OUR WORSHIP

Worship in The Mission Diocese is liturgically eclectic and may be conducted using a wide variety of liturgical sources. Some of us celebrate according to the Roman Catholic Novus Ordo Missae (The New Order of Mass, 1969). Others use the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer, the Lutheran Book of Worship, the United Methodist Book of Worship, the Presbyterian Book of Common Worship, the Book of Worship of the United Church of Christ and other texts resulting from the liturgical consensus of the 1960s, especially those utilizing the translations of common prayers by the Consultation on Common Texts. Other sources may be approved by the bishop who is ultimately responsible for worship in this local church. Occasionally we will use our own Saint Nicholas Liturgy, a variation on the ancient Gallican Rite that our bishop has been tweaking for years.

OUR BISHOP

Our bishop is our chief pastor, responsible for keeping us faithful to the Apostolic Tradition of the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church as taught in the Sacred Scriptures and the Seven Ecumenical Councils of the undivided Church. We maintain that our bishops stand in the unbroken Apostolic Succession of the churches catholic. We cherish as values congregational self-determination, freedom of conscience and the conciliar ideal [aka synodality]. We strive for "consensus building" in our common life.

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The Mission Diocese is “open and affirming;” all are invited to full participation according to their call as God's children.
 
The Mission Diocese will always be a “work in progress” as we grow in following the Holy Spirit’s leading.