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…
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Christianity
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The Whole Earth Is Local: A Reflection for the Holiday Season
The Whole Earth Is Local: A Reflection for the Holiday Season By +Brian Ernest Brown, CWC Every year around this time, I begin to see and hear the familiar refrain: “Shop local.” And I understand the heart behind it, people want to support small businesses, help their neighbors, strengthen their…
Christianity
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A Thanksgiving Day Reflection
A Thanksgiving Day Reflection+Brian Ernest Brown, CWC Thanksgiving has always been a quiet teacher for me. It slows my hurried spirit and invites me to look, really look, at the world around me, not just with appreciation, but with honesty. Gratitude, I’ve learned, isn’t simply naming blessings; it is also…
Coworkers of Christ
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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…
Announcements
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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…
Musings
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The Work of St. Martin’s Lent: The Blessing of the Kindling
I awoke to a cold, drizzly, blue, mist-soaked morning here on Bear Mountain, and immediately two thoughts rose up in me. First, we have entered what I’ve long called the “blue time of the year”, not only in terms of how the season settles on the spirit, but in the…