The Episcopal Church will be disciplined for permitting same-sex liturgical blessings and for consecrating a sexually active homosexual person as Bishop of New Hampshire, according to the Most Rev. Drexel Gomez, Primate of the West Indies and a member of the Lambeth Commission, which is due to issue a recommendation later this year.

The bishops of Dallas and Pittsburgh were joined by some leaders of the Episcopal Church’s mission community, the Presiding Bishops of two “continuing” Anglican churches and the Primate of the Southern Cone at a conference in Nassau, Bahamas, March 30-April 1.

Building upon the relationships forged by meetings of the U.S. Anglican Congress over the past two years, participants envisioned a mission-centered approach to resolving the crisis of faith and order facing the Anglican Communion.

The Primate of the Southern Cone, the Most Rev. Gregory Venables, asked American traditionalists to be in “non-stop, around-the-clock prayer” over the next five months for the members of the primates’ commission. “There is no way to know what our Communion will look like in two years, but we can be assured of the steadfast presence of God and Christ.”