INCLUSIVE
CATHOLIC MINISTRIES
What is "Inclusive
Catholic Ministries?"
We want to maintain the
best of our Roman Catholic heritage
and traditions. We want to invite EVERYONE
to participate in God's love and our ministries and we use inclusive language. We want
to offer what you the people of God want and need. We are starting several ministry outreaches. Come and see if this is the faith community
you are seeking.
MARCH
LENTEN
PRAYER TIME AND COMMUNION WEDNESDAYS, March
4, 11, 18, and 25 at 7:00 PM at 2 Westmill Ln., Palm Coast
MONTHLY
MASS in PALM COAST Saturday, March
14, 4:00 P.M. (USUALLY 2nd
Sat. each month) Hospitality follows. Place: 2 Westmill Ln., Palm Coast, FL 32164
ST.
PATRICK’D DAY Tuesday,
March 17
CASTLE
OTTTIS – INTERFAITH WORSHIP AND COMMUNION SERVICE Palm Sun-day, March 29, 10:00 AM at 103 3rd Street St. Augustine, 32084. See http://www.castleotttis.com/
ORDINATION
OF PRIEST from Columbia, South America on Saturday, March 14, Sarasota, FL
APRIL
EASTER
WORSHIP AND COMMUNION SERVICE AT CASTLE OTTTIS Sunday, April 5, 10:00 AM at 103 3rd
Street St. Augustine, 32084. See http://www.castleotttis.com/
MONTHLY
MASS in PALM COAST Saturday, April
11, 4:00 P.M. (USUALLY 2nd
Sat. each month) Hospitality follows. Place: 2 Westmill Ln., Palm Coast, FL 32164
CASTLE
OTTTIS – INTERFAITH WORSHIP AND COMMUNION SERVICE Sunday, April 26, 10:00 AM
at 103 3rd Street St.
Augustine, 32084.
MONTHLY
PRAYER TIME AND COMMUNION Wednesday, April 22 from 7:00 to 8:15
PM at 2 Westmill Ln., Palm Coast (Usually 4th Wednesday each month.)
CATACOMB
ORDINATION IN OHIO Please keep person in your
prayers.
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Dear
Faith Family,
Lent started on Ash Wednesday, February 18, and it was
wonderful to celebrate with new friends.
As I challenged us last month to reflect on the blessings that Jesus’
suffering and death has given us, I wonder how we have done so far.
I know that because Jesus suffered, I have been given
much forgiveness and been freed from guilt.
I have been concentrating on those people whom God is bringing to mind
and looking at our past/present relationship to see what I need to forgive or
ask forgiveness. It has been startling
to see more than one person brought to mind.
I want to free any person with whom I have been acquainted from my
judgmentalism, criticism, and other “isms” that come to mind. I don’t want them to be bound in any way
because I don’t release my negative thoughts and energy from them.
This has been difficult yet a wonderful blessing for me
and the other person. The other person
may not even know I have had any “problems” with them. God’s Spirit may or may not have me go to
them personally and ask forgiveness.
Having to go to them causes me anxiety; but God knows I am willing to
receive the blessing from whatever it takes to free me and the other person.
I encourage each of us to reflect not only on the sufferings
of Jesus and ourselves but also on the blessings Jesus’ life and death has
brought us. Reflect on the blessings
Jesus has given us as we walked with Jesus over the years. Reflect on the person we need to set free
from some personal attitude we have had towards them. What a blessing to set them free!
Love and peace,
Wanda
ORDINATION IN SARASOTA
Luz
Galilea, from Columbia, South America, will be ordained a priest on March 14 at
Mary Mother of Jesus, Sarasota, Florida.
There is much persecution and danger in South America at this time and we
ask your prayers for all our candidates, deacons and priests ministering
there. Because of the danger, Ms.
Galilea will be ordained in the USA.
INTERCESSORY PRAYER MINISTRY
Please send your prayer requests to wandayrussell@aol.com and
we will enter your request in our book and offer your intentions to our loving
God. Many will join us in prayer for
you. You do not need to use names if you
wish to protect confidentiality. Our God
knows for whom you are requesting prayer.
CHILDREN SHOULD NOT BE FOR SALE
"Children
and adolescents are being sold into a $150 billion annual market for sex and
labor. This is happening globally, and domestically; in urban and suburban
areas. Florida is ranked 3rd in the
nation for the most calls to the national hotline for trafficking cases.
Devereux
Florida, a part of the Devereux Foundation founded over 100 years ago, has a
proven history of providing a wide variety of treatment programs for children
who have experienced emotional, physical and sexual trauma. Devereux’s
program model is based on advanced clinical expertise, evidence based
approaches and techniques to help individuals transition from troubled lives to
bright futures filled with personal accomplishments and hope. For over 25
years in Florida, Devereux has offered a full continuum of services for
children who are victims of sexual abuse, sexual trauma and more recently
sexual exploitation." Perhaps you
are being called to help these children?
Here is the address for the website:
MATTHEW FOX COMING TO SARASOTA, FLORIDA
Monday: March 16,2015
Call-To-Action, St. Andrew UCC
6908 Beneva Road, 34238
7:00pm - Lecture - Being a Mystic in Today’s World:
Teachings from the Wisdom of Hildegard of Bingen
and Meister Eckhart
Call-To-Action, St. Andrew UCC
6908 Beneva Road, 34238
7:00pm - Lecture - Being a Mystic in Today’s World:
Teachings from the Wisdom of Hildegard of Bingen
and Meister Eckhart
JESUS AND THE GRAND INQUISITOR
The psychological
association Julia Clair Carbone, ARCWP, is a part of (Archetypology of Everyday
Life) began a formal study last weekend of Dostoevsky’s "The Brothers
Karamazov". Below is a link for short video with John Gielgud of “The
Grand Inquisitor” - one of the remarkable chapters in the book. It reenacts the
encounter between Jesus who has returned and the Cardinal Inquisitor who has
condemned him to burn at the stake for his radical view on human freedom.
It is quite profound and something it seems we are all now globally in the
process of coming to an awareness of. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om6HcUUa8DI
Perhaps this
video is a good source for a Lenten meditation?
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Go to link about women in prison per Sr. Megan Rice who is in prison.
DINING AND FRIENDSHIP AFTER CASTLE OTTTIS SERVICE
Wanda Russell stands behind three new friends whom we met at the interfaith worship and communion service at Castle Otttis on February 22.
Lorraine Sharpe is a candidate discerning becoming a woman priest with the Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests. Lorraine and her husband, George, live in Casselberry, Florida. They visited their friend, Terri Thell, in St. Augustine and decided to join us in worship at Castle Otttis. It was a delight to have them worship with us. Afterwards we shared over a meal at Caps Restaurant and had a beautiful view of the St. Johns River. More importantly we had a wonderful conversation getting to know one another and answering questions about our woman priest movement. It was a delight to hear George say that he liked the inclusiveness of our worship. This included not only the inclusive language, but also, the inclusive welcome of ALL to the table of God.
We shared with them about the informative documentary, Pink Smoke Over the Vatican. The documentary tells about the beginning of the Woman Priest Movement beginning with the Danube Seven in 2002. The movement has grown from seven women to over 200 women and men around the world today. The Sharpes and Terri plan to purchase it and share with others. It is a well done and a telling documentary.
Wanda Russell behind Lorraine and
George Sharpe & their friend, Terri Thell
Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation
The meditation below is for Ash Wednesday.
If you would like to follow all the daily meditations, go to www.cac.org to Center for Action and
Contemplation where you can sign up to receive the daily meditations. There is a blue box indicating an e-mail sign
up.
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Prophets: Self Critical Thinking
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A Self-Balancing
System
Wednesday,
February 18, 2015
(Ash Wednesday) |
In the Hebrew Scriptures, the central
institution of Temple sacrifice, priests, and Levites attempted to balance
itself with prophets, or the legitimation of official, sanctioned critics,
even though they usually killed them in the end. But at least the immense
institutional prestige and authority of ritual and priestcraft was balanced
by the charismatic authority of the truth-speaking prophets. One was an
inherited and ascribed status, the other was earned by speaking truth with no
formal legitimation ever possible (Deuteronomy 18:9-22). There is no
ordination for a prophet. So you can perhaps sense the inherent tension
between prophets and priests, and also between prophets and kings (2 Samuel
12:1-7). Kings and priests were maintainers of social order. The prophets
were disrupters of the social consensus. Within the system there is inherent
conflict but, ideally, also a balance.
The priestly class, the scribes, the
lawyers, and the temple formed a structured, rational religion. Prophets
focused less on the rational, and spoke more from the right-brain, from
intuition, through poetry and images and what they referred to as oracle,
trance, or divination. To the prophets, everything revolved around
faithfulness to Yahweh. For them it was all about the purity and integrity of
the divine-human relationship, which led them to point out the immense
injustices of their world, their kings, and their priests.
Prophets, by their very nature, can't
be right at the center of the social structure. They cannot be full insiders,
but they cannot throw rocks from outside either. Their structural position to
this day is "on the edge of the inside." You must know and live the
essential rules before you can critique what is not essential or not as
important. (See Jesus do this masterfully in Matthew 5:17-48.) As Moses, the
first prophet, learned, once Pharaoh is your benefactor and protector, there
are many questions you can't ask anymore. You can't ask about liberation of
slaves in Pharaoh's house, nor do questions of justice or equality make it to
the dining room table. And if you do ask such questions, you will not be
answered, but quietly--or savagely--eliminated. Is this not obvious? I think
it would be very hard to preach the real Gospel in the White House, under any
President of the USA, Democrat or Republican.
After Christianity became the
established religion of the Western Empire in the 4th century, the priestly
mentality pretty much took over in both East and West, and prophets basically
disappeared. The Emperors even convened the Councils of the Church for many
centuries. I have never come upon a single church in the whole world named
"Christ the Prophet." Maybe now you know why. The top of the
hierarchy was where almost all clergy henceforth resided, and usually in the
good company of kings and princes who were their patrons. That is the
perspective for most of preaching and Scripture interpretation for the next
1700 years: from white, European, educated, comfortable, often celibate
males. I am one myself, and we are not all bad. But we are not all--by
a long shot! It is time for the democratization of the Church, and Scripture
has given us all the needed building blocks to do just that (e.g., 1
Corinthians 12, Galatians 3:26-29).
My father, St. Francis, saw this
problem in the 13th century and refused priesthood himself (he conceded to
some early ordinations in the community, but only if such friars were first
committed to radical poverty and humility). Pope Francis is evoking the same
Gospel spirit, and I pray for his success and protection. What an irony that
the ultimate establishment person would take the name of a non-establishment
saint. It shocked the world, because we do not expect prophecy from popes. I
am not sure we have ever seen a pope and a prophet in the same person in all
of history!
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Adapted from Way of the Prophet (no longer available);
and Dancing Standing Still: Healing the World from a Place of Prayer, p. 37; and Prophets Then, Prophets Now (CD, MP3 download) |
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National Catholic Reporter
"If the Catholic Church ordained women, altar girls would make
sense, but the Catholic priesthood
is a male charism," he said. "Nothing awakens a ...
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Francis recognizes Oscar Romero as martyr;
beatification expected By Joshua J. McElwee
“Pope Francis formally declared Tuesday that Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero was assassinated as a martyr for the Catholic faith, and the beatification of the prelate who was shot dead after radically calling on the church to stand with the poor is expected within months. “
“Pope Francis formally declared Tuesday that Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero was assassinated as a martyr for the Catholic faith, and the beatification of the prelate who was shot dead after radically calling on the church to stand with the poor is expected within months. “
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Catholic hospital system about to take a huge step. In the age of Pope Francis, why are Catholic bishops trying to
deny health care coverage to people just because they're gay?
One of the nation's largest Catholic hospital systems, Mercy
Health, is considering extending health insurance benefits to their employees'
same-sex spouses. The decision could set a powerful
precedent for other Catholic employers.
But now a
handful of right-wing bishops are lashing out at Mercy Health, claiming that
extending health care benefits would be like "abandoning the faith when
subjected to the cruelty and torture of the Roman Empire."
Mercy Health
has rushed to clarify that it is "still exploring" its options, so we
need to show just how many Christians support
health care access for all families, regardless of sexual orientation.
HOW YOU CAN HELP THE MINISTRY
Please pray….. Gather
people together and invite us to come…… Work on publicity for our
movement…..Make phone calls….. Bring a
friend with you…… Talk about what is
happening in the Church today and how others can help…… Help us create a web
site….. Help us apply for 501c3 status with IRS…Make cup cakes…..Please pray
for all lay and religious leaders AS WELL AS THE Pope and Bishops across the
world.
LINKS FOR MORE INFORMATION:
www.arcwp.org
http://bridgetmarys.blogspot.com/
www.cta-usa.org www.romancatholicwomenpriests.org
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