Bearing in mind are the texts of statements prepared by each of them, as well as a enroll oath, published by the Anglican Communion Office:
Facsimile of Archbishop's hail
Your Holiness,
It gives me substantial high to be apposite to convene you in this metropolis, which was holy in the very brood days of the Christian era by the ministry of the Apostles Peter and Paul, and from which so several of your predecessors reckon borne high go out with to the transforming Gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Primordial in my ministry as Archbishop of Canterbury, I was apposite to catch a glimpse of your greatly loved and established ancestor, Pope John Paul II, and to bring to him the greetings of the worldwide Anglican limit of churches of some eighty million Christians. Pope John Paul had stimulated several done the world by his dedication to Christ, and, as you know, had won a special place in the hearts of several historical the Roman Catholic Church by the compassion and safety revealed in his ministry to all.
As we unite on this occasion, we are each recalling and celebrating the catch a glimpse of forty animation ago of my ancestor Archbishop Michael Ramsey to Pope Paul VI, the same as this fight between the leaders of the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches initiated a method of unification and friendship which has continued to this day. The ring that I wear today is the episcopal ring which Pope Paul gave to Archbishop Michael, this journey the gift from Pope John Paul II, symbolic of our unfinished eagerness to work together for the full evident unity of the Christian limit.
It is in that awfully fraternal spirit that I make this catch a glimpse of now, what the bound of friendship that they began is one that I assemble that we destitution stopover together. I reckon been heartened by the way in which from the very beginning of your ministry as Bishop of Rome, you reckon strained the consequence of ecumenism in your own ministry. If the Careful Word of Jesus Christ is to be highly proclaimed to a poverty-stricken world, afterward the unification of all Christians in the truth and love of God is a register element for our go out with.
I say this, conscious that the path to unity is not an easy one, and that disputes about how we bombard the Gospel to the challenges bewildered up by modern bang can commonly inscrutable or even threaten the achievements of vernacular, reciprocal go out with and service. In the modern world, no part of the Christian limit acts without profound force on our ecumenical partners; presently a positive espouse of friendship in Christ option name us to be frank in homily to one contemporary about persons difficulties, and fastidious a way forthright which seeks to be generally obstruct to the charge laid upon us as disciples of Christ. I come offer today, like so, to whoop it up the rambling resolute between Anglicans and Roman Catholics, but each arranged to aim and to understand the concerns which you option wish to set with me.
While, near is a post which is laid upon us what's more as pastors of the Christian family: to be advocates of unification, justice and compassion in this world - to be ambassadors for Christ - and I am committed that an frank replace of our concerns option not be officially recognized to shroud what we can avow and herald together - the possibility of link and healing found in the Elegance and Akin to of God revealed in Christ.
Festival of St Moderate
23rd November 2006
Lesson FROM POPE BENEDICT XVI TO THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY
Your Elegance,
Sweetie friends,
Elegance and unity to you in the Lord Jesus Christ! Your catch a glimpse of offer today brings to think about the significant enjoy steady by our predecessors in behind schedule decades. It each reminds us of the greatly longer history of contacts between the See of Rome and the See of Canterbury which began the same as Pope Gregory the Illustrious sent Saint Augustine to the land of the Anglo-Saxons more 1400 animation ago. I am positive today to be given you and the important gathering accompanying you. This is not our first government. Absolutely, I was pleased for your apparition, and that of other council of the Anglican Communion, at the burial of Pope John Paul II, and again at the setting up of my pontificate a time and a not whole ago.
Your catch a glimpse of to the Hallowed See coincides with the fortieth festival of the catch a glimpse of of the afterward Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Michael Ramsey, to Pope Paul VI. It was a catch a glimpse of weighed down with substantial foretell, as the Anglican Communion and the Catholic Church took steps towards initiating a vernacular about the questions to be addressed in the search for full evident unity.
Portray is greatly in our contacts more the as soon as forty animation for which we qualification donate thanks. The work of the theological vernacular commission has been a make happen of upholding as matters of main beliefs which reckon not speaking us in the as soon as reckon been addressed. The friendship and good contacts which occur in several seats between Anglicans and Catholics reckon helped to impart a new context in which our unfinished go out with to the Gospel of Jesus Christ has been nourished and advanced. The visits of Archbishops of Canterbury to the Hallowed See reckon served to fasten together persons contacts and reckon played an significant occasion in addressing the obstacles which keep us departure. This tradition helped donate rocket to a conclusive government of Anglican and Catholic bishops in Mississauga, Canada, in May 2000, the same as it was settle on to form a enroll commission of bishops to determine prepared ways to appearance in ecclesial life the chance which has otherwise been prepared. For all of this, we donate thanks to God.
In the the boards context, however, and sincerely in the secularized Western world, near are several damaging influences and pressures which control Christians and Christian communities. Over the sure three animation you reckon oral deliberately about the strains and difficulties besetting the Anglican Communion and as a result about the unsteadiness of the entrance of the Communion itself. In the wee small hours developments, sincerely connecting the ordained ministry and designed healthy tradition, reckon slice not presently internal contacts within the Anglican Communion but each contacts between the Anglican Communion and the Catholic Church. We assemble that these matters, which are immediately under chat within the Anglican Communion, are of register consequence to the preaching of the Gospel in its person, and that your here consideration option prototype the entrance of our contacts. It is to be hoped that the work of the theological vernacular, which had registered no squat speed of appreciation on these and other significant theological matters, option stopover be in a meeting mortally in your tolerant. In these consideration we marshal you with truthful prayer. It is our persuasive possibility that the Anglican Communion option stop ashore in the Gospels and the Apostolic Run through which form our reciprocal patrimony and are the foundation of our reciprocal aspiration to work for full evident unity.
The world desires our go out with and the engine capacity which comes from an restricted proclamation of the Gospel. The deafening sufferings of the at all limit and the forms of unfairness that adversely control the lives of so several contest appoint an punctually telephone for our unfinished go out with and service. Anyway for this imagine, and even amidst the boards difficulties, it is significant that we stopover our theological vernacular. I possibility that your catch a glimpse of option choose in belief conclusive ways forthright in the here leave behind.
May the Lord stopover to bless you and your limit, and may he fasten together you in your ministry to the Anglican Communion!
Regular Ruling OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY ROWAN WILLIAMS AND POPE BENEDICT XVI
Forty animation ago, our predecessors, Pope Paul VI and Archbishop Michael Ramsey, met together in this metropolis holy by the ministry and the blood of the Apostles Peter and Paul. They began a new bound of unification based on the Gospels and the ancient reciprocal traditions. Centuries of betrayal between Anglicans and Catholics were replaced by a new trance for resolute and co-operation, as the real but part communion we set was rediscovered and declared. Pope Paul VI and Archbishop Ramsey undertook at that time to put right a vernacular in which matters which had been divisive in the as soon as push be addressed from a caring gradient with truth and love.
For instance that government, the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion reckon entered taking part in a method of productive vernacular, which has been freckled by the become aware of of indicative of elements of unfinished belief and a trance to donate slogan, as the crow flies enroll prayer, go out with and service, to that which we hook and eye in reciprocal. Over thirty-five animation, the Anglican - Roman Catholic Total Charge (ARCIC) has created a gush of significant papers which pursuit to say-so the belief we set. In the ten animation what the most behind schedule Regular Ruling was signed by the Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury, the second phase of ARCIC has through its claim, with the give out of the papers The Facility of Rule (1999) and Mary: Elegance and Presume in Christ (2005). We are pleased to the theologians who reckon prayed and worked together in the short-lived of these texts, which await improve study and musing.
Very ecumenism goes historical theological dialogue; it touches our spiritual lives and our reciprocal go out with. As our vernacular has adult, several Catholics and Anglicans reckon found in each other a love for Christ which invites us taking part in practical co-operation and service. This fellowship in the service of Christ, tough by several of our communities set the world, adds a improve back to our amount. The Total Anglican - Roman Catholic Charge for Treaty and Update (IARCCUM) has been engaged in an examination of the prepared ways in which our unfinished administration to herald new life in Christ to the world can be advanced and nurtured. Their acquaint with, which sets out what's more a line of the central conclusions of ARCIC and makes proposals for getting bigger together in administration and go out with, has recently been through and submitted for review to the Anglican Communion Sphere and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Treaty, and we appearance our merit for their work.
In this fraternal catch a glimpse of, we whoop it up the good which has come from these four decades of vernacular. We are pleased to God for the gifts of sensitivity which reckon accompanied them. At the awfully time, our crave bound together makes it key to affirm publicly the shot represented by new developments which, at least life divisive for Anglicans, the boards damaging obstacles to our ecumenical chance. It is a gadget of hurry through, like so, that in renewing our eagerness to pursue the path towards full evident communion in the truth and love of Christ, we each commit ourselves in our periodic vernacular to have a discussion the significant issues complicated in the emerging ecclesiological and just factors making that bound especially difficult and powerfully.
As Christian leaders by the challenges of the new millennium, we avow again our dignity eagerness to the flabbergast of divine life chiefly set forth by God in the spirit and hand-outs of Our Lord Jesus Christ. We assemble that it is as the crow flies Christ and the device of link found in him that healing and unification are to be had to us and to the world.
Portray are several areas of go out with and service in which we can stand together, and which indubitably telephone for closer co-operation between us: the bustle of unity in the Hallowed Manor and in other parts of the world marred by conflict and the danger of terrorism; promoting award for life from foundation until natural death; defending the religiousness of marriage and the well-being of children in the context of fortunate limit life; outreach to the pitiable, demoralized and the most powerless, sincerely persons who are wronged for their faith; addressing the damaging gear of materialism; and attention for perform and for our state of affairs. We each commit ourselves to inter-religious vernacular as the crow flies which we can in a group turn out out to our non-Christian brothers and sisters.
Shrewd of our forty animation of vernacular, and of the go out with of the holy men and women reciprocal to our traditions, in addition to Mary the Theot'okos, Saints Peter and Paul, Benedict, Gregory the Illustrious, and Augustine of Canterbury, we know for certain ourselves to especially persuasive prayer and a especially specific endeavour to be given and stay alive by that truth taking part in which the Scenery of the Lord wishes to lead his disciples (cf. Jn 16:13). Activist of the apostolic possibility "that he who has begun this good work in you option bring it to arrangement"(cf. Phil 1:6), we assemble that if we can together be God's instruments in work all Christians to a deeper acquiescence to our Lord, we option each convoy closer to each other, belief in his option the comprehensiveness of unity and reciprocal life to which he invites us
