
Living Spirit Catholic Community
A new independent Catholic community that welcomes other faith traditions.
"Help us help others"
LSCC 2025 Convocation, Unity House (Madison, FL), April 19th - 21st, 2025. BREAKING NEWS - Dan Sharkey ordained to permanent deaconate and Debbie Iglesias appointed Sacristan.
Suwannee Missions of the Big Bend, a proud mission parish 501(c)(3) affiliate of LSCC, is now a Church Partner with Global Center for Reconciliation (India).
Bishop Fidel has been invited to sit on the Board of Directors for St. Anthony's Cathedral, House of Liturgical Studies (Virginia).
LSCC has received its copyright registration certificate (TX 9-459-157) for its website.
LSCC has new coat of arms! Check it out on our communications page.
LSCC is now worshiping, once monthly, at the Santuary, Unity of Fort Pierce, 3114 Sunrise Blvd, Ft Pierce, FL 34982. And our other, monthly, in person worship, is still at the Walton Community Center, 11090 Ridge Ave, Ft Pierce, FL 34982. Join us!
LSCC's educational program receives, once again, its exemption letter from FL DOE.
Benedictines of the Living Spirit ("OSB") was chartered by LSCC at our August 2024 Convocation, which was hosted by our mission parish in that area.
LSCC (Suwannee Missions of the Big Bend, Inc) is launching an online / in-person Benedictine meditation group, and possibly course, via World Christian Communities (WCC) - USA and the LSCC Educational Program. The launch will be at our Convocation on Saturday, August 17th, at 8 pm, EST. Join us!
LSCC has joined the Independent Inclusive Consortium (Austin, TX) of ISM educational institutions.
BREAKING NEWS! LSCC'S CONVOCATION WILL BE ON AUGUST 16TH - 18TH, 2024 IN MADISON, FL. JOIN US!
Blessings continue. LSCC Launches its mission parish in Big Bend, FL - Suwannee Missions!
Subdeacon Dan Sharkey was ordained at our 2024.
Bishop Mary will be intereviewed by Kelly Jennings Wurth, Mad Catholic Unbox Your Faith, in May 2024. It will be broadcast via YouTube, Podbean, Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, and Spotify. Kelly is affiliated with Catholic Church in Exile (formerly AAOCC).
Living Spirit Community entered into an Intercommunion Association Agreement with the Apostolic American Old Catholic Church (Catholic Church In Exile) on the 23rd day of February in the year of our Lord 2024. God is great!
Our community has been blessed by the recent addition of Reverend Nancy Leonard, as affiliated clergy, Priest in His Holy Church.
LSCC is pleased to announce that, starting on January 14, 2024, our in-person and virtual services will include once monthly worship (at 12 noon) the Walton Community Center, 11090 Ridge Avenue, Ft Pierce, FL 34982.
We are launching an educational program, which includes a speakers series, online courses, and more. Our affidavit was accepted by the Commission for Independent Education, Florida Department of Education, as part of its annual review, for 2023 - 24.
Welcome to our new bishop! Bishop Fidel Iglesias has been consecrated. Thanks be to God for blessing Living Spirit Catholic Community (LSCC).
Ms. B Shaw ("Ms B") joins LSCC as Lector, and Debbie Iglesias is now a Eucharistic Minister, and is embarking on her formation journey with us. Truly, we are blessed!
Shanna-Kay Turner joins us as Lector and Eucharistic Minister. God is great!
May 16, 2024Our Summer Convocation will be hosted by our mission parish, Suwannee Missions of the Big Bend,...December 17, 2023LSCC Begins Monthly Worship at the Waldon Community Center, 11090 Ridge Avenue, Fort Pierce, Fl,...September 29, 2023We are pleased to announce our Autumn (Thanksgiving) Convocation @ Unity House, Madison, FL Our...What We Do
Eucharistic Celebration
Sundays at 12 PM in person @ Blessed Mother Chapel (St Lucie Co); 1:30 pm in person at Sanctuary, Unity of FTP (2nd Sundays of each month); 8 pm, EST in person and virtual on Sundays (Madison Co); and once, monthly, at Walton Community Center in FTP.
All are welcome.
Live-streamed, and in person, monthly, on Facebook and at the Walton Community Center, and Unity of FTP, FL. And at our chapels as well. Follow facebook for dates and special liturgies.
For more information - frfidelsuwanneemissions@mail.com or maryunger77@gmail.com
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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, Eucharistic Minister, and Sacristan. 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.
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
Deacon Dan Sharkey (Incardinated)
Dan was ordained to the permanent deaconate at our 2025 Convocation on April 20, 2025.
Dan's role assists 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
Contact Us
Living Spirit Catholic Community
Post Office Box 1100
Live Oak, Florida 32064Wednesdays, 7-9PM
Sundays, 11AM - 1PM, 7PM -8 PM
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Beneficence: We will have concern and respect for all peoples, regardless of age, race, gender, sexual orientation, faith understandings, political affiliations, physical limits or financial status.
Nonmaleficence: We will refrain from harming another in our words or actions.
Confidentiality: We will respect a person’s right not to share their name if the fear of that divulgement concerns them.
Fairness: All desiring to come to the Table of The Lord for Eucharist will be welcomed without regard to recent confession/fasting/marriage or annulment status. We do not require any of those above roadblocks to God’s banquet. All are welcome.
Respect: All who come to the Living Spirit Catholic Community to find a new church home will find an atmosphere of God’s love in action. We request that you honor our Mass here as you would in any church space. Clergy will come prepared to provide the mass, sermon, music, and Eucharist. We appreciate your punctuality and courtesy for others in your arrivals.
All clergy have passed background checks and are required to abide by local, state, and national laws.
Clergy are not paid in any fashion. All operating costs are covered by donations. Administrative costs are kept to minimum so that we can help others through our ministries. We rely on the good works, including tithes, of LSCC members and the public. All funds are strictly accounted for. Our records may be reviewed with reasonable notice.
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