Two Key Spiritual Values of our Chosen Way of Life.

Christocentrism:

The journey of the Disciple is to become like the Master.

We understand that we are predestined to be conformed to the Image of The Son.

We understand that this will be a journey of personal Transformation.

We commit to using helpful spiritual practices to realise this end.

We understand that the spiritual journey involves three phases.

Phase One:

We understand that we are not just intelligent animals but that we are sourced in a Creator God, The Divine Other.

Phase Two:

We seek to follow and become like the human incarnation of The Other, who is Jesus.

Phase Three:

We discover that there is no Other living on or in some distant place, but that as the Father and Jesus are One, so are we in Him, and He in us.

This is mystical union. It has always been so, but our awareness and belief system could not cope with it, until our religious illusions fall away, and with them all “feelings” of separateness. We are One by grace (God’s self communication to man) and by Divine Intention. We are One by the blood of Christ. We are One by the Spirit of Christ.

The Word is the window that permits us to gaze into the mystery of The Godhead. It is one of the ways God used to communicate Himself. Jesus is the ultimate revelation of the Father’s heart, the Word’s intent or meaning (Word made flesh), and the prototype Son of the New Creation. His Way is in His life and Word. He is the truth that the Father intends and has always intended for each one of us. What we see in Him, is our vocation to become like Him.

“Follow ME”, He invited, so that we might walk as He walked in the Presence of the Father. “Follow Me”, that we might learn from Him how to dwell in and relate to The Father, The Divine Other. “Follow me”, that we might receive the Divine Infilling as consciously as He did at Jordan, and become another Christ, another anointed one walking the Earth in time and space, speaking the words of the Father for we have listened & heard. Doing the works of the Father, for we have seen and believed. Communicating the love and compassion of the Father for it is the very life force, or sap, of the Vine we are dwelling in.

Community.

Community is the journey to become love through practicing love.

Community is the only real obedient response to the teaching of Jesus or Word of the Father.

Community is Incarnational because only in relationship can the Word become flesh. A spirituality of personal salvation which affects and transforms no relationship with God or man is completely delusional. If I will not love and belong to my brother and sister I have no understanding of the love of Jesus for me! The two love commandments of Jesus are totally dependant on the personal experience of the reality of being loved unconditionally by Him. “As I have loved you”…This is the measuring stick and the source of love and compassion in my human life. If I have no understanding of the GRACE of Agape unconditional love, I have no understanding of God who is Love, or my salvation from the absence of communion with Love. To the measure my own life has contact with the love of God, to that measure I will love others. Love lived out toward others, especially toward a Community on the same conversion walk, is the only authentic measure of my spirituality.

A Eucharistic Community is a Community that understands that Christian Relationship is not only sociological but also mystical. How related can I be to Jesus? As a forgiven sinner? As a Child? As a Brother? As a very member of His living manifesting Body on Earth? How far does union go since the veil of separation is eternally torn by merit of His Sacrifice of Himself on the Cross? The answer is there are no limits. St. Paul struggles to articulate the union. Jesus is the Head we are the Body. Jesus is the Bridegroom we are the Bride. We are the living Temple that the Divine Presence now indwells.

A Eucharistic Community is a Community who believes they can be Body, Temple, Bride, Family, of God. We use the revised Passover Seder given us by Jesus where Word and Spirit make His resurrected Presence manifest and where we again are drawn into the conversion experience of becoming One with the Trinity, each other, and our mandate to love with grace, mercy, and compassion. Just as we have been loved! Every Eucharistic celebration is a conversion experience. We expose & transcend the illusion of the ego/false self/ fear dominated life. We are washed again in the mindset of God through the Word, and then having emptied ourselves of falsehood and illusion we enter the mystic rite of re-uniting experientially with God and each other, becoming again the mystical Body of Christ on Earth. Each Eucharist is a journey into wholeness. A mystical healing experience which reunites us to all that is love and compassion.