It’s been a slow a week at CEChome. If you have some news you would like to share with the Communion, please send a story and a few photos of your event to news@cechome.com
We would love to hear from you.
Fr. Gregory
ICCEC Communications Department
We have received good news regarding Bishop Adonias Ramos of Brazil. The Bishop had successful surgery and is at home recovering. Please continue to keep Bishop Adonias in your prayers.
Left to Right: Rudy Schwab, Sharon Boggs, Dale Sherfield, Fr John Boggs, Tammy Schwab, Cheryl Christensen, Allen Christensen
The people of Christ the Redeemer have been meeting on Tuesdays since July of 2008. These meetings have taken place in the home of one of the mission members.
On June 7th, 2009 the people of Christ the Redeemer Mission began Sunday worship. Worship time is now 10:30 AM at the Willow Place Conference Center in downtown Cookeville, Tennessee (Mid-South Diocese).
Mission members are endeavoring to embrace evangelism as a way of life. Other local churches have been invited to share in being equipped for this ministry.
According to Father John Boggs, Vicar, “Christ the Redeemer Mission will be active in ministry to the unborn through Tennessee Right to Life. Support activities will include ministry at the Cookeville Pregnancy Care Center and the staffing of Right to Life Information Booths. Please pray that God will bless our witness and ministry in Cookeville.”
The Convocation of the Southeast Province took place at the newly-designated Cathedral of Christ the King in Sharpsburg, GA on June 17 and continued through June 19.
At the opening of the Convocation, and throughout the week, Archbishop Craig Bates, Patriarch of the ICCEC, spoke on the need to “Go Back to the Original Call.” Abp Bates told a gathering of over 250 persons that God drew the CEC’s founders to build its communion as a “house of prayer.” He noted that the CEC was birthed out of the pro-life movement and prayer.
“The founders were not on a journey to Roman Catholicism, or Anglicanism, or Orthodoxy, but they had heard God’s voice and, as he spoke, they wanted to obey him whole-heartedly. This movement was one based on revelation, not information. The CEC was not birthed out of theology, it grew out of prayer,” Archbishop Bates said.
Just added to the “CEC Links” menu on the sidebar are links to the Foundation Day website and the ICCEC Calendar Website.
The Foundation Day site contains the Patriarch’s Foundation Day Message, bulletin inserts and Foundation Day request forms are available on the site. The funds collected will be posted each week, and the funds collected in the past few years are also posted. There is also a listing of where the money is invested, and which churches have received loans and grants.
The Calendar site contains information about this year’s theme and the process for submitting photos for the Calendar.
We received a report from Brazil that Bishop Adonias Ramos has suffered from a severe heart attack. Please keep the Bishop, his family, and his congregation in your prayers. Bishop Ramos is 39 years old. He and his wife have two sons.
Abp. Craig Bates, Fr. Brett Crompton, Dcn. Andrew Wyns, Alan Melanson
The Seventh Annual Golf Classic for Bridges of Greater New York took place on Monday, June 8, 2009. Over one hundred and twenty CEC clergy and lay-folk inhabited the golf course of The Woodmere Club on New York’s Long Island for a day of fellowship, friendly competition, and food. The day culminated with a dinner in the country club’s main hall, where about an additional forty guests joined the golfers for raffles, auctions and fine food, adding to the jovial fundraising. One hundred percent of the funds will go directly to the daily operations of Bridges of Greater New York.
Bishop Davidson prays for Archbishop Bates and his wife Cathy
The Convocation of the Central Province took place at the Cathedral Church of the King in Olathe, Kansas (June 10-12).
At the opening of the Convocation, Archbishop Bates told a gathering of 140 persons that God drew the CEC’s founders to build its communion as a “house of prayer.” He noted that the CEC was birthed out of the pro-life movement and prayer.
“The founders were not on a journey to Roman Catholicism, or Anglicanism, or Orthodoxy, but they had heard God’s voice and, as he spoke, they wanted to obey him whole-heartedly. This movement was one based on revelation, not information. The CEC was not birthed out of theology, it grew out of prayer,” Archbishop Bates said.
The CEC’s early leaders already understood there was power in the blood of Christ. Archbishop Bates, said, “As Spirit-filled people, we sang about the blood and ‘pleaded’ the blood. When we grasped that Jesus is instructing us in John 6 and Luke 22 to ‘drink his blood’ this made sense–the ‘Real Presence of Christ’ in the Eucharist made sense–because we knew ‘there’s power in the blood.’”
There was a nice article about our parochial school, The Cathedral Academy, in the Montgomery Advertiser today. The Montgomery Advertiser is the main newspaper in Montgomery, AL. The article can be found at the web site below. Thanks again and God Bless.
Fr. Brent Keith
Headmaster, Cathedral Academy
www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009906170362
Photo: The Rev. Brent Keith, 39, holds son Asher, 3, inside Cathedral Academy in Selma, a private school that costs $160 month in tuition. (Alvin Benn / Special to the Advertiser)
Abortion doctor’s murder not an act of faith, but its precise opposite
by Deacon Michael Harmon
June 2009
Copyright © 2009 Blethen Maine Newspapers
Rather than use force
to impose our view of God’s
justice, we should wait for
Him to display mercy in love.
Reading that Kansas abortionist George Tiller had been murdered struck me like a punch in the gut: No, not again. But yes, again.
No matter what Tiller did or didn’t do – and he did a lot – he should not have been the victim of a gunman who, while he may have been anti-abortion, could not have been pro-life.
So I offered up a prayer for Tiller’s soul, and for the soul of the man who shot him, and (for neither the first nor presumably last time) for the souls of all those 55 million babies who will never walk this land because of people like Tiller and those who supported him.
And then I thought of Bernard Nathanson. He was a New York doctor and staunch atheist who was a co-founder and chairman of the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws, which became the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League and is now NARAL Pro-Choice America.
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From Bishop David Epps
Bishop John Holloway is in Upson Regional Medical Center, Thomaston, GA, tonight with an apparent blood clot in his right thigh. He is expecting to be there 2-4 days. This is a potentially very serious situation. He is being cared for and is receiving medication and treatment. Please pray for Bishop John, his family, and the medical staff.
Cards may be sent to the home at:
The Most Rev’d John W. Holloway
317 West Lee Street
Thomaston, Georgia 30286
On Trinity Sunday, June 7, 2009, Prince of Peace CEC Mission, and the Goshen Community, celebrated their first Holy Eucharist in their recently consecrated chapel located at The Lodge at Ascension Hospice, 7142 Woodrow Street, Irmo, South Carolina. They were joined in worship and prayer by seven residents and two staff assistants from The Lodge.
Prince of Peace celebrated its first ever Eucharist at the Dance Department, located within 1/8th of a mile from the new chapel on February 7, 1999. Ten years and eight moves later…Prince of Peace has come full circle returning to Irmo.
In June of 2006, Archbishop Jones blessed the formation of the Goshen Community. Father Hager was installed as the Vicar of Prince of Peace Mission by Archbishop Douglas Woodall in July of 2001, and will celebrate his eighth year as Vicar next month.
Father Hager is the Director of Chaplains and Pastoral Education, and supervises 12 chaplains and facilitates Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) for Ascension Hospice. He was accessioned into the US Army Reserve (USAR) as a chaplain last month, and is presently awaiting receipt of his Oath of Office in order to be commissioned as a USAR officer. Fr. Hager will begin the Chaplain Officer Basic Leadership Course (COBLC) at Ft. Jackson, in Columbia, SC, in September.
The Cathedral of the King in Manila, Philippines, purchased two large billboards to proclaim “ALL LIFE IS SACRED.” The billboards are 150 feet high, and were put up on the two major highways coming into the city.
This project was a follow-up to the Sanctity of Life Sunday proclamation made this past January , as the entire congregation came in black T-shirts with the words, “All Life is SACRED…CEC4Life” printed in white. A huge poster printed with identical wordings about the sanctity of life was also spread over the 50-meter (160 feet) wall of the Cathedral as part of the Pro-Life message to the community.
Additional photos are available here.
Christ the King Church, Sharpsburg, GA, will host the 2009 Southeast Province Convocation June 17-19, with some 300 bishops, clergy, and leaders from across the Southeast in attendance. Evening services will begin on Wednesday, June 17 at 7:30 p.m. and Archbishop Craig Bates, Patriarch of the International Communion of the Charismatic Episcopal Church will speak each evening. Morning Prayer will be conducted at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday and Friday. During morning sessions, beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday and Friday, speakers will be Archbishop Charles Jones, Southeast Province; Bishop David Epps of the Mid-South Diocese; Bishop David Simpson, Florida; and Bishop Gene Lilly, Philippines.
Details of the schedule and workshops offered will be posted at www.midsouthdiocese.org.
Worship services will be led by the members of the Music Ministry of Christ the King Church and Holy Eucharist will be celebrated at each evening service. Registration costs are $15.00 per family and all sessions are open to the public. For additional information, see www.midsouthdiocese.org or call 770-252-2428. The church is located at 4881 Hwy 34 East, Sharpsburg, GA 30277, between Peachtree City and Newnan.
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