Yes, I haven’t posted
about the much anticipated/dreaded Primates Meeting of the Anglican
Communion. I’ve had mixed feelings
about it and haven’t had much value-added to say, to be honest.
But my sharp eye has
caught a tidbit from the sharp ear of David Ould. The picture of apparent harmony portrayed by a released
photo of the first Evensong is contradicted by something we were neither showed
nor told.
What they (understandably) don’t report is that only
a minority of the Primates dressed in convocation robes and an even smaller
minority (described to me by an attendee as “the arch-liberals”, including the
Primates of TEC and Canada) processed. The effect was clear, if unintended, in
demonstrating how few their number were. Most of the Primates simply sat and
waited.
For those unfamiliar with
Anglican etiquette, that is what a cleric might do if attending a gathering he
does not necessarily want to endorse.
An Anglican, lay or clergy, can attend a service without fully endorsing
it. And he can express his
distance by not participating in some
fashion.
In short, that only a
minority of the attending Primates processed, that most “simply sat and waited”
for Evensong to begin speaks volumes.
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