Feeding the Hungry Orphan Children Campaign: Turn Hunger to Hope For Kenyan Orphans

On By johnkerseyIn Apostolic Episcopal Church, Catholicate of the West, News, San Luigi Gazette

The Apostolic Episcopal Church (AEC) supports the labors of the Abbey of Saint Mary Theotokos, Inc.’s Feeding the Hungry Orphan Children Campaign: Turn Hunger to Hope for Kenyan Orphans. Its charitable efforts are directed specifically after the devastating impact of  the slashing of US foreign aid. The shutdown led to hundreds of thousands of deaths, including children and has caused catastrophic global humanitarian crises.

The specific purpose of the Abbey of Saint Mary Theotokos, Inc. and its campaign of Feeding the Hungry Orphan Children Campaign: Turn Hunger to Hope for Kenyan Orphans is to relieve the suffering of humanity. The Abbey of Saint Mary Theotokos, Inc., is a California qualified tax-exempt nonprofit organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the USA Internal Revenue Code. All (USA) gifts are tax deductible.

The Order of Franciscans of the Eucharist (OFE), is  a chartered religious order of AEC and the OFE is the administrator of the Abbey of Saint Mary Theotokos, Inc. The Most Revd. Michael Cuozzo (Mar Francis) is its CEO and President as well as being Primate and Presiding Archbishop of the Order of Franciscans of the Eucharist.

We are dedicated to providing nutritious meals to children at the St. Lawrence and Margarita Dosal School Orphanage, Republic of Kenya. Just $5.00 can provide around 20 meals for orphan children in urgent need.

The St. Lawrence and Margarita Dosal School Orphanage have answered God’s call to labor in the vineyard by administrating a nutrition program for its orphan children. No public funds in the Republic of Kenya provide this.

The fundraiser Project Chair is the Most Revd. Michael Cuozzo (Mar Francis), AEC Provincial of the West, USA and the Project Co-Chair is the Most Revd. Mar Thoma, AEC Provincial of the South, USA.

Contact on this matter may be made with the Most Revd. Michael Cuozzo (Mar Francis), AEC Provincial of the West, USA and/or at the campaign link: https://www.gofundme.com/f/turn-hunger-to-hope-for-kenyan-orphans

Apostolic Episcopal Church Relief Fund

On By johnkerseyIn Apostolic Episcopal Church, Catholicate of the West, News, San Luigi Gazette

The Apostolic Episcopal Church Relief Fund has been established in response to the recent tornado damage in the town of Purvis, Mississippi, USA. Its charitable efforts are targeted very specifically at financial assistance in paying motel expenses for needy families who have lost the “roof over their heads”.  No money will be dispersed to individuals, just to ‘economy’ motels, especially those who offer weekly rates.

The Anglican Heritage Society, the ministry of the Apostolic Episcopal Church in Dallas, Texas, which is a registered 501(c)(3) tax exempt nonprofit corporation, will be the administrator of the Apostolic Episcopal Church Relief Fund. The Society has made an initial donation of $1,000 to inaugurate the fund.

Our goal is to: 1) ease the financial stress involved in securing temporary housing; and 2) to support displaced families with our intercessory prayers, regardless of their religious affiliation. The postal address of the Apostolic Episcopal Church Relief Fund in care of the Anglican Heritage Society is: 4711 Amherst Street. Lubbock, Texas 79416. All gifts are tax deductible, when designated as charitable contributions to, “The AHS for Relief Fund.”

Contact on this matter may be made with the Most Revd. Mar Thoma, AEC Provincial of the South, USA.

Presentation to the Grand Master of the Knights of San Rocco in Rome

On By johnkerseyIn News, San Luigi Gazette

At a ceremony today in Rome, the Grand Master of the Order of the Knights of San Rocco, H.E. Renato Parlato, was presented with the Grand Collar of the Order of the Crown of Thorns by the Grand Chancellor and Grand Justiciar of the Abbey-Principality of San Luigi, H.I.R.H. Prince Prof. Luca Scotto di Tella de’ Douglas di Castel di Ripa, acting on the authority of the Prince-Abbot. The presentation was in the context of the recent wide-ranging partnerships entered into by our respective organizations, recognizing their unity of faith and purpose.

The Abbey-Principality of San Luigi and its dependent institutions enter into agreements with the Knights of San Rocco in Italy

On By johnkerseyIn Apostolic Episcopal Church, Catholicate of the West, Institute of Arts and Letters, London, News, Order of Corporate Reunion, Royal Belarus, San Luigi Gazette

The Knights of San Rocco are a knightly order organized as a Christian fraternity with close ties to the Roman Catholic Church who reflect the widespread devotion to San Rocco, a medieval Franciscan Tertiary whose life and miracles are the subject of many popular celebrations throughout Italy.

Pope Paul III instituted a confraternity of San Rocco, which in 1556 was raised to an archconfraternity by Pope Paul IV, and it is from this original foundation that the present fraternal order descends.

The Ordine Cristiano dei Cavalieri di San Rocco, based in Rome, has entered into a number of mutual agreements of recognition with the Abbey-Principality of San Luigi and its dependent institutions. The Prince-Abbot of San Luigi has been appointed an Honorary Brother for life and Honorary Chief Chaplain to the Order.

The Order has also issued the following instruments of friendship, recognition, twinning, accreditation, and partnership, which have been reciprocated by the Abbey-Principality:

Abbey-Principality of San Luigi

The Order of the Sacred Cup

The Order of the Crown of Thorns

The Order of the Lion and the Black Cross

The Order of Antioch

The Apostolic Episcopal Church

The Order of Corporate Reunion

The Prefectory of Great Britain of the Confraternitas Oecumenica Sancti Sepulcri Hierosolymitani

The Epiphany Guild

The International College of Arms of the Noblesse

The Constantinople Orthodox Institute

The Institute of Arts and Letters (London)

Partnerships with the Collegio Araldico-Cavalleresco Signum Aureum, Italy

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The Collegio Araldico-Cavalleresco Signum Aureum (The Heraldic-Chivalric College of the Golden Symbol) was founded in Ancona on the initiative of His Excellency Consul Prof. Dr. Maurizio Marchetti Morganti, member of an ancient noble family and Honorary Consul of the Republic of El Salvador to the Italian Republic and Honorary General Consul of the same Republic to the Republic of San Marino. He was assisted by other friends, upright men who fear God and respect the laws of their Country.

The College was founded under the auspices, gratitude, and heartfelt encouragement of Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa. He is now Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, Guardian of Holy Mount Zion and of the Most Holy Sepulchre of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and Patriarch of Jerusalem of the Latins since 2020.

The College believes in supporting the memory and studying the history of the Holy Places and the Chivalric Orders that originated in these places. It endorses the values ​​and rules of Chivalry, Culture and Volunteering and is active in cultural exchanges with other organizations that pursue similar cultural and religious goals.

The College promotes Heraldry and, more generally, the historical period known as the Middle Ages, in all its historical, economic, cultural, religious and diplomatic expressions.

The College has entered into mutual agreements of friendship, twinning, accreditation and partnership as follows:

The Abbey-Principality of San Luigi

The Ecclesia Apostolica Divinorum Mysteriorum

St Mary Theotokos Theological Seminary, Texas, USA, is now a seminary of the Apostolic Episcopal Church and the Catholicate of the West

On By johnkerseyIn Apostolic Episcopal Church, Catholicate of the West, The Western Orthodox University

St Mary Theotokos Theological Seminary has been established in Texas under the leadership of its Dean, the Apostolic Episcopal Church Provincial of the South/Catholicate of the West Exarch of the USA Mar Thoma (The Most Revd. Thomas Orville Gore). The Seminary has now been granted a religious exemption from private school licensing by the Board of Higher Education and the Texas Workforce Commission, on the basis that it offers only religious study programmes, and awards one religious degree, that of Master of Divinity.

Although the Seminary is an online educational endeavour, it will  still have a physical presence at 1219 16th Street, Lubbock, TX 79410, in a building which is currently being reconstructed after a severe electrical fire over a year ago. The building is owned by the Gore Family Trust, which leases it at a peppercorn rent to The Anglican Heritage Society, Inc, which is the owner of the Seminary. As was the case before the fire, the building will provide an Office for the Dean, a Theological Lending Library to serve on-line students, and St. Joseph Chapel, for on-campus liturgical training and for the Bishop’s use; plus accommodations for overnight visitors, and visiting clergy.

The Seminary is charter-affiliated with the Order of Franciscans of the Eucharist; and has a full relationship of recognition and credit transfer with the other seminary of the AEC/Catholicate of the West, The Western Orthodox University, which holds religious exemption from private school licensing in the State of Hawaii, USA.

These developments aim to increase the support for men who are candidates for Holy Orders in our church sponsored by their Ordinary. At some future date, a programme for men or women wanting to qualify as Lay Ministers of the Church is envisioned. The seminary programme will also prepare candidates for Chaplaincy Endorsement.

The Anglican Heritage Society, Inc., will provide “St. John Vianney Scholarships” to financially-challenged  seminarians. As is already the policy of the Western Orthodox University, no student will be turned away for financial reasons.