The last 50 or so years have seen an increasingly rapid pace of secularization of the Church in America [obviously elsewhere also, but our focus is on America]. The writ of Holy Scripture and the 2,000 year Holy Spirit inspired witness to that Holy Scripture is no longer accepted as objective truth. The devolution of objective truth is a primary tool by which evil destroys; always very effective in the secular world, and in increasingly effective in Christianity.
In the last 12 years, the globalist-Leftist cabal has made a concerted effort to transform America from a representative Republic into a totalitarian regime. The fraudulent result of the recent Presidential Election has brought that process to full bloom.
Much has been prognosticated about the effects this will have on the secular life in America. An excellent article by Grayson Gilbert [https://www.patheos.com/blogs/chorusinthechaos/sign-times-persecution-church] offers a stunning picture of the likely transformation which will occur in the Institutional Church.
On this website, we have documented our efforts to form a home based Church, a place of prayer which is called an Oratory. After nearly 1.5 years of existence, we have deeply felt the incredible spiritual fruit of this endeavor. Not only has it been very freeing in that we spend no time appeasing the needs of a central Church bureaucracy, but the Spirit-led timing of its inception has allowed us to carry on a full schedule of worship [to this day], in spite of covid and all the government edicts about no worship, no church, no sacramental experience. No man-made authority has any jurisdiction in our place of worship.
So, now we have asked ourselves: is it time to spread the joys we have received and share them with others? More directly, is it time to foster the formation of a Liturgical Home Church Movement? Do not attempt to utter an answer to that question if you have not read in entirety the article by Gilbert referenced above.
We believe this is such a time. And in subsequent posts will begin to elaborate on what we think such a movement could look like.
Just to be clear, any family, any small group can form a home church anytime they want and without any real assistance from anyone else. Typically such entities will revolve around Scripture reading, prayers, songs/hymns, and relevant discussion.
What we are considering here is a Liturgical Church. A Church that will follow a Eucharistic Liturgy, will consecrate the Sacraments, and offer Holy Communion to the participants. It is new, it is bold, it will be controversial, it will be condemned by some; but we believe the time for it is now.
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