Response from the Clergy conference

Thank you for your prayers offered for the success of ACP 2nd Clergy conference. We were blessed to hear positive responses from the participants. Special Thanks to Dr. Chris and Rachelle Ruhm.

Happy Thanksgiving!

As we reflect and celebrate the goodness of God this year and the years
past, there are many things that we can thank and praise Him. 
HAPPY  THANKSGIVING! 
In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. (1 Thessalonian 5:18)  You are  blessed!

                                   The Collect 

O MOST merciful Father, who hast blessed the labours of the husbandman in the returns of the fruits of the earth; We give thee humble and hearty thanks for this thy bounty; beseeching thee to continue thy loving-kindness to us, that our land may still yield her increase, to thy glory and our comfort; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Archbishop of Canterbury moves to flush out Anglicans plotting to defect to Rome

The Archbishop of Canterbury moved last night to counter secret plotting among disaffected Anglicans who are planning to defect to Rome.   

By Tim Ross, Religious Affairs Editor  Published: 7:30AM BST 21 Oct 2010

Dr Williams's suggestion came in his first public remarks since a parish in Kent and a London bishop announced their intention to accept the Pope's offer to convert to Roman Catholicism  

Photo: REUTERS

In a surprise announcement, Dr Rowan Williams said he wanted to establish a new joint group of Roman Catholic and Church of England figures to oversee the conversion process.

The proposed group would be designed to enable smooth and less painful transition for those who want to leave the Church of England to become Roman Catholics in protest at the ordination of women bishops.

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It would also bring into the open the negotiations between disaffected Anglicans and the Vatican which have been taking place in secret for months.
Dr Williams’s suggestion came in his first public remarks since a parish in Kent and a London bishop announced their intention to accept the Pope’s offer to convert to Roman Catholicism.
Last Friday, St Peter’s church in Folkestone and the Bishop of Fulham, the Rt Rev John Broadhurst, disclosed their plans to join the so-called English Ordinariate, a new body proposed by the Vatican as a home for disaffected Anglicans.
At least two more bishops are widely rumoured to be planning to join the Ordinariate when it is established next year, but their negotiations with Rome are taking place behind closed doors.
Neither Lambeth Palace nor the Roman Catholic authorities in England and Wales know the extent of the numbers of Anglicans who are likely to switch allegiance.
Under Pope Benedict XVI’s plan, Anglicans would be able to move into full communion with Rome while at the same time preserving some of their traditions and heritage.
In an interview with The Hindu newspaper, while on a trip to India, Dr Williams spoke of his frustration at the Pope’s decision to announce the Ordinariate to the public with little prior warning a year ago.
“I was very taken aback that this large step was put before us without any real consultation. And it did seem to me that some bits of the Vatican didn't communicate with other bits,” he said.
“It caused some ripples because I think there was a widespread feeling that it would have been better to consult.
“As this is now being implemented, we are trying to make sure that there is a joint group which will keep an eye on how it's going to happen. In England, the relations between the Church of England and Roman Catholic Bishops are very warm and very close. I think we are able to work together on this and not find it a difficulty.”
It is understood that neither the Church of England nor the Roman Catholic authorities in England and Wales have yet agreed to Dr Williams’s proposal for a joint group to oversee the Ordinariate.
In the interview, Dr Williams acknowledged that the ordination of homosexuals and women as bishops threatened to create “deeper divisions” within the world-wide Anglican Communion.
"I feel that we may yet have to face the possibility of deeper divisions," he said.
"I don't at all like, or want to encourage, the idea of a multi-tier organisation. But that would, in my mind, be preferable to complete chaos and fragmentation. It's about agreeing what we could do together."

Interesting news, when East meets West, in Indian soil.

When churches come together and start extending  respect and kindness to each other the impossible becomes possible.
Pwede naman pala!

'Juan' destroys almost P5 billion worth of crops, properties

From: Philstar.com - Thursday, October 21

MANILA, Philippines – Almost P5 billion worth of properties and agricultural products were destroyed during the wake of super typhoon "Juan," according to the latest assessment report of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC).

The disaster-preparedness agency reported that P4.2 million of schools in regions 1, 2, 3 and the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) were damaged as the typhoon battered the areas.
NDRRMC said “Juan (international codename Megi) also destroyed P4.7 billion worth of livestock, fisheries, vegetables, and fruits crops such as mango, banana and papaya, and agricultural equipment in the regions.
Meanwhile, the national government, through the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), and the respective local government units were able to raise around P7.5 million of assistance to the affected regions. - By Dennis Carcamo (Philstar News Service, www.philstar.com)

Northern Luzon was heavily damage by typhoon Juan (Megi).

Residence of Delfin Albano township in Ilagan Isabela.

Aerial view of Baguio city flooded effect of the typhoon Meji

May we request you to please pray with us for the recovery of those who were badly affected by this disaster. Any assistance will really be a great help to those who suffered so much from this calamity. Northern Luzon was heavily damaged by this typhoon specially Cagayan, Kalinga and Apayao.

The Church as Steward of God's grace.

The task entrusted by our good Lord to the Church is great  and difficult,  but the God whom we serve is greater than any of these difficulties in this present age.  I want to quote this scriptures for us:

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body. For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it.
Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Just as it is written,
         “FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE BEING PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG;
         WE WERE CONSIDERED AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED.”
But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.  (Romans 8:18-25, 35-39, NASB) ACPT