What We Do
Eucharistic Celebration
Saturdays at 4PM
All are welcome.
Live-streamed twice a month on Facebook from the sanctuary at St JUlian's. Follow facebook for dates and special liturgies.
For more information - frfidelsuwanneemissions@mail.com
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Lectio Divina
Wednesdays at 7:00 PM by request only
A weekly discussion of several verses from the coming-up Sunday's Scriptures.
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Prayer Circle
For active members of L.S.C.C
A way to have the congregation pray for your special intentions.
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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 Roman Catholic Church. We fully accept all people, gender or sexual orientations. We respectfully honor the 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 3 clergy in varying roles to help meet our current needs.
Who We Are
Bishop Mary Unger: An active Roman Catholic for over 50 years but atring 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.
Bishop Fidel Iglesias: Fr Fidel was ordained deacon, then priest, in 2016. He was elevated to the Episcopacy on 12/10/22. 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. He also performs various secular functions for LSCC. Fr Fidel hopes to enthuse others with His everlasting, and infinite, grace, mercy, and salvation. In Iglesias' spare time, he teaches, cares for his family, including several loving animals, and tries to effectuate justice through secular law.
Bishop Emeritus Joel O'Rourke:
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 Fr. Fidel Iglesias. This little community is now in their capable hands, and I assist as Bishop Emeritus whenever I am able.
Comptroller Deb Iglesias: Debbie ("DJ") is LSCC's comptroller, and also has been blessed into the minor order of Lector. 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.
(Volunteer) Clergy-in-Residence
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.
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
Counseling: Hospice care, Nursing home care, Recovery counseling
Other Ministries: Weddings and Funerals
Most Reverend Fidel Iglesias - Auxiliary Bishop and Pastor of LSCC
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
Reverend Tammy J. Wood (Volunteer Clergy-in-Residence)
Advocating for those with disabilities, and at the end of life, and praying for all of us and Creation in His Holy Name.
Our Worship
LSCC Masses:
Video Archive
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