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Resolutions of ACC-14 from 8th May

Posted On : May 8, 2009 8:05 PM | Posted By : Webmaster
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The Windsor Continuation Group

Resolved, 08.05.09

The ACC

  1. thanks the Archbishop of Canterbury for his report on the work and recommendations of the Windsor Continuation Group,
  2. affirms the recommendations of the Windsor Continuation Group,
  3. affirms the request of the Windsor Report (2004), adopted at the Primates’ Meetings (2005, 2007 and 2009), and supported at the Lambeth Conference (2008) for the implementation of the agreed moratoria on the Consecration of Bishops living in a same gender union, authorisation of public Rites of Blessing for Same Sex unions and continued interventions in other Provinces;
  4. acknowledges the efforts that have been made to hold to the moratoria, gives thanks for the gracious restraint that has been observed in these areas and recognises the deep cost of such restraint;
  5. asks that urgent conversations are facilitated with those Provinces where the application of the moratoria gives rise for concern;
  6. encourages the Archbishop of Canterbury to work with the Joint Standing Committee and the Secretary General to carry forward the implementation of the Windsor Continuation Group Report recommendations as appropriate,
  7. asks the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order to undertake a study of the role and responsibilities in the Communion of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lambeth Conference, the Anglican Consultative Council and the Primates’ Meeting; the ecclesiological rationale of each, and the relationships between them, in line with the Windsor Continuation Group Report, and to report back to ACC-15;
  8. calls the Communion to pray for repentance, conversion and renewal; leading to deeper communion.

The Anglican Communion Covenant

Resolved, 08.05.09

The ACC

  1. thanks the Covenant Design Group for their faithfulness and responsiveness in producing the drafts for an Anglican Communion Covenant and, in particular, for the Ridley Cambridge Draft submitted to this meeting;
  2. recognises that an Anglican Communion Covenant may provide an effective means to strengthen and promote our common life as a Communion;
  3. asks the Archbishop of Canterbury, in consultation with the Secretary General, to appoint a small working group to consider and consult with the Provinces on Section 4 and its possible revision, and to report to the next meeting of the Joint Standing Committee;
  4. asks the JSC, at that meeting, to approve a final form of Section 4
  5. asks the Secretary General to send the revised Ridley Cambridge Text, at that time, only to the member Churches of the Anglican Consultative Council for consideration and decision on acceptance or adoption by them as The Anglican Communion Covenant;
  6. asks those member Churches to report to ACC-15 on the progress made in the processes of response to, and acceptance or adoption of, the Covenant.

The Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil (from APJN)

Resolved, 08.05.09

The ACC expresses solidarity with the Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil (Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil) in its prophetic stand on behalf of rural black and quilombo communities who “are experiencing a delicate and tense moment due to imminent judgment of ADI No. 3239 by the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court.” 

Resources: letter from the Primate of Brazil

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