Common Prayer catholics?

I cannot muster up the brain power at the moment to offer thoughts for derek the AEnglican's Carnival Roundup. Sorry derek.

I commend you to these more personal reflections that speak to some of the questions he asks:

Some Thoughts on Catholicity which has recently been discussed at Ambivablog.

Pride Part II: People Look East

But mostly, I commend you to Fr. Clavier's excellent post which is in keeping with some thoughts I bounced among friends this weekend: The Society for Common Prayer. These words fo wisdom stick out:

I by no means want to underestimate the power and force of our divisions. But they are “temporary”. By that I mean they are time specific. What will last, what will be amended, what will be jettisoned we know not, except for that the process will continue. In the end, at least for Anglicans, such things are not finally settled in synods and conventions, by majority votes. There has always been something I term “the common sense of ordinary people at work.” If I’m looking for evidence of the work of the Holy Spirit, it is there I look. In our parish churches, Sunday by Sunday, the “prophetic” and the mundane are submitted to Word and Sacrament, to the annual re-telling of the Story, to the means of grace, as together the people of God are renewed and re-made. New and old ideas are submitted to the tolerance and good sense or ordinary women and men.

Unlike more centralized churches, where some form of force imposes the party line, Anglicanism submits party lines to corporate worship celebrated in "places". All the Canons and resolutions in the world cannot replace or overcome the extraordinary work of God which goes on week by week, year by year. I suggest that the center of our familiar unity is there to be found, as we who are trapped in the passions of the moment are drawn into the reality of the eternal. The eternal triumphs and the gates of hell cannot prevail.

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