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Jenny Te Paa:  “Your generosity of spirit in spite of all you have suffered…”

Monday, July 13, 2009 • 12:18 pm

Wow, looks like Sarah’s spoof was right on target:

It may be worth my repeating here something I said the other day in my contribution to the Chicago Consultation luncheon event at which I spoke. I was sharing in all humility one of my deepest regrets (one that I know is shared by other Commissioners) that as members of the Lambeth Commission we were never fully apprised of the full facts of your polity and in particular of the limits to the power of the office of Presiding Bishop.

As a result of that crucial gap in knowledge and understanding it is my belief that the very unfair, in fact the odious myth of ‘The Episcopal Church acting (in the matter of the consecration of Bishop Gene Robinson) with typical unchecked US imperialism’, was more readily enabled and abetted to grow wings and fly unchecked for way too long across the reaches of the Anglican Communion.

It was only in hindsight as a number of us as Commissioners managed to catch our breath, to compare notes and to consult with our trusted Episcopal Church sisters and brothers that I realized, that we realized, to our utterly deserved chagrin that we had perhaps failed albeit inadvertently to prevent something of the unprecedented vilification of the Episcopal Church and especially of its leadership that inevitably resulted. (Here I want to pay special tribute to the careful and valuable teachings which Reverend Canon Brian Grieves and Reverend Ian Douglas so generously and patiently provided me during this period).

I share this with you not by way of exploiting the privilege of this public platform as a confessional site but rather by way of affirming with boundless respect and gratitude the truly mutually redemptive moment it is that you now enable us all to live into.

Your generosity of spirit in spite of all you have suffered so unjustly and unnecessarily over the past few years is just so perfectly admirable. That you continue with such magnanimity to gather international friends, to share with us so openly, so willingly all that you do so formidably, so precisely, so efficiently and so compassionately is a gift offering of such magnitude that it seems so utterly insufficient for me to simply say thank you, thank you, thank you.

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Jenny Te Paa:  “Your generosity of spirit in spite of all you have suffered…”

Monday, July 13, 2009 • 12:18 pm

Wow, looks like Sarah’s spoof was right on target:

It may be worth my repeating here something I said the other day in my contribution to the Chicago Consultation luncheon event at which I spoke. I was sharing in all humility one of my deepest regrets (one that I know is shared by other Commissioners) that as members of the Lambeth Commission we were never fully apprised of the full facts of your polity and in particular of the limits to the power of the office of Presiding Bishop.

As a result of that crucial gap in knowledge and understanding it is my belief that the very unfair, in fact the odious myth of ‘The Episcopal Church acting (in the matter of the consecration of Bishop Gene Robinson) with typical unchecked US imperialism’, was more readily enabled and abetted to grow wings and fly unchecked for way too long across the reaches of the Anglican Communion.

It was only in hindsight as a number of us as Commissioners managed to catch our breath, to compare notes and to consult with our trusted Episcopal Church sisters and brothers that I realized, that we realized, to our utterly deserved chagrin that we had perhaps failed albeit inadvertently to prevent something of the unprecedented vilification of the Episcopal Church and especially of its leadership that inevitably resulted. (Here I want to pay special tribute to the careful and valuable teachings which Reverend Canon Brian Grieves and Reverend Ian Douglas so generously and patiently provided me during this period).

I share this with you not by way of exploiting the privilege of this public platform as a confessional site but rather by way of affirming with boundless respect and gratitude the truly mutually redemptive moment it is that you now enable us all to live into.

Your generosity of spirit in spite of all you have suffered so unjustly and unnecessarily over the past few years is just so perfectly admirable. That you continue with such magnanimity to gather international friends, to share with us so openly, so willingly all that you do so formidably, so precisely, so efficiently and so compassionately is a gift offering of such magnitude that it seems so utterly insufficient for me to simply say thank you, thank you, thank you.

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Horse hockey.

[1] Posted by Phil on 07-13-2009 at 11:44 AM • top

Pretty funny. She’s one of the house intellectuals now. Whatever the prog’s decide to do - they can rely on some kind of effort at intellectual justification from Rev’d Dr. Jenny Te Paa.

I’m not convinced that she was as ignorant of the facts about the polity of the Episcopal Church as she claims. Firstly, she lived in the USA at, of all places, the Graduate Theological Union at the end of the 90s whilst she did her doctorate. Secondly, she’s a clever woman - it’s not rocket science - if you are interested you can grasp the basics of TEC governance in a day or two at most.

So I suspect what she means is slightly more coded language - she’s sorry that she did not, at that point, share the radical prog’s ever evolving interpretation of TEC’s governance.

[2] Posted by driver8 on 07-13-2009 at 12:06 PM • top

all you have suffered so unjustly and unnecessarily over the past few years is just so perfectly admirable

The 117 Christians burnt out of their homes in India yesterday by Muslim mobs suffer.

The members of the 4 Baghdad churches bombed yesterday suffer.

The Sudanese Christians persecuted for their association with The Gay Church suffer.

The members of China’s house-churches imprisoned and outlawed for their witness suffer.

Spoilt well-fed, rich, free and safe American members of Integrity-TEC do not suffer, but goodness do they whine.

[3] Posted by Pageantmaster [Pray for +Mark Lawrence] on 07-13-2009 at 12:27 PM • top

THANK YOU Pageantmaster.  I couldn’t have said it better.  Thank you for speaking up for those who have truly suffered and even been martyred for their faith.

[4] Posted by Karen B. on 07-13-2009 at 12:43 PM • top

True words, Pageantmaster, we talk alot about suffering, but do not know the meaning.

[5] Posted by Eastern Anglican on 07-13-2009 at 12:46 PM • top

Te Paagasm.

[6] Posted by Christopher Johnson on 07-13-2009 at 01:27 PM • top

Sycophantishly sickening, isn’t it?  Perhaps the PB can give her a ride in her airplane with a pro-American Polity tail banner and thereby raise the ocean level to help spread the “suffering” she alleges to admire?  If they buy carbon off-sets, that is, and recycle their brown bag lunches and plastic water bottles?

[7] Posted by dwstroudmd+ on 07-13-2009 at 01:39 PM • top

Wow. That whole excerpt is only 8 sentences…..

[8] Posted by Edward Tamsberg on 07-13-2009 at 02:00 PM • top

Polity, schmolity.  This makes a fetish out of process, declaring whatever one’s “polity” does good and wholesome, a simply ridiculous notion.

Te Paa gives obsequieous prostration a bad name.

[9] Posted by Jeffersonian on 07-13-2009 at 02:44 PM • top

That you continue with such magnanimity to gather international friends, to share with us so openly, so willingly all that you do so formidably, so precisely, so efficiently and so compassionately is a gift offering of such magnitude that it seems so utterly insufficient for me to simply say thank you, thank you, thank you.

Is that Kool Aid they are serving??  Don’t accept the gift!!!!  It’s a curse!!!!!

[10] Posted by wportbello on 07-13-2009 at 04:53 PM • top

#6,  Yeah, and Te Paaganism too.

This chick is a piece of work.
Good. Gracious.
I swear, I thought it was a spoof, when I started reading the lefthand thread responses…..I was cracking up at how cleverly people were spoofing this ridiculous person.  Then I realized—good Lord—.this was really what she said with a straight face.

Is she Sally Field accepting the Oscar?  George Constanza accepting praise for his addition to the Guggenheim?  Who does she think she is?  Someone speaking on behalf of the Nobel committee?

The overwrought emotion! The mopping of the brow! The swooning to the glory of the sound of her words!
She is truly odiously, obsequiosly, cringe-worthily loathesome in her effluvia.
Yeccccchhhhh.

[11] Posted by heart on 07-13-2009 at 05:09 PM • top

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