Francis urges humble path to unity in historic visit to Rome’s Anglicans

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During the first-ever visit by a pope to an Anglican church in Rome, Francis pointed to the spiritual attitude of humility necessary for Christian unity, and made clear that ecumenism “cannot be done in a laboratory – it has to be done on the road.”

How very wonderful that Pope Francis preached at Choral Evensong at the Anglican church in Rome. It’s a first and hopefully not the last.

cruxnow.com/global-church/2017/02/26/francis-urges-humble-path-unity-historic-visit-romes-anglicans/
 
This is truly amazing and beautiful on the part of Pope Francis although I can’t say all that surprising. Thank you for sharing, ComplineSan Fran.
 
7_Sorrows said:
Thanks GKC! Interesting.
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The Centre dates back to the sunshine, hopeful days of Pope Paul VI and Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, in the mid 60s. A breeze was in the air, and maybe, just maybe, something was starting. The Pope presented Cantuar with an episcopal ring and (IIRC) a pectoral cross, and they are worn, in appropriate venues still. The Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission was formed, and naive folk, and hopeful folk, everywhere thought it was going to do something dramatic. Maybe. Somewhere the shade of Charles Lindley Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax, was smiling. Maybe where it had all gone wrong, 70 years before, it was …maybe…going right, now?

Nope.
 
GKC said:
The Centre dates back to the sunshine, hopeful days of Pope Paul VI and Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, in the mid 60s. A breeze was in the air, and maybe, just maybe, something was starting.
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Yes, something was starting. It was no longer a zero-sum, us against them struggle. But starting is, by definition, only a beginning.
 
Peter_J said:
Yes, something was starting. It was no longer a zero-sum, us against them struggle. But starting is, by definition, only a beginning.
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It would have been nice if the Anglican side hadn’t started the run off the rails, shortly thereafter. Hard to find a convergent path, while diverging.
 
GKC said:
It would have been nice if the Anglican side hadn’t started the run off the rails, shortly thereafter. Hard to find a convergent path, while diverging.
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Yes I was thinking that too … Well, more precisely I was thinking “Anglicans moved further away from Catholicism rather than closer” … but I guess moving away from Catholicism is the same as running off the rails, am I right? 🙂 :cool:
 
GKC said:
The Pope presented Cantuar with an episcopal ring and (IIRC) a pectoral cross, and they are worn, in appropriate venues still.
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I have no recollection of a pectoral cross being given at that moment. The ring was a very special one, however. It was Blessed Paul VI’s own ring, that he had worn when he was archbishop of Milan. It deeply affected His Grace. The gift was arranged such that it was a surprise to him and he was overwhelmed in the emotion of the moment.
 
Don_Ruggero said:
I have no recollection of a pectoral cross being given at that moment. The ring was a very special one, however. It was Blessed Paul VI’s own ring, that he had worn when he was archbishop of Milan. It deeply affected His Grace. The gift was arranged such that it was a surprise to him and he was overwhelmed in the emotion of the moment.
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I expunge any recollection of a cross from my malleable memory. Thank you.
 
Peter_J said:
Yes I was thinking that too … Well, more precisely I was thinking “Anglicans moved further away from Catholicism rather than closer” … but I guess moving away from Catholicism is the same as running off the rails, am I right? 🙂 :cool:
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Close enough.
 
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