On the Council Concept chosen by GAFCON on Thursday, March the 5th

 Yesterday, GAFCON did something unexpected that at first, I strongly disagreed with.  This event ties in with my previous article.

Leaders of GAFCON, instead of choosing a new Anglican Archbishop to rival Apostate Canterbury, decided to form a Council instead, ostensibly composed of both Laity and Clergy.

So, evidently, there will be no new Anglican See.

The men arriving at this decision said they were led by The Holy Spirit to do so.

I wrestled with that.

I thought to myself, why would the Holy Spirit lead these men to choose a model which would seem to be ahistorical and non-canonical?

But then I realized the Spirit’s wisdom.

Even the Holy Orthodox Church will not appoint a rival Patriarch of Rome, even though the Popes are still in error.  So there’s the historical precedent right there.

Also the recent example of Derek Jones and the latest Anglican schism might have been on the minds of these men.  Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result is unsound and frankly insane.

Not creating a new See (where would you put it) is indeed The Spirit’s wisdom, even if these men don’t fully comprehend it.

Any new See would conflict with existing Holy Orthodox Sees, and God knows this, even if these well-intentioned men don’t.

So God is keeping GAFCON from further presumption.

More soon.

God is good, and the lover of Mankind!  Glory to Thee!

A Funny Thing Happened . . .

 A funny thing happened on my way to “becoming a Benedictine Oblate on behalf of the ACNA.”  I experienced the most savage Anxiety / Panic attack / Nervous breakdown scenario while at work.

This followed an “uneventful” and joyous attendance of a local Suffragan Bishop ordination of an Anglican Priest I was once under at an AMIA parish in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

I was truly happy for him, but something about the service got to me a day later.

I thought about The Oath of Conformity and about Anglicanism generally, and about the form and style of the service.

I realized I was kind of an outsider, outlier still.  This shook me.

In 2025 and 2026 so far, Anglicanism has gone through a series of outright disasters.  

First, there was the new Schism between Bishop Derek Jones and the Anglican Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces vs. The ACNA, then a progressive female Archbishop of Canterbury was selected, then the ACNA’s Archbishop became embroiled in scandal, and was rightfully inhibited before an upcoming Church Trial.

Two conservative Global South Anglican Groups can’t come to agreement on a final break with Canterbury.  GAFCON plans to, the other group won’t.  That’s a problem.

And just now, an Anglican Bishop in the ACNA is suing Derek Jones for defamation in the secular courts, whether deserved or not in clear violation of Holy Scripture.

This, frankly is a mess.  And I think I’ve realized some of the reasons why these upheavals keep happening.

I felt compelled to return to Holy Orthodoxy Full Time due to all these matters.

The Episcopate in Anglicanism is damaged.  This damage began with King Henry the 8th sacking of the Monasteries, many of them Benedictine, in the Middle Ages.

In Holy Orthodoxy, the Bishops are drawn from the Monastic ranks.  Deep dedication, therefore is “baked in” with these holy men.

Anglicanism’s Bishops are married men without Monastic Formation.  This leads to constant problems, whether among conservatives or liberals.  Part two of this article will theorize a possible remedy.  I’ll lead it off with this phrase:  The Articles of Religion, like the U.S. Constitution, should not be a mutual Suicide Pact.  More soon.