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St. Gabriel and All Angels

The Liberal Catholic Church, as part of the larger Christian Church, has a special role to play, and I feel blessed to be able to participate. The heart of the Church as a whole is to be a vehicle for the distribution of Christ’s power and love to all who sincerely desire to know God. Through the sacraments, Christ comes to all, and wakes up His Life within us. As we come more and more awake to that Divine Spark within our heart, we live and breathe the Love of Christ in all we do and live for the greater good of all life, not just for ourselves.

To know God in every part of creation and to live in perfect union with God and His creation is the reason each of us has taken birth. To feel that we are finally home, no more alone, no more separate from those around us, not different from Nature, in love with everyone and every part of this world – this is the life we have all been born to know. This total intimacy is cultured by the Christian Sacraments and is especially nurtured by the vision embodied in the Liberal Catholic Church.

One reason I say this is because the LCC does not require any sort of belief or acceptance of ‘truth’ that is defined by the Church. What a person believes is really up to them alone and only changes when one’s heart is touched. To tell someone they must believe this or that does not mean they actually do believe it. Telling people to live in one way or another is merely an intellectual exercise doomed to fail – people live their lives based on what touches them at their most quiet and powerful depths. This means to me that people live, grow, change and know God and Christ from within their own experience, their own awareness or consciousness.

The Liberal Catholic Church preserves the sacraments of the catholic Church as a whole in a simple and beautiful form. It thereby delivers the experience of Christ’s Presence to all who take part in the performance of the sacraments, especially the Holy Eucharist. Having the regular inner experience of Christ’s own life and consciousness will move people to change and direct them in how to live most perfectly from within themselves. The LCC trusts in this process explicitly, allowing each person the space and freedom to grow into the fullness of Christ’s Love within their own heart at their own pace and in their own way.