Forward in Christ FThe magazine of ForwardC in Faith North America. Christ Vol. 6 No. 4 April, 2014 Has Risen! Also in this Issue: Lookin’ For Love Rebirth of the Russian $30 annual subscription Empire $200 p/a for bundles of ten Easter, a Perennial Spring Register Online at: Speakers The Rt. Rev. Donald Mother Gabriella is Parsons is the retired 6th the Abbess of the Bishop of Quincy and a Orthodox monastery former Dean of Nashotah of the Dormition of the House seminary, where Mother of God, at Rives he continues to serve as a Junction, Southern Professor. Michigan. The Rt. Rev. 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She Diocese of the Holy Cross. lives on Puget Sound. 20 When Jesus Taught on Prayer 10 The Rebirth of the Russian Empire Bishop Kenneth Myers serves as the Bishop of the Shane Schaetzel is the author of Catholicism for Convocation of Christ the Redeemer, within the Protestants (RegnumDei Press.Com), a freelance Missionary Diocese of All Saints, Anglican Church writer and the creator of CatholicInTheOzarks.Com, a in North America (ACNA). blog of apologetics and random musings from the Bible Belt. 22 Sir Alec Guinness & Charles de 13 Bishop Iker Adresses the REC Foucauld The Rt. Rev. Jack Iker is the Bishop of the Diocese Fr. Geoffery Attard is a Roman Catholic priest, of Fort Worth. serving in Gozo, Malta. 23 An Easter Sermon 15 Lookin’ For Love St. John Chrysostom. 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Full Forward in Faith membership: Individual $50, Family $75, email [email protected], or call 1-800 225-3661 for details. 4 Forward in Christ, www.fifna.org The FIFNA Annual Vol. 6 No. 4 Assembly April, 2014 ForwardPublished in by Faith Devoted to Prayer -Three Great Traditions: St. Teresa of Avila, the Jesus Prayer, and St. Benedict North America July 9-11, 2014 Upholding the Faith and Order of the Undivided Church Each year in the summer, FIFNA hosts an annual assembly of their membership and friends. We gather from all across the country and abroad for fellowship, worship, and engaging presentations. Our assemblies have become like family Business Office reunions where we see familiar faces from years gone by along with making new P.O. Box 210248 friends. Bedford, TX 76095-7248 Email: For the past three years, we have reflected on Acts 2:42: “And they devoted [email protected] themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.” www.forwardinchrist.orgWeb In 2011, the theme was “They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching.” www.fifna.org 2012 was “They devoted themselves to the breaking of bread.” In 2013, we Facebook: www.facebook.com/FIFNA discussed the church in “Ecclesiology at the Crossroads.” This year’s theme Twitter: @FiF_NA is “Devoted to Prayer,” with the subtitle of “Prayer: Three Great Traditions: St. Teresa of Avila, the Jesus Prayer, and St. Benedict.” 1-800-225-3661 toll free We’ve worked hard to present you with a wonderful line-up of speakers. Bishop Donald Parsons’ talk is entitled “St. Teresa of Avila on the Life of Prayer: Advice for Editor Christians”. Mother Gabriella of the Dormition Monastery of the Orthodox Church in America will speak on the “Jesus Prayer” and Bishop Alberto Morales, OSB, will The Rev’d Michael Heidt present “Listening, Prayer and Work in the Benedictine Tradition and Daily Life.” 204 N. Rosemont Ave. Dallas, TX 75208 Held at the beautiful Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows in Belleville, Illinois (just Email: across the river from St. Louis). Our Lady of the Snows is one of the largest outdoor [email protected] shrines in North America with 200 acres of natural beauty. Once there, you can park your car as your hotel and conference building are right across the parking lot from each other. Forward InSubscriptions Christ The cost is $300/single occupancy or $500/double. You can register online at is sent free of charge fifna.org or print and mail your form to us. If registrations exceed capacity, we to all contributing members of have an off-site hotel set up and a van to bring you back and forth. Forward In Faith North America. Check-in begins at 3 PM on Wednesday, July 9 and the Assembly ends at noon Non-member subscriptions: on Friday, July 11. $30 per annum. Parish bundles of ten $200 per annum. We look forward to seeing you in July! Subscription enquiries should be sent to The FIFNA office above. Advertising Advertising inquiries: Contact Julia Smead Email: [email protected] 1-800-225-3661 Forward in Christ, April, 2014 5 In the News FIFNA Assembly: Anglicans File Complaint Against Schori: Registration is now open for this A group year’s Forward in Faith Assembly at Our Lady of the Snows, of conservative Anglicans, called the American Anglican Belleville, Illinois, July 9-11. Speakers to include Bishop Fellowship (AAF), has launched a canonical complaint Donald Parsons, former Bishop of Quincy, Mother Gabriella, against the Episcopal Church’s (TEC) Presiding Bishop, Abbess of the Orthodox Monastery of the Dormition, Katherine Jefferts Schori. The AAF lists six offences Michigan, and Bishop Alberto Morales, OSB, of the Diocese including, seeking the interpretation of church canons by of Quincy. The theme of the event is prayer. Book now to secular courts, misuse of the Abandonment of Communion reserve your place! canons, unconstitutional assumption of power over NashotahFor information House see Turmoil: pp. 2, 3, 5. Standing Committees and harassingForward clergy. in TheChrist complaint has been sent to Bishop Clay Matthews, who oversees TEC’s North America’s top Anglo- disciplinary process for clergy. wishes Catholic seminary, Nashotah House, became embroiled in the Washington-based AAF well in its attempt to rein-in controversy following a decision to invite the Episcopal theAnglicanink.com. Episcopal Church’s litigator-in-chief, but wonders if Church’s (TEC) Presiding Bishop, Katherine Jefferts Matthews will take up the case. Schori, to preach at a seminary Eucharist. The invite was Diocese of South Carolina Gets Oversight: issued by Nashotah’s Dean, Bishop Ed Salmon, after a meeting of Nashotah trustees in October, 2013, and was The made at the request of a seminary student who had been traditional Diocese of South Carolina, which left the Episcopal a member of TEC’s Executive Council, Deacon Terry Star. Church in 2012, has found primatial oversight within the When the invitation was made public earlier this year, two wider Anglican Communion. Following a unanimous vote traditionalist bishops, Jack Iker and William Wantland, in March, 2014, the Diocese of South Carolina will become resigned from Nashotah’s Board in protest and conservative part of the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, while Board members voiced dissent in a letter to Salmon and the looking to Archbishops of the Global South for oversight. Chairman of Nashotah’s Board. “This will give us gracious oversight from one of the largest Subsequently, Nashotah student Deacon Star was found ecclesiastical body’s in the (Anglican) Communion,” stated dead in his room on the seminary campus, and Jefferts Schori the Bishop of South Carolina, Mark Lawrence, to the annual has now been invited to give Star’s eulogy at Evensong, diocesan convention.