THE CELTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH
AND ALL BIBLICAL ORTHODOXY IS COMMITTED TO THE BELIEF THAT JESUS IS THE SOLE ARBITER AND DISPENSER OF ALL GRACES THAT COME TO THE WORLD FROM
GOD THE FATHER BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, TO THE GLORY OF GOD THE FATHER.
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HOLY TRINITY CELTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH
THE MONASTERY CHAPEL OF THE
CELTIC
ORTHODOX BENEDICTINE FATHERS
1703 Macomber St., Toledo, Ohio 43606
E-MAIL amdg@bex.net
MAIN ALTAR OF
SACRIFICE
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ALTAR OF INCENSE
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LITTLE ENTRANCE TABLE
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BENEDICTINE PRAYER OF
THE HEART – THE DIVINE OFFICE
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ANGLO-CELTIC ORTHODOX
LITURGY – AMENDED ENGLISH LITURGY
http://www.celticorthodoxchurch.com/liturgy.html
MEET OUR PASTOR – BISHOP
BRIAN KENNEDY, O.S.B.
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MEET OUR MASCOT – MISS
MAGGIE
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THREAT OF A POLICE STATE
https://www.prageru.com/video/ep-133-fear-credibility-and-the-threat-of-a-police-state/
FOR I HATE DIVORCE SAYS
THE LORD (MALACHI 2:16)
http://www.celticorthodoxchurch.com/divorce.html
THE MARIAN ROSARY IN
WESTERN RITE ORTHODOXY
http://www.celticorthodoxchurch.com/ROSARY.html
MESSAGE FROM OUR
PASTOR
Thank you for taking
time to visit our pages. It is my fervent prayer these
pages may be a spiritual
blessing to you in both time and eternity.
I would
like to add a word of CAUTION. Celtic Orthodoxy is part of the larger
Biblical Orthodox
Movement and as such will not appeal to everyone.
If you are looking
for a church that allows you to think that attending
Mass on Sunday is all
you have to do, then you have the wrong mind set
to be happy in this
Eucharistic faith community. Our people
are PRAYER WARRIORS.
We strongly encourage
our people to pray daily the small Benedictine Diurnal
which takes about an hour
to an hour and 15 minutes a day divided up into sections
called “hours” and was
composed by St. Benedict of Nursia in the 6th
Century. Some of
these ’hours’ take no
more than five minutes and Lauds ( the longest hour) takes about 30 minutes in
the
morning. Vespers and Compline take another 30 minutes
at night.
To remove any
financial difficulty in obtaining this Diurnal, all new parishioners who
express an interest are
given a beautiful, leather bound Diurnal for their own property and I
personally
help you learn how to use
it. For more information see: http://www.celticorthodoxchurch.com/diurnal.html
The fallacy of the
modern, man-made church is the ideology that the church is a resort for
Saints instead of
what it really is; a hospital for sinners.
Unless we admit that we are
sinners in need of God’s
grace, we will never have a sense of sin or of our need for repentance. The
modern church has
lost the sense of sin. We have fallen
victim to the errant view that all you have
to be is a good person
in order to be saved. There are many
“good” people in hell. Isaiah tells us
our righteousness is as
a filthy menstrual rag in the sight of God.
Our “righteousness” has to be the
righteousness of Jesus
Christ. Our salvation and our very
identity as a Christian depends on our
synergy with the Father in
Christ. The word “Christian” means one
who shares in the anointing of
the Christ. This anointing is the action of the Holy
Spirit that leads to synergy with the Father in Christ.
THE CELTIC ORTHODOX
CHURCH IS NOT ALWAYS A CHURCH
THAT IS EASY TO LIVE
BY, BUT IT IS ALWAYS A
CHURCH THAT IS EASY
TO DIE BY.
REMEMBER MAN, YOU ARE
DUST
AND TO DUST YOU SHALL
RETURN.
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS
RESPONSE
FROM TWO EMERGENCY ROOM
DOCTORS
https://gloria.tv/post/4xuhAkWJ31ZA3Asvjr6nRtstG
AUTHORITARIAN STATE - THE
NEW WORLD ORDER FOR AMERICA?
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Bishop Brian J. Kennedy, O.S.B.
The
common error in the church today is the belief we have a reasonable hope all
men will be saved. Belief in Universal
Salvation is popular because the church has lost its sense of sin. In ancient times, all Christians knew that
what Christ taught was true. Christ
taught that men were evil [Greek poneros; Matthew
7:11].
Christ,
said repeatedly and emphatically that all would not eventually be saved, but
that the punishments of hell were unending.
He referred to the unrighteous being bound hand and foot and cast into
the outer darkness (Matthew 8:12, 22:13, 25:30), with no suggestion that this
punishment will be temporary. In His
parable about Lazarus and the rich man, He explicitly said that there was a
great gulf fixed between paradise and the place of punishment, so that none may
cross over from the place of punishment into paradise (Luke 16:26), and this is
an odd thing to say if in fact everyone in the place of punishment will indeed
eventually cross over into paradise.
Finally He referred to the fire of Gehenna as
“the eternal fire.” And in His parable
on the Last Judgment, He ended by saying that “these [unrighteous] will go away
into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life” (Matthew 25:46). The same word—“eternal” (Greek “aionion”)—is used to describe both the punishment of the
wicked and the life of the saved, so if the life of the saved is unending, so
must be the punishment of the wicked. The fire of Gehenna
is real and eternal.
This
truth has a moral dimension, and an urgent one.
We are, all of us, fallen human beings with temptation to sin ever close
at hand and the devil also close at hand to confirm our decisions to rebel
against God’s Kingdom and His righteousness.
THERE ARE FOUR ENDS OF MAN:
DEATH, JUDGMENT, HEAVEN OR HELL
The
real truth is that all will not eventually be saved, and that the conviction
that they will contains subjective spiritual dangers for some as well as being
objective heresy. God calls us to hate
sin and to war against it, not because it impedes our eventual arrival into the
Kingdom of Heaven, but because it will prevent it altogether. All will not be saved. The gate to life is small and the way is
narrow that leads to it and few are those who find it (Matthew 7:14). All the more reason for us to repent and walk
in truth and righteousness and enter by that small and narrow gate.
When
we stand before God in judgment, we will be judged for our sins of “commission”
as well as for our sins of “omission”.
In other words, we will be judged on what we did and what we failed to
do.
Christians
who vote to legalize same sex marriage are voting to cast their own soul into
the eternal fires of hell. Christians
who vote for a political party or candidate who supports abortion and
infanticide have voted to spend eternity in separation from God. It is not enough to avoid these sins in our
personal life, we must speak out against these violations of God’s Law in the
public forum and in the voting booth.
THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH (Romans
6:23)
Christian
leaders who speak out in favor of Liberation Theology are misleading the people
of God and should not be followed, but rejected for the devil’s minions they
are. For information on Liberation
Theology see: http://www.celticorthodoxchurch.com/liberation.html. Perversion, sexual assault on minors,
changing church teaching from that which was believed everywhere by all men at
all times, is a mark of surrender to the world, the flesh and the devil. People follow errant teachings will join
their leaders in Gehenna.
The modern church is a combination of politics and religion,
paganism and Christianity. (see: http://www.celticorthodoxchurch.com/pagan_church.html
The modern church places entitlements above service; Law above
Grace. It is a manmade institution that exists counter to the church of the
Apostles. It is most properly called the
counter church.
Wrapped in the mantle of religion, politics
becomes holy and an exercise of divine authority. The divine right of Kings
becomes the divine right of clergy to change and nullify God’s Word, to meet
the needs of their political agenda. Religion becomes impotent as the power of
politics becomes solidified. Like the
Rabbi who blesses pork and calls it fish, the modern church blesses pagan
practice and calls it Christianity. Paganism has succeeded in the church more
than Biblical Christianity could ever hope to prosper. Pagan practices appeal to the emotion, not
the mind. Emotionalism has been allowed
to replace the Holy Spirit. Beautiful to
look at, lovely to hold; pagan practices can give that warm, cuddly feeling
sought by those lacking spiritual discernment.
Apparitions on demand, supposed visions from heavenly personages combine
to give a false sense of security to those on the precipice. Millions call good, bad; and bad, good. Millions call error, truth; and truth,
error. Millions go to hell with the
blessing of the counter church. There is
an old adage that says it is not what you look at that is important, but what
you see. People naturally seek a moral
compass and direction from the “leaders of the church”. As the people see clergy dressed in the
attire of the Imperial Roman Court or the clothing of the Byzantine Empire they
are suitably impressed with this ostentatious demonstration of presumed
authority. When these regal authorities
speak, the world listens. The claims to divine authority, evidenced by their
vestures and clerical adornments, are amplified by titles designed to impress.
The people are told not to question, just obey. Pay, pray and obey becomes the
express ticket on the glory train. As they look, they no longer see a man
before them but a quasi-divine authority with the power to save or
condemn. Forced to admit to the human
frailties of these leaders as they are discovered having immoral sex with
persons of the same or opposite gender, stealing from the church funds and
living private lives inconsistent with their divine vocation and calling;
seeing the clergy often living the good life of the rich and famous off the
back of the church faithful who sacrifice to donate “for the good of Holy
Mother Church”, the aberrant behavior and scandalous events are seen through
rose-colored glasses.
Rather than admit that Satan and all that is
evil have entered into the church, even to the highest levels, the abomination
is seen as a ‘personal moral lapse’ of the individual clergy. When the evil is so all pervasive and extends
to the entire world; when new cases of clergy sexual abuse or theft is seen as
a cliché it is no longer a personal moral lapse; it is a sign of a corrupt
institution, it is a sign of the counter church. The clergy are much too busy
expanding their power base or satisfying their basest instincts to be of
service to the church or a shepherd to souls.
THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS LEFT THE BUILDING
The church established by Christ sets man free;
the counter church established by man makes bondservants of all. It is not numerous laws that will set man
free; it is the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the
fellowship of the Holy Spirit.
UNIVERSAL SALVATION
http://www.celticorthodoxchurch.com/universal_salvation.html
THE HERESY OF ECUMENISM
http://www.celticorthodoxchurch.com/ecumenism.html
MOST FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
http://www.celticorthodoxchurch.com/because_you_asked.html
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The Celtic Orthodox Church is
so Ancient it demands respect
is so Traditional it is refreshing
and so Conservative it is reassuring.
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Holy
Trinity Celtic Orthodox Church
1703
Macomber Street,
Toledo,
Ohio 43606
Phone:
419.206.2190
Pastor: Bishop Brian J. Kennedy, O.S.B.
OUR APOSTOLIC LINE OF SUCCESSION IS ACCEPTED BY
WORLD ORTHODOXY.
REMEMBER AS YOU READ THESE LETTERS OF AFFIRMATION THE BISHOPS BEING
ACCLAIMED AS PART OF WORLD ORTHODOXY WITH GRACE FILLED AND SPIRIT FILLED ORDERS
ARE NOT SUBJECT TO ANY OLD WORLD PATRIARCH, YET THE PATRIARCHS ACCEPT THEM AS
EQUAL BISHOPS IN THE LARGER CHURCH WITH THE SAME APOSTOLIC MISSION.
LETTER OF RECOGNITION FROM THE O.C.A.
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LETTER OF RECOGNITION FROM ALEXANDRIA
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LETTER OF RECOGNITION FROM THE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH
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WE ARE SUCCESSORS TO THE APOSTLES, IN UNION WITH THE ORIGINAL 12 AND ALL
THOSE WHO CAME AFTER THEM AND WITH ALL THOSE WHO WILL COME AFTER US.
APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION
APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION
OF BISHOP BRIAN KENNEDY, O.S.B.
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HOLY TRINITY CELTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH
CELTIC ORTHODOX BENEDICTINE FATHERS
IS A NOT FOR PROFIT CHURCH CORPORATION
UNDER SECTION 501 ( c ) 3 OF THE INTERNAL
REVENUE SERVICE .
