All of you are the children of God, through faith, in Christ Jesus, since every one of you that has been baptized has been clothed in Christ. There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither slave nor free, there can be neither male nor female -- for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
News & Updates
I am posting the excellent homily on the Transfiguration that I used as a resource today on our website because I believe that it is worth your time to either read or listen to it, or both!
Pastor Alice
Read/Watch "TRANSFIGURING RESPECTABLE WHITE MALE JESUS"
Check out current social justice activities
Our Social Justice Organisations can use your help.
Take a look at what's coming up under "Other Organizations.
A Lenten Call to Action on Gun Violence
Click here for the message from the WI Council of Churches regarding actions a congregation can pursue to address gun violence.
Don Timmerman's book, "Midwife of Grace"
"I served God as best I could, starting as a farmer from Dickeyville, Wisconsin, and then evolving through many roles."
The book is available at Amazon, but Don is working at getting copies that could be sold directly so that Casa Maria would benefit more directly ..... Jim
"Building Bridges with LGBT Catholics."
A talk given by Rev. James Martin, SJ, Editor at Large, America Media, entitled, "Building Bridges with LGBT Catholics."(Video)
Reflections of Wellness for Women
For more information, Go to the calendar page
Saturday, January 20, 2018
Parish priest breaks the silence, shares that he is gay
'I am weary with holding it in'
From the National Catholic Reporter
In view of giving visibility and voice to the laity in the Catholic Church, CCRI has declared today as the beginning of a worldwide celebration of the Year of the Laity. This will go from the Feast of Christ the King, November 26, 2017, to this same feast, November 25, 2018. During this year, we envision the People of God taking on a decisive and influential voice in the governance of their Church. This will never come by a decree of the hierarchy but only by the People assuming this responsibility. Once accustomed to this new role, it is our hope that lay people, by virtue of their baptism, will recognize their responsibility to heed the signs of the times and continue to lead the Church in the direction intended by Jesus Christ.
For more information please click here to read the complete declaration.
Meditation on 9 phases of progressive enlightenment. Reflections on a Thangka painting portraying stages according to Mahamudra Practice
Hello everyone, In our gathering yesterday at MoM's Centering Prayer group, we spent some time gazing upon, meditating and praying with icons. I sensed a deepening and connection in this practice with most members there. One new member who hadn't centered before (we did have a centering prayer sit) discussed some difficulty in centering as one works with formlessness, esp. how to handled busy mind and thoughts/questions arising during prayer. We discussed the Buddhist notion of the 'monkey mind.' A part of that "monkey mind" teaching comes from a Buddhist Mahamudra Thangka (like an icon) from the East. Catherine, who was in attendance yesterday, requested the link the youtube video which describes successive paths to enlightens and inner unity..... Ronald Mendyke
Here is the link.
About Us
All are welcome!
Worship Place & Time
Sunday at 9:45 a.m.1529 N Wauwatosa Ave
Wauwatosa, WI 53213
(Enter at North courtyard door, Campus of the Wauwatosa Ave. United Methodist Church. We meet downstairs in Wesley Hall.)
Rev. Alice Iaquinta, M.Div., Roman Catholic
Womenpriests
As a 2006 Master of Divinity honors graduate of St. Francisde Sales Seminary, Milwaukee, WI, Alice was educated in the same program as the men who were ordained priests and was ordained in 2007 by Bishop Patricia Fresen, of Roman Catholic Womenpriests. She taught Applied Ethics, Oral and Interpersonal Communications, Marriage and the Family and Critical Thinking at Moraine Park Technical College, West Bend, WI for more than four decades before retiring in 2013. She previously served as an Associate Pastor of Jesus Our Shepard Church, Nenno, WI and also as Pastoral Associate at St. Therese Catholic Church, Milwaukee, WI. Alice's ministerial focus is Adult faith information and education.
Rev. Jim Ryan, M.Div., Ph.D
Jim was ordained in the Passionist Community, Chicago, Il. Jim has extensive service to adults with disabilities and has worked in that ministry in southeastern Wisconsin for the last 17 years. Jim's Doctoral studies focused on the social justice base of virtue, especially piety as a lived spirituality. His past service included ministry to Appalachian communities in Kentucky. His ministerial focus is social justice.
Mission
as an inclusive Catholic Eucharistic community,
where all are welcome, all are equal and all are ministers of the Church.
All are welcome to share Eucharist at the communion table. We offer participatory, alternative Catholic worship,
leaving the exclusive, judgemental, hierarchical, sexist, patriarchical, homophobic practices of the Catholic Church
to its past.
Description
| An inclusive, Vatican II Eucharistic community of faithful Catholics who believe: | |
| - | that all are welcome; |
| - | that no one is excluded from the Eucharistic table for any reason, because no one is ever excluded from God's love |
| - | that living according to an informed conscience is every Catholic's responsibility and right |
| - | that transparency and equality, inclusiveness and hospitality are the foundation of a worshiping community |
| - | that loving service and outreach to others is how we "live Jesus" |
| - | that the royal priesthood of the baptized must be recognized, celebrated and the basis for a discipleship of equals. |
The Vatican II Council vision of Church is a communion of the faithful who live out the religious liberty so treasured by the leaders of the Council to be God's people, faithful, sacramental and dedicated to service. We are a gathering of the People of God where The Gospel announces and proclaims the freedom of the sons and daughters of God...it scrupulously respects the dignity of conscience and its freedom of choice, it never ceases to encourage the employment of human talent in the service of God and humankind, and ... it comments everyone to the charity of all."
Gaudium et Spes (the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World #41)
All Are Welcome
by Marty Haugen
Let us build a house where love can dwell and all can safely live,
A place where saints and children tell how hearts learn to forgive.
Built of hopes and dreams and visions, rock of faith and vault of grace;
Here the love of Christ shall end divisions.
All are welcome, all are welcome, all are welcome in this place.
Let us build a house where prophets speak, and words are strong and true,
Where all God's children dare to seek to dream God's reign anew.
Here the cross shall stand as witness and a symbol of God's grace;
Here as one we claim the faith of Jesus.
All are welcome, all are welcome, all are welcome in this place.
Let us build a house where love is found in water, wine and wheat,
A banquet hall on holy ground, where peace and justice meet.
Here the love of God, through Jesus, is revealed in time and space;
As we share in Christ the feast that frees us.
All are welcome, all are welcome, all are welcome in this place.
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