This web page was published today:
LLF Working Groups continue: Update on membership and residential meeting
Following the decision at July General Synod to develop proposals to introduce standalone services including Prayers of Love and Faith (PLF) alongside pastoral reassurance, there will be continued input from four working groups into this process. The group membership includes bishops and members of General Synod, drawn from a wide range of backgrounds. Some of the members were part of the working groups that began their work in March 2024, while others have joined since the July Synod…
…There are four working groups in total, each with a different remit, looking at specific questions connected to:
- Prayers of Love and Faith – Guidance for registration and use including arrangements for use of the PLF in Standalone Services.
- Pastoral Reassurance – Code of Practice for Delegated Episcopal Ministry.
- Bishops’ Statement – Drafting group for an overarching rationale for a settlement around current and future practice for implementing the objectives of LLF.
- Ministry and Vocations Guidance – Development of guidance as part of the work to replace Issues in Human Sexuality (in parallel with decisions on a timetable to address questions around clergy in same sex marriage).
Full membership lists are included in the web page linked above.
There are two other new documents:
And there is this video, which was published earlier
As a poorly informed, but interested, lay person I watched the new video with Bishop Martyn Snow, which is presumably targeted at people like me. A few questions, probably very naïve ones which I hesitate to put forward in this learned forum, occurred to me. The Bishop said that in “a church which does its theology primarily through its liturgy” nobody will be forced to use prayer they simply don’t agree with. But haven’t lots of priests been doing that for years? Are there are not many clergy who have had to come to grips with NOT agreeing with some parts of,… Read more »