Dear Beloved of God, in this Easter message I would like to invite you to walk with me on the path the Spirit has been teaching, guiding and transforming me/us through the last 40 days. And as we celebrate Easter this year, where will we meet the Risen Christ? As with Mary of Magdala, I pray that, in the vulnerability of our tears, we will come to experience anew the Risen Christ Jesus, who will call us by our name. I pray that, in our communities gathered in prayer and, in our service with and for the marginalized, we will encounter the Risen One.   Read more.

Our Presiding Bishop Paul Burson writes: In preparing for Synod 2024, I asked this question of our Ecumenical Catholic Communion communities: What type of social engagement, service and ministry outreach is your ECC Community involved in within your area? As I shared in my State of Communion presentation on Friday evening of Synod, my heart was very moved and encouraged to learn about all the ways our Communities are reaching out to others.   A special display was created in the Chapel (which was located in the lower level of Longs Peak Lodge) so everyone could read, learn and get ideas from each other over the days we were gathered. It is…

It is Lent, a time of repentance, fasting and reflection.  We heed the call of Isaiah who proclaimed that true fasting is to loose the chains of injustice, break every yoke, feed the hungry, provide shelter to the wanderer, and clothe the naked. “Then your light will break forth like the dawn.” It is that light we are called to be in these difficult times.  All of us are witnessing in America today unprecedented attacks on immigrants, refugees and people of color through the blatant disregard of the rule of law. Accusations of illegal activity have been directed at Protestant, Catholic and Jewish organizations who, here and abroad, are living out…

The Ecumenical Catholic Communion’s Truth & Reconciliation Commission invites you to join us on A Pilgrimage To Montgomery, Alabama – April 8-11, 2025. We will visit the Legacy Sites: The Legacy Museum, Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, and The National Memorial for Peace and Justice. Click here to learn more and register.

ECC Holy Synod 2024 at the YMCA of the Rockies in Estes Park, CO closes with a glorious hybrid Mass in Hyde Chapel, lots of hugs and smiles for group pictures, new-made friends exchanging contact information, promises of “see you at the next one” and “I’ll visit your parish when I come your way”, local ECC parish volunteers driving folks to the airport and committing to memory the beautiful vistas of the Rockies!   Thank you to all our attendees, visiting guests, ministries, religious orders, musicians, organizational leaders, and volunteers for making this a wonderfully fun & prayerful experience!  Take a stroll down memory lane and see highlights of each of…

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Dear Beloved,As this Lenten season began, I found myself once again in the Dominican Republic.  Every year at this time a group of faculty, staff and students travel with me to communities on the island of Hispanola to learn and experience first hand the joys, challenges and hopes of subsistence farmers and immigrant field workers from Haiti. Host families open their lives and homes to us in a way that enables, even non-Spanish speaking sojourners to feel connected and welcomed as extended members of the family. Inevitably during our time in the beautiful mountain village of Arroyo de Toro, as part of learning about the community, we hike over dirt roads and narrow…