26 April, 2008...10:01 am

Grrrr….

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Not like I care but here is some news from the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne: First woman bishop appointed in Victoria.

For those who have come in late: there is no Canon to support this move! Only an opinion from a committee. So in case you are a Melbourne Anglican reading this and are concerned by this move: Come home NOW! Holy Mother Church is waiting for you!

Yet, this made me smile:

The ‘hope, cope and mitre fund’
A fund has been launched to give Canon Darling a cope, stole and mitre from the women and men, lay and ordained, of this Diocese.

“We also hope to have sufficient funds to invite Bishop Penny Jamieson of New Zealand, the first woman diocesan bishop in the Anglican Communion (now retired), to be present when her friend Barbara is consecrated,” said Dr Muriel Porter. “Please make a donation as soon as possible and promote the fund in your parishes.”

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  • Padre Steve
    26 April, 2008 at 2:38 pm

    You have to wonder how long it will take them to completely unwind… It must be hard for those who hold to the traditions in their church. God willing more of them will cross the Tiber! God bless! Padre Steve

  • asimplesinner
    26 April, 2008 at 2:43 pm

    Throw in the towel and come home, folks.

    No matter the great and heculean efforts put into “well Rome is wrong but we are at least this much right” it is always a line in the sand.

    Outside of The Rock that Christ himself- God incarnate, the second Divine Person of the Trinity - established, things just get wierd. You may think you are doing alright now, but think of the grandkids. Will your sect be recognizeable when they are adults?

    Get in your time machine and ask the Australian Anglicans of four decades ago if they recognize today what they put their blood sweat and tears into.

    Would they?

  • Bob Catholic
    26 April, 2008 at 2:53 pm

    … Would they? …

    I think the anti-Roman sentiment is much stronger than any need for theological orthodoxy. A lot of people find the whole idea of a theocracy very hard to comprehend within modern democratic thinking. Anglicans have baptised democracy in their synodical system - how else would one make decisions?

  • Tony Bartel
    27 April, 2008 at 10:15 am

    Hi Marco,

    I must say that my initial reaction to the Perth decision (now also Melbourne) was one of relief.

    For years I worried and fretted about these types of decisions and tried to find a way to convince myself that I could live with them. Now, at a respectable distance from the Anglican Church, I can now see how totally irrelevant they are.

    For example, everybody at work is aware that I used to be an Anglican priest, and nobody has bothered to engage me about this issue. Nobody has said that a decision like this would make them think about going to an Anglican Church. The impact out there is absolutely zilch. So much for making the Church more relevant to the world!

    It was a great joy as an Orthodox Christian to go to the Pascha liturgy and to experience the joy of the resurrection. That joy was even greater knowing that the apostolic faith will no be cast aside for the wisdom of the current age.

    Christos anesti. Alethos anesti.
    Christos voskrese. Voistinu voskrese.
    Christ is risen. He is risen indeed.

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