30th June 2007
Bishop Trevor Rhodes laid to rest in a grand ceremony that Africa does so well.
ON Friday 22nd June, Archbishop John Hepworth, Father Michael Gill (Diocesan Administrator) and Father Stewart Peart (Secretary to Bishop Rhodes) reverently clothed Bishop Trevor in Episcopal raiment and white Mass vestments for the last time. His ring and cross rested on a green cushion with his mitre and a cross of red roses on the coffin.
30th June 2007
Fr. Michael Gill elected Bishop of the Anglican Church in Southern Africa (TR) Rite
FOLLOWING the funeral Mass for Bishop Rhodes, the first meeting of the Election Synod was chaired by the Primate. After singing the "Come Holy Ghost", and a debate devoid of any friction, and another time of silent prayer before the altar, the resolution was passed "that the Primate do everything necessary to secure the election of Father Michael Gill as the next bishop of this church ". Father Michael was invited back to the assembly. His future clergy and people surrounded him as they sang - as only Africa sings - the Doxology in many languages.
30th June 2007
APCK Diocese announces "a state of genuine unity and full communion" with TAC's U.S. province. Bishop Rocco A Florenza issues Pastoral Letter.
30th June 2007
The Anglican Province of Christ the King
THE Primate of the TAC welcomes the overtures recently made by one of the dioceses of the Anglican Province of Christ the King, as a further deepening of the unity of the Continuum in the United States.
[Read more]
18 th June 2007
Coadjutor Bishop elected for American Diocese
The Reverend Stephen Strawn was elected Bishop Coadjutor at the Diocese of the Missouri Valley Election and Synod last week. A Coadjutor Bishop has the right to succeed the bishop whom he is appointed to aid. [MORE]
11 June 2997
Bishop of great courage and faith dies - Bishop Trevor Rhodes
Archbishop Hepworth reports:
I have just heard from Canon Michael Gill, our Vicar General in Southern Africa, that Bishop Trevor Rhodes died shortly after Mass this morning (Sunday 10th June). His funeral will be held on Saturday 23rd June (the delay being necessary to allow people to gather from overseas, and because of the African tradition of conducting funerals on a Saturday).
I have only just returned from a somewhat arduous journey in Central and Southern Africa, which concluded with a day in Johannesburg with Bishop Trevor, who was "feeling his years" but seemed in good health and looking forward to retirement in the US from the end of the year. Much more will be said about Bishop Trevor in the weeks ahead, but may I simply say now that he was a man of great courage and great faith, who saw long ago what must be done by Anglican Catholics in good conscience, and who proceeded to devote his life to the poorest - in India, Central America and then as our bishop in Southern Africa, where he led the most extraordinary growth. May he rest in peace.
31st May 2007
Death of prominent Churchman and Director of the International Anglican
Fellowship,
Traditional Anglican Communion
Walter D. Kilian, 71, of Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S.A. died May 28, 2007 at Catholic Medical Center after a sudden illness.
He was one of the founders of St. Luke Anglican Church in Amherst
(Anglican Church in America) and served as senior warden for many years.
He also was Director of the International Anglican Fellowship, the
missionary arm of the Traditional Anglican Communion.
Please refer to : www.lambertfuneralhome.com/Obituaries.html for an Obituary.
May the Choir of Angels receive you. May you have Eternal Rest.
5 th May 2007
Scholar: Ordaining Women Is Disrespectful
Those who want to ordain women to the priesthood manifest a failure to recognize the dignity of women, said an expert in moral theology and women's issues.[MORE]
23rd April 2007
The Church of Torres Strait - Ordination Service
A video clip taken from the Ordination Service of The Reverend Ron Day to the Sacred Priesthood, St. Clare's Cairns, Australia, November 2006.
THE Church of Torres Strait is a member church of the Traditional Anglican Communion. The Church of Torres Strait was formed in November 1997 and comprises the majority of the clergy, elders and laity of the Torres Strait, who were members of the Diocese of North Queensland/Carpentaria in the Anglican Church of Australia.
31st March 2007
New addition to the Messenger Journal website
On the pages link bar above you will now notice "Videos". This new page will be the archive for our video clips which you can navigate directly to. Any and all video clips we add to the page will be announced here on the "News & Announcements" page with a direct link to the video itself as will be indicated by a picture in a film strip as in the article below. Please enjoy!
31st March 2007
The TAC and The Holy See quest for Unity.
A 15 minute video clip produced by David Naglieri of Salt and Light Catholic Television, Canada's Catholic Network ( www.saltandlighttv.org ). highlights the Traditional Anglican Communion and the quest for unity with Rome. The Program was aired across Canada on its FOCUS program 20 th February 2007.
17th March 2007
Religious Symbols Hostility to Signs of Christianity Mounts
The presence of Christian symbols in public life is increasingly under challenge. Last October, a cross on the altar of a chapel at the College of William and Mary, in Williamsburg, Virginia, was removed on orders of college president Gene Nichol. [More]
1st March 2007
Retreatants Hear of Guises of the Antichrist
Preacher Draws On Work of V.S. Solovyov
VATICAN CITY, FEB. 28, 2007 (Zenit.org).- The Antichrist is the reduction of Christianity to an ideology, instead of a personal encounter with the Savior, says the cardinal directing the retreat which Benedict XVI is attending, and ending Saturday March 4. [Full Story]
27th February 2007
Assault on Christianity
By Mark Pickup
You are seeing a direct frontal assault at the root of Christianity: The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Canadian producer of Titanic film fame is scheduled to have a New York press conference on February 26th. Apparently he's going to present 3 coffins: Jesus, Mary Magdalene and the Virgin Mary. He says he has DNA evidence! He's even made a 90 minute documentary." [MORE]
25th February 2007
Statement on the Meeting of Anglican Primates (Tanzania, February 2007) and its aftermath
THE Primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion in a Statement released today says that the Anglican Communion is engaged in a process without any clear terminus, in which it (far from disintegrating) is transforming itself into a new entity on a largely new theological basis. As this unfolds, our mission is twofold: to win souls for Christ and to do everything in our power to restore and renew the tradition from which we derive our membership of the Body of Christ. Hence the importance of our observation and analysis of events in the Anglican Communion.
Continuing Church is not New Church!
I call on the Primates to look again at what they are doing: to abandon an experiment in democratised faith for a living faithfulness; to abandon a neutered priesthood for a priesthood open to the iconic presence of the risen Christ in its ministry; to fearlessly proclaim the sanctity of life and the family that nurtures it in place of a narrow obsession with sexual sin; and to re-enter the world of catholic Christianity, prepared to rediscover the source of divine truth committed to the Church. [Read the Full Statement]2nd February 2007
A Special Report on the Consecrations of two Suffragan bishops in Canada
By Deborah Gyapong
OTTAWA-On Jan. 27, Archbishop John Hepworth, Primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion, consecrated two suffragan bishops for the Diocese of Canada, preaching that the mission and vocation of a bishop is "to receive the treasure that Jesus committed to the Apostles and pass it on." [Read More]
29th January 2007
THE consecration of two Suffragan Bishops
THE consecration of two Suffragan Bishops for the Canadian Province of
the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada took place Saturday, January 27,
2006, the feast of St. John Chrysostom and 'The Refounding of the
Canadian Episcopate, 1979' at St. Basil's Roman Catholic Church in
Ottawa.[More including first pics]
9th January 2007
Statement from the Primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion
On the latest departures from the Episcopal Church
Our hearts and our prayers are with the former members of the Episcopal
Church - from Virginia and other places - as they begin to "walk
apart".[Read the full Statement]
9th January 2007
Thousands flee Episcopal Church, Break-up of Canterbury's Communion
under way
IT is reported that over 40,000 faithful Episcopalians left The
Episcopal Church (TEC) in 2006, and an estimated 115,000 in the past two
years. They didn't just change congregations, but left it altogether. December 2006 saw the greatest single exodus of Episcopalians in the
300-year history of the Diocese of Virginia. More than 20% of the
funding and 25% of its members have either left or will leave that
diocese this year. [More]
SDO began in North-East England in 2003. It continues today as an ecumenical devotional society whose Members pray a common Office of Matins, Vespers and Compline, but who plan their Bible-reading individually.
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