Interested in exploring intentional community?

 The community of the Holy Trinity currently have member openings, for singles or couples.

We are accepting inquiries for any who are interested in exploring joining the Community of the Holy Trinity. 

We are a house of the ecumenical religious order, the Order of Jesus Christ, Reconciler (the order has members in Milwaukee and Detroit, and a second house in Detroit); two of our current members are professed of the order. Our daily life together consists of daily prayer (currently focused on prayer in the evening) meals together on weekdays, and a breakfast and community meeting on Saturday mornings. We don’t have a common purse, but pool resources based on the ability of each member to contribute to pay for rent, utilities, food, and other shared expenses. Members are encouraged to participate in a local Christian congregation or parish of their choosing or denominational affiliation. We are looking for baptized Christians who feel lead to communal life as a way to deepen their Christian faith and following of Jesus Christ.

We are currently located in the Albany Park neighborhood of Chicago, in a first floor apartment duplex down with 5 bedrooms, 3 on the first floor, two on the garden floor.  The available rooms are a small suite with a walk in closet attached to a private full bath on the first floor, that could be suitable for a couple, and a smaller room on the Garden floor. The apartment has two kitchens, one on each floor.  On the first floor, there’s a dining room, living room, chapel, sunroom and shared bathroom; on the garden floor, there’s a shared bathroom, shared office, a library, and shared art/music studio. There is only street parking available to the community.  Most of our members use public transportation and bicycles for transportation. We are close to various public transportation options: two blocks from the Kedzie stop on the Brown line, and three blocks from the 82 Kimball/Homan Bus line, two blocks from the 79 Montrose bus line, and 4 blocks from the 81 Lawrence Bus line.

We live under a shared rule of life. You can find the rule here.

 If interested in exploring membership in the community of the Holy Trinity, contact us via e-mail at communityholytrinity@gmail.com, or contact our Dean, Kate Kamphausen by phone at 773-853-5086. 

Opportunity to Join the Community

 

The Community of the Holy Trinity has an opening for a single or couple who would be interested in joining our community currently made up of 5 members: 1 couple and 3 singles (we have cats).  We are a house of the ecumenical religious order, the Order of Jesus Christ, Reconciler (the order has members in Milwaukee and Detroit, and a second house in Detroit); two of our current members are professed of the order. Our daily life together consists of daily prayer (currently focused on prayer in the evening) meals together on weekdays, and a breakfast and community meeting on Saturday mornings. We don’t have a common purse, but pool resources based on the ability of each member to contribute to pay for rent, utilities, food, and other shared expenses. Members are encouraged to participate in a local Christian congregation or parish of their choosing or denominational affiliation. We are looking for baptized Christians who feel lead to communal life as a way to deepen their Christian faith and following of Jesus Christ.

We are currently located in the Albany Park neighborhood of Chicago, in a first floor apartment duplex down with 5 bedrooms, 3 on the first floor, two on the garden floor.  The available room is a small suite with a walk in closet attached to a private full bath on the first floor. The apartment has two kitchens, one on each floor.  On the first floor, there’s a dining room, living room, chapel, sunroom and shared bathroom; on the garden floor, there’s a shared bathroom, shared office, a library, and shared art/music studio. There is only street parking available to the community.  Most of our members use public transportation and bicycles for transportation. We are close to various public transportation options: two blocks from the Kedzie stop on the Brown line, and three blocks from the 82 Kimball/Homan Bus line, two blocks from the 79 Montrose bus line, and 4 blocks from the 81 Lawrence Bus line.

We live under a shared rule of life. You can find the rule here.

 If interested in exploring membership in the community of the Holy Trinity, contact us via e-mail at communityholytrinity@gmail.com, or contact our Dean, Kate Kamphausen by phone at 773-853-5086. 

Abba Easter letter: The Uncontainable Jesus of Nazareth

Christ is Risen! Alleluia!

Greetings to the Order of Jesus Christ, Reconciler, in the name of Jesus Christ, whom God raised from the dead on the third day, and who, through the Holy Spirit, guides us into all truth.

I took the season of Lent to read through the four Gospels. As we celebrate the resurrection of Christ and prepare to remember and celebrate the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, I encourage us to take up this regular reading of the Gospels, as enjoined for us by our rule of life. I didn’t gain any great insights to bring to you from reading through the four Gospels during Lent.  However, my experience is instructive for us. Namely, I found facing Jesus of Nazareth as presented in the Gospels challenging.  The challenge was that I couldn’t make the Jesus I found in the Gospels fit tidily in my own expectations, nor in any systematic presentation of theology or morality.

What is the role of the regular reading of the Gospels for us as an order with this charism of reconciliation? I think it can vary over time, but at root it is that we are always in service to the Gospel. We read the Gospels so that we never wield the Gospel and Christian faith for our own particular ends. Rather, we read the Gospels so that we may find ourselves overtaken by the Gospel.

God in human flesh, Jesus of Nazareth, as we find him in the Gospels is not an easy human being. I can’t make Jesus conform to my own expectations or what I would like Jesus to say. Jesus isn’t subject to any theology or system. If we take seriously the full witness of the four Gospels, it is very difficult to domesticate Jesus.

I’m not sure how to understand all that the Gospels report about Jesus’ words and actions. The difficulty is in part due to the fact that the four Gospels each have their own take and interpretation of Jesus.  Yet, In reading the four Gospels concurrently Jesus of Nazareth broke through even each evangelist's own framing. Jesus insistently refuses even the evangelists own view of him.

This runs up against attempts to make Jesus a model, or someone we should be like. Making Jesus a model to follow after is itself a domestication. We as an order don’t seek to read the Gospels so that we may model ourselves after Jesus of Nazareth. Rather, we read the gospels over and over again to be transformed by our encounter with God incarnate, as we read the Gospels.  God did the thing in Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ. We don’t seek to appropriate that work to ourselves, rather in coming to Jesus Christ, we open ourselves up to God incorporating us into Christ.

Yes, we share in the work of Jesus Christ, but that isn’t our work. Reading the Gospels as a practice encouraged for us by our rule of life, is at base that continually have before us that we are not Christ, but that God incorporates us into Jesus Christ. In regularly allowing ourselves to come face to face with the ‘untamed lion’ who is both fully God and fully human we ever more open ourselves to the work of God in Jesus Christ, begun in baptism and sustained in the breaking of the bread and sharing of the cup.

As we enter into the fifty days of Easter, I encourage us to sit with Jesus who can neither be appropriated to whom we’ve been taught he is nor to whom we’ve represented Jesus to be for ourselves. 

Mark Charles on his podcast “My Second Cup of Coffee” for Good Friday encouraged Christians, especially Christians of European descent, to not rush to the celebration of the Resurrection.  He pointed out that especially white Christian remembrance doesn’t face the confusion, the doubts, the pain, and the waiting of that first Easter.  We are not well served by reading the first chapters of Acts alongside the Gospel stories of Jesus’ resurrection appearances.  When we read accounts of the Resurrection alongside stories of the boldness of the apostolic church after Pentecost ,we can forget that Peter's preaching and the boldness of deacons Stephen and Philip and the other apostles after Pentecost came about over time (fifty days) and after the descent of the Holy Spirit..

I think Mark Charles point, as a Navajo Christian to us white Christians, is important. Part of what allowed our ancestors to commit genocide and enslave others in the name of Christ, was our assurance of our triumph and our being on the side of the truth of the Resurrected one.

If you are like me, the more I sit with the realities of institutional Christianity that has its origin in European Christianity, the more troubled I become.  I ask what is the power of the Resurrection? How do people who name the name of Christ, again and again act so confidently, and yet without any reason for that confidence as they betray the very reality they purport to serve?

The preacher at  the Maundy Thursday service for Saint John’s Episcopal Church (Chicago) encouraged us gathered to sit with the realities of the Three Days leading up to Easter Sunday. To sit with Jesus’ command to Love as Jesus loved, to not run ahead though we know the ending.  This is also the challenge of Easter. As we celebrate the fifty days we know the Holy Spirit will come with power. We know that the cowering small band in the upper room will boldly go out and preach the Gospel and turn the world upside down.  Yet, that wasn’t the feeling of that first fifty days between Easter and Pentecost.

First, there was doubt and attempts to explain the empty tomb. Then there was joy, but also fear and confusion.  In Luke, Jesus takes time to expound the Scripture to two disciples, who don’t really understand anything Jesus says until Jesus blesses and breaks bread with them, and then disappears.

The resurrected Jesus of Nazareth, the one crucified and raised to life on the third day, can’t be contained: Jesus appears and disappears, walks through walls and eventually bodily ascends and passes away from sight into heaven. At first, Jesus’s followers don’t know what to make of any of it.

Let the celebration of Easter open up questions for you. Don’t rush to the answers. Sit with the bewildered, joyful, doubtful, and overwhelmed disciples.

Do not let the celebration, blind us to the lamentable reality of the reason Jesus Christ was crucified. Let us remember that Peter, the beloved Disciple, and Mary Magdalene, all close and dear to Jesus of Nazareth, were baffled and dismayed and continued to weep on that first Easter Sunday.  Jesus meets his disciples ,and us, not in celebration and triumph, but in bewilderment and grief.

On the Second Sunday of Easter we recall the deep integrity of Saint Thomas the apostle whose doubt refuses any erasure of the terror of crucifixion. “Unless I can put my fingers in the wounds of Jesus, I will not believe!” The Resurrection of Christ, doesn't erase the lamentable state of our humanity, nor are we called to excuse and downplay evil that continues to be perpetuated in the world, especially when done in the name of Christ.

Let Easter be complex. Sit with what is lamentable in our world, even as there is joy. Be bewildered by this Jesus of Nazareth, who isn’t easily contained, who walks through our barriers and containers. Embrace Jesus, who appears to us and just as suddenly disappears from view. Jesus Christ the incarnate word doesn’t belong to us, but we can be gathered under her wings, like chicks to the mother hen. Our comfort is not in understanding, but in being held by the God who so loved the world that God sent God’s very own, one like an only heir, the word made flesh, Jesus Christ, that we might have life and be whole.

In the name of the one who raised Jesus Christ from the grave,

Abba Basil Irenaeus, OJCR

On God's Weakness: Christmas letter to the Order of Jesus Christ Reconciler

 

Feast of the Holy Innocents

Greetings in the name of God Emmanuel, incarnate as Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ,

As we celebrate the season of Christmas this year, we are in still in the midst of the COVID 19 pandemic.  Though the vaccines brought about some form of a return to normalcy, for a variety of reasons the virus has continued to spread and mutate: wealth and poverty differentials between nation states, vaccine hesitancy among poor and marginalized groups, the refusal to get vaccinated by anti-vaxers, and the nature of viruses to rapidly mutate. The latest major mutation of the virus leads to a more virulent strain of COVID-19, though the rate of hospitalization and rate of mortality is still unclear compared to other strains. This isn’t all we are dealing with as we celebrate Christmas.  There is the political turmoil in the U.S. and many nations. The world order of the Pax-Americana is strained if not waning. Then there are, most likely, things in our personal lives, which may leave us feeling less than celebratory.

I, Abba of the Order of Jesus Christ, Reconciler, feel quite overwhelmed. As I write this I don’t know what wisdom or insight I might have to share with us this Christmastide.  As I continue to recover from my fall off a ladder over a year ago now, and grieving the death of my mother, and dealing with all the logistics and economy of a person’s passing, I don’t feel up to being Abba of an order. I’m stumbling along without any great sight into what is to come, or where we might be going as an order.

Even so, as we remember that in the person Jesus of Nazareth, God comes to us as Emmanuel, God with us, isn’t this what we celebrate, God meeting us in our weakness? Christmas isn’t about human achievement, or human celebration, or human insight. Rather, God comes as one of us inn our very weakness and vulnerability, as a fetus and then an infant! The deliverance that Mary proclaims in her Magnificat, comes not from God coming with force like God did when delivering Israel from bondage in Egypt, but God becomes human flesh, starting out in the deep vulnerable dependence at the beginning of a human life.

This work of God is known to women, the poor, shepherds, and foreign astrologers from outside of the Roman Empire.  God doesn’t become human by being born to an imperial, royal, or patrician family.  The incarnation is largely unnoticed, insignificant in the realm of empires, rulers, and the wealthy.  Thus, God’s deliverance and liberation aren’t readily noticed, nor easily recognized.  It is hidden in God being with us in our most human vulnerable spaces.  God comes among those who have the least reason to celebrate.

The season of Christmas begins with three feasts following up on Christmas day. These feasts invite us into the messy and mystical dimensions of this season.  On the 26^th the second day of Christmas we remember the martyrdom of Saint Stephen, Deacon and First Martyr. On the Third day of Christmas we celebrate the Feast of Saint John Apostle and Theologian, who points us toward the loving dance of the Holy Trinity. On the 4^th day of Christmas we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Innocents, remembering those infants slaughtered by King Herod. These three feasts invite us to see Christmas as something other than a “happy” celebration. God come in human flesh stirs up a reaction: those who seek to control the world are confronted with something beyond them, and death and oppression are used in an attempt to regain control. This reality is reflected in today’s feast as well as our current headlines. The celebration of Christmas embraces a great deal.

To the mind overtaken by thoughts and impulses of control and power over others and the cosmos the incarnation is hidden from view.  Even those who suffer at the hands of the wealthy and powerful, God’s coming in human flesh being joined to creation can be hard to see its relevance or how it can free from oppression (This is especially so when the oppressor claims the name of Christ and Christian).

This is not to say that there is no way to see and find the work of God in Jesus Christ in our world and circumstances. But it can be very difficult. Following after that work of God in Jesus Christ, while it liberates, also often leads us into difficult situations in which we are facing death.

In the first four days of Christmas we are confronted with human responses to the mystery of God with us. God comes to us in God’s Glory, which isn’t the glory of human power and wealth. These responses are often violent and following Christ doesn’t necessarily preserve us from suffering under that violence.

In the mystery proclaimed by St John the apostle, we need to confront our own violent and sinful reactions to God come to us in this way, where God gives up control and power over others and circumstances. There is something liberating in letting go of the idea that we can control anything. But it also, leaves things feeling unstable and uncertain. I know that in myself there’s something that rebels against that instability. There is something dissatisfying in the focus on what today will bring, rather than some grand scheme that I can live into and execute. Yet, rarely does a long range plan become fully implemented. While we want to believe that we or some human we admire or elect might have such ability to see all possibilities and plan accordingly and keep things stable, history tells a different tale of human ability. Even when we believe ourselves to have the knowledge to plan and implement security, things soon fall apart.

In the midst of suffering and oppression and genocidal violence, the question of where is God arises. In moments like that of the slaughter of the infants and toddlers in Bethlehem, God with us feels like abandonment. God with us flees as a refuge dependent on human parents to keep them safe.

So then where is the hope, If God is with us and for us, but in being so has also relinquished a type of control and power over the world? Are we left to the power of death and desire to have power over others? The answer to this question isn’t found in the coming of God to us as the infant Jesus of Nazareth.  The answer comes in whom Jesus is, Jesus’ whole life and his death, resurrection and ascension.

But God’s ultimate answer to death and violence begins here.   And so with the shepherds, the magi, and Mary we can contemplate and celebrate even as things aren’t yet fully unveiled. At Christmas we are contemplating a portion of the mystery of our faith and God’s revelation to us in Jesus of Nazareth. God with us comes to us vulnerable and relinquishing control and power over others. In this we learn something of God’s love, power, and glory. The longer we  live with this revelation the more unsettling and disconcerting it becomes.

In the love an grace of Jesus Christ, Emmanuel,

Basil Irenaeus

Abba

Order of Jesus Christ, Reconciler

Sown: The Good News of God’s Patience

 by Abba Basil Irenaeus

The following reflection is in dialogue with these scriptures from the First Sunday in Lent, Year B of the Revised Common Lectionary.

Psalm 25:1-10
25:1 To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul.
25:2 O my God, in you I trust; do not let me be put to shame; do not let my enemies exult over me.
25:3 Do not let those who wait for you be put to shame; let them be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.
25:4 Make me to know your ways, O LORD; teach me your paths.
25:5 Lead me in your truth, and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all day long.
25:6 Be mindful of your mercy, O LORD, and of your steadfast love, for they have been from of old.
25:7 Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for your goodness' sake, O LORD!
25:8 Good and upright is the LORD; therefore he instructs sinners in the way.
25:9 He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way.
25:10 All the paths of the LORD are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his decrees.
Genesis 9:8-17
9:8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him,
9:9 "As for me, I am establishing my covenant with you and your descendants after you,
9:10 and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the domestic animals, and every animal of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark.
9:11 I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth."
9:12 God said, "This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations:
9:13 I have set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
9:14 When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds,
9:15 I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.
9:16 When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."
9:17 God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth."
1 Peter 3:18-22
3:18 For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit
3:19 in which also he went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison
3:20 who in former times did not obey, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water.
3:21 And baptism, which this prefigured, now saves you--not as a removal of dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
3:22 who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers made subject to him.

Some of us began Lent by planting seeds. Most of us are yet to see the growth of the seeds. Patience is needed. A patience I didn’t have as a child. My family kept a garden when I was growing up. One year during planting season I wanted to tend my own plants; I was given a small plot and we planted several seeds in the small plot. I was told I had to wait for the seeds to sprout. At one point before one of the seeds sprouted above the ground, my curiosity got the better of me and I dug up the seed. The seed had begun to sprout but in disturbing it I had interrupted its cycle. It needed that time in the ground, undisturbed. My dad kindly told me that now I knew what a seed newly sprouted looks like but that I needed to have patience if I was to care for the remainder of the seeds and see them grow into mature plants and bear fruit. 

1 Peter 3:20 Saint  Peter the apostles describes God saying “...when God waited patiently...” referring to the story of Noah and his family and the ark, God destroying all living things in a flood; we might not read the story of the flood as a story of God’s patience. Though as we read in Genesis 25:1-10, God isn’t okay with the great flood and its destruction. Rather God  in making this Covenant with Noah and his family and all living creatures is repenting of the flood and promises such a cataclysmic flood will not happen again.

Peter adds another dimension to this story: Jesus goes to the dead and not only preaches to all the dead but specifically seeks out and proclaims repentance to those who were evil and corrupt and died in the great flood. Peter  is interpreting the story of the Great Flood in line with the Hebrew Scriptures in which God is described as long suffering as full of loving kindness who does not desire the death and destruction of the wicked.

This isn’t all there is in the story of Noah, but let's take Peter at his word and sit with God’s patience with us human beings. God’s patience is so great that God doesn’t accept the rejection of God’s embrace of that” evil and corrupt generation” of Noah’s time, but in Jesus Christ seeks them out in Sheol, the land of the dead.

As we wait for our seeds to sprout may we contemplate God’s unbounded patience and loving kindness towards us individually and collectively as human beings.  God doesn't desire our destruction or harm, and yet even today, even among those who would name the name of Christ we are as likely to be motivated by our own selfish ambition, pushing away the proclamation of the Good News, the invitation to just and loving relationship between God, ourselves, and all creation. Even so God is patient and waits not desiring our destruction even of those of us who are truly wicked. 

This isn't to say that Gods’ patient loving endurance shields us from the consequences of our actions. Yet as Peter’s words tell us, not even death itself keeps God from seeking out humanity and offering a means to turn back. 

This is just the beginning, there is much that remains unanswered.  I would add this should raise a myriad of questions, o f “but’s” and “What if’s” and ``what about’s”.

Like the seeds in the soil there are things hidden, processes unseen. This hiddenness should not douse our questions. Rather, it should pique our curiosity, and let us pose the questions while allowing them to remain unanswered. This space of a question unanswered, of something beyond our current comprehension is also the space of contemplation.  Here admitting we don’t see everything, we can contemplate God’s loving patience with us personally and collectively as human beings. This place of the unanswered questions can itself be the place of receiving the Good News that awakens us to needed repentance.

Reviving the blog and other changes

 The Community of the Holy Trinity is in another period of transition.

For the past 6 years our ministry has primarily been sponsoring a house church that met in peoples homes in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago.  The members of the house Church in December chose to no longer meet.

We are also now not only the first and only House of the Order of Jesus Christ Reconciler, but now only the first house, as we are glad to announce the foundation of the Community of All Saints in Detroit, Michigan.  Our members in Detroit have long been working towards the creation of a community of the order there in Detroit, and in the last year that has finally come to pass.

In the past year Holy Trinity and All Saints have been experimenting (as many worshiping communities have) with on line worship.  Currently we are worshiping together via Zoom and Facebook live on the Second and Fourth Sundays of the month, and occasionally coming together for Evening Prayer.  

For the Seasons of Lent and Easter we are offering a series of weekly Lenten reflections on the Scriptures for each Sunday, entitled Sown, and offering a weekly Wednesday Evening Prayer service.

If you don't already follow us on Facebook, visit our Facebook page and like and follow us, as well as the Order of Jesus Christ, Reconciler, and the Community of All Saints, and join in our online offerings.

Our weekly Sown reflections will be posted here on this blog as well as on the Order of Jesus Christ, Reconciler Facebook page.

Also, watch here and on our Facebook page to learn of other developments that are in store for the Community of the Holy Trinity in the coming year.

Current Fundraising Campaign: Will you partner with us?

The Community of the Holy Trinity is the founding House of the Order of Jesus Christ, Reconciler (OJCR).  As a house of the order we are committed to hospitality and reconciliation.

At this point in time, the main ministry of hospitality and reconciliation is the worship community we sponsor, called the Oratory of Jesus Christ, Reconciler. This worshiping community is a house church that rotates gathering for worship in members’ homes in the Roger’s Park neighborhood of Chicago. The purpose, of the oratories of OJCR, is to provide a space of worship and connection with the body of Christ without needing to define oneself as a particular member of a particular denomination or Christian group and without needing to, accept a particular theology or even know what one believes. Through Eucharistic worship, discipleship events, and fellowship we seek to offer an hospitable space for people to explore their faith in Christ and grow in love and knowledge of God in the life of the Spirit. Our current members have come through various denominations but do not feel that any one of them is entirely fitting of their full experience of faith in Christ. Some do also participate in other congregations, but feel most at home where historic orthodox Christianity is affirmed but no one way of practicing or believing is held exclusively.

The community itself is currently made up of 4 members, Rev. Jubi Dutcher, Zac Lowing, Kate Kamphausen and the Rev. Larry Kamphausen. Jubi and Larry co-pastor the oratory with Jubi currently serving as the lead pastor. Jubi is a member of the collective, the Women’s Health center in the uptown neighborhood of Chicago and is a comic book artist. Zac is a sexton at Grace Episcopal Church and is a photographer (of the unseen beauty of Chicago alleys) computer artist and videographer of Chicago’s buskers, and has experienced homelessness. Kate is a member of St John’s Episcopal Church in Old Irving Park in Chicago, and is a fashion and costume designer in Chicago. She is married to Larry, who is an iconographer and artist co-founder of the co-operative art gallery, Agitator.  He is  also a temporary worker and is Abba of the Order of Jesus Christ, Reconciler.

While we have sought and been able to support one another, community life and our ministries through our collective funds each of us is in a situation of fixed incomes.. In the past couple of years our incomes have remained the same or have declined, while the community’s expenses of rent, food, and utilities have increased. So, we are asking you to come along side us and partner with us in our work through one time or regular financial contribution.

At this time we are also, expanding our work of hospitality and reconciliation through pilot programs of fostering worker co-operatives (like Agitator gallery) and property cooperatives (still in the early idea stages of development) for the Order of Jesus Christ, Reconciler.

In choosing to support us financially we hope you will want to also participate in our life  and get to know us. For our supporters we will keep you up to date through a quarterly newsletter, keeping you appraised of how our pilot programs of fostering worker co-operatives, beginning a property cooperative and the ministry of the Oratory of Jesus Christ, Reconciler are going.

Whether or not you are able to financially support us at this time if you are in Chicago we invite you to receive our hospitality: We also invite you join us for our community meals to get to know us better on Monday evenings at 7:30 and for brunch on Saturday mornings at 10 am (this meal is followed by our weekly community meetings). We also invite you if you live near us in Albany park to come to our morning prayer Monday through Friday at 8:45 am, or night prayer at 9:30 pm. we simply ask that if you plan to join us for meals  that you let us know ahead of time so we can be sure to prepare enough food.

To donate and become a support please visit our gofundme page

A Word from Abba Basil Irenaeus

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