Fred Hiltz asks for prayer and hopes for openness at the Primates’ gathering

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The gathering of Anglican Primates in Canterbury is due to begin on Monday. While the GAFCON primates have been clear that they expect TEC and the ACoC to repent of their blessing and marrying of same-sex couples, Canada’s Primate, Fred Hiltz, sees a need for “mutual openness” and a

need to confess any and all ‘uncharitable thoughts toward our neighbours and for our prejudice and contempt toward those who differ from us,’” quoting from the Book of Alternative Services’ Litany of Penitence for Ash Wednesday.

We can only hope Hiltz takes his own advice since ACNA’s Foley Beach will be present, as will ANiC’s Moderator, Charlie Masters; the first day could easily be filled with nothing but Hiltz confessing uncharitable thoughts.

Let us, as Hiltz suggests, pray: that attempts to bamboozle or divide the GAFCON Primates would be thwarted; that truth will take precedence over phony unity; that loyalty to Jesus will be set above loyalty to an institution; that something will finally be settled, even if it’s merely a formal recognition that we now have two denominations with two gospels, worshipping two different gods.

11 thoughts on “Fred Hiltz asks for prayer and hopes for openness at the Primates’ gathering”

  1. A prayer for the Anglican Primates who will be attending the January 2016 Primates Gathering in Canterbury which starts January 11th, from the General Secretary of GAFCON (Global Anglican Future Conference), Peter Jensen:
    “Almighty God to whom all will someday give an account; instil, we pray, within the hearts of all Primates of the Anglican Communion, a holy fear that they may love you and your Word more than the approval of men; this we ask through our only Mediator and Head of the Church, Jesus Christ, who evermore lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit. Amen”

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  3. The announcement looks like a bit of maneuvering to cast his opponents as the bad guys unless they accept his evil ways. Rather bad faith on his part, before he’s even arrived.

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  4. That sanctified wish should render void his own dark stratagem of studied surprise as formulated in the Nova Scotia-PEI Diocesan proposed marriage canon XXI resolution/revision foisted on the General Synod in Ottawa in 2013.Thereby all things became “theologically possible” ( – so the revised ‘good news’ of ‘Anglican Journal’, November, 2015).

    Indeed, In both word and deed, let there be light:
    The Light of The WORD of GOD, Sola whereby all things sinful
    do NOT become “theologically possible.”

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  5. May the faithful go in the strength of the Lord and the power of his might; may they be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves. May they know God their everlasting fortress and reward.

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  6. I definitely pray that the meeting will reinforce both the authority of Scripture and the uniqueness of Jesus Christ – both which are mandatory for anyone claiming to be a Christian. Tragically, seeing the history of the ACoC and it aggressive stand against orthodoxy as proven by the legally stealing of properties from true Christians I cannot see any way in which Fred Hiltz and his apostate colleagues will repent. The fact that the ABC consulted with apostates such as Michael Ingham would lead me to believe he will also prove to be an apostate. In that case the ANIC, the ACNA and other orthodox provinces should separate and form the true Anglican Communion.

    The only way in which there can be healing is for the apostates to return all properties or other items legally stolen and I strongly doubt that will happen. Certainly within Canada and the US, the apostates are too full of themselves to submit to anyone.

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