Welcome to our Hearts.
 
It is our joy to offer you the warmest Celtic hospitality here at our home site in Europe. I am glad you have chosen to visit our site and that we may share this moment together.  We welcome you as we welcome the Christ within you.
 
Our Communion numbers some 5,000 Churches and Communities united in love & service worldwide. We are part of a larger movement of the Holy Spirit which has been called The Convergence Movement. It is a prophetic work of God where people experience a call to live their Christian lives in the fullest possible expression of the Body of Christ. Our passion is to walk in the fullness of all that the Lord of the Church has for us. His Vicar on earth, the Holy Spirit, leads us daily into more truth and divine reality. Jesus calls us again and again to become as little children, gain a beginners mind, a disciples heart, and accept His presence in each portion of His mystical and visible Body.
 
It began by the meeting of three streams of Church life, the Sacramental, the Charismatic, and the Scriptural. Another larger way of understanding this is the Catholic, the Orthodox, and the Reformed or Evangelical. While we do not in any way presume to embody the fullness of any of these streams, we have responded to the call to journey deep into each. The richness we experience through permitting such a  convergence of encounters with God  results in an integrated spirituality and a fresh  expression of Christian Community.
Obviously the calling to the fullness of God present and manifest in His Church is far from our ability alone to embody. We understand ourselves to be a living stepping stone on a journey to became the prepared Bride for the Divine Bridegroom Jesus Christ. We are a first fruits in a change in Church history and in the human understanding and worldview. Begun through the action of the Holy Spirit, before post-modernism became a buzz word, we find ourselves to be a wineskin, prepared by the Lord, for this post modernist, emerging Church, era.
 
We sincerely welcome communion with all lovers of God and all Christian Churches. Our Communion Table, like our hearts is open to all. Our deepest desire is that we may all be One, fully reconciled to each other and to Christ.

 
 
Please feel free to contact us, we would love to hear from you.
We are Family in Christ,
+ Gerard O'Flaherty
 
Bishop Gerard O'Flaherty
Diocese of St. Columba
Province of St. Joseph of Aramathea
Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches
gerardoflaherty@gmail.com
"Let the church come to God in the strength of a perfect weakness, in the power of a felt helplessness and a child-like confidence, and then, either she has no strength, and has no right to be, or she has a strength that is infinite. Then, and thus, will she stretch out the rod over the seas of difficulty that lie before her, and the waters shall divide, and she shall pass through, and sing the song of deliverance".                                                                                                                                                           - Mark Hopkins -
                               Diocese of Saint Columba
The Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches in Europe







     
                      
             
     Prophets of a future not our own.

It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view.

The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision.

We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God's work.

Nothing we do is complete, which is a way of saying that the Kingdom always lies beyond us.

No statement says all that could be said.

No prayer fully expresses our faith.
  
No confession brings perfection.

No pastoral visit brings wholeness.

No program accomplishes the church's mission.

No set of goals and objectives includes everything.

This is what we are about.

We plant the seeds that one day will grow.

We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise.

We lay foundations that will need further development.

We provide yeast that produces far beyond our capabilities.

We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that.

This enables us to do  something, and to do it very well.

It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord's grace to enter and do the rest.

We may never see the end results, but that is the difference
between the master builder and the worker.

We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiahs.

We are prophets of a future not our own.
  
Amen.

  - Archbishop Oscar Romero -