Our mission community of Holy Questions ECC in Seattle has spun off to become its own ECC parish in the ECC Diocese of the Pacific Northwest! To celebrate, the Emmaus ECC community will be joining them on Pentecost for a joint liturgy. Holy Questions ECC is located in Seattle at 6532 Phinney Ave. N in the Phinney Community Center. They celebrate mass at 10:00 am. There is good off-street parking. You can find the entrance to parking off of 67th street. They meet on the third floor and there is an elevator.  When you get off the elevator you will experience a welcoming gathering space ..read more

Can you believe it? Lent is just around the corner. Ash Wednesday is on February 14th this year. This means we have an early Easter on March 31st. It is our custom at Emmaus to celebrate Ash Wednesday in a home but stay tuned as we haven’t made our final plans for this year as of yet. In the past we have also joined with our friends at First Christian Disciples of Christ Church for Ash Wednesday. We will publish our Ash Wednesday plans on Facebook and in our Emmaus ECC newsletter ..read more

This is a great time to join a Church! We are beginning a new liturgical year on December 3rd and will begin reading from the Gospel of Mark. That means this is a great time to come back to church or come for the first time. The Gospel of Mark is said to be the first little book of its kind. It is from this little book that we get the new genre called “gospel.” Join us as we start with the first chapter of this gospel and journey through the year refreshing and renewing our faith. We are celebrating both the First and Second Sundays of Advent on December 1st. We gather at 10:00 am and mass beg ..read more

We are being creative with our liturgical calendar this year. Advent begins on December 3rd and on that Sunday we will celebrate both the first and second Sundays of Advent. The following Sundays will be celebrated as the third and fourth Sundays of Advent respectively. We are doing this so we can celebrate Christmas mass on December 24th, a Sunday. We will celebrate Christmas at our normal 10:30 am time. Fr. John Tanner will be the presider for Christmas. You may join us in person or over Zoom. It is our custom to sing Christmas carols as a prelude to our Christmas mass, so we will begin at 1 ..read more

Reflection by Bishop Kedda on the occasion of the ECC 20th Anniversary At the heart of what it means to be in the Ecumenical Catholic Communion is that we are Catholic. From our earliest days we have been Catholic. Our ecclesiology is Catholic. Our founders were alienated former Roman Catholics who could no longer remain within that system. They gathered in small groups and continued to express their Catholic faith as best they could. When the ordination of Mary Ramerman brought national attention to an Old Catholic bishop named Peter a door opened before these seekers. What these Catholics di ..read more

We have set a new date for the ordination of our transitional deacon, John Tanner. The location remains the same, but the new date is October 21st, a Saturday, at 2:00 pm. Mark your calendars and plan to attend! John’s first mass will be the following day, Sunday, October 22nd at 10:30 am ..read more

The ordination of Transitional Deacon John Tanner had to be postponed due to an accident. His wife fell and broke her hip. Jai had surgery and is doing well, but she wants to be present when John is ordained. She needs time to heal. We expect the celebration of ordination to be in September and will post the new date once it is confirmed ..read more

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This third Sunday of Easter, April 23rd, 2023, we at Emmaus participated in the ordination of John Tanner. Since Bishop Kedda is pastor at Emmaus ECC the ordination was folded in to our Sunday mass. John is a transitional deacon and we look forward to his ordination as an ECC presbyter on July 22nd. Enjoy the pictures from today! Mass begins with a blessing of water for renewal of baptismal promises. Liturgy of the Word Proclaiming the gospelBefore the homily the candidate was presented and affirmed You can listen to the homily HERE After the homily John was asked if he would comply to certain ..read more

A bit about David: I was born and raised in Northern Indiana. I joined the Hospitaller Order of St. John of God; graduated from St. Louis University and worked as a nurse with terminally ill patients. I studied theology at the Dominican School of Theology and Philosophy in Berkeley, California and was ordained in 1980.  After serving as a hospital chaplain and associate pastor, I continued graduate studies in nursing and doctoral studies in Clinical Psychology and began private practice in 2000.  I work with individuals, couples and families.  My wife, Judith ..read more