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What to Make of the Primates' Meeting?
Commentary by
Rev'd Dr. Louis R Tarsitano
The faithful in this country have gone twice (to Oporto and Kanuga) to the chief pastors of the Anglican Communion to seek their aid in preserving
their religious lives. By not acting, and by allowing the Episcopal Church to go
its own way in depriving the faithful of a spiritual home, the Primates
have acted. In effect they have set the American faithful free to rebuild a home
for themselves. Without perhaps knowing so, the Primates have absolved
American Anglicans of any moral duty to the Episcopal Church. Practically
speaking they have cleared the way for them to exercise the same duties and
rights of spiritual and moral self-preservation that were exercised by the
Church of England at the Reformation or by the old Protestant Episcopal
Church (for different reasons) after the American Revolution.
Americans can take responsibility for their own household in the Church and
work together to make that household everything that it ought to be
according to the Anglican Way of serving Jesus Christ. To take on such a
responsibility means building, from the ground up, a complete national
communion of Anglican churches, complete with formularies (including a
mutually agreed to constitution and canon law) and all other things
necessary to good Christian order and faithful doctrine, discipline, and
worship. We must do in the 21st century what Americans did at the end of
the 18th century, organize a faithful church for our nation, and that will
require a grass roots movement of the faithful, and not just an imposition
of the ideas of senior clerics.
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