Continued prayer requested for Primates’ meeting

Posted on January 14, 2016 
Filed under Anglican Communion, GAFCON

primates-2016Please continue to pray for the Primates’ gathering in Canterbury.

Peter Ould, who was present in Canterbury Cathedral for Wednesday evening’s Evensong, writes,

“With barely a minute to go there were the same number of Primates as yesterday and then suddenly Foley Beach joined them and sat down. The number of Primates in the Quire then doubled as in the remaining leaders processed in full choir robes, liberals and conservatives alike.”

Here’s a prayer you could use.

George Conger, at Anglican Ink, gives his commentary:

“Gathered inside the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral the archbishops and moderators of the Anglican Communion, accompanied by translators, and a few aides, have weathered three days of intense conversation about the shape and future of the church. As of the lunch break on the third day, no one has left and no one has been ejected…”

And John Bingham at The Telegraph writes:

“The Archbishop of Canterbury was last night accused [of] treating African archbishops ‘like children’ in an attempt to avoid a full public walkout during make-or-break talks on the future of the worldwide Anglican church…”

– however, bear in mind that he quotes unnamed ‘sources’.