Catholic Church is: East & West
Breath with both lungs.
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In preparation for the return of Jesus, we are striving to unite the Church. East and West have many opportunities to come together as One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.
Our goal is to provide education, ministry and training for priests, seminarians and religious to understand how to celebrate the Divine Liturgy and Traditional Sacraments.
We are a bi-ritual, autocephalous, sui juris jurisdiction established by a Cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church. He had a vision to unite East and West by teaching them the liturgy of the East and also showing them how to enjoy both rites, the Divine Liturgy and the Traditional Mass.
We have a monastery where priests and seminarians can take classes and learn about the Eastern Catholic Church and the Orthodox so that they can fully understand what it is like to breathe with "both lungs."
We are also providing rectories and convents for priests and religious who want to live in community. We are working closely with the laity in providing this ministry to graciously provide for the servants of Christ.
Pope Francis met with the St. Irenaeus Joint Orthodox-Catholic Working Group
A gathering of Catholic and Orthodox theologians founded in 2004 to study the many challenges in the ecumenical outreach between the Churches, Pope Francis declared:
“Your patron, St. Irenaeus of Lyons — whom soon I will willingly declare a doctor of the Church with the title Doctor Unitatis — came from the East, exercised his episcopal ministry in the West, and was a great spiritual and theological bridge between Eastern and Western Christians.”
The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom and St. Basil go back centuries. The Eastern Catholic Church continues to offer these two liturgies which continue to attract traditional and orthodox Catholics.
The Traditional Mass that we offer is also very attractive to Catholics who want to maintain a sense of tradition with the Eastern rite Church. The liturgies between East and West provide a bridge for people who are interested in seeing unification between the Eastern and Western Catholic Church.
By offering both of these liturgies, the Orthodox Christians also see this as a bridge for them to share their experiences with the Apostolic faith. As Pope Francis fully recognizes the validity of the Orthodox Sacraments, true ecumenism is between the East and West Church as we both have Jesus Christ on the altar.
When the Cardinal was trying to unite the Roman Catholic Church with the Orthodox, he did so with Papal Privilege and had the authority to ordain priests, consecrate bishops and develop dioceses. The Cardinal consecrated Metropolitan Archbishop +Ambrosi to continue these efforts.
HIs Beatitude, Metropolitan +Ambrosi, has the jurisdiction of North and South America with dependencies and has over 80 priests working with him. He was consecrated by over 12 bishops including Catholic and Orthodox and is recognized by the Roman Catholic Church through Cardinal Slipyj and through the Orthodox through the Patriarch (in the Divine Liturgy with Eastern Rite Consecration). The strategy is to have valid Sacraments from both sides and to be very familiar with both East and West to have better results in unification (East and West are not yet unified but both accept the Sacraments as valid). In regard to the dependencies, there are also priests in Africa and South America that are promoting these efforts.
As we continue to strive to unite the Church, we are also providing education and training so more clergy and religious will be able to more fully understand the opportunities the Church has to unite. We have established the Institute for Eastern Christian Studies to further these efforts and have housing for clergy to reside with us for our program which is tailor made for each person.
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