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Dennis Lewis

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From: d...@spry-net.com (Dennis Lewis)

Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 21:05:34 GMT

Local: Sat, Aug 20 2005 5:05 pm

Subject: Re: Anglican/Episcopal Schism Starting

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On 20 Aug 2005 12:30:31 -0700, Manuel wrote:

>Remember that the Great Western Schism started with the rather
>puny-seeming posting of a number of propositions by a monk called
>Martin Luther. At the time the propositions were within RC dogma. The
>ensuing flare where fur and feather flew led Luther and supporters to
>parent a separate church (die Evangelische Kirche) which still exists ...

Well, regarding one congregation in the previously referenced sextet,
the previously referenced Grace Church in Orange Park, a casual
visitor sitting in on a parish meeting would get the impression they
are chomping at the bit to leave the Episcopal Church USA.

During a parish meeting the first Sunday after Gene Robinson was named
bishop of New Hampshire, there was agreement that the word "Episcopal"
was going to be dropped from the church logo. Well, Robinson has been
bishop of New Hampshire for two years: <http://www.amazingrace.org/>.

Evidently the Episcopal Diocese of Florida really is the titleholder
on the church's property because at that same meeting there was talk
of the possibility of the diocese selling the property to the
congregation for the nominal sum of $1, allowing them to affiliate
with one of the "non-revisionist" bishops who heads a diocese below
the equator.

Even if the bishop at that time had been amenable to the idea, there
wouldn't have been time to finalize such a plan before the new bishop
was installed.

And, at this point in their lives, I suspect that the clergy at Grace
are aware of the benefits of staying with the Episcopal Church's
pension plan -- except for the new guy who wasn't ordained by the
ECUSA and who went across the parking lot to set up an AMiA mission
when the new bishop revoked permission for him to serve as a rector in
an Episcopal church in the Diocese of Florida.

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