ACA Diocese of the Missouri Valley

Synod is a Canonical gathering, all its members need to be summoned in order for it to be DULY constituted! if not it is null and void. #A true example of CANONICAL obedience

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5.2.3 CANON 4 OF THE ELECTION OF BISHOPS 1. The Bishop of any Diocese of this Province will be elected from within The Church of Umzi WaseTiyopiya – Traditional Rite. 2. For the purpose of this Canon : (a) If there be no Dean of the Vacant Diocese, or in his absence or incapacity, the functions of the Dean shall be performed by the Senior Priest in office of the vacant Diocese. (b) The term “vacant diocese” shall include a diocese where the Bishop’s irrevocable notice of resignation has been accepted in terms of Canon 13 Of Resignation of Bishops. 3. The election of the Bishop of any Diocese in this Province (if the number of Priests licensed in such Diocese be not less than ten) shall be by an Elective Assembly established as hereinafter provided. If the number of Priests licensed in any Diocese is less than ten, the Bishop shall be elected by the Bishops of the Province. 4. The Elective Assembly shall consist of : 4.1 The Metropolitan or his deputy as chairperson. Should the Metropolitan or his deputy be unable to preside at the assembly, any of the Bishops of the Province or through their approval, the most senior clergyman present shall preside and failing such a clergyman, the Dean of the vacant diocese. 4.2 All Bishops Suffragan commissioned in the vacant diocese and all Assistant Bishops licensed therein. 4.3 All Clergymen licensed in the vacant diocese and other Clergymen from other Dioceses of the Province holding licenses from their dioceses. 5. (a) On the death of any Diocesan Bishop, the Dean shall notify the vacancy in writing to the Metropolitan, his deputy or other Bishops of the Province. (b) In the event of the resignation of a Diocesan Bishop, when such resignation has been duly accepted or his translation, compulsory retirement, or deprivation, the Metropolitan, his deputy of one of the Bishops of the Province shall at once notify the Dean in writing. 17 6. Upon receiving or giving notice of the vacancy of a See : 6.1 The Metropolitan, his deputy or one of the Bishops of the Province, shall issue his mandate to the Dean of the vacant diocese to summon the Elective Assembly to meet at the Cathedral Church of the vacant See or at such other place as the Dean may decide and on such date as the Dean shall see fit, but not being less than 8 weeks nor more than 4 months from the date of the mandate. 6.2 All Clergymen of the vacant diocese shall be entitled to submit in writing to the Dean for consideration the names of persons to fill the vacancy. Candidates for consideration should be : 6.2.1 A person who has been a Priest within the Diocese for a minimum of five consecutive years and has served in no less than 5 Parishes of the Diocese. 6.2.2 A married Priest with proven stable family. 6.2.3 A person possessing M + 3 6.2.4 A person with Theological Training 6.2.5 Be no less than 35 years of age 6.3 All such names shall be submitted to the Dean at least 2 weeks before the date appointed for the Meeting of the Elective Assembly and immediately thereafter the Dean shall notify in writing the Metropolitan, his deputy or all of the Bishops of the Province. 6.4 In the event that the Dean’s name has been submitted, he shall resign as Dean and another senior clergyman will act as chairperson. 6.5 On the day appointed and on each succeeding day on which the Assembly meets, Holy Communion shall be Celebrated before the Assembly proceeds to business. 6.6 (a) The President shall cause the roll to be determined. He shall certify that only those persons eligible to attend are present and that no person eligible to attend has been excluded. Any informalities and objections to the attendance of a member shall be considered and determined by the Assembly. The President shall then declare that the quorum is present. (b) A quorum shall be not less than one half of the total number of the Bishops of the Province and the Clergy of the vacant See. 18 © The Assembly shall then proceed to elect a Secretary from its members. (d) The Assembly shall determine its times of meeting.. (e) The President may at any time address the Assembly. 7. During the Assembly : 7.1 The President shall furnish the Assembly with the list of the names of all persons considered to be eligible for the See. 7.2 Members of the Assembly will be given the opportunity to nominate to the vacancy only from the list so furnished and every nomination shall be seconded by any other member of the Assembly. 7.3 When nominations have ceased, each nominee shall be considered by the Assembly seriatim in alphabetical order. 7.4 As each nominee is considered, the proposer and seconder of the nominee will inform the Assembly of their reasons for their proposal. 8. No member who has been absent from the Session or Sessions of the Elective Assembly or any portion thereof during which the nominees were discussed, shall be eligible to attend a subsequent Session of the Assembly. 9. When such discussions have ceased, the members shall record their votes. 10. The voting procedure and results : 10.1 The voting shall be by secret ballot and the President shall have the casting vote only. 10.2 Each member shall record his vote by writing on his voting paper either the name of the person for whom he votes or if he desires to vote for none of the candidates, he shall write the word, “none”. 10.3 No person shall be deemed to have been elected unless he shall have received two – thirds of the total number of votes of the Bishops and Clergy together. 10.4 If after the first taking of the votes, no person has received the necessary majority, successive votes shall be taken in like manner. 10.5 When the procedure in 10.4 above is followed, the nominee with the least number of votes would be removed as a nominee when voting for the second time occurs. 19 10.6 If after the second taking of votes, still no person has received the necessary majority, the process as laid out in 10.5 will be followed. 10.7 Only five successive votes will be allowed, except when the Assembly suggests that one more voting takes place. 10.8 After the fifth or sixth ballot voting, as the case may be, and if no election has been made, the Assembly shall adjourn for a period decided upon by a simple majority of the members. 10.9 Upon the Assembly reconvening, the same procedure mentioned above in 10.1 – 10.6 shall be used and if again after five successive votes, no person has received the necessary majority, then the person with the highest votes shall be the elected person who wins the elections. 11. When a nominee shall have received the requisite majority, the Assembly may also at the same time and in the same manner elect one or more other persons, in order, that, if the person first elected shall refuse to accept office or his election be not confirmed. 12. When an election is made, the declaration of such act shall be signed in duplicate by the President and one of these declarations shall be transmitted to the Provincial archives. 13. The Elective Assembly shall sit behind closed doors and its members are under a solemn obligation not to divulge any of its proceedings nor any information about the nominations. 14. The Elective Assembly may at any time delegate the choice of a Bishop to the Bishops of the Province, if it is so determined by a two – thirds – majority.

The bells and celebrations of Easter are still echoing in our ears, the incense still in our nostrils, and we are revelling in the good news – we have been relieved of that fundamental human fear, the fear of separation from God by our sins; the fear of eternal death and hell. The mighty Resurrection of Jesus Christ our Saviour has delivered us from those sins, and we are able to stand before the Father, upright….Ransomed, Healed, Restored, Forgiven!! In the context of all the many Holy Week readings and led devotions, we have been able to observe the patient suffering of Jesus, His compassion for the Thief on the Cross, His words to the Women of Jerusalem, His love of the band of Disciples at the Last Supper and His care for His Mother, even from the cross. Above all, we witnessed His courage and obedience to the will of the Father, and His submission in the Garden of Gethsemane. Obedience, Love, Compassion, Humility, Courage, Determination, Strength, Perfection ….these characteristics of Jesus have been on full display throughout our Lent and Holy Week, guiding the church towards a glorious Easter Day. Let me stop us now….and return to our Lent. Lent is placed before us each year to allow us the spiritual space to develop those same characteristics shown to us in the life of Jesus Christ our Lord. Year after year, as Lent approaches, we become chillingly aware that our lives have regressed and not progressed as we had hoped, and that the world, the flesh and the devil have made gains in us that we had hoped to avoid. I looked at the principal characters of the Passion critically this year, not to tear them down, but to learn from them, and what did I find? Amongst the group of Disciples, I found some of the worst human characteristics; betrayal, cowardice, ambition, a lack of commitment, uncertainty, spiritual blindness and even the love of money over loyalty! In the others, the Jewish leadership, Romans and the general population, I was shown cruelty, a fickle heart, a mob mentality, determination to rule absolutely, subtle undermining of those who are true of heart, and a hardness of heart to anything that was spiritually meaningful. I found the full array of human frailty at work in the characters of the Passion narratives. Within the church, many of these poor characteristics of the human condition continue to dominate, especially those weaknesses that were displayed by the Disciple band, precisely because, like them, we lack the discipline, obedience and humility shown by our great Leader, Jesus Christ our Lord. Ad Clerum 2.17 Easter 2017 3 Get the fundamentals He showed us right, and our churches would be very different places indeed, far better, and happier too! The constant excuse that we are ‘all human’ is an unacceptable one for the people of God, who are exhorted by Holy Scripture to ‘fix our eyes on the things that are above’. We must take care….. The beautiful and solemn hymn on the first page of this Ad Clerum, with music by J S Bach, reminds us that the “Countenance whose splendour the hosts of heaven adore” was marred by our actions, our sins and our excesses. There is no escape, and no justification for our indulgent behaviour. We have all played our part in that awful suffering of the Passion, and ours is a happy escape from the Judgement we so rightly deserve. The church, therefore, has to show a different face to the world; it cannot be the place where weakness reigns! The church is called by Jesus to be a completely alternative society, and not just a place where we beat our breast in sorrow for our sins, and then continue with more of the same….. Surely we hold our Saviour too dear to continue to batter His sacred face with the blows of our many sins? Lent, therefore, pulls us back to reality, and alerts us to our ‘spiritual slide’. Lent allows us a pause and a re-alignment of ourselves. Lent exhorts us not to return to the filth of our lives after Easter, but to build on the higher standard we have managed to achieve in the 40 days, and to use the energy and momentum created by Holy Week and Easter to carry us to a higher, holier, more spiritually attuned life – the life of a true believer, and not that of a person paying mere lip service to the demands of the Gospel. My Easter message? The words of the Apostle Paul from the Epistle on Septuagesima Sunday; “but I discipline my body, and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.” (1 Cor 9:27) He is Risen indeed – but my life is now to reflect that glory! May we be given the strength, in this holy Eastertide, to follow the example set by our Lord Jesus Christ, with utter determination to suceed in our quest for holiness. May the guiding hand of the Holy Ghost keep us strong and free from sin, and may we never to fall in our quest to be strong, dedicated and true Disciples of our Lord and Saviour. May he bless us all. +Michael Southern Africa

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Alleluia! Christ is Risen! He is Risen, indeed! Alleluia! THE ancient Easter proclamation sounds out again throughout the Church: Christ is risen! Easter breaks forth with a joy unmatched, with new hope and new life — eternal life! We will see again those who have gone before us marked with the sign of faith, in a life that will know no end. Love has triumphed over hatred, truth over lies, life over death. Our Lenten fast is over, we have walked the way of Calvary and beheld the empty tomb. It is Eastertide once more! The liturgy of Easter is rich in symbolism and Christian tradition. In the darkness of the empty tomb, in the darkness of a fallen world, in the darkness of the heart of man a Light shines forth — it is the Light of Christ. The hour of darkness is over; now is the hour of salvation. In the Easter liturgies of the Church we hear anew the ancient prophecies of Holy Scripture and listen to the age-old Proclamation of Easter, revealing to us God’s plan of salvation — now made real for us in the Passion, Death and Resurrection of our Saviour Jesus Christ. The Paschal Candle burns brightly again in our midst; and with a joy which fills our hearts and lifts our voices, we sing again the triumphant hymn: ‘Jesus Christ is risen today, Alleluia!’ There is no Season greater than that of Easter in all the Christian year. Christmas heralded the Word made flesh, Epiphany the manifestation of God to the nations; Lent, the depth of God’s love for His people; and Easter, our salvation from sin and death in the Resurrection of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Each Easter, the peace and power of the Risen Christ is renewed in the life of every Christian. The Church is enlivened again, empowered with the Spirit of the Risen Lord. Before us lies the world in all its sin and misery, its false hopes and deluded joys. But as the Church Militant we advance upon this world with power and faith, proclaiming to every culture and people the message of salvation in Jesus Christ. As the disciples of Jesus went forth into their world to speak of the Risen Christ, we too need to go out into our world, to our neighbours, our friends, family, co-workers, and witness to them our faith in Jesus; inviting them to know the love and joy which is ours as Christians and traditional Anglicans; inviting them to join us in the worship and praise of God this Eastertide. Ours is an Easter Faith; we are an Easter people. During the fifty days of Easter let us celebrate the joyous fact of our redemption. Let us live as people charged with the spirit of the Risen Christ, eager to spread the good news of salvation. Let us share with all we meet the hope that is ours as Christians. It will be through our faithful witness to Christ crucified and risen that others will come to know Jesus and the transforming grace of His Cross and Resurrection. May all our Churches, Dioceses, Parishes and Missions across the Traditional Anglican Communion be blessed this Easter Season with a faith renewed and an outpouring of God’s Holy Spirit. And may I extend to you all my blessing and prayers for a joyous Eastertide. +Shane

Thixo oguqulela amacebo oluntu ekudumiseni wena, khokela uhlumise siyakubongoza uMzi wase Tiyopiya. Xolela konke okubonakala kuphosakele kuwo, yipha onke amalungu awo ukunyaniseka, intobeko elukholweni, indzondelelo embedeshweni nentlalo enyulu. Yipha iinkokheli zawo ubulumko, ukunyaniseka, unyamezelo nokukholwa kuwe ngokuqinileyo. Thululela phezu kwawo izipho zoMoya oyiNgcwele, wenze ukuba ube yimbasa esandleni sakho yokuguqula abahedeni nokwakha ibandla lakho limanyane ekudumiseni igama lakho elingcwele: Ngemfaneleko nezicamagushelo zakhe lowo wasifelayo uNyana akho uYesu Kristu, ohleliyo elawula nawe nomoya oyingcwele nibanye ngonaphakade. Amen.

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