Winter 2016-2017 Newsletter
The latest edition of our newsletter is available. Please take a look! You'll find it on our newsletters page. Many blessings for the year ahead ~Happy New Year!
December 2016
God is Love
In 1 John 4, verses 7-8, we read: “Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.” It is our prayer that you [...]
November 2016
What do you plan to do ……?
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life?” From The Summer Day, Mary Oliver
October 2016
Congratulations to the Rev. Father Scott Carter
Scott Carter, of Ashland, Oregon, is CCOA's newest priest. Fr. Scott was ordained this morning. He is pictured here with Bishop Diana, Presiding Bishop Mark and Bishop Linda.
Julie Byrne, author of The Other Catholics, visits CCOA!
Julie Byrne, the author of The Other Catholics, graced the CCOA Convocation participants and other Independent Catholics from the Phoenix area, with a visit this weekend! She is shown here with CCOA Presiding Bishop Mark.
Congratulations and Safe Travels!
Prayers for safe travels to the CCOA faithful, who will be traveling to the CCOA Convocation this week. and Congratulations to Deacon Scott Carter, who has been approved for ordination to the priesthood. The liturgy for Dn. Scott's ordination is scheduled for 9:15-11:00 am, Arizona time, [...]
September 2016
Congratulations +Mark and Ryan!
CCOA Presiding Bishop, Mark Elliott Newman wed Ryan Gallo Obado at a Dignity Worship Service in Phoenix on September 17, 2016. Congratulations, +Mark and Ryan! The rite of marriage was officiated by a minister from the Church of Religious Science, and the Eucharist was celebrated by [...]
June 2016
Congratulations, Bishop Ann!
Presiding Bishop Mark Newman and Bishop Linda Rounds-Nichols, acting on behalf of Archbishop Leon Hunt of the United Kingdom, ordained the Rev. Elizabeth Ann Bryan to the episcopal order, sub conditione on June 25, 2016. Bishop Ann was left without a jurisdiction when her former Presiding [...]
Something will happen to you …..
" ... the church [CCOA] is full of people whose Catholicism features a God of boundless inscrutability, whose metaphysics [mysticism] posits a high interconnected universe, and whose temperaments are notably comfortable with uncertainty.To Antiochians [those involved in the CCOA] it was inevitable that something would [...]
May 2016
Rev. Deacon Ron
Sophia Divinity School seminarian, Ron, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, recently became the newest deacon in the CCOA. Congratulations, Rev. Deacon Ron! Presiding Bishop Mark and Rev. Deacon Ron are in the back row. The many others are Rev. Deacon Ron's friends and family.