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Core Beliefs
Being a renewal parish, we affirm the Anglican Christianity that finds expression in the historic standards of the ecumenical creeds and the Solemn Declaration of 1893. Our statement of faith can best be summed up in "The Montreal Declaration of Anglican Essentials" as written in 1994.
The Solemn Declaration of 1893
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, Amen.
WE, the Bishops, together with the Delegates from the Clergy and Laity of the Church of England in the Dominion of Canada, now assembled in the first General Synod, hereby make the following Solemn Declaration:
WE declare this Church to be, and desire that it shall continue, in full communion with the Church of England throughout the world, as an integral portion of the One Body of Christ composed of the Churches which, united under the One Divine Head and in fellowship of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, hold the One Faith revealed in Holy Writ, and defined in the Creeds as maintained by the undivided primitive Church in the undisputed Ecumenical Councils; receive the same Canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, as containing all things necessary to salvation; teach the same Word of God; partake of the same Divinely ordained Sacraments, through the ministry of the same Apostolic Orders; and worship One God and Father through the same Lord Jesus Christ, by the same Holy and Divine Spirit who is given to them that believe to guide them into all truth.
And we are determined by the help of God to hold and maintain the Doctrine, Sacraments, and Discipline of Christ as the Lord hath commanded in his Holy Word, and as the Church of England hath received and set forth in The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England; together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches; and the Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests and Deacons and in the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion; and to transmit the same unimpaired to our posterity.
The Book of Common Prayer issued by the Authority of the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada 1962
The Creeds
The Apostle's Creed
I Believe in God,
The Father almighty,
creator of heaven and earth...
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The Nicene Creed
We believe in one God
The Father, the Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all that is, seen and unseen...
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The Montreal Declaration
This declaration was adopted at a national conference of Anglicans
from across Canada in June 1994 and serves as the theological basis of
those involved in this on-going movement. As members of the Anglican Church
of Canada from every province and territory, and participants in the Essentials
1994 Conference in Montreal, we unite in praising God for his saving grace
and for the fellowship we enjoy with our Lord and with each other. We affirm
the following Christian essentials:...
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