This image from
Twitter (H/T
Anglican Mainstream) shows the celebration of a lesbian civil partnership at Southwark Cathedral with "Eucharist, Dinner and Dancing".
It was joyfully attended by the Very Rev'd Professor Martyn Percy Dean of Christ Church Oxford, who pressed Philip North either to renounce his membership of
The Society or to decline his nomination as bishop of Sheffield, and his wife Emma Percy, Chair of
WATCH who likes to refer to God as a '
She'.
Taken with the
errors committed at the recent General Synod in York, this is another example of how far Anglicanism in Great Britain has become a do as you please religion.
In another recent
post on Anglican Mainstream the
question was posed,
Why is the Episcopal Church near collapse? A note of caution was added:
Ed: The author of this article is not mentioned, nor is it dated. We believe it to be several years old, but we consider it suitable for posting as the situation has not improved and the article clearly shows the effect of revisionism.
The rot started in the US. If ever there was a cautionary tale to heed one would have thought that the brakes would have been applied but instead progressives in this country have held up TEC as an exemplar.
After all she has done to
bring down the Episcopal Church in the United States, their former Presiding Bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori, was invited to proclaim the Gospel at the consecration of the new bishop of Llandaff, ignoring the Church in Wales' own
Basic Guidance concerning the Celebration of the Holy Eucharist: "[17.] The Gospel is normally proclaimed by a deacon, where available...and, from the Appendix, It is the duty of the deacon to proclaim the Gospel."
The Gospel stunt was a distraction which focused on the advancement of women in the Church rather than giving glory to God with the central focus of the liturgy being Christ himself (General Guidelines).
Back at the
parish ministry area level, this
comment was received following my previous entry which confirms worrying reports about Ministry Areas:
".... you mention 'inspiring our poor worn out hard working priests'
I agree with you but the management push to force ministry areas everywhere, is doing the opposite. Team leaders here in Monmouth are hard to come by as no one wants to run 3-4 parishes with less and less team members. Cwmbran, became a ministry area and went from 4 full time clergy, to two, the curate recently was moved to Malpas Ministry Area as no one would apply for it, so the remaining ministry team leader has resigned and is off to Llandaff as a team vicar. So soon no full time clergy......but hey plenty of lay readers who have been ordained...........(is it me or is that bad theology?)
I gather Llandaff has a chap going round full time, telling PCC's how wonderful ministry areas are......."
In the wider sphere, an observation from Pope Benedict XVI who sent a "sobering"
message at the funeral of Cardinal Joachim Meisner saying he was moved at the dubia cardinal's ability to "live out of a deep conviction that the Lord does not abandon His Church, even when the boat has taken on so much water as to be on the verge of capsizing.
What liberals claim as progress is the cost of their success. At the official level Anglicanism is all but finished in the US with Great Britain not far behind while blind progressives still insist that it is they who are right!
But all is not lost. Please read this hopeful message:
To the Anglicans of Great Britain.
Postscript [28.07.2017]
Read a review of material from Southwark Cathedral to mark civil parterships
here.
