ÿþ<BASE HREF="http://69.20.25.179/"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>THE EVANGELICAL CATHOLIC CHURCH HOME PAGE</TITLE> <META NAME="Description" CONTENT="The first Lutheran jurisdiction in the U.S. with valid Apostolic Succession"> <META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="Lutheran, Barwin, ECC, Lutheran Bishop, Apostolic Succession, Evangelical, Catholic, Evangelical Catholic, Reformation, Lutheran Church, Church, Kurz, Karl J. Barwin, Rudolph Kurz, OSHC, CHS, Confraternity, Kalendar, Karl Barwin, Rudolph E. Kurz, Jon Aho, John Arvid Aho, Authentic Lutheran, Orthodox Catholic, Josh Hortman, Evangelical Catholic Fellowship"> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#CEEFBD" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#051A8B" ALINK="#0F0000"> <CENTER> <IMG SRC="http://www.apostle1.com/barwin-ev-cath-church/eccseal.gif" BORDER=0 ALT="ECC Seal" width="433" height="415"><BR> <BR> <FONT COLOR="green"><FONT SIZE=6><CENTER><b>This is the H o m e P a g e of:</CENTER> </b></FONT></FONT><BR> <CENTER><B><i><FONT SIZE=17><FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><FONT FACE="Clerestory SSi"><B>The &#160;Evangelical &#160; Catholic &#160;Church</CENTER></B></FONT></FONT></Font></i> <P align="center" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font color="#000080" size="4">TOTAL VISITORS since 1999: </font> </P> <p align="center" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <!--webbot bot="HTMLMarkup" startspan --><!--webbot bot="HTMLMarkup" startspan --><A href="http://freelogs.com/stats/t/thaddeus36/" target="_top"><IMG border="0" alt="Free Web Counter" src="http://mom.freelogs.com/counter/index.php?u=thaddeus36&s=katt160" align="middle" hspace="4" vspace="2"></A><SCRIPT src=http://mom.freelogs.com/counter/script.php?u=thaddeus36></SCRIPT> <BR><A style="font-size:12" href="http://www.freelogs.com/create.php" target="_top"><FONT style="font-size:12" color="#666666">Free Hit Counter</FONT></A><!--webbot bot="HTMLMarkup" endspan --></P> <!--webbot bot="HTMLMarkup" endspan --></p> <p align="center" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">&nbsp;</p> <P align="center" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size="3"><I>&quot;<FONT color="#800000"><SPAN style="background-color: #FFFF00">Prejudice Makes Prisoners of the Hated and the Hater</SPAN></FONT>&quot;</I></FONT><br> </P> <CENTER><Font Size=4><CENTER> <p> <IMG SRC="http://www.apostle1.com/barwin-ev-cath-church/cross.gif" ALT="" width="560" height="27"><BR> </p> </CENTER> </font> <CENTER> <p><font size="5" color="#000080"><i>At the End of June 2009 this website be closed down and will be able to viewed at </i></font></p> <p><font size="5" color="#000080"><i><a href="http://www.apostle1.com"> http://www.apostle1.com</a> by going to that web site and looking on the left side for our Church Logo</i></font></p> </center> <p><Font Size=5><i>We ask for your patience as we undergo a renovation to restore this web site to its original status when it had been hosted by AOL which no longer is hosting... </i></font></p> </CENTER><Font Size=4> <BR> <CENTER> <IMG SRC="http://www.apostle1.com/barwin-ev-cath-church/cross.gif" ALT="" width="560" height="27"><BR></CENTER> <FONT SIZE=6><FONT COLOR=#9900CC><CENTER> <p><I>A Message from His Beatitude, Metropolitan Karl</I></p> </CENTER></FONT> <DIV ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR=#000000><FONT SIZE=5> Feast of the Prophet Joel</DIV> <DIV ALIGN=LEFT>Pentecost XIX Saturday</DIV> <DIV ALIGN=LEFT>19 October 1996</DIV> <CENTER><FONT COLOR="red"><H2><B><I>Welcome to our Home Page!</H2></FONT></I></B> </font></font></font></font></B></CENTER> <Font Size=4> <Font Size=4> <FONT SIZE=6> <Font Size=4> <FONT COLOR=#000000><DIV ALIGN=LEFT><FONT SIZE=4><FONT FACE="Garamond">This is probably your first acquaintance with <B><I>The Evangelical Catholic Church</B></I>. And that's certainly understandable since She is an extremely small jurisdiction and has not received much publicity. She does not own any real estate or sanctuaries. Her congregations are all missions -- struggling just to get off the ground. All of Her priests are tent-makes,<B><I> i.e.</I></B>, they must find other ways in which to support themselves and their families. She is, all in all, a seemingly insignificant Lutheran Church body. But despite Her size and lack of worldly resources, She hopes -- under the guidance of Our Lord -- to make a salutary impact upon American Lutheranism.</FONT></DIV> <DIV ALIGN=LEFT>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV ALIGN=LEFT><FONT FACE="Garamond"><I><B>The Evangelical Catholic Church</B></I> seeks to do this -- not by appealing to the latest theological gimmickry, not through liturgical buffoonery or relying upon ecclesiastical bureaucracies, not even by continuing in the numbing banality of so much of what passes under the name <B><I>Lutheran</I></B> in the U.S. -- but by seeking something so old that it has become new. She has sought a profound reconnection with the ancient historic Church and a thorough appropriation of the ancient Catholic Faith. Her members are not inveterate romantics nor have they rejected modernity. Rather, Her clergy and lay members have come to know that it is only in that ancient Catholic Faith, at once so utterly simple and yet so utterly profound, that one can find rest and security for one's soul. </DIV></FONT> <FONT SIZE=4><DIV ALIGN=LEFT><FONT FACE="Garamond"><B><I>The Evangelical Catholic Church</B></I> takes the Catholic claims of Her 16<SUP>th</SUP> century Lutheran Fathers and Confessors most seriously. She believes that they were truthful and honorable men who meant what they said, that they wanted nothing more than to be in agreement with the ancient Fathers, to restore true Orthodoxy to Western Christendom and to remain within the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. Not much credence is placed by <B>The Evangelical Catholic Church</B>, therefore, in those<B><I> moderns</I></B> who assert that the claims of the 16<SUP>th</SUP> century Lutheran Confessors were really just public-relations puffery. The words and actions of the Reformers were the sincere products of their Catholic Faith. </DIV></FONT> <BR> <DIV ALIGN=LEFT><FONT FACE="Garamond">We present to you, therefore, the following pages with the hope that they will enable you to better understand <B><I>The Evangelical Catholic Church</B></I> and Her members. But most of all we hope that they will assist in bringing to the fore those issues which all of American Lutheranism must address if She is to return to Her Evangelical Catholic roots.</DIV></FONT> <BR> <DIV ALIGN=RIGHT><FONT SIZE 3><B><I>--The Mt Rev'd Karl J. Barwin, Th.D., Bishop</DIV></FONT></I></B><BR> <BR> <Center> <IMG SRC="http://www.apostle1.com/barwin-ev-cath-church/MetKarl.jpg" ALT="" width="394" height="800"><BR></CENTER><br> <Center> <CENTER><B><FONT FACE="Edwardian Script ITC"><h1> <a href="http://www.apostle1.com/barwin-ev-cath-church/karl_barwin_in_memory_of_1.htm">Metropolitan Primate Karl Julius Barwin, Th.D.</a></h1></font></b></center> <CENTER><B> <IMG SRC="file:///C:/aoc-naoc-webs/barwin-ev-cath-church/cross.gif" ALT="" width="560" height="27"></B><BR></CENTER> <CENTER><FONT COLOR="#007700"><H2><B><I>Symbol of The Evangelical Catholic Church</B></I></H2></CENTER> <DIV ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><FONT SIZE=4><B><I>The Orthodox Cross over Luther's Seal --</I></B></DIV></B> <DIV ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR=#000000>-- proclaims <B><I>The Evangelical Catholic Church</I></B> to be part of The Lutheran Confessional Movement within The One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, tracing Her Orders and Faith back to the historic Church of The Apostles.</DIV></FONT> <BR> <DIV ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><FONT SIZE=4><B><I>The Heart --</I></B></DIV><BR> <DIV ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR=#000000>-- representing the rule of God within the life of every member of this Church.</DIV></FONT> <BR> <DIV ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><FONT SIZE=4><I><B>The Messianic Rose --</I></B></DIV><BR> <DIV ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR=#000000>-- the symbol of The Promised Messiah, upon Whom the Signed hearts of The Faithful repose.</DIV></FONT> <BR> <DIV ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><FONT SIZE=4><I><B>The Cup of Suffering --</I></B></DIV><BR> <DIV ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR=#000000>-- reminding us that The Church is nourished, forgiven, and sustained by the life, death, and resurrection of Our Lord through The Means of Grace.</DIV></FONT><BR> <DIV ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><FONT SIZE=4><B><I>The Ship of The Church --</DIV></I></B><BR> <DIV ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR=#000000>-- with a cross-shaped mast, representing the abiding presence of Christ with His Church, sailing through the troubled waters of this life.</DIV></FONT><BR> <DIV ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><FONT SIZE=4><B><I>The</I> Chi Rho<I> with the </I>Alpha &amp; Omega --</B></DIV><BR> <DIV ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR=#000000>-- proclaiming that Our Lord, Jesus The Christ, is the beginning and the end of all things.</DIV></FONT> <BR> <DIV ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><FONT SIZE=4><B>Greek --</B></DIV><BR> <DIV ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR=#000000><I>&quot;One is Holy, One is Lord, Jesus Christ, to the glory of God the Father. &#160;Amen.&quot;</I></DIV></FONT><BR> <DIV ALIGN=RIGHT><FONT SIZE=3><b>--Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom</b></DIV></FONT>&nbsp;<DIV ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><FONT SIZE=4><B>German --</B></DIV><BR> <DIV ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR=#000000><I>&quot;That they all may be one; as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in Us: &#160;That the world may believe that Thou hast sent 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