God bless and protect Bishop Lawrence and his flock.

I would sooner believe that Obama had become a Republican than that the good bishop had renounced his orders.

The actions of the PB are meaningless.

#2,
Yet everything she does is aimed at meaningful litigation.  Hungry evil flailing about because of a soul that is trying to fill an empty hole.

+Mark Lawrence IS STILL a bishop of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, while Katharine Jefferts Schori IS NOT, NEVER HAS BEEN, and NEVER WILL BE a bishop of that Church or any other.

I for one see a very timely Advent message in Bishop Lawrence’s response to those who have gathered against him.  The Lord be with him.

God bless and protect Bishop Mark. As for the PB, we need to heed some words from the ancient monastic office of Compline (1 Peter 5.8-9)
Fratres,
Sobrii estote et vigilate, quia adversarius vester diabolus circuit quaerens quem devoret. Cui resistite fortes in fide.

So, the canon requires that he notify the PB in writing that he is resigning his orders, and she calls him on the phone to tell him she’s accepting the written notification he never sent.  Remaining TEC clergy, take note.  You cannot expect the treatment your constitution and canons call for.

Well, Katherine, they can’t say they weren’t warned, can they?

I’m confused. Whatever your position on the hot topics of the day, shouldn’t such flagrant flouting of the Canons make any Episcopalian wince! Is law only law when you like it? Is injustice only injustice when it happens to someone you approve of? Where are the bishops? Where are the reappraisers raising their voice in protest?

This is a serious question from across the pond. Surely there must be enough perfectly decent people left in TEC. Are they crying foul? If not, what is going on?

They are not crying “foul” because that puts an arrow on their head!!

Ok, I meant a bullseye!!!

This letter could have been written by St Athanasius.

“I could point out the canonical problems with what they have done contrary to the canons of The Episcopal Church but to what avail?  TEC will do what they will do regardless of canonical limitations.”

Right on, +Lawrence.

9.  Peter, it’s a thing called complacency.  The majority of those remaining in TEC’s pews either just don’t care enough about their Church to raise their voices in protest, or they’re content to leave matters as they are.  In other words, they just can’t be bothered to do anything.  Others, however, do care, but they’ve been hounded out of the Church, as Bishop Lawrence has been hounded out.

I would love to see Archbishops of other provinces call Kate to inform of her of her renouncing of her orders because of the unbibilical actions of TEC. She’ll complain she didn’t write anything.  “Well, we voted to change our Canons yesterday.” Turn it around on her.

It won’t make the slightest bit of difference to her, flaanglican.  She’s a narcissist, which means she’d rather gaze at her navel while muttering platitudes about the damage she’s done to a once-proud and distinguished Church.

9. Peter - a valid query from avcross the pond. There is far too much background to go into here; few who post answers here will provide the detail and clarity you can find at The Anglican Curmudgeon’s site - http://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/  I urge you to visit it.
Here, you may dig and delve to your heart’s content, and learn what has been going on well in excess of five decades in ECUSA.
In simplest terms, ECUSA has abandoned the Gospel given us by the saints via the Bible; changing every ECUSA rule, usually by “illegal” methods, that gets in the way of their goal, usually ignoring all tradition and precedent, even to the point of making up new and false things out of whole cloth.
Consider this analogy: Labor tells the Archbishop of Canterbury, “Neither you, nor Her Majesty, have any righteous role whatsoever in the Church of England; you’ve had it wrong since Elizabeth I, so now we are excommunicating you both. Goodbye.”

#9, Luke#16 has written an excellent reply to which I heartily agree. I will only add that the reappraisers have left because they have been driven out of the church. There are a few orthodox clergy left but they also will have their orders renounced at the will of +KJS. I don’t like what has happened over the last few decades but there is no denying it. The events of the last decade have happened even faster than many thought possible. Now it is just a matter of time until TEC is no longer viable. What a sad tale…..

9. Peter deH - Take a look here to see how the ECUSA leadership operates extra-legally:
http://anglicanink.com/article/jefferts-schori-convene-special-convention-south-carolina

“Reappraisers…...raise their voices in protest?”  You’ve gotta be kidding!  They’re just as bad as Schori is!