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After the resurrection, Christ commissioned His eleven disciples to go into the world and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and though them to observe the things He commanded them to do. He said, He will be with them always. The same command He extended to us, the 21st century Church. We are to be the light of the world that dispels darkness, the salt of the earth, to bring transformation to our communities and society and to bring hope to the hopeless, sight to the blind and to set free those who were captive. But, the church today were crippled by our unhappy division, hatred, prejudices and competion are within Her ranks and congregations, this kind of attitude hampers the growth towards maturity and slows down the progress for unity. The fragmentations brought by these divisions strips Her of vitality and stamina that cause Her not to be an effective witnesses for Christ before the world. The scandals, heresies and the most serious of these is Apostasy that brings death to Her faith that leads to Idolatry, arrogance, self sufficiency and liberalism. I'm not surprise that most beautiful church buildings today are converted to museums which was not intended to be by the faithfuls from the very beginning. The church did drifted away from the standard that God set before Her and one of these was to bring hope and ligth to the nations.

The challenge is to restore to the church what was lost, her first love, her savor to preserve her dying effectivity as living witnesses for Christ and to display God's manifold wisdom and grace to the World.

The book of revelation speaks of the present condition of the Church today where Jesus addressed it to the seven churches about their contaminated attitudes by the world. Christ pointed out their shortcomings against God's set standards and offers remedy to escape God's avenging wrath to come. At the end of every confronting words Christ challenge them by allowing their insensitive heart and dull ears to hear to what the Spirit is saying to the Churches and to grant a great reward for the overcomers. God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him! May our heart be in tuned to His Holy Spirit and hear what is He saying to us today.

ACPT

New year's greeting to all.

Happy New year!

We have given another year full of God's goodness, may we use our God given ability to give Him back the Glory.

May this year challenge us to do more and excel in God's vineyard, ministry and Job. God Bless.

MAP

2012 Opprtuinities

Open door 2012, a fresh start this New Year for Missionary and Clergy interested to join MAP and want start a mission ministry. Interested? Send us an email.

Looking for a missionary?

Are you a community who is in need of a Priest or a congregation in need of a Missionary? Please contact us in our address posted at our webpage.

Affiliation

We welcome Clergy and Ministers who are willing to join our mission in the Anglican Church also Independent Evangelical and Pentecostal Churches interested to affiliate with MAP here in the Philippines and abroad.
Interested Clergy can call or send us an email.

Vatican stunned by Irish embassy closure

By Philip Pullella | Reuters

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  Parishioners and visitors attend mass at a Roman Catholic Church in Ireland in a …

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Catholic Ireland's stunning decision to close its embassy to the Vatican is a huge blow to the Holy See's prestige and may be followed by other countries which feel the missions are too expensive, diplomatic sources said on Friday.

The closure brought relations between Ireland and the Vatican, once ironclad allies, to an all-time low following the row earlier this year over the Irish Church's handling of sex abuse cases and accusations that the Vatican had encouraged secrecy.

Ireland will now be the only major country of ancient Catholic tradition without an embassy to the Vatican.

"This is really bad for the Vatican because Ireland is the first big Catholic country to do this and because of what Catholicism means in Irish history," said a Vatican diplomatic source who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

He said Ireland informed the Vatican shortly before the announcement was made on Thursday night.

Dublin's foreign ministry said the embassy was being closed because "it yields no economic return" and that relations would be continued with an ambassador in Dublin.

The source said the Vatican was "extremely irritated" by the wording equating diplomatic missions with economic return, particularly as the Vatican sees its diplomatic role as promoting human values.

Diplomats said the Irish move might sway others to follow suit to save money because double diplomatic presences in Rome are expensive.

It was the latest crack in relations that had been seen as rock solid until a few years ago.

DAMNING REPORT

In July, the Vatican took the highly unusual step of recalling its ambassador to Ireland after Prime Minister Enda Kenny accused the Holy See of obstructing investigations into sexual abuse by priests.

The Irish parliament passed a motion deploring the Vatican's role in "undermining child protection frameworks" following publication of a damning report on the diocese of Cloyne.

The Cloyne report said Irish clerics concealed from the authorities the sexual abuse of children by priests as recently as 2009, after the Vatican disparaged Irish child protection guidelines in a letter to Irish bishops.

While Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore denied the embassy closure was linked to the row over sexual abuse, Rome-based diplomats said they believed it probably played a major role.

"All things being equal, I really doubt the mission to the Vatican would have been on the list to get the axe without the fallout from the sex abuse scandal," one ambassador to the Vatican said, on condition of anonymity.

Cardinal Sean Brady, the head of the Catholic Church in Ireland, said he was profoundly disappointed by the decision and hoped the government would "revisit" it.

"This decision seems to show little regard for the important role played by the Holy See in international relations and of the historic ties between the Irish people and the Holy See over many centuries," Brady said in a statement.

The Vatican has been an internationally recognized sovereign city-state since 1929, when Italy compensated the Catholic Church for a vast area of central Italy known as the Papal States that was taken by the state at Italian unification in 1860.

It has diplomatic relations with 179 countries. About 80 have resident ambassadors and the rest are based in other European cities.

The Vatican guards its diplomatic independence fiercely and in the past has resisted moves by some countries to locate their envoys to the Holy See inside their embassies to Italy.

Dublin said it was closing its mission to the Vatican along with those in Iran and East Timor to help meet its fiscal goals under an EU-IMF bailout. The closures will save the government 1.25 million euros ($1.725 million) a year.

(Additional reporting by Carmel Crimmins and Conor Humphries in Dublin; Editing by Tim Pearce)

Good News!!! ACP Clergy formation will start this month.

An agreement between the Logos House of Theology (USA) and the Anglican Church in the Philippines (Traditional) was finalized between the two groups, to assist in training and equipping ACP's clergy and to have Logos House presence in South East Asia. It's goal was to assist in the establishment of the Anglican Theological Training Center here in the Philippines.