable Creed and a “simplified” Lord’s Prayer. After the service I asked one of the Welsh speakers if their Lord’s Prayer had been similarly dumbed down. No, was the answer, but then there are only about six Welsh first language speakers here. I said I thought these modernisations came from higher up. Since we don’t have many/any (how’s +Joanna’s Welsh coming along?) Welsh speaking bishops there’s no one in a position to interfere with the language. Diolch i Dduw.
    Anglican Misfit

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    1. Anonymous15 January 2019 at 12:25

      Far, far too much emphasis on presenting Christianity in Welsh, rather than on Christianity itself!
      Bob

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  4. Anonymous14 January 2019 at 21:59

    AB, is this not an opportunity for readers and subscribers of your blog to go to this conference and find out whether it could be the beginnings of a hopeful future for anglicans in Wales? It seems to me that this conference can only be a good thing for faithful anglicans who find themselves here and is surely a litmus test of the purpose behind this blog; to either moan and groan perpetually or to campaign for the reinstatement of traditional orthodox Anglicanism. I hope all those who find themselves here are motivated by the latter rather than the former.

    TheQuietRevolution

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  5. The Watchman15 January 2019 at 22:45

    There can never be "too much" emphasis upon Welsh Christianity Bob. The Christian faith arrived in Wales and flourished at a very early date preceding its arrival in Canterbury by many centuries.
    Although compelled to submit to Canterbury early in the 13th century the Welsh Church continues to hold sway in the hearts of the faithful as "Yr Hen Fam" The Ancient Mother.
    If your views are acted upon they will alienate the few faithful who continue to survive in this sad province.
    Just look at the "fine mess" that this non Welsh bench have landed us in.

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