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On Friday May 8, 2009 the Anglican Consultative Council meeting in Kingston, Jamaica moved into a decision-making plenary session on the Windsor Continuation Group Report. Earlier in the meeting the Archbishop of Canterbury had made a presentation on this final report and the delegates had a number of sessions in Discernment Groups discussing the report and what should be included in the resolution. They had a significant impact on the development of the wording that ultimately came before the meeting today. The meeting heard from a wide variety of speakers and passed the following resolutions:

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.

Following the passing of the resolution Bishop Gregory Cameron and Archbishop Phillip Aspinall, the Primate of Australia spoke to the media about the Report, the process that was followed during the voting session and some of the next steps on carrying forward the Windsor Process in the life of the Communion.

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