Friday, February 20, 2015

Bishop Leila BOYER, the living of a life

Our thoughts and prayers have been focused on the beloved Arch Bishop Leila BOYER, OCR (Pre-Nicene Ekklesia, Member of the Council of Three and Grand Master of the Healing, Teaching and Chivalric Order of St. Michael and St. Raphael), who was on the verge of entering into the planes of Spiritual Life, the Communion of the Mortal with the Spiritual and the Life of the World to Come, after having been diagnosed with terminal Cancer and recently admitted to Charing Cross Hospital in the United Kingdom.  Leila was transferred to St Raphael's Hospice in Cheam last Monday, which was one of her wishes.  She lapsed into unconsciousness on Tuesday and did not recover.  In the early hours of yesterday morning (Thursday, February 19) she passed away.  Her family informs that she was not in any pain and was peaceful.

While we mourn her passing, I'm reminded of the words of the Right Rev. J. I. Wedgewood who wrote in 1932 that:

"It is not death, or the manner in which the death is brought about, that weighs most;  it is the living of a life. For a deeply sensitive man of our own class and standing, life is often made difficult by the commonness, the coarseness, the vulgarity of much that confronts us.  A sensitive man suffers under unpleasant influences playing upon him.  But a great love for humanity, the keeping aflame within ourselves of great compassion for the suffering of others, and a strong determination to help and be an example of strength and radiant joy, all that tends to lessen difficulties caused by sensitivity and great refinement of body and temperament.  It is not that aspect of suffering that we need to stress in connection with our Blessed Lord.  Sacrifice when rightly understood is a joyous process.  When one cn put aside all the claims of the lower separated self the inflow of the Divine Life that then takes place bears with it the most exquisite joy and happiness."

Reverend +Leila lived a selfless life of sacrifice for others.  Her generosity and overall contributions to historical scholarship, peace, to the Christian church and betterment of mankind, to spirituality, to the unity of all sects and divisions of Christianity and to the healing of the sick are immeasurable.

People around the globe had been sending prayers up asking that her hour of departure be one of comfort and grace owed to Divine intercession by the Holy Paraclete upon the Wings of Jehovah.  Just yesterday, we offered up a Mass of the Holy Ghost.  And thus, placed in the ranks of the Blissful, may she obtain the joy of contemplating God throughout all Eternity. May her soul be allowed eternal rest, and may the Ever-Shining Light shine on it, through Jesus Christ Our Lord and Master, and through Saint John His servant.  Amen. +

Thursday, February 19, 2015

Apostolic Church of the Golden and Rosy Cross

The origins of the “Apostolic Church of the Golden and Rosy Cross”  (a non-dogmatic, tolerant, independent ecclesia formed from valid lines and pure intent with a focus on healing & the Disciplina Arcani, centered by the axis of Christian Worship: distribution of the sacraments) go back to the Pre-Nicene Ekklesia. This Church was brought into existence by  Richard Duc de Palatine. Monsignor Richardus (The Right Reverend  John Palatine) who was consecrated on the 25th September 1953 by His Sacred  Beatitude Mar Georgius I Patriarch of Glastonbury and  Prince Catholicos of the Catholicate of the West which was incorporated  in India  under  Act XX1  of 1860. On the retirement of Monsignor Richardus as the Presiding Bishop of the Pre  Nicene Ekklesia, who decided to  immigrate to America,  Bishop George Boyer was  appointed  his successor as the Presiding Bishop of the Pre Nicene  Ekklesia, and remained in that office until his death. Bishop George Boyer was an internationally well known and respected Independent Bishop. 
Tau Raphael ordaining a woman priest in the ACGRC


The Rt. Reverend Bishop Michael  Norman Buckley, Tau Marcus  was raised to the  Holy Order of the Episcopate by the Most Rev. George Boyer (1921-2008) the presiding Bishop of the Pre-Nicene Ekklesia on the 3rd of March 2002, as Bishop for this  Ekklesia in the City of Brighton, in the County  of  East Sussex, England. A Charter was granted  for the Establishment of the Ecclesia  Gnostica  Roseae et Aureae  Crucis by  The Most Reverend George Boyer, (former Secretary General of C.I.R.E.M. and Grand Master and Lord Abbot of the Healing, Teaching and Chivalric Order of St Michael and St RaphaelPresiding Bishop of the Pre-Nicene Ekklesia to The Right Reverend  Michael Norman Buckley on the 3rd March 2002, for those within his care and spiritual protection.  The Right Reverend Michael Norman Buckley (Tau Marcus) being the Grand Master numerous esoteric orders of spiritual chivalry. 

Due to the public misunderstanding and confusion surrounding the perception of the term 'Gnostic' in the title of  the “Ecclesia Gnostica Roseae et Aureae Crucis”  and also it's unfortunate association with certain rites deemed to be antithetical to primitive Christianity, it was decided by the Most Reverend Michael Norman Buckley, Tau Marcus, Presiding Bishop to change the name  of the Church to that of the “Apostolic Church of the Golden and Rosy Cross” on the 6th Day of January 2009 at Brighton, in the County of East Sussex, England with the approval of Arch Bishop +Leila BOYER of the Pre-Nicene Ekklesia. 

The Church operates in the U.K., U.S.A., the Republic of Ireland & Nigeria.  The ACGRC believes in and supports the married priesthood, the ordination and consecration of women into the priesthood and the most Christ like empathy and embrace of all of humanity.  Our doors are open to all, In His Name.  Amen. +++