San Damiano - ECC
http://www.sandamianochurch.com/
Pathfinder Community of the Risen Christ -
We are a Non-Roman Catholic Community affiliated with the Ecumenical Catholic Communion (ECC) headquartered in Orange, California.
http://www.pathfindercommunity.com/
St Andrew & St Paul Ecumenical Catholic Communion (ECC)
An alternative way to celebrate your Catholic Faith
http://www.standrewandstpaul.org/
Holy Trinity, Long Beach
A member of the Ecumenical Catholic Communion (ECC)
http://www.holytrinitylongbeach.com/
Church of the Holy Family - A Member of the Ecumenical Catholic Communion ECC)
“A new way
to celebrate an ancient faith”
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Who are we?
The Church of the Holy Family is an ecumenical Catholic faith community comprised of Christians from many faith traditions who seek to make the richness of Catholic spirituality and tradition available and accessible to all. Our community, a member of the growing Ecumenical Catholic Communion, is made up of former Episcopalians, Lutherans, and Protestants as well as, many people who, for some reason, have felt excluded from the Roman Catholic Church.
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Planning a wedding and you didn’t think you could have a Catholic ceremony?
We are here to serve the needs of all couples, especially those who wish to have a sacramental Catholic marriage, but are unable to be married in another church. Our ordained clergy perform nuptial ceremonies or Masses at almost any location, perhaps in the garden or park, home, hotel, church or wedding chapel. They provide services that help create unique ceremonies for each couple!
http://www.churchofholyfamily.org/
“Come to supper real soon.”
-God
Are you looking for...
* a home for your Catholic heart?
* the rich liturgical celebration of the Mass?
* an inclusive community that welcomes everyone: divorced, remarried, gay and lesbian, all races?
* priests and deacons who are women and men, married and celibate?
* a sacramental life?
* a Communion Table that is open to all baptized Christians?
* a community that celebrates diversity?
* an opportunity to follow your conscience without guilt?
* a community acting for justice, in our community, our nation, our church, our world?
Church of the Beloved is an independent, inclusive Catholic faith community in which you can be yourself, question, struggle with difficult choices, rejoice, and be supported in finding the Spirit’s leading in your life. Our community is more concerned with the welcoming generous love of Jesus than the letter of the law.
All are welcome! We are a small and growing community with great love. Expect a hug! Come as you are! Explore!
http://www.churchofthebeloved-ecc.org/
Here’s just a few...
History.....
History of Spirtus Dei Ecumenical Catholic Community (ECC)
Our history begins with individuals searching for another way to be Catholic; individuals who were growing more dissatisfied with the direction that the Roman Catholic Church is taking toward a “smaller more orthodox” church. The struggle of the Roman Catholic community of Corpus Christi in Rochester NY caught people’s attention, especially when that community chose to transform itself into Spiritus Christi, and ordained a woman as priest. At about the same time people discovered Bishop Peter Hickman and St. Matthew’s Ecumenical Catholic Church in Orange, CA.
A few of these individuals invited Mary Ramerman and James Callen of Spiritus Christi, and Bishop Peter and Mirella Hickman of St Matthew’s, and members of their faith communities, to visit the Puget Sound area as part of a retreat at the Seabeck Christian Retreat Center on the Hood Canal. At the retreat, these guests told their stories of finding themselves called to a new, more inclusive way to be Catholic.
On Labor Day weekend, September 2003, about 30 residents of this area attended that retreat to hear the stories of Spiritus Christi Catholic Community, and St. Matthew’s Ecumenical Catholic Church. About ten people found themselves so moved by that experience that we continued to meet on a regular basis to discern what our experience meant, and what further actions we were being called to undertake.
When we met, we prayed a lay-led eucharistic prayer and shared reflective conversations about what concerns we had with the current Roman Catholic institution. We shared what we wanted to see in a Catholic community. We came up with a values list that described what we desired, and we followed some Quaker models of discernment that led us to a sense sometime in the fall of 2004 to “be church.”
We continued to wonder what “being church” meant. While we wondered we met monthly for reflection and Eucharistic prayer. Some married Roman Catholic priests from the CORPUS community supported our efforts and at Pentecost 2005, we gathered with various Catholics from small alternative Catholic communities sprinkled throughout the Puget Sound area to celebrate the Holy Spirit’s life in us and work among us.
Planners of that event, held at the Wayside Church of Christ in Federal Way, were challenged to take the Pentecost energy we had experienced and bring it close to home. That step brought into being the ECC Explorers, drawing participants primarily from Seattle and the Eastside area.
Jim Callen and Mary Rammerman returned and spent time with us in 2004, and Bishop Peter Hickman and his spouse, Mirella, returned and spent time in September 2005, discerning with us our next steps. This discernment included visits by the bishop to the South Sound, Eastside, and Olympic Peninsula. At a subsequent meeting, twelve of approximately 20 people who registered as “participants” in our local group agreed to step forth and serve as a leadership body. A few months later, one of those twelve stepped aside from leadership, leaving 11 leaders. That departing person left us as a legacy the name that we now choose for our community.
On January 21, 2006, at a gathering of prayer and conversation among nine of those eleven leaders, a decision was reached to move from the status of being explorers to becoming a formal faith community incorporated in the State of Washington. In early February 2006 we signed a letter of intent to affiliate with the Ecumenical Catholic Communion, incorporated in Washington State, and chose the name Spiritus Dei Ecumenical Catholic Community (Spirit of God).
Our gatherings since that time are deepening our understanding of what it means to ‘be church’ as the Body of Christ in this generation. We are in currently in process of selecting leaders to represent us in the national communion’s House of Laity and House of Pastors.
You can find more about our current meeting reality by clicking on our Gatherings link.
We welcome you to come meet us and see this other way to be Catholic!
On Pentecost of 2007 a group, under the umbrella of Spiritus Dei ECC, began to meet in the South Sound region of Washington State. On Pentecost of 2008 this new group discerned that they could become a “new church,” and chose the name Emmaus ECC. See their web site at www.Emmaus-ecc.org.
There is another way to be Catholic!
http://www.spiritusdei-ecc.org/history.html