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> Resolutions of ACC-14 from 8th May

Posted On : May 8, 2009 8:05 PM | Posted By : Webmaster
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> The Windsor Continuation Group
> Resolved, 08.05.09

> The ACC

(a)	thanks the Archbishop of Canterbury for his report on the work
and recommendations of the Windsor Continuation Group,

(b) 	affirms the recommendations of the Windsor Continuation Group,

(c)	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;

(d)	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;

(e)	asks that urgent conversations are facilitated with those
Provinces where the application of the moratoria gives rise for concern;

(f)	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,

(g)	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;

(h)	calls the Communion to pray for repentance, conversion and
renewal; leading to deeper communion.

> The Anglican Communion Covenant
> Resolved, 08.05.09

> The ACC:

(a)	thanks the Covenant Design Group for their faithfulness and
responsiveness in producing the drafts for an Anglican Communion
Covenant and, in particular, for the Ridley Cambridge Draft submitted to
this meeting;

(b)	recognises that an Anglican Communion Covenant may provide an
effective means to strengthen and promote our common life as a
Communion;

(c) 	asks the Archbishop of Canterbury, in consultation with the
Secretary General, to appoint a small working group to consider and
consult with the Provinces on Section 4 and its possible revision, and
to report to the next meeting of the Joint Standing Committee;

(d)	asks the JSC, at that meeting, to approve a final form of
Section 4

(e)	asks the Secretary General to send the revised Ridley Cambridge
Text, at that time, only to the member Churches of the Anglican
Consultative Council for consideration and decision on acceptance or
adoption by them as The Anglican Communion Covenant;

(f)	asks those member Churches to report to ACC-15 on the progress
made in the processes of response to, and acceptance or adoption of, the
Covenant.

The Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil (from APJN)
Resolved, 08.05.09

The ACC expresses solidarity with the Anglican Episcopal Church of
Brazil (Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil) in its prophetic stand on
behalf of rural black and quilombo communities who "are experiencing a
delicate and tense moment due to imminent judgment of ADI No. 3239 by
the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court."
Resources: letter from the Primate of Brazil

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