From peoadmin at anglicanchurchsa.org.za Thu Jul 3 10:01:13 2008 From: peoadmin at anglicanchurchsa.org.za (Gail Allen) Date: Thu Jul 3 10:04:58 2008 Subject: [Cpsa.news] FW: Statement on Zimbabwe by the Most Reverend Thabo Makgoba, Archbishop of Cape Town Message-ID: <74B93884A10447449DCF1F28063E78B50313E75D@BG-EXVS01.he.businessgateway.co.za> Archbishop Thabo Makgoba of Cape Town today called on the Southern African Development Community to establish mechanisms in Zimbabwe to bring about an end to political violence. He also urged Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF to recognise the legitimacy of its political opponents. The full text of his statement follows: Statement by the Most Reverend Thabo Makgoba, Archbishop of Cape Town "The African Union's resolution calling for negotiations to settle Zimbabwe's political crisis is a welcome first step towards fulfilling the AU's potential to work for an Africa without conflict. "Now space must be created to ensure that the negotiations are productive. "Both parties have to be genuinely willing to address one another's fears and aspirations. If the talks are to succeed, Zanu-PF needs to recognise the legitimacy of the MDC. In addition, the talks will go nowhere if Zimbabweans continue to live in terror of being attacked and killed for not having red ink on their fingers. "We acknowledge and give thanks for what the SADC mediation process has delivered so far. However, it needs now to be expanded, and I urge SADC to establish mechanisms on the ground in Zimbabwe to bring about a climate free of political violence. "We pray for negotiations between partners fully committed to finding one another and ending the desperate suffering of their people. A lasting settlement would breathe hope and transformation into our common life in Southern Africa." Issued by the Office of the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town Inquiries: Cheryl Vallay - 021- 763-1320 (office hours) From netman at cpsa.org.za Tue Jul 8 20:39:02 2008 From: netman at cpsa.org.za (Netman) Date: Tue Jul 8 20:39:04 2008 Subject: [Cpsa.news] Fw: ACNS4423 England - Women Bishops Message-ID: <001801c8e129$e505f220$5669f229@jenkins> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anglican Communion News Service" To: Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 6:13 PM Subject: ACNS4423 England - Women Bishops > Women Bishops > > Posted On : July 8, 2008 4:22 PM | Posted By : Admin ACO > Related Categories: England > > ACNS: http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/news.cfm/2008/7/8/ACNS4423 > > Report of the Women Bishops Legislative Drafting Group (GS 1685) > http://www.cofe.anglican.org/info/papers/womenbishopsreport > > Report from the House of Bishops (GS 1685A) > http://www.cofe.anglican.org/about/gensynod/agendas/gs1685a.rtf > > Bishop of Gloucester moved: > > 'That this Synod: > > (a) affirm that the wish of its majority is for women to be admitted to > the episcopate; > > (b) affirm its view that special arrangements be available, within the > existing structures of the Church of England, for those who as a matter > of theological conviction will not be able to receive the ministry of > women as bishops or priests; > > (c) affirm that these should be contained in a statutory national code > of practice to which all concerned would be required to have regard; and > > (d) instruct the legislative drafting group, in consultation with the > House of Bishops, to complete its work accordingly, including preparing > the first draft of a code of practice, so that the Business Committee > can include first consideration of the draft legislation in the agenda > for the February 2009 group of sessions.' > > The motion was carried by a division of the three houses of Synod. > > House of Bishops - For 28, Against 12, Abstentions 1 > > House of Clergy - For 124, Against 44, Abstentions 4 > > House of Laity - For 111, Against 68, Abstentions 2 > > Audio of afternoon session (part 1 of 2)- > http://audio.cofemedia.org.uk/synod/Jul0827.wax > > Audio of afternoon session (part 2 of 2)- > http://audio.cofemedia.org.uk/synod/Jul0828.wax > > Audio of evening session - > http://audio.cofemedia.org.uk/synod/Jul0829.wax > > ___________________________________________________________________ > ACNSlist, published by Anglican Communion News Service, London, is > distributed to more than 8,000 journalists and other readers around > the world. > > For subscription INFORMATION please go to: > http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/acnslist.cfm > > To UNSUBSCRIBE or CHANGE your address, please click here: > http://mh.epicom.org/scripts/c.php?L=acns&E=djenkins@mweb.co.za > > For daily updates on local, national and communion-wide news stories > please visit the ACNS Digest page: > http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/digest/index.cfm > > From peoadmin at anglicanchurchsa.org.za Fri Jul 11 08:52:39 2008 From: peoadmin at anglicanchurchsa.org.za (Gail Allen) Date: Fri Jul 11 08:53:00 2008 Subject: [Cpsa.news] July 'Ad Laos' Message-ID: <74B93884A10447449DCF1F28063E78B50323376E@BG-EXVS01.he.businessgateway.co.za> Archbishop Thabo Makgoba 'Ad Laos' - 'To the People' July 2008 My dear People of God I write to you as having just landed from the Holy Land and packing our suitcases to travel on to England for the Lambeth Conference. The words of the Psalmist to 'Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem', touched me afresh as I saw, listened and heard the longing for peace from those I met, including both Israeli and Palestinian soldiers. Travelling from Southern Africa, while political trauma and uncertainty still prevails in Zimbabwe, to a region that has been a site of conflict repeatedly throughout history, and then on to a Conference of the Anglican Communion, itself in some turmoil, has inevitably challenged me to reflect on how Jesus is Emmanuel, God with us, in the midst of discord. I have been reminded that we should expect to find Jesus present and active in the places of greatest human struggle - whether political or theological, or in any other area of life. In the incarnation of Jesus Christ, God shows us the truth, the measure by which humanity ought to live, in the difficult and complex situations in which we so often find ourselves. Yet his desire is not to condemn us for falling short of his standards, but to come along side us and reconcile us to himself, so that, by his grace, dependent on him, we can come to a growing understanding of, and be increasingly conformed to, his pattern, his attitudes, his words and deeds in all we do (see John 3:16-17, Rom 12,2). Once more I return to a phrase from my Installation Charge: 'we seek afresh to discover what it is to be the body of Christ in our time, and who God is in Jesus Christ, for us here and now' - for us in Southern Africa, in the Holy Land, in the Anglican Communion. The only way to answer that question is through opening ourselves more fully to experience Jesus as Emmanuel. Through making worship, private prayer and diligent study of the scriptures increasingly central to our lives, Jesus will become more central, and we will grow in our relationship with him. The recent meeting of the 'Global Anglican Future Conference' in Jerusalem is therefore right to challenge the Anglican Communion to ensure that, in the many and various cultures of our world, we remain faithful to our Lord and Saviour above all else. It is equally right that we begin the Lambeth Conference in retreat - where, away from the eyes of the media and the watching world, we can concentrate on listening to God together. And then, once the Conference and the Spouses' Conference begin in earnest, worship and bible-study provide the grounding of each day. As I mentioned in my previous ad Laos, you can download the daily readings and reflections from the Lambeth Conference website, www.lambethconference.org . You will also find there the details of the programme we will pursue over the following two weeks or so (and be able to follow the news from the Conference). Under the overarching twin themes of faithful, authentic, Anglican identity and of equipping bishops as leaders in mission, our daily topics range from evangelism and social injustice to the environment, and our relationships with other churches and other faiths. We also have a day in London (during which we will have a mass walk to demonstrate our commitment to helping end global poverty - an idea initiated by Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane before his retirement), and spend a Sunday in local churches. Finally, we turn to questions of our common life within the Anglican Communion, and how we follow up the recommendations of the Windsor Report, and the draft Covenant, and tackle the thorny issues of our disagreements and the need to continue reviewing and refining how we live together. It is right that we should do this at the end, not the beginning, of the Conference. This too is a lesson of Jesus' incarnation. It is by being with us, building a relationship with us, that Jesus transforms our lives, giving us courage and grace to turn away from all that holds us back from greater Christ-likeness, and to turn ever more towards him. My prayer is that our relationship with Jesus will grow in strength and depth through the Conference - not only the relationship of each individual, but our common relationship with him, as Anglican leaders and members together of the body of Christ - so that we become not only increasingly reconciled to him, but also to each other. We should never forget that salvation lies not in following laws, or rules and regulations, but in our relationship with Jesus as Lord and Saviour, the God who is Love in human form. In the same way, relationship, love, respect, faithfulness and trust should be the essence of how we relate to one another within the Church of God. Within Southern Africa we know this - it was through our relationship with Jesus and with each other, in him, that we were able to hold together through all the differences, some of them life-threatening, of the struggle years. The ability of diverse humanity within the body of Christ to live reconciled to one another was, and always is, a gift of grace. Grace, faith, friendship, and the bonds of affection between brothers and sisters in Christ - the care we have for one another within our parish and diocesan families - was something in which I was privileged to share last month, at the Umtata Diocesan Family Day in Indutywa. Ordinary men and women, in the dusty village streets of one of South Africa's poorest provinces still find hope for this life and the life to come, through our churches. They are prepared to travel long distances, and give generously of their limited resources, for God's mission to his world. Those of us who meet in our grand Conferences should never lose sight of the priority of God's presence, touching the lives of people in our pews, and, through them, reaching out to everyone they encounter. To sum up - wherever there is turmoil, expect God to be working for reconciliation (2 Cor 5). Pray for the peace of the Holy Land knowing that he desires to bring this gift of grace. What then for the Anglican Communion, where some claim schism is already at our door? I remain optimistic founded on the sure hope, even Jesus Christ. True, some bishops are staying away from the Lambeth Conference, but far fewer than the third who boycotted the very first Conference in 1867. Ironically, that was called as a result of North American bishops' concerns at what they feared was cultural syncretism within Africa, not least in the teaching of Bishop Colenso of Natal. Now it is North America's attempts to enculturate the gospel within contemporary society that are under scrutiny. Both cases return us to the fundamental question of what it means to be faithful to God, loving him and loving neighbour as Christ calls us to do, within the context with which we find ourselves, whether nineteenth century Africa or twenty-first century America. The answer is the same as it has always been - through prayer and Bible study to develop a living relationship with Jesus our Lord and Saviour, who desires to reconcile us to himself. So do not be daunted by our struggles, because it is in the midst of them that we will find Jesus most present, and find hope for the future. For we know, to use the words of a famous hymn, that it is grace that has brought us safe thus far - and grace will lead us home. Yours in the service of Christ +Thabo Cape Town Gail E Allen (Mrs) Provincial Executive Administrator Provincial Executive Office Anglican Church of Southern Africa 20 Bishopscourt Drive BISHOPSCOURT 7708 Western Cape Fax: 021 797 1329 Switchboard: 086 100 1171 ext 1328 International: 021 763 1300 ext 1328 e-mail: peoadmin@anglicanchurchsa.org.za web: www.anglicanchurchsa.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.sn.apc.org/pipermail/cpsa.news/attachments/20080711/1c383884/attachment.htm From netman at cpsa.org.za Fri Jul 18 15:21:52 2008 From: netman at cpsa.org.za (Netman) Date: Fri Jul 18 15:22:00 2008 Subject: [Cpsa.news] Fw: ACNS Lambeth Daily 1 Message-ID: <005701c8e8d9$3f382310$b36ff229@jenkins> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anglican Communion News Service" To: Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 10:35 PM Subject: ACNS Lambeth Daily 1 > The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams opens the Lambeth = > Conference > > The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams opened the Lambeth = > Conference to the sounds of South African Alleluias and prayers for the = > guidance of the Holy Spirit. He spoke to the gathering of Anglican = > Bishops from around the world addressing the first plenary session of = > the Lambeth Conference yesterday (July 16) He stressed that the = > Conference had a very strong emphasis on drawing together round the = > Bible and had been designed as a place "in which every voice can be = > heard and in which we build Christian relationship".=20 > > ACNS 4426: http://www.aco.org/daily/news.cfm/2008/7/17/ACNS4426 > > The Spouses Conference opens > > The Spouses Conference opened today as the delegates gathered for the = > first time. The 550 or so spouses are meeting in the huge sports hall = > which has been transformed into an attractive caf=E9 style meeting room = > to facilitate the conversation.=20 > > After worship led by the Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkin (London diocese) who is = > chaplain to the Spouses Conference, Mrs Jane Williams greeted the = > spouses and said how much she was looking forward to the next two weeks. = > She thanked her international planning group who had been such a help in = > forming the shape of the spouses' conference, and said that she felt = > upheld by prayer from all around the world. > > ACNS 4427: http://www.aco.org/daily/news.cfm/2008/7/17/ACNS4427 > > Bishops' Retreat > > The bishops of the Lambeth conference will enter into retreat today, = > continuing a practice as ancient as Christianity itself. > > For the next two days, the bishops will follow perhaps the most common = > model for retreats. The Archbishop of Canterbury will give several = > addresses to the bishops. After each address, considerable time will be = > set aside for silent prayer and reflection. This time is intended to = > kindle the Holy Spirit in the hearts and minds of the bishops as they = > begin the decennial Lambeth Conference. > > ACNS 4428: http://www.aco.org/daily/news.cfm/2008/7/17/ACNS4428 > > Thought for the Day from Bishop Philip Poole > > Incredible Hospitality > > The laughs and sighs of the many bishops and spouses gathering to = > register for the Lambeth Conference gave us all a chance to simply relax = > and be patient, realising God may have some great revelations for us all = > in the days ahead, starting with the traditional English queue. Old = > friends embraced, people shook hands and greeted new people with a = > warmth and sense of solidarity as the queue moved inch by inch. Spouses = > compared notes, hat boxes were seen in abundance and some just took the = > opportunity to sit on the grass and wait! > > ACNS 4429: http://www.aco.org/daily/news.cfm/2008/7/17/ACNS4429 > > Daily Prayer > > Father of all, from whom every family on earth takes its name, we give = > you thanks and praise for calling us from every nation and language into = > one people. > > As we meet together as Spouses at the Lambeth Conference, fill us with = > awe at the privilege you give us of belonging together and learning from = > each other. As we share the news of your saving work in all our lives, = > equip us, teach us and us inspire us, we pray, and make us ready to be = > your servants in the world you love. > > May we who have been most wonderfully called into the Body of Christ be = > filled with the power of the Holy Spirit, so that we may preach the good = > news of your kingdom to the ends of the earth. > > We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. > > Jane Williams > Convenor of the Spouses' Conference > > ACNS 4430: http://www.aco.org/daily/news.cfm/2008/7/17/ACNS4430 > > ___________________________________________________________________ > ACNSlist, published by Anglican Communion News Service, London, is > distributed to more than 8,000 journalists and other readers around > the world. > > For subscription INFORMATION please go to: > http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/acnslist.cfm > > To UNSUBSCRIBE or CHANGE your address, please click here: > http://mh.epicom.org/scripts/c.php?L=acns&E=djenkins@mweb.co.za > > For daily updates on local, national and communion-wide news stories > please visit the ACNS Digest page: > http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/digest/index.cfm > From netman at cpsa.org.za Fri Jul 18 17:42:07 2008 From: netman at cpsa.org.za (Netman) Date: Fri Jul 18 17:43:20 2008 Subject: [Cpsa.news] Fw: Archbishop Thabo's blog from Lambeth Message-ID: <000201c8e8ec$fb85e080$b36ff229@jenkins> For news on the Lambeth Conference from the Archbishop Visit his blog at http://archbishop.anglicanchurchsa.org/ From netman at cpsa.org.za Fri Jul 18 17:46:39 2008 From: netman at cpsa.org.za (Netman) Date: Fri Jul 18 17:46:46 2008 Subject: [Cpsa.news] ] FW: Archbishop Thabo's blog from Lambeth Message-ID: <002c01c8e8ed$796da0a0$b36ff229@jenkins> For news on the Lambeth Conference from the Archbishop Visit his blog at http://archbishop.anglicanchurchsa.org/