Augustinians of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
A Religious Order of the Independent Catholic Christian Church

Fr. Joseph's Blog: A Restless Heart



A Restless Heart refers to Our Holy Father, Augustine of Hippo's spiritual legacy. "O Lord, you have made us for thyself and our hearts are restless until they rest in you." This Blog is part of the ministry of the Augustinians of the Immaculate Heart of Mary to foster the charism of Augustinian Life: a restless heart consumed by God's Love and Grace finding its way through life in spiritual friendship/community with others, one in mind and heart on the way to God.

 




The Independent Sacramental Movement is a strange and wonderful little ecclesiastical world. This blog will explore questions facing our movement from the point of an insider – an Independent Catholic bishop who has been a part of this scene for over seven years and knows the joys, the exasperations, the frustrations, and the comforts of this part of Christ’s One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.









Musings of an Independent Catholic Priest. The title of the blog comes from James 2, to my mind one of the most challenging sections in the entire Bible for Western Christians. James 2:19 in particular speaks to our obsession with head-beliefs; James reminds us that even the devils have those. What is important is deep, fruit-bearing faith in what Fr. James T. O'Connor calls "the Presence of embodied Wisdom among us."





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