Shepherd's Heart Ministries
Of Christ's Catholic Church

I had written this last spring just after Holy Week and Easter. As we approach Saint Martin’s Lent I thought it appropriate to post. I hope you find it as illuminating reading it as I did writing it. Blessings upon your head, your heart, your home, and your own loved ones!
“Jesus [...]

I wanted to share a wonderful liturgy resource from the Celtic Catholic Church, Diocese of Saint Brendan. We have used these prayers for years now in our annual liturgical celebration of All Hallows’ Eve within Shepherd’s Heart. May you find them as meaningful and beautiful as we do.
The following prayers et cetera are [...]

St. Ninian Bishop of Whithorn (Nynia, Ninnidh)
Apostle to the Picts, Abbot of Candida Casa (White House) Monastery, Bishop of Whithorn
Bishop and confessor; date of birth unknown; died about 432; the first Apostle of Christianity in Scotland. The earliest account of him is in Bede (Hist. Eccles., III, 4): “the southern Picts received the true faith [...]

October 11, 2009
Whithorn School of Theology launches its new website powered by Wordpress. It is hoped that the new website will be more user friendly and offer WST a larger, more versatile, platform from which to maintain a web-presence while meeting the needs of students and prospective students alike.
WST was established primarily as a seminary [...]

The Legend of Melangell and the Hare
Our ministry is dedicated to Saint Melangell, she has always been our patron saint. She’s a wonderful Celtic saint who spent her life trying to make a safe place for folks amongst the thorns, thickets, and briarpatches of society and of the world and that is our calling as [...]

Fr. Brian Brown is an ordained catholic bishop in the free catholic tradition. He is a native of the Ozarks for over 40 years and has been in ministry to the people of the Ozarks for the last 15 of those years.He serves as the pastor of a small yet faithful bunch at the [...]

Here is a letter composed by the Abbot-Bishop of our Order several years ago. One can get a feel for our Order and ministry from it.
December 1, 2005
Feast of Saint Tudwal
Dear Folks,
As we reform our newly renamed Order I think there are some things of importance to address and things to keep in mind [...]

The People of God
by Bishop Karl Pruter
Chapter XIV Peace of Mind
Several decades ago, Rabbi Liebmann wrote a book entitled Peace of Mind. Unintentionally he began a cult which enjoyed a great rage for over twenty years.
Americans had, at last, found a use for God. God was not some remote being in the heavens, but was [...]

Are Old Catholic Orders Valid?
By Bp. Brian Ernest Brown | July 19, 2008
“As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the [...]

I bind unto myself today the strong name of the Trinity,
By invocation of the same, the Three in One, and One in Three.
I bind this day to me forever, by power of faith, Christ’s Incarnation;
His baptism in the River Jordan; His death on the Cross for my salvation;
His bursting from the spiced tomb; His riding [...]