{"id":478,"date":"2005-02-25T13:37:08","date_gmt":"2005-02-25T13:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=478"},"modified":"2005-02-25T13:37:08","modified_gmt":"2005-02-25T13:37:08","slug":"message_from_the_presiding_bis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=478","title":{"rendered":"Message from the Presiding Bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"

The full letter from the Presiding Bishop:
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\nFriday, February 25, 2005
\nA word from the Presiding Bishop
\n[ENS] The primates of the Anglican Communion and Moderators of the United Churches have met together in Northern Ireland to address common concerns and to share something of our lives and ministries in our own widely different contexts. We have carefully studied the Windsor Report and how we might best be a communion in the midst of the deep differences which have been brought into sharp relief around the subject of homosexuality. I leave Ireland grateful that we as primates have done our very best to find a way forward and to avoid creating an unproductive situation of winners and losers.
\nThese days have not been easy for any of us and the communiqu\u00c3\u00a9 we issued gives some sense of our meeting and how we have struggled together. The communiqu\u00c3\u00a9 is the fruit of a great deal of prayer and reflects our mutual desire to move forward together.
\nAs the communiqu\u00c3\u00a9 was written with a view to making room for a wide variety of perspectives it is inevitable that no one will be pleased with all aspects of it. Some will not be pleased with the request from the primates (paragraph 14) that the Episcopal Church, along with the Anglican Church of Canada, \u00c2\u201cvoluntarily withdraw\u00c2\u201d our members from the Anglican Consultative Council \u00c2\u201cfor the period leading up to the next Lambeth Conference.\u00c2\u201d This request, together with the opportunity for a hearing with the Anglican Consultative Council (paragraph 16), gives space for speaking and listening. During this time the Episcopal
\nChurch will be responding to the questions addressed to us in the Windsor Report, as the primates have requested. We will have the opportunity to speak out of the truth of our experience. I welcome this opportunity knowing that the Episcopal Church has sought to
\nact with integrity in response to the Spirit, and that we have worked, and continue to work, to honor the different perspectives very much present within our church. Also during this time, the Anglican Consultative Council will be listening with care to what we have to say.
\nThe primates discussed the importance of pastoral care for all members of our Anglican Communion and have spoken clearly to the matter (paragraph 15). I very much welcome the recommendation to the Archbishop of Canterbury that he appoint a \u00c2\u201cpanel of reference to
\nsupervise the adequacy of pastoral provisions\u00c2\u201d for \u00c2\u201cgroups in serious theological dispute with their diocesan bishop, or dioceses in dispute with their Provinces\u00c2\u2026\u00c2\u201d The bishops of the Episcopal Church are committed to the provision of such pastoral care to those of various perspectives and have established a means of being certain it is provided which is described in Caring for all the Churches: Delegated Episcopal Pastoral Oversight. I am also pleased by the commitment made by the primates \u00c2\u201cneither to encourage nor to initiate cross-boundary violations.\u00c2\u201d
\nThe communiqu\u00c3\u00a9 notes that our meeting was \u00c2\u201ccharacterised by generosity of spirit, and a readiness to respect one another\u00c2\u2019s integrity, with Christian charity and abundant goodwill.\u00c2\u201d I have faith and confidence in the many ways in which the mystery of communion is lived among us. I am grateful that bonds of understanding and affection bind us together and call us to an ever deeper and more costly living out of the reconciliation brought about by Jesus through the Cross. Again this week it was revealed that so much more unites us than divides us.
\nThe Most Rev. Frank T. Griswold
\nPresiding Bishop and Primate
\nThe Episcopal Church, USA<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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