The Voice
The latest issue of The Voice, our newsletter, has been posted. You'll find it by clicking on the newsletter link on the left sidebar. Many thanks to editor, Fr. Ron Catherson, and to those CCOA clergy who wrote articles for this issue.
March 2021
We Commend Into Your Hands, O Lord
We Commend Into Your Hands, O Lord As we pass the one-year mark in stunned remembrance of the 565,000 souls lost to Covid-19, perhaps Fr. Michael Joncas' hymn, "Shelter Me" may be a soothing balm for our collective sorrow. Our lives will be forever touched. [...]
Heart, Mind, Body and Soul
“Nothing matters now but the highest reaches of human attainment. Nothing but the finest is adequate. We must respond enthusiastically to that alert which calls us to move into the highest reaches of heart, mind, body and soul.” Herman Adrian Spruit, Founder of the CCOA
February 2021
Prayer
Many years ago, Herman Adrian Spruit, Patriarch and founder of the Catholic Apostolic Church of Antioch taught: "Prayer is the primary process by which you learn to align your desires, your life's purpose, and your life plans, and work them out in cooperation with [God] ... [...]
December 2020
Caregivers: “the Antibodies to the Virus of Indifference”
A Crisis Reveals What is in our Hearts In these Advent days, we are filled with hope in preparation for the two-fold coming of Christ: the historical Lord in the Child at Christmas and our personal meeting of the Lord at the “2nd coming”– whether that [...]
November 2020
Happy Thanksgiving!
Psalm 100 1 Shout with joy to the Lord, all the earth! 2 Worship the Lord with gladness. Come before him, singing with joy. 3 Acknowledge that the Lord is God! He made us, and we are his.[a] We are his people, the sheep of his pasture. 4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving; go into [...]
What Does this Moment Ask of Me?
In The Sacrament of the Present Moment and Abandonment to Divine Providence, Jesuit priest Jean-Pierre de Caussade reminds us that “ Each moment of our lives requires us to do our duty, the duty of the moment, and each moment is precious and holds some divinely appointed [...]
As We Wait…
Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Though all things pass, God does not change. Patience wins all things. But he lacks nothing who possesses God; For God alone suffices. -St. Teresa of Avila
October 2020
Cold War in our Hearts and Deadening of Conscience
“One of our great problems is to see clearly what we have to resist. I would say that at the moment we have to understand better than we do the cold-war mentality. If we do not understand it, we will run the risk of contributing to [...]
September 2020
Crying With… Opens the Heart
Amidst the suffering in which we are all immersed, we constantly question what is “ours to do”. Fr. Keating’s words help us understand the transformative process which must take place within ourselves so as to “call forth” the Christ in every situation. “We are all localized [...]