ECUMENICAL CATHOLIC COMMUNION
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May, 2024
News from the House of Laity
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Celebrating Stations of the Cross 2024
with
Light of Christ in Longmont, CO
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Community Life at
Holy Angels Church in Santa Ana, CA
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Each community has special ways they create communion beyond services or mass inside their church, homes and online. Holy Angels members attended a fun-filled concert offered by The Long Beach Camerata Singers directed by Dr. James Bass.
Our special member, Meredith Lee is a longtime member of this choir and she has organized these evenings including dinner at a local restaurant after the concert.
This is a great way to become bonded with the group and a great way to enrich friendships with new members of our community.
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Congratulations to Maggie Gann and Steve MacDonough,
married May 18, 2024.
Maggie is the pastor at St. Claire and Francis in Webster Groves, Missouri. Bishop Frank presided at this beautiful celebration.
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ECC DIOCESE of California
Pilgrimage to Lourdes
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Bishop Armando recently led a Pilgrimage of 60 people to Lourdes. It was a blessed and holy time for all!
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MMS Grant Award Interviews
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Over the next few months Mother Tammy Fuqua with the MMS Advisory Committee will bring us interviews with MMS grant recipients. These interviews will allow us to hear how the recipients will use the funds awarded to them by the society, and why these grants are so important to the future growth of the ECC.
This month she sat down with two grant recipients from her home church of Holy Angels, Fr. Gianni Passarella and Ricky Villarreal.
https://youtu.be/tjWrMkZ-6Cs
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Christine Garst provided our most recent spreadsheet of the ECC’s current finances. The Finance Committee is happy we are in the black at this time. They want to express their gratitude to everyone supporting the ECC. Please do what you can to continue this important mission.
Click here to view the Finance Report.
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ECC Holy 2024 Synod
“Passing the Torch”
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With great joy, Bishop Pablo invites:
fellow Bishops
delegates of the House of Laity
delegates of the House of Pastors
other ECC members
communion partners
as well as our many friends and visitors
to
2024 Holy Synod
of the
Ecumenical Catholic Communion
on
October 11-14, 2024
in
Estes Park, Colorado!
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MEET OUR KEYNOTE SPEAKERS! | |
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Rev. Ricky Manalo, CSP, Ph.D. is a Paulist priest, a composer, theologian, and author. He will help us explore what it means to gather for liturgy in a world that now includes technological connections in his session, Onsite and Online: Catholic Worship and Technology in a 2.5 World.
During the Covid epidemic’s highpoints, lockdowns drove the Christian Churches to quickly embrace a range of new technologies as they gathered for Sabbath worship. Although most of us initially faced hiccups and stutters, the presence of technology lingers in many of our ECC Communities….continue reading here.
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Christopher Pramuk lives with his wife Lauri and their family in the Denver area, where he serves as the University Chair of Ignatian Thought and Imagination and Professor of Theology at Regis University. He and Lauri met at Regis almost 35 years ago, where both, they say, were first “ruined by the Jesuits." She is a pediatrician, and together they have four children.
Chris recently completed a two-year term as President of the International Thomas Merton Society. Chris is the author of seven books, including Hope Sings, So Beautiful: Graced Encounters Across the Color Line (2013), a sustained meditation on race relations in society and church, and two award-winning studies of Thomas Merton…..continue reading here.
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Deacon Besem Oben Etchi, PhD will be the homilist at the all-Communion Sunday Mass. Deacon Bes of Charis Community MN was ordained to the ECC diaconate on October 1, 2023.
She is Cameroonian and resides in Kribi, Cameroon, where she and others are raising up Our Lady Advocate of Africa EC Community. She has a passion for reviving indigenous knowledge to retrieve the many options of revelation the Divine has gifted the human race and using this knowledge to engineer better educational systems for children. She runs a preschool and elementary school in Kribi when she is not teaching theology or preaching.
She is a mother or two beautiful girls and keeps watch over her parents. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, a Master in Divinity and a PhD in Systematic Theology from Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA.
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ESTES PARK, COLORADO
YMCA of the ROCKIES
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October 11 – 14, 2024
Estes Park
500 Big Thompson Ave.
Estes Park, CO 80517
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Estes Park is a town in northern Colorado. It’s known as a base for the Rocky Mountain National Park, home to wildlife including elk and deer, plus miles of trails. The park’s Trail Ridge Road winds past craggy peaks, forests and tundra. Nearby are the wilderness areas of Roosevelt National Forest. The Estes Park Aerial Tramway connects the town to the summit of Prospect Mountain for views over the valley.
Elevation: 7,522′
Incorporated: April 17, 1917
Settled: 1859
Local airport: Denver International Airport DEN
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Registration fee: $250
Hotel Room and board single Occupancy $497
Hotel Room and board double occupancy $289
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Request for Volunteers for Committees
Contact Fr. Teri Harroun (she, her, hers)
Pastor at Light of Christ, ECC
Teriharroun@gmail.com
303-772-3785
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Technology Team 1
Meeting room support (projection, computers, etc)
Technology Team 2
Online support for facebook and zoom streaming
Hospitality Team
Welcome table, information table, nursing info, supplemental snacks not provided by Estes Park
Transport from Denver Airport to Estes Park
Transport to onsite meeting venues
Liturgy Team
Liturgical Items Team
Music Team
Parade of Churches – John Duffy-Burke
Registration Team
To learn more about these committees, click here.
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Calling All Delegates
Many of our parishes have provided their HOL delegate names to Therese and Claudia for the upcoming Synod. Even though we have passed our suggested deadline, we are still encouraging you to submit your delegate names if you have not done so already. Please include the email address for your delegate to:
Therese Gabriel: theresem40@gmail.com
Claudia Kilby: claudia.kilby@gmail.com
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