L.S.C.C.
L.S.C.C.
What We Do
Eucharistic Celebration
Sundays at 12 PM in person, 2nd sunday (St Lucie Co); 1:30 pm in person at Sanctuary, Unity of FTP; 8 pm, EST in person and virtual on Sundays (Madison Co) at 8 pm, EST.
All are welcome.
Live-streamed, and in person, monthly, on Facebook and at the Walton Community Center, and Unity of FTP, FL. Follow facebook for dates and special liturgies.
For more information - frfidelsuwanneemissions@mail.com or maryunger77@gmail.com
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Lectio Divina / Bible Study
lectio on Tuesday evenings at 8:00 PM, EST. Open to All Members who respond to the invitation. Also via FB Live.
Wed evenings, at 8 pm, EST, Bible study, via Suwannee Missions. ZOOM invite, FB event.
A weekly discussion of several verses from the coming-up Sunday's Scriptures and related Bible passages.
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Prayer Circle
For active members of L.S.C.C. Others by invitation.
A way to have the congregation pray for your special intentions.
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Shanna-Kay Turner is a Lector and Eucharistic Minister for LSCC. She has a love for Christ that illuminates her in all walks of life. She loves her family and pets. And her legal work, as a public servant, helps many in her community and state.
Our Mission Statement
Living Spirit Catholic Community is an Independent Catholic Community that aims to share the love of God through the traditional liturgies such as the Mass, preaching the scriptures and community outreach, all the while practicing the seven recognized sacraments also practiced by the Old Catholic, Orthodox, Roman, and other Catholic jurisdictions. We fully accept all people, gender or sexual orientations. We respectfully honor other faith traditions that lead people to God. We focus on helping members of our community to recognize the Godly and inherent worth of themselves, and how that divinity, working in them, can be used to confront and overpower the evil that pervades secular society.
We currently have 4 clergy in varying roles to help meet our current needs.
Who We Are
Lector B Shaw ("Ms B"): Truly His faithful servant, Ms B loves people, traveling, sharing the love of God with all. We are blessed to have her with us.
Bishop Mary Unger: An active Roman Catholic for over 50 years but a string of events within a year of her husband’s death including vocation calls, a new church community (started strictly because of a later worship time) and retired nurse work status paved the way for God’s 37 yr wait plan to unfold. Her words, "All I had to do was say, 'yes.'" In-person credentialed educators, multiple support persons and an online seminary course all presented themselves and contributed to the 3 year full-time seminary process leading her to become the first woman priest in the Old Catholic jurisdiction in FL in January 2016. Only God could have put such an amazing program together!
Joining a new church group community 5 years after becoming a priest, she helped develop and now co-leads Living Spirit Catholic Community as their Presiding Bishop, being consecrated in 2021. She feels truly blessed to share God’s love in this way. Her previous nursing background, coupled with the desire to include those who’ve felt estranged from God, includes those too medically infirm to go to a church for mass or sacraments. God loves us all, wherever we may be, and our community helps provide that conduit option. She loves saying mass in private homes or in small assisted living facilities.
Bishop Fidel Iglesias:
FidelIglesias was ordained deacon, then priest, in 2016. He was consecrated bishop on December 10, 2022. He has been affiliated with St Julian of Norwich Old Catholic Church, Inner Spirit Independent Catholic Community, Ascension By the Sea (Ascension Alliance), and has now settled down with his forever home, Living Spirit Catholic Community (LSCC). He is presently the auxiliary bishop of LSCC as well as its pastor. He also works as its provisional chaplain when
the need arises. He is founding bishop and president of LSCC's mission parish, Suwannee Missions of the Big Bend, Inc., which is its non-profit, 501(c)(3)
affiliate. Both are incorporated as non-profits in Florida. LSCC is authorized to receive donations, and it runs an exempt educational program in the Sunshine
State. He also performs various secular functions for LSCC, including providing legal services for it. Fr Fidel was recently appointed as provisional Abbot of the Benedictines of the Living Spirit, OSB, which is chartered by LSCC. He has earned
a PhD in Latin American history and JD in law. In Iglesias' spare time, he teaches, cares for his family, including several loving animals, and is in the process of creating a conservation easement, and small animal sanctuary, for
them on “Just enuf,” his little farmette in Madison County, Florida. He tries to effectuate justice through his varied ministries, secular law, and social outreach to those in need. Fr Fidel hopes to enthuse others with the Good Lord’s everlasting, and infinite, grace,mercy, and salvation.
Bishop Emeritus Joel O'Rourke (In Memoriam)
I was ordained a servant priest in July 2012. I began my ministry that summer serving the retirement and assisted living communities in the West Palm Beach area.
During the course of my ministry, I was blessed to meet other priests and bishops who were in the independent catholic movement, and was fortunate to be granted faculties by them.
After several years, I was consecrated a bishop by the same man who ordained me, +Ken Maley. I continued with my ordinary ministries and was fortunate to travel to South America as a tourist, where I could see firsthand the living conditions among the peoples of Colombia and Ecuador. After returning to the States, I was moved to found a Community (not a "church") which I named Living Spirit Catholic Community. This was done in conjunction with +Mary Unger and +Fidel Iglesias. This little community is now in their capable hands, and I assist as Bishop Emeritus whenever I am able.
Most Rev. Joel O'Rourke joined the Lord on the 8th day of January in the year of our Lord 2024.
Comptroller Deb Iglesias: Debbie ("DJ") is LSCC's Comptroller, and also has been blessed into the minor orders of Lector and Eucharistic Minister. She enjoys her family, animals, little farm ("Just 'enuf"), and the evening sunset at her spread. She has been blessed by God in so many ways. She is also the Vice President of Suwannee Missions of the Big Bend, Inc.
Incardinated Clergy (Featured)
Rev. Tammy Wood: Rev. Tammy J. Wood currently resides in Layton, Utah. She was ordained as Priest in April 2016. Her ministries have taken several forms, in ecclesiastical and secular settings, most notably serving on the Utah Governor's Advisory Commission on Disabilities. Reverend Wood has a special ministry providing care and corporal relief to those who are homebound or at the end-of-life in hospice care. She is an avid softball fan, home chef, and loves to be outdoors with family and friends. She incardinated with LSCC at our Benedictine Mass, Convocation, Lee, FL, August 17, 2024.
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OUR SERVICE MINISTRIES
We provide Mass and the Sacraments of The Eucharist, Baptism, Reconciliation, Matrimony and Anointing of the sick, Confirmation and Holy Orders in various locations to help meet the needs of those requesting them.
Additionally:
Most Rev. Mary Unger - Presiding Bishop of LSCC
Homebound ministries: in private homes and facilities for group prayer services, Mass, requested Sacraments and individual spiritual visits
Counseling: limited marital counseling; limited grief counseling; spiritual counseling
Blessings: blessings of people, animals, homes and vehicles; renewals of vows; spiritual formation of children and adults; funeral services and committal services
Most Rev. Joel O'Rourke - Bishop Emeritus of LSCC (In Memoriam)
+Joel, when he blessed us with his example, guidance, and wisdom, was active in
counseling, hospice ministry, and weddings, and funerals.
Most Reverend Fidel Iglesias - Auxiliary Bishop, Pastor, Provisional Abott, Academic Coordinator
Providing educational needs for those incarcerated
Advocating for children with legal and other needs
Providing pro bono or low cost legal services to the disenfranchised
Supporting various Christian and secular charities
Clergy
Rev. Tammy Wood (Incardinated)
Advocating for those with disabilities, and at the end of life, and praying for all of us and Creation in His Holy Name.
Rev. Nancy Leonard (Excardinated)
Bringing the Holy Spirit to the faithful, and to those seeking His grace, in the community, church, nursing homes, and wherever her healing gifts are needed.
Subdeacon Dan Sharkey (Incardinated)
Dan's role will be assisting as a minister of the word and of the altar at our liturgies; praying for and visiting the homebound with Eucharist and prayerful anointings as outlined by his bishops; and continuing to be the example of faithful courage to all of us that he continues to be in his everyday life.
OUR WORSHIP SITES
We provide Mass and the Sacraments of the Eucharist, Baptism, Reconciliation, Matrimony and Anointing of the sick, Confirmation and Holy Orders in various locations to help meet the needs of those requesting them.
Fr. Paul H. Hall Memorial Chapel, Lee, FL
Blessed Mother Chapel, Port St Lucie, FL
Walton Community Center, Fort Pierce, FL
Sanctuary, Unity of FTP, Fort Pierce, FL
Virtual Worship
We pray and worship, weekly, via our Facebook group, page, and live events, Zoom meetings, and X (formerly known as Twitter).
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064621519541
https://www.facebook.com/groups/170365984396019
@LivingSpiritCa1
Incardinated Clergy (Continued)
Reverend Nancy was born and raised in northeastern Ohio. She grew up on a farm. Her family members were very devoted Catholics. She attended 12 years of catechism. She received her Baptism, Holy Communion and Confirmation there. She was very active in the Catholic Youth Organization for 4 years.
After graduation she moved to Miami Beach to attend Mount Sinai School of Practical Nursing. After graduation in 1970, she moved to Alexandria Virginia. She lived with her sister Barbara, there, for 2 years. She decided to continue her nursing education and, with the help of her brother, she moved back to Hollywood, Florida.
In 1976 she graduated from Nursing School we with a Associate Degree in Nursing. Rev Nancy is always searching for new directions in her career. She loves the healing arts. She went back to school to learn more about nutrition. She was one of the first registered nurses in the state of Florida to have a private practice, Patient Teaching Associates. She worked with other local nutritionists to contribute to the new expertise of Clinical Nutrition. She has traveled teaching and developing her craft. She is internationally known as a Clinical Nutritionist.
She has had a Private Practice on the Treasure Coast for over 30 years. And she has owned a Child Day Care center as well as a Home Health Care Agency here.
God's plans for us are so beautifully wonderful. On May 14, 2022, she was ordained a priest in the Old Catholic Church tradition. In May of 2023, she was appointed Pastor of St Julian of Norwich Old Catholic Church, Fort Pierce, Florida.
God does not waste anytime.
There's a lot of work to be done in the Body of Christ.
With much prayer and reflection she has found a new home. A home where her gifts and talents can be used to bring together and edify the Body of Christ. We are One Family in the Body of Christ.
Rev Nancy is single, has 2 cats. and lives in Jensen Beach, Florida.
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SubDeacon Dan Sharkey was ordained on April 14, 2024 in Fort Pierce, Florida. This ordination followed his road of service to the Lord over many years in varying minor order roles of Doorkeeper, Acolyte, Lector and also as a commissioned Eucharistic Minister. We are grateful that he has answered his vocation call to provide an even greater capacity of service to the needs of our Living Spirit Catholic Community. Dan is widowed and lives in Port St Lucie, FL, with his dog, Daisy.
LSCC Masses:
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