Works of Mercy as a Way of Life: A Reflection for the Feast of Dorothy Day By +Brian Ernest Brown, CWC Today the Church remembers Dorothy Day, journalist, mystic, troublemaker, penitent, prophet. And for those of us in the Sacramental Community of the Coworkers of Christ, this feast day is…
Category: Coworkers of Christ
An intentional way of life inspired by Celtic Christianity, the Catholic Worker Movement, Red Letter Christians, and the New Monasticism.
Coworkers of Christ
Read more
My Profession Is My Work, My Vocation Is My Calling: A Reflection on Being a Worker Priest
My Profession Is My Work, My Vocation Is My Calling: A Reflection on Being a Worker PriestBy +Brian Ernest Brown, CWC I have been clergy for more than twenty-five years, and in all those years I have also been something else: a worker clergy. A bi-vocational servant. A man who…
Coworkers of Christ
Read more
St. Martin’s Day Invitation to the Day of Prayer for Peace
Invitation to the Day of Prayer for PeaceThe Feast of Saint Martin of Tours November 11thOpening of St. Martin’s Lent “Lord, Heavenly Father, help us to become peacemakers, that we may be called the children of God.”— From the Litany of Peace by Archbishop Karl Prüter On the Feast of…
Coworkers of Christ
Read more
The Clergy Collar: A Visible Witness of Consecration
The Clergy Collar: A Visible Witness of Consecration A Pastoral Reflection from the Sacramental Community of the Coworkers of Christ By Abbot Bishop Brian Ernest Brown,CWC In the Sacramental Community of the Coworkers of Christ, the wearing of the clergy collar is more than tradition or uniform, it is a…
Coworkers of Christ
Read more
To Live Sacramentally, To Labor Faithfully, and To Love Universally
To Live Sacramentally, To Labor Faithfully, and To Love Universally The New Monasticism and the Sacramental Community of the Coworkers of Christ By Abbot Bishop Brian Ernest Brown, CWC The New Monasticism arises not as a rejection of the ancient monastic traditions, but as their renewal within the life of…
Coworkers of Christ
Read more
The Coworkers of Christ: An Affirmation of Vocation
The Coworkers of Christ: An Affirmation of Vocation By Abbot Bishop Brian Ernest Brown, CWC “We are God’s coworkers; you are God’s field, God’s building.” — 1 Corinthians 3:9 I. Who We Are We, the Coworkers of Christ, gathered in the freedom of the Spirit and the unity of love,…
Coworkers of Christ
Read more
A Consecration I Didn’t Seek, and the Grace I Found
On the Feast of St. Kevin of Glendalough, nineteen years ago today, June 3, 2006, I was consecrated to the episcopacy and made a bishop within the Free Catholic tradition. It was a day marked by equal measures of challenge and grace, shadow and blessing. The truth is, the day…