Note to God -

Thank you for such a brave, honest, and truthful man.  thank you for calling him to be a tower in yout Church.  Give him strength Lord for the journey.

In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost,

Amen

RSB

There is nothing more to be said. 

We are indeed blessed to have ++Anis come to our aid.

Gotta love a real honest man of integrity who tells the truth.

The truth needs no defense.
Thank you Most Rev. Dr. Mouneer Hanna Anis

Laytone

The Most Rev. Dr. Mouneer Hanna Anis hit the nail on the head!

It is very unfortunate that not all the members of the Joint Standing Committee (JSC) were present when a response to the HOB of TEC was drafted. The lack of discussion and interaction will not produce a report that expresses the view of the whole committee.

Regular Guy translation: KJS, et.al. threw me under the bus.  I won’t forget…

Thank you Lord for this man who understands English better than our HoB

Truely a “Pillar of Iron” Jeremiah 1:17-19 (The Message)

17"But you—up on your feet and get dressed for work!
Stand up and say your piece. Say exactly what I tell you to say.
Don’t pull your punches
or I’ll pull you out of the lineup.

18-19"Stand at attention while I prepare you for your work.
I’m making you as impregnable as a castle,
Immovable as a steel post,
solid as a concrete block wall.
You’re a one-man defense system
against this culture,
Against Judah’s kings and princes,
against the priests and local leaders.
They’ll fight you, but they won’t
even scratch you.
I’ll back you up every inch of the way.”
God’s Decree.

Jeremiah 1:17-19 (KJV)

— Justin Martyr

Well, I can understand why the JSC wanted to get their “official” response out before Abp. Anis’ response arrived.  Certainly makes it difficult to claim “consensus,” doesn’t it?

I think it is about time to give the GS their appropriate representation on the ACC- given the increase in the number of Anglicans in those provinces.  Maybe then some of these commissions will begin to reflect what the Anglican Churches believe, rather than the opinion of a few rich white Euro-Americans.

May God bless the good Archbishop for standing up for the faith.
TJ

It’s time people realized that the good reasons for disassociating with TEC may also apply to England, Ireland and Scotland.  When there is no leadership in either numbers or in faithful witness, there’s not much left.  Thomas Merton was particularly damning in his suppositions:

“Prayer is attractive enough when it is considered in a context of good food, and sunny joyous country churches, and the green English countryside.  And, as a matter of fact, the Church of England means all this.  It is a class religion, th cult of a special society and group, not even of a whole nation, but of the ruling minority in a nation.  That is the principle basis for its rather strong coherence up to now.  There is certainly not much doctrinal unity, much less a mystical bond between people many of whom have even ceased to believe in grace or Sacraments.  The thing that holds them together is the powerful attraction of their own social tradition, and the stubborn tenacity with which they cling to certain social standards and customs, more or less for their own sake.  The Church of England depends for its existence, almost entirely on the solidarity and conservativism of the English ruling class.  Its strength is not in anything supernatural, but in the strong social and racial instincts which bind the members of this caste together; and the English cling to their Church the way they cling to their King and to their old schools: because of a big, vague, sweet complex of subjective dispositions regarding the English countryside, old castles and cottages, games of cricket in the long summer afternoons, tea-parties on the Thames, croquet, roast-beef, pipe-smoking, the Christmas panto, Punch and the London Times and all those other things the mere thought of which produces a warm and inexpressible ache in the English heart.”
...
“It is a terrible thing to think of the grace that is wasted in the world, and of the people that are lost.  Perhaps one explanation for the sterility and inefficacy of Anglicanism in the moral order is, besides its lack of vital contact with the Mystical Body of the True Church, the social injustice and the class oppression on which it is based: for, since it is mostly a class religion, it contracts the guilt of the class from which it is inseperable....” _The Seven Story Mountain_.

The older and deeper tradition that evangelized the British Isles was and remains, IMHO, the real spiritual strength of Christianity in those parts.  It is that Holy Tradition that +++Williams once cited when he spoke of what moves him most deeply.  It is from that fount that Evelyn Underhill drew her fire.  The churches of Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria, and Constantinople have remained in communion and hold up to us 2000 years of apostolic and eucharistic fellowship...not to mention the seven Ecumenical Councils.  When the Church of Rome’s emissaries came to the British Isles, they met peoples grounded in five centuries of Christian worship.

If you have friends who don’t normally check in with Stand Firm or Titus One Nine, etc—send them a link to this statement of the facts by Archbishop Anis.  This is as good as it gets—a man sent from God to speak the truth about TEC.  Let’s get the word out.

Thanks for posting this, Jackie.

Someone said during the HOB meeting after +Anis spoke that what he said was only with the ABC’s prior knowledge. Here he was silenced presumably without his prior knowledge.  The ABC’s reponse should tell us wiether these assumptions/conclusions were well founded

Bishop Mouneer needs our prayers - praise to God for a holy man who’s willing to point out the glaring inconsistencies betw what was requested and what was delivered; and for protection from attacks by the Enemy, spiritual or temporal.

WOW!!!!!!! What a scathing indictment of the Church of England by a former Episcopalian--Trappist monk, Thomas Merton. Someone should send a copy to the HOB, Great Britain’s bishops, +Katherine, and to ++ Rowan and ask them to respond to it. Maybe this document could be used to the advantage of the orthodox in the Anglican Communion.

It sure is something I hope to refute by my own faith stance. But then, I would be labeled extreme. Well, that is why I am an Anglo-Catholic. And many in the GS are, or are devout Evangelicals/Charismatics. It seems the liberal/broad church have a soul-problem--either hot or cold, but lukewarm ,and I will spew you out of my mouth--Revelation. PITY!!!

Clear and precise! Concensus or no....JSC getting a jump or no....all we need are more Bishops/Primates to stand up and tell it like it really is and be clear and precise just like +++Anis! Great- Great response. Praise be to God Almighty.
Thank you Jesus.

Amen!  I am so thankful to hear a courageous voice speak the truth so boldly.  Bless you!

Looks like someone is trying to put ++Anis in an “awfully small box” and throw away the key.

the snarkster

How many Primates does it take to start a new Anglican Communion, which eventually would reach around the world.  ONE - and I’ll bet we will have more.......it is happening.....right before our eyes.....thank you Lord....

Jackie, this is a terrific item—I’m a great fan of ++Mouneer—but it might help those who scan over the headlines to indicate in the header that this article is ++Mouneer‘s assessment and comment on the JSC report, rather than the JSC commentary itself.

Pray for the Primates.

Craig,
The headline was used as that is how Archbishop Anis titled it in his email.  For clarity, I moved his title to the body of the document and added your suggestion.  Hope this helps.

Alas! Clarity! No double-mindedness!

I still think that the ABofC hasn’t realised that he will definitely split the communion, including the Church of England, if he continues to hang on the TEC. 

Whereas, if he tells TEC that they have to go, then he will preserve the rest of the communion and I guess that TEC will decide to conform… After all they have nowhere else to go!

TEC will never decide to conform. They are in the control and the thrall of the revisionists. ABC must make a choice, an AC without TEC or an AC without the Global South.

Now THAT’s a minority report.  That’s what I’m talkin’ about.