The Lessons Appointed for Use on the Sunday closest to November 9 Year A RCL Christ Catholic Church Province of the Prince of Peace Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25Psalm 78:1-71 Thessalonians 4:13-18Matthew 25:1-13 The Collect O God, whose blessed Son came into the world that he might destroy the works of the…
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All Saints’ Day Year A RCL: The Company of the Broken and Blessed
The Lessons Appointed for Use on All Saints’ Day Year A RCL Christ Catholic Church Province of the Prince of Peace Revelation 7:9-17Psalm 34:1-10, 221 John 3:1-3Matthew 5:1-12 The Collect Almighty God, you have knit together your elect in one communion and fellowship in the mystical body of your Son…
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Radio Free Catholic: Back on the Air in Early 2027
Radio Free Catholic: Back on the Air in Early 2027! An old friend is finding a new voice. Radio Free Catholic, our venerable call-in talk show from the BlogTalkRadio days, is returning in early 2027 as a recurring streaming variety show on the Christ Catholic Church YouTube channel. We’re bringing…
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Sunday closest to October 26 Year A Proper 25 RCL: Loving What He Commands
Christ Catholic Church The Lessons Appointed for Use on the Sunday closest to October 26 Year A Proper 25 RCL The Collect Almighty and everlasting God, increase in us the gifts of faith, hope, and charity; and, that we may obtain what you promise, make us love what you command;…
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Christ Catholic Church: There is a Place at the Table for You
Christ Catholic Church: There is a Place at the Table for You An Invitation to Explore a Sacramental Christian Life Jesus Cares ✛ Christ is the Center ✛ The Gospel is the Way Perhaps you’ve found your way here because you’re looking for something. Maybe you’re looking for a church….
Pastoral Reflections
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Beyond Independence: Toward an Autocephalous Sacramental Movement
Beyond Independence: Toward an Autocephalous Sacramental Movement By Abbot Bishop Brian Ernest Brown, CWC Words matter. They shape more than the sentences we speak; they shape the way we understand ourselves. They create categories in our minds, establish assumptions before a conversation even begins, and sometimes quietly determine which questions…
Church History
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The Kindling of Free Catholicism: An Ancient Fire Carried from Hearth to Hearth
By +Brian Ernest Brown, CWC Before Free Catholicism Had a Name: Celtic Christianity, Saint Willibrord, and Utrecht I offer the following as a historical and theological hypothesis rather than as a claim that can be proven in every detail: the catholic churches of the Celtic lands prior to the Synod…
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Unity Without Uniformity
Unity Without Uniformity By Abbot Bishop Brian Ernest Brown, CWC After nearly thirty years in the Autocephalous Sacramental Movement, I have spent a great deal of time thinking about the question of Christian unity. For many years, I measured unity largely by visible organization: fewer jurisdictions, fewer divisions, fewer independent…
Bound on the Altar and Freed by Grace
Sunday Closest to June 29Proper 8Year ARCL Genesis 22:1-14Psalm 13Romans 6:12-23Matthew 10:40-42 Bound on the Altar and Freed by Grace By +Brian Ernest Brown, CWC We spend an enormous amount of our lives trying to calculate the cost of our commitments. We look at our careers, our marriages, our finances,…
Found in the Desert and Free from the Tomb
Sunday Closest to June 22Proper 7Year ARCL Genesis 21:8-21Psalm 86:1-10, 16-17Romans 6:1b-11Matthew 10:24-39 Found in the Desert and Free from the Tomb By +Brian Ernest Brown, CWC Every single one of us has a deep, underlying fear of being completely cast out. We fear being excluded from our social circles,…