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Keeping in Touch

Posted on the 8th January 2015 in the Category - News



A happy new year!

 

At the beginning of this new year Bishop Glyn is wanting to make sure we're all kept in touch with what's going on.

 

Clergy

All the clergy who are currently on his address and mailing lists have been sent an email.  Please reply with the information requested.  Clergy who haven't received an email yet are warmly encouraged to email Ellie Doolan, Bishop Glyn's PA with all their contact details. 

 

Everyone

Other important ways to keep in touch, that everyone can use are by 'liking' our Facebook Page. Once subscribed, remember to click the 'like' button again and select the 'Get notifications' option to ensure that you always receive all the very latest news.  Subscribing to the RSS Feed of this website is also a good way of ensuring that you receive every news item.  More information about RSS Feeds and how to subscribe to them can be found on this helpful BBC page.



Bishop Glyn's Christmas Message

Posted on the 24th December 2014 in the Category - News



Bishop Glyn sends his greetings and best wishes to all for a Happy Christmas.  May our hearts be full of joy, wonder and adoration as we reflect on the central truth of Christmas, namely that God loves his world so much that he didn't form a committee, or even set up a task group, but rather that he sent it Only Son, to prove the extent of that love.

 

As we ask God to accept our love and thanksgiving for the great gift of his Son, may we pray that he will fill us with the spirit of charity and goodwill, that we may show our gratitude in generous service to those who need our help.

 

As we celebrate Christmas is the comfort and warmth of our own homes and the company of those we love, let's remember to pray for all those who will be alone, the suffering, the bereaved, those in our own country and throughout the world who have no homes and those who live in sordid conditions.  May they and we find in the One born in Bethlehem that the hopes and fears of all are met in him, as he is the source of light and life.


God bless you all

 

+Glyn



Priests of The Society

Posted on the 15th December 2014 in the Category - News



The Advent edition of Together (which can be found here) includes an article by Dr Colin Podmore, the Secretary of the Council of Bishops, which explains the process that Bishop Glyn and his brother Catholic Bishops are using to register Priests of the Society.  As well as the article below, further information can be found here.

 

Priests of The Society

Colin Podmore encourages priests to sign up and make the Society Declaration.

 

Catholics believe that both women and men are called to different ministries in the Church. But for theological reasons, we are unable to receive the sacramental ministry of women as priests (presiding at the Eucharist) or bishops (ordaining priests to preside at the Eucharist). 

 

So when the Church of England has women bishops, how can we know that a priest has been ordained by a bishop whose sacramental ministry of ordination we do recognise? How can we be confident that when he celebrates the Eucharist, we really do receive the sacrament of Our Lord’s Body and Blood?

 

The need to offer an easy answer to that question of ‘sacramental assurance’ is one of the reasons why our bishops have formed The Society.  As it says on the Society website, the Society provides ‘ministry, sacraments and oversight which we can receive with confidence’. 

 

Priests are now invited to make a Declaration which says that they:

 

  • believe and teach the catholic faith
  • are currently entitled to minister as a priest in the Church of England
  • have been ordained by a male bishop in the apostolic succession of bishops at whose ordination male bishops presided
  • will themselves not receive or join in the sacramental ministry of women priests and bishops or those whom they have ordained
  • will place themselves personally under the oversight of a Bishop of The Society (although they will remain under the legal jurisdiction of their diocesan bishop).

When the relevant Bishop of the Society receives a Declaration from a priest, he will welcome him as a Priest of The Society. The Welcome Letter will serve as proof that the priest is someone whose sacramental ministry we can receive with confidence.

 

Of course, there will still be validly ordained priests who are not Priests of The Society. Clergy (and, during vacancies, churchwardens) will need to ask some delicate questions about their orders before inviting them to say mass. With Priests of The Society, that research will not be necessary.

 

Catholic parishes naturally want as their priest someone who is in full communion not only with his bishop, but with all the priests whom that bishop has ordained, and who will support the resolutions passed by the PCC. When advertising for, or interviewing, potential new parish priests, asking them whether they are Priests of The Society will be an easy way of finding out where they stand.

 

Being a Priest of The Society costs nothing, although the bishops hope that priests and people of The Society will join Forward in Faith, because it is the membership organization which administers The Society on their behalf, and helps to pay for it. Being a priest of The Society involves only the basic obligations of relating to one of our bishops, and looking to him for sacramental ministry we can no longer find elsewhere.

 

So if a priest has not made the Declaration and become a Priest of The Society, why not?

 



Bishop Glyn to take part in the enthronement of the new Bishop Liverpool on Saturday

Posted on the 12th November 2014 in the Category - News



In his capacity as an Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Liverpool +Glyn has been invited to attend and take part in the enthronement of The Rt Revd Paul Bayes as Bishop Liverpool on Saturday 15 November.  Before deciding whether to be present in Liverpool he consulted the members of the Forward in Faith Council.  Their advice was that we should take the opportunities to be present at such significant diocesan occasions.  Sadly he will therefore not be able to be present at this year's Forward in Faith National Assembly.  Nevertheless Bishop Glyn will be praying for the National Assembly and all those attending it, that it may be a good day for us in our part of the church.



Appointment of the New Bishop of Burnley

Posted on the 7th November 2014 in the Category - Announcements



Following today's announcement of Fr Philip North, Team Rector of Parish of Old St Pancras, Diocese of London, as the next Bishop of Burnley, Bishop Glyn has been in contact with Fr North to greet him on his appointment to be a Bishop in the Church of God, and assures him of his prayers for his future ministry.   Obviously, Bishop Glyn and Fr Philip will be working closely together in the further, together of course with Bishop Tony.  He is looking forward to this.

 

Bishop Glyn is hugely encouraged by Bishop Julian's approach to Fr North's appointment.  Please read here what he has said about it:

"I wanted to have an episcopal colleague who is from the traditionalist catholic constituency and Philip fulfils that role well. He comes to serve the whole Diocese. He will also have particular care for those people who cannot accept the ministry of women as Bishops and Priests in the Church – and he will have my wholehearted support in carrying out this important work.”

We express our gratitude to Bishop Julian for his generosity of spirit and his commitment to mutual flourishing with the life of the church.



 

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