Out of the Ashes

Out of the Ashes comes a new hope and dream.

I occasionally look into the Saint Peter’s Tallahassee Anglican Cathedral website.

I love what they’ve done with that place.

As a newly minted “Anglodox” I’ve started to dream anew.

Why not pray (and pray and pray some more) for the founding and firm establishment of a shared Conservative Anglican cathedral here locally in Colorado?

Along the lines of what they’re doing and have seen happen in Tallahassee?

Yes, new and frustrating issues have cropped up among the conservative Anglicans of the ACNA and CANA over issues such as Woman’s Ordination, but perhaps such concerns could be laid aside in an Anglican Ecumenically Shared Cathedral?

One of the partners would be the ACNA’s Rocky Mountain Diocese, which possesses the lion’s share of ACNA churches in Colorado and the greater Mountain West.

Another would be the ACNA’s International Diocese, which has two parishes locally.

The third partner could be the Reformed Episcopal Church, which has at least two churches in Colorado, and could ostensibly use a third in Colorado’s largest city (the greater Denver area).

A likely fourth partner might be the Anglican South Sudanese Church that meets at Resurrection Anglican Fellowship.

Perhaps at such a cathedral, some ground rules specific to said theoretical parish (for a cathedral church also functions as a parish for the cathedral community that lives and worships there) could be amicably agreed upon?

Start out by said theoretical parish following the current REC model of addressing WO.

Women interested in serving could obtain fully paid ministerial positions, but agree to sacrifice serving at the altar as fully-vested clergy for the sake of Anglican unity.  Perhaps they could wear clerical collars and act as Chalice Bearers in a compromise move, but not wear vestments?

Add in faithful usage of the 2019 Prayerbook and the 2017 Book of Common Praise and you might really have something.

Cathedral churches are usually highly committed to ecclesiastical High Arts.  Such a situation would be splendid!  This is a nice, big dream to arise from the ashes of personally train-wrecked Western Rite hopes from the past.  To God Alone be the Glory.  Amen.

Okay.  Prayers ascending.  This could take a while.

Blessings in The Holy Trinity,

The Lowly Reader Columba Silouan