{"id":2123,"date":"2007-09-25T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T20:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bishop_steensons_statement_to_the_house_of_bishops\/"},"modified":"2007-09-25T20:44:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T20:44:00","slug":"bishop_steensons_statement_to_the_house_of_bishops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=2123","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Steenson&#39;s Statement to the House of Bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.standfirminfaith.com\/index.php\/site\/article\/6305\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b>  The Living Church has an article about Bishop Steenson&#8217;s statement <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingchurch.org\/publishertlc\/viewarticle.asp?ID=3835\" title=\"here\"><b>here<\/b><\/a>.  Here&#8217;s the concluding section:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom time to time it seems necessary for some to embark on these personal journeys as a reminder that the churches of the Reformation were not intended to carry on indefinitely separated from their historical and theological mooring in the Church of Rome,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I believe that the Lord now calls me in this direction.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>In concluding remarks, Bishop Steenson asked for forgiveness from his fellow bishops \u201cfor any difficulty this may cause and for anything I may have said or done that has failed to live up to the love of Christ.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope that you will not see this as a repudiation of The Episcopal Church or Anglicanism. Rather, it is the sincere desire of a simple soul to bear witness to the fullness of the Catholic faith, in communion with what St. Irenaeus called \u201d\u02dcthat greatest and most ancient Church.\u2019 I believe that our noble Anglican tradition (\u201d\u02dcthis worthy patrimony\u2019) has deep within it the instinct of a migratory bird calling, \u201d\u02dcIt is time to fly home to a place you have never seen before.\u2019 May the Lord bless my steps and yours and bring our paths together in his good time.\u201d\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it all. Update: The Living Church has an article about Bishop Steenson&#8217;s statement here. Here&#8217;s the concluding section: \u201cFrom time to time it seems necessary for some to embark on these personal journeys as a reminder that the churches<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=2123\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,65,366,66,630,372,376,656],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-primary-source","category-statements-letters-bishops","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-sept07-hob-meeting","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-rio-grande"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}