ACCEPTING ARCHDIOCESE

ACCEPTING ARCHDIOCESE

The Archdiocese of Saint David of Wales and the Ecumenical Order of Saint Morgan is a religious order guided by a accepting spirituality. This means that, in general, we are people who:

Have found an approach to God through the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Recognize the faithfulness of other people who have other names for the way to God's realm, and acknowledge that their ways are true for them, as our ways are true for us
Understand that the sharing of bread and wine in Jesus' name to be a representation of an ancient vision of God's feast for all people of God.
Invite all people to participate in our communities and worship life without insisting that they become like us in order to be acceptable.
Know that the way we behave toward one another and toward other people is the fullest expression of what we believe
Find more grace in the search for understanding than we do in dogmatic certainty - more value in questioning than in absolutes
Form ourselves into communities dedicated to equipping one another for the work we feel called to do: striving for peace and justice among all people, protecting and restoring the integrity of all God's creation, and bringing hope to those Jesus Christ called the least of his sisters and brothers.
Recognize that being followers of Jesus Christ costly, and entails selfless love, conscientious resistance to evil, and renunciation of privilege.

One of the components of our accepting spirituality is that of Trinitarian universalism. This means that, in general:

We believe in a God who is Love, Light, and Spirit, the Creator of the universe, whom we are called to seek, know, and love; and whose nature was revealed to the world in the person and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ.
We believe that the universal commandment is to love and serve one another as each loves oneself.
We believe in the law of justice by which actions generate consequences, whether to be manifested in this life or in the life to come.
We believe in the ultimate triumph of divine mercy and grace: that no being ever created will be condemned or allowed to suffer forever, but God has arranged through a benevolent plan of learning and growth for all souls to attain salvation, reconciliation, restoration, and reunion with the Source of All Being, in the fullness of the ages.
We believe every person is the divine offspring of God, created in the image of the Heavenly Father of all; and that every person is destined to be raised up from imperfection to maturity according to the pattern of the archetypal Christ, the Son of God, the Perfect Human in whose image all humanity shall be transformed.
We believe in miracles and mysterious spiritual phenomena, such as the resurrection of Jesus Christ, which transform materialistic views of reality.
We believe that God's Holy Spirit has inspired numerous prophets, saints, philosophers, and mystics throughout history as testified by the scriptures.

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