RevJohnG

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  1. Ordaining Selection?

    in * Welcome - ULC Minister's Introduction Junction *

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    Without going into my beliefs....

    I am an inactive ordained Old Catholic priest.

    I am also a Unitarian Universalist. I am proud of my priesthood nonetheless.

    I do not agree with what Catholicism espouses, yet do not shun others who do. I integrate the mysticism of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches into my belief system.

    I was ordained with the ULC in 2010. I have done more with this ordination than my other one.

    My spiritual path has been long, and sometimes hard, yet most of the time very satisfying.

    Wouldn't change a thing.

  4. Why I Became Ordained By The Ulc

    in * Welcome - ULC Minister's Introduction Junction *

    Posted · Edited by RevJohnG

    I was ordained in 2010 to do weddings.

    I sought something more, and studied for a year and was ordained on Old Catholic priest.

    After a few years I realized that it wasn't my calling due to the fact that I doubted the basic fundamental tenants of Christianity, being the Resurrection.

    I am a follower of Christ and many other great prophets.

    I am a believer in one God, many faces to put it simply.

    I believe my ULC ordination along with my membership in the Unitarian Universalist church helps me to grow deeper spiritually. The fact that I am a Reverend in the ULC is empowering and also let's others know that I can help in their stations of life for a better outlook for them.

  13. I Have Met The Ulc Enemy

    in * Welcome - ULC Minister's Introduction Junction *

    Posted · Edited by RevJohnG

    I am ordained through ULC (and very proud of it.) I was even able to marry my brother off :) I have a funny question... I have met someone and have considered getting married. Could I perform the ceremony for us? Like, could I marry us? So bizarre but really curious. I'm in Tennessee which is a tricky state but he resides in Kentucky which is much more mellow so we could do it there. Thank you for any advice to my strange question!

    Annie

    My best guess is that legally, you can't perform your own wedding. I don't know for sure, though -- I never would have thought to look it up! I suggest that you contact the Circuit Court for the city or county in which you plan to be married. They will know the answer.

    What I would do is get legally married in at the courthouse, then perform your wedding however you want to, for there is no law against that.

  16. Prayers To Say For The Dead - Massive Disasters.

    in Good Wishes, Gratitude, Blessings and Prayers

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    The Orphic hymn to Asklepios might be suitable for the injured. This is the Apostolos Athanassakis translation:

    "Asklepios, lord Paian, healer of all, you charm away the suffering of men in pain.

    Come, mighty and soothing, bring health,

    And put an end to sickness and the harsh fate of death.

    Helper, blessed spirit of growth and blossoming, you ward off evil,

    Honored and mighty scion of Phoibos Apollon.

    Enemy of disease, whose blameless consort is Hygeia,

    Come, O blessed one, as savior, and bring life to a good end."

    LOVE this! Lot's of beauty in it.

  17. Prayers To Say For The Dead - Massive Disasters.

    in Good Wishes, Gratitude, Blessings and Prayers

    Posted · Edited by RevJohnG

    There are many Catholic prayers for just this purpose.

    http://www.medjugorje.com/prayers/prayers-a-novenas-of-the-community/348-three-very-beautiful-prayers-taken-from-the-qpieta-bookq.html

    and

    http://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayer.php?s=14

    It seems that from my experience Catholics are one of the very few Christian groups that actually see this need.

    Are you seeking non-Christian prayers as well? I don't want to seem presumptuous.

  19. Why I Became Ordained By The Ulc

    in * Welcome - ULC Minister's Introduction Junction *

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    Hi, I was recently ordained on August 15, 2013, a nice day. I joined because I was looking for something to do, and have had this feeling about being in service to man. Now I've seen the ULC, and had seen the 1976 "60 Min" expose on the ULC, but on that day, I kind of happened to look at churches and found the ULC website. Well after reading through the material, and watching the video on Conan O'Brien being ordained as a minister, I figured why not. This may be something fun to do. So I joined, but before I actually sent my information I asked my wife, and she said sure; so I joined.

    However, there is another side to the coin as they say. You see I was born into the Catholic Religion; born to a dad who came from the Philippines in 1925, and to my mom who was a War Bride from the Philippines in 1949, I was born into a religion I had no control of. So for the next 18 years I went to Roman Catholic Church, did all of the sacraments, and more or less became ingrained in the Catholic Religion. However, I never was a real believer, or a staunch cross carrying Catholic. After marrying my wife in 1974, she converted to Roman Catholicism (Methodist), and we had three sons, all of which are now grown. Soon she became a Catholic lay person teaching religion. But there was one big issue, and that was I was a Transgendered individual going from Male to female.

    We've been married for the last 39 years this coming September 7th, but in the meantime everyone knows of my transition, after my transition I suddenly bloomed from being a scared person afraid to talk about my own transitioni; but now I am a speaker on Transgendered issues. At the same time, I find my old Catholic friends now attending non-denominational services, to include my married son in the AF who with his wife have now found a congregation of younger folks, of all mixed religious affiliations in their non-denominational church.

    But as for me, within the last ten years; I felt an urge to move, to go out and find a calling, its not a big one where I suddenly find the room filled with a heavenly light, or a voice that says "Follow me"; but one that tells me that I need to search for a place to call my own, one that will let me practice my faith; but in my own way, so here I am. I would like to use my own history as a Transgendered woman to minister to the GLBT members who find that their own churches look down on them, I would like to find a place where I can perform rituals of marriage for both straight and LGBT individuals and their families. I find that the idea of me, as a woman who has reached her own pinnacle of growth as a Transgendered woman would now like to turn her energies to something that is the basis for who we are, and hat is the spiritual health of all.

    I may not have my own congregation (I really hate to be in charge of a church), but as Christ went out to the hinterlands to preach, I find that maybe I can do the same thing, and work among the people where I live, and minister to them.

    I'm sure my pastor at our church will be alarmed at what I'm doing, but then; many people in the Jewish faith at the time of Christ were also alarmed at this so-called Carpenters son preaching a gospel that was as enriching, and helped filled people with hope.

    So here I am; Rev. Cam Garcia...

    Awesome!!!!

    Welcome!!!!!

    :)

  22. Am I A Hippocrit

    in * Welcome - ULC Minister's Introduction Junction *

    Posted · Edited by FrJohnG

    Rev. Patty,

    You can check out an official online UU congregation called the Church of the Larger Fellowship. It's an official congregation.

    http://www.clfuu.org/

    and here

    http://www.questformeaning.org/

    I am a member. It requires an initial donation but it's up to you as to the amount.

    I also have an online church based in Judeo-Christian tradition, yet Universalist and somewhat Unitarian (we welcome Trinitarians). All are welcome!!!

    No one here has joined it *AHEM!!!!*

    ;)

  23. Did Pope Francis Perform An Exorcism?

    in Stories & Texts Archive

    Posted

    This is plausible but demon possession isn't? Rotfl

    My perspective on quite a few other cases may be simple multiple personality disorders. If there are multiple parallel universes with multiple copies of ourselves out there, some human minds may be wired to pick up energies and frequencies from these other selves and change focus from time to time. Like a radio that is able to pick up a multitude of signals but usually only focuses on one our minds may sometimes pick up interference and play multiple channels at once. People with multiple personality disorder may simply have a different wired receiver (their brain) then the rest of. Some of these personalities who may be aware of the condition may be deviant and malicious and come through as demons just for the fun of it.