Draft Resolutions for Thurday 16 February

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3 (b): International Anglican Family Network

The Anglican Consultative Council:

  1. recognises the extraordinary pressures placed on families and communities by the Covid pandemic, conflict, and other recent and ongoing crises and laments the increases in domestic violence during this time;
  2. commends the work of Churches of the Communion in supporting and encouraging families and communities as agents of mission over the past three years;
  3. commends the work done by the International Anglican Family Network (IAFN) and other Communion networks to help churches celebrate and support families and young people; and
  4. encourages the Churches of the Communion to appoint representatives to engage with IAFN in consultations, regional networks, and sharing of information and expertise.

3 (c): Anglican Health and Community Network

The Anglican Consultative Council:

  1. notes progress made on ACC Resolution 17:07 “Towards an Anglican Health Network” and celebrates the creation and effectiveness of the Anglican Health and Community Network as a key mark of our Anglican mission;
  2. affirms the ongoing value of bringing together practitioners, church leaders and academics from across the Communion to inform practice, advocate for health equity, and provide a coordinated Anglican voice on key health issues;
  3. calls on the AHCN to continue challenging unjust systems which create vast differences in health outcomes and access; and
  4. encourages the Churches of the Communion to appoint representatives to engage with AHCN to support the creation of collaborative initiatives.

3 (d): Legal Advisors’ Network

The Anglican Consultative Council:

  1. welcomes The Principles of Canon Law Common to the Churches of the Anglican Communion, 2nd Edition, and thanks the Legal Advisors’ Network for its work;
  2. commends The Principles to the Churches of the Anglican Communion for study and use, and encourages Member Churches to engage with the Network and use it as a resource in dealing with legal issues as they arise;
  3. encourages the Churches of the Communion to draw on the Network when new Member Churches are created;
  4. encourages all Churches to keep their canons under review in the light of The Principles; and
  5. affirms the continuation and development of the work of the Legal Advisors’ Network, including by fostering reading groups, and exploring the possibility of a Library of Anglican Canon Law.

3 (e): Liturgical Formation of all the Baptised

The Anglican Consultative Council:

  1. welcomes the publication of the report The Liturgical Formation of all the Baptised, and thanks the International Anglican Liturgical Consultation for its work;
  2. commends the report to the Churches of the Anglican Communion for study, action and response; and
  3. encourages the Churches of the Communion to participate in the membership and work of the International Anglican Liturgical Consultation.
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3 (f): Anglican Communion Calendar

The Anglican Consultative Council:

  1. welcomes the work done to create the Anglican Communion Calendar Sampler;
  2. affirms the importance of Calendars in our Churches and commends the principles for the revision of Calendars;
  3. ask the Churches of the Communion to submit names of their holy women and men to the Secretary General so that an Anglican Communion Calendar may be created by the International Anglican Liturgical Consultation and the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order; and
  4. recommends that the Calendar be offered for use by the Churches, and that this be reviewed at ACC-19.

3 (g): Virtual Communion

The Anglican Consultative Council:

  1. welcomes the paper from the International Anglican Liturgical Consultation and the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order, Virtual Communion and the Covid-19 Pandemic;
  2. commends the report to the Churches of the Anglican Communion for study and response; and
  3. encourages the International Anglican Liturgical Consultation to reflect further on the liturgical life of the Churches of the Communion, and the particular significance of the Eucharist.

3 (h): God So Loved the World

The Anglican Consultative Council:

  1. welcomes the publication of God So Loved the World as a contribution to Anglican reflection on the nature of the human person as created in God’s image, and the nature of the Church as a Christ-formed community of faith by grace;
  2. commends the report to the Churches of the Anglican Communion for study, action and response; and
  3. affirms the need for continuing Anglican reflection in these fields, to meet the many anthropological and ecclesiological questions still before us.

3 (i): Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order (IASCUFO)

The Anglican Consultative Council:

  1. welcomes the publication of Anglican Communion: Unity Faith and Order, 2008–2022;
  2. commends the report to the Churches of the Anglican Communion for study, action and response; and
  3. affirms the continuing work of Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order (IASCUFO), as an important place in which the Anglican Communion reflects on its vocation of communion, its faith and its structures, both between Anglicans and with other Christian churches.