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The Mission of Saint
Francis Seraph
Rocky Hill, Connecticut USA
(L) The Most Reverend Russell F. Coates, Jr., FDP, Presiding Bishop and Guardian General
(R)
Rev. Deacon Timothy W. Biskupiak, FDP,
Provincial
Guardian, Diocesan Director of Vocations
(Shown wearing our earlier Habit upon a visit to Weston Priory in Vermont-1995)
Some photos of us and the places we have visited throughout New England (U.S.A.)
The Mission of Saint Francis Seraph
is the Episcopal residence for our Guardian General, The Most Reverend Russell F. Coates, Jr., FDP and
the Rev. Deacon Timothy W. Biskupiak, FDP. The Mission Friary contains the Episcopal Chapel of St. Francis and also serves as the Provincial Center for the Franciscans of Divine Providence and the Headquarters of the Trinitarian Catholic Church.
Within our Friary, our small Episcopal Chapel of St. Francis offers us a quiet space where we may pray and meditate, as well as
to celebrate the Mass. One of the goals of our Mission, is to increase the membership of our Order in Connecticut and throughout New England. We are especially interested in finding new
members to our Order from the Greater Hartford, Connecticut area to
participate in our prayer life and our ministries. We are always happy to find and welcome new members
to the Order from anywhere in the United States.
Besides growing our Order
on a nationwide level, we are
seeking for people from Connecticut and New England who are interested in taking part in a
bi-monthly or monthly, prayer group which would include a Eucharistic Liturgy. We
can accommodate a small group for prayer and would generally gather in
the evening at 7:00pm for members of the Order and anyone else who might like to join us for prayer and fellowship. One aspect of
a prayer group is to provide an opportunity for people to meet, make friends and plan social and liturgical activities together all within an open and affirming setting. We are also seeking local people who want to work with us to grow a diverse, open and affirming faith and worship community whose goal would be to become an inclusive,
Independent Catholic parish of the TRINITARIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. We know this is a bold, new concept for many Catholics who are accustomed to going to a church
building where they have all the "trappings" of a church readily available and in place. We don't have a "Crystal Cathedral" or stained glass windows or church pews. What we do have are dedicated people who want to plant the "seeds of faith" and desire to find others who are willing to help us grow them. We are not seeking to lead people away from their present Church.
While anyone is welcome to pray and worship with us, we are mainly seeking those Catholics and others who have become estranged from the Church, who have not been to Church in years, or who feel alienated and disenfranchised by the mainline Church for one reason or another and who desire to
re-establish their relationship with God within a Catholic family of faith that is open, inclusive and Spirit-led.
So, whether you're interested in joining our Order, or a prayer group, or becoming an active member of an Independent Catholic
parish of the TRINITARIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH in our area, please contact us. We'd love to hear from you.
We are also interested in meeting people from other open and affirming Independent Catholic groups in Connecticut and elsewhere. We belong to a new Independent Catholic Jurisdiction called the TRINITARIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH under the Episcopal protection of our Presiding Bishop. We are a Canonical Religious Order with valid Apostolic Succession through the TRINITARIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. More information will be posted on this site about the T.C.C. in the near future.
Our Order
celebrated its tenth year anniversary on March 15, 2005. We held our first General Chapter Meeting at Wisdom House in Litchfield, Connecticut in May 0f 2005 for all the members and candidates to our Order.
In addition,
the FDP has adopted a beautiful, new Rule and we are working to create a
new Constitution for our Order. Beginning in 2008, we will restructure
our Order so as to create autonomous FDP Mission communities, with
greater local leadership. This is a departure from our original model
for the Order whereby we tried to have a more traditional form of
governmental structure. We came to the conclusion that the best way for
us to grow as individuals and as an Order was to borrow from the
Benedictine model of autonomous communities. In doing so, the FDP will
now be a Union of autonomous FDP communities, united by a common Rule
and Constitution. The Order will remain a canonical religious Order of
the Trinitarian Catholic Church and will continue to have a Guardian
General and local Guardians who will work collegially to administer and
grow the Order. We hope that this new approach will have a greater
appeal and will provide local Mission communities a greater say in the
direction and development of their local jurisdictions.
Pax et Bonum!
TRINITARIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
Metropolitan Diocese of Rocky Hill
Franciscans of Divine Providence
Mission of Saint Francis Seraph
Res: 967 Elms Common Drive, #212
Rocky Hill, Connecticut 06067-1816
RevTimFDP@gmail.com
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