City traffic was brought to a standstill in Panama City today, 13 October, when 2,500 members of the local Anglican Church joined delegates to the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) in a kilometre long procession through the streets to the Gimnasio Nuevo sports hall. The procession was accompanied by police and youth bands and the 27 parishes all carried banners to mark their participation. Once inside the hall, they joined together in a three hour service of witness in a variety of languages typical of the international nature of the Anglican Communion.
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What a great joy it is for me finally to stand before you after being in office for almost two years. What a great privilege it is to meet the appointed members of the Anglican Consultative Council from around the Anglican Communion. I have been waiting a long time for this day and I am thrilled it has finally come.
You shall not make for yourself any other idol, for God is spirit, the spirit and the ground of all beings, which is love. The creation is an expression of his great spirit of love. We live in a world of love. Therefore you shall not dishonour the name of the Lord your God. God is the ground of our being. Our beings are grounded in love. God is love and love is God.
The Tenth Meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) will take place in Panama beginning October 10 and running through to October 20. The meeting theme is Witnessing as Anglicans in the Third Millennium.
As President of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC), the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd and Rt Hon George L Carey, will call together Anglicans from around the world, laity and clergy, people from all walks of life, to discuss the work, worship and witness of the Anglican Communion around the world. The Archbishop of Canterbury will preach a sermon at a major Diocesan Mass on Sunday October 13 at 9am. The actual ACC meeting runs from October 10 through to October 20.
At their recent meeting in Bishop Woodford House, Ely, UK, the Joint Standing Committees of the Primates of the Anglican Communion and the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) have announced the theme for the next international ACC gathering.