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"CCT will Worship and Celebrate its Founding
at the National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.,
September 18, 2005
The National Cathedral in Washington DC has been designated as the site for the official launching of Christian Churches Together in the USA on September 18, 2005. Founding participants from the five faith families (Catholic, Evangelical and Pentecostal, Racial Ethnic, Orthodox and Protestant) and their guests will assemble for worship in celebration of the coming together of the Christian families and their growing closer in Christ in order to broaden and expand fellowship and strengthen Christian witness in the world. A local organizing committee has been established under the leadership of W. Todd Bassett, Salvation Army Commissioner and CCT Interim Steering Committee member. Other members of the organizing committee include Rev. Ron Sider, Rev. Don Williams, Bishop Vicken Aykazian , Father Ron Roberson and others. Details of the celebration will be announced as they become available."
I talked to my priest about this..and he speculated that perhaps the Orthodox were granted a waiver regarding the common prayer part of their praxis...
Even tough your priest speculated wrongly, I wonder if that really would have made a difference.
David Wagschal (OCA), John W. Morris, Vicken Aykazian, H.G. Serapion, and "Bishop" Demitrios Couchell (GOA) lead participants in evening worship. They all prayed as one. Attendees included...
Bishop Vicken Aykazian Diocese of the Armenian Church
Commissioner W. Todd Bassett The Salvation Army
Bishop Stephen Blaire US Conference of Catholic Bishops
Most Rev. Tod D. Brown Catholic Diocese of Orange of California
The Rev. Rothangliani Chhangte American Baptist Churches, USA
Rev. Dr. Seung Koo Choi Korean Presbyterian Church in America
Mr. Bonn Clayton Nat'l Assoc. of Congregational Christ. Churches
Bishop Dimitrios Couchell Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Sister Joan Delaney Roman Catholic Church
Rev. Dr. David Engelhard Christian Reformed Church in North America
Bishop C. Christopher Epting Episcopal Church USA
President Jeff Farmer Open Bible Churches
The Rev. Wesley Granberg- Michaelson Reformed Church in America
The Rev. Dr. Roberta Hestenes World Vision
Bishop Francis J. Kane Roman Catholic
The Rev. Arthur Kennedy United States Conference Of Catholic Bishops
Bishop James D. Leggett Int'l Pentecostal Holiness Church
The Rev. Michael E. Livingston Int'l Council of Community Churches
The Rev. Rafael Luevano Ecumenical & Interreligious Affairs Officer
The Rev. Carlos Malave Presbyterian Church USA
Dr. Kevin W. Mannoia Free Methodist Church
The Rev. Thomas R. McGowan Roman Catholic
Sister Joan McGuire Roman Catholic
President Grant McMurray Community of Christ (Observer)
The Rev. A. Roy Medley American Baptist Churches USA
Ms. Gail Mengel Community of Christ (Observer)
Father John W. Morris Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of NA
Mr. Stanley J. Noffsinger Church of the Brethren
President Glenn R. Palmberg Evangelical Covenant Church
Friend Ben Richmond Friends United Meeting
Dr. Ann K. Riggs NCC Faith & Order Commission (Observer)
The Rev. Dr. Bruce Robbins United Methodist Church
The Rev. Ronald G. Robertson US Conference of Catholic Bishops
The Rev. Dr. William G. Rusch Foundation for a Conference on Faith & Order in NA (Observer)
The Rev. Gabriel A. Salguero Missionary Pentecostal Churches of God (Observer)
Bishop Nicholas J. Samra Melkite Catholic
Dr. Robert E. Sawyer Moravian Church
The Rev. Jim Schrag Mennonite Church USA
H. G. Bishop Serpion Coptic Orthodox Church
The Rev. Ronald J. Sider Evangelicals for Social Action
Dr. Gilbert W. Stafford Church of God (Anderson, IN)
The Rev. Lydia Veliko United Church of Christ
Dr. Daniel Vestal Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
The Rev. Bert Waggoner Association of Vineyard Churches
Mr. David Wagschal Orthodox Church in America
The Rev. James Wallis Call to Renewal/Sojourners
Dr. Robert Welsh Christian Church Disciples of Christ
The Rev. Don DiXon Williams Bread for the World
I didn't see the "Agape Church", which I've seen in Tennessee; I guess that's a good thing.
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Interesting that they had the Orthodox representatives leading the prayer. In the picture you have represented from L to R, the OCA, the Antiochians, the Armenians, the Copts, and the Greeks, praying in an Episcopalian chapel with all those other folks.
The canons say these Orthodox should be deposed and barred (Canon 65 of the Apostolic Canons). As I understand the canon, anyway. How can a layperson be barred or deposed? Isn't that just for clerics?
Ephraem
~He who seeth his own sins, seeth not the sins of others.
The canons say these Orthodox should be deposed and barred (Canon 65 of the Apostolic Canons).
Let a bishop, or presbyter, or deacon who only prays with heretics, be excommunicated; but if he also permit them to perform any part of the office of a clergyman, let him be deposed.
Sadly, you are right.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner,
