The California Catholic Daily featured this article, “Join us and engage in meaningful dialogues”Episcopal priestess gives talk at Encino retreat center run by Catholic nuns which described the first public session in a series titled “Women’s Life Stories, Today’s Gospel.” (Photo credit: California Catholic Daily)
The guest speaker, Rev. Zelda Kennedy, an Episcopal priestess, spoke on the ordination of Rev. Gene Robinson, the openly homosexual Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire. In a May 27 sermon, “Working with the Spirit,” Kennedy praised All Saints’ priestess Susan Russell for speaking out against those who opposed the consecration of Robinson because he is homosexual.
In a 2006 television interview, Kennedy responded to those within the church who are against homosexuality, “And that’s so sad, because I don’t believe that’s what Jesus had in mind.”
Holy Spirit Retreat Center offers programs on:
Taizé prayer sessions
Yang style Tai Chi gatherings.
Centering prayer, and lectio divina
Examinations of “current spiritual writings, particularly those of women prophets”
The retreat center also offers “Mystics of Peace: Sacred Expressions of Chant and Music...experience the healing power of sound through chants and sacred music.”
The Center teaches chants from various religious traditions. "Share our sacred expressions of music, art, poetry and dance. Speakers and clergy from western and eastern religious traditions will join us and engage in meaningful dialogues as we also share our own stories.”
The advertisement invites all “to participate or just sit back and enjoy the divine energies created from the blending of sacred music and poetry, spiritual teachings and dance from around the world.”
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Editor's note: Catholics may be surprised to find that Evangelicals are offering the same mystical practices to their congregations all in the name of the Gospel. The mysticism, dialogue and individual story-telling adds a certain Emergent flavor to the mix.
Why do you offer this as if this is truly Catholic? This "center" is no more Catholic than you are.
ReplyDeleteNow hear this: this is the Great Apostasy - your emergent church and the bogus ordo so-called catholic church are one. Neither one are destined for heaven without repentence.
Stop posting foolishness as if its the truth.
Bridget,
ReplyDeleteSounds like you may have an issue with the California Catholic Daily, the source of the post and the catholioc Nuns at The Retreat House in Encino. This is article is all too Catholic. I know, I was one for 19 years, schooled for 12 years. I witnessed Catholic mysticism as performed by a Catholic priest in a Catholic Church, much as it was in the Franciscan Order centuries ago.
I agree with you...the Emergent church & the Catholic Church, (pre and post Vatican II) are not destined to heaven without repentence and salvation by ...
1 Sola scriptura ("by Scripture alone")
2 Sola fide ("by faith alone")
3 Sola gratia ("by grace alone")
4 Solus Christus ("Christ alone")
5 Soli Deo gloria ("glory to God alone")
But if the Catholic Church subscribed to these convictions, hundreds of people would not have been martyred for disagreeing with the Vatican.
If I may borrow the quote from your website
"Not to oppose error is to approve it; and not to defend truth is to suppress it, and, indeed, to neglect to confound evil men - when we can do it - is no less a sin than to encourage them."
Catholicism and other man-centered, works-driven religions are in direct conflict with the Scriptures.
This blog exists to Contend for the One True Faith, found in the New Testament, not in Rome or anywhere else.
I encourage you to visit
http://www.bereanbeacon.org/for_catholics.htm
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