Wednesday, October 30, 2019

The Intercession of the Saints

Concerning a recent controversy on the Litany of the Saints, for the Anglican Joint Synods (G4) Continuing Churches, the controversy is settled: we affirm the dogmatic authority of the Seven Ecumenical Councils, which affirm the advocation of saints. But beyond this, our canon law authorises the Anglican Missal as a received liturgical text - and the Missal includes the historic western Litany of the Saints, which is especially used at the Easter Vigil, Lex orandi, lex credendi. The controversy also points to the fact that there are now, in truth, three Anglicanisms: These are, (1) the First Millennium Consensus, or Anglo-Catholicism, now mostly found in Continuing Churches, (2) Liberalism, now found in the Lambeth Canterbury Communion, and (3) Evangelicalism, mostly found in those bodies adhering to GAFCON. The Elizabethan Settlement has for all practical purposes collapsed and has ceased to exist, if it ever factually existed in the first place.

ORA PRO NOBIS: A RESPONSE TO REV. BEN JEFFERIES' 'REFORMED LITANY OF THE SAINTS
by Father Wesley Walker



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