Bonnie Anderson, president of the House of Deputies and council vice president, yielded the majority of her time for opening remarks to Diocese of San Joaquin Provisional Bishop Jerry Lamb who updated the council on the work to rebuild the central California diocese since the group met there in January 2009.
“I want to tell you clearly and loudly that the clergy and laity of the Diocese of San Joaquin are committed to the Episcopal Church and to the Episcopal sense of what it is to be God’s people,” he said.
He said that the Episcopalians who remained after the former leadership and a majority of its members joined in December 2007 the Argentina-based Anglican Province of the Southern Cone have tried to reconcile, revive, renew and rebuild. Lamb said that efforts to reconcile with those who left “bore very, very little fruit” but that 21 worshipping communities have reformed and 18 of them have shown “significant but slow growth.”
“They are becoming much, much stronger,” Lamb said.
“Significant but slow” is one of those wonderfully vague phrases that demand some statistics. To suggest that the ersatz “Diocese” of San Joaquin, born of an abuse of canonical power and a civil lawsuit in contrast to any real attempt at reconciliation, is a vibrant sign of the vitality of the Episcopal Corporation strikes me as disingenuous. It is consistent nonetheless with the new view of “truth” arising from Mrs. Schori’s recent revelation of the Holy Spirit.
RE: [Our Dear Leader says] “. . . it is singularly important for us to recognize that many of the bishops who will be in attendance at that meeting are also themselves likely to be subject to this new law — capable of being stopped on the street. I think our presence there and our ability to speak in that context is extremely important.”
Lol. Who knew that “many of the bishops who will be in attendance” will be engaging in various crimes so that they can be “stopped on the street.”
I love the pretension and self-importance loaded into her lines. Really? “Our presence” there is “extremely important”? I’m sure that the leaders of Arizona are waiting with baited breath for the utterances of TinPot TEC to pontificate on Arizona and its laws.
Heh. She’s like a one-woman Monty Python skit now . . .
My bet? It was solely a financial decision not to switch venues . . . they already had reservations and such, and in 815’s penurious condition they needed to come up with something self-righteous to cover the decision to do the meeting there that sounded . . . good.
RE: “Lamb said that efforts to reconcile with those who left “bore very, very little fruit”
Wow — what a shock. Wonder why?
How could anyone not want to “reconcile” with a bunch of foaming heretics who don’t believe the Gospel and are suing you for your property and money so that they can continue propagating their heresy with a nice facade behind them?
Surprised they have time to listen to Lamb, what with all the new agenda items to restrict the wearing of miters by CoE bishops in the jurisdiction of TEC.
Yes, Sarah, one would have thought that rational people would have seen step one in a reconciliation process to be the suspension of lawsuits and institution of an arbitration process. Oh, now I see the problem…..”rational people”…
And don’t forget the depositions, this is kind of like: “You’re fired! Oh, by the way, we realize that you are the majority stockholder in the company, so please leave your shares at the door when you leave.”
Sarah and TJ,
LOL. It’s not hard to lampoon the foolishness and pretensions of the buffoons running TEC.
Sort of reminds me of the famous adage of old Euripides:
“[i]Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.[/i]”
David Handy+
I am reminded of one of Napoleon’s quotes: “Never interfer with the enemy while he is trying to destroy himself.” In the long run the Global South and its American partners have nothing to worry about. Sarah–you are correct. TEC has become a parody of itself; a joke within a joke.