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Welcome to The Order of Corporate Reunion
The Order of Corporate Reunion promotes Christian Unity through prayer and action. The Order is an association of clergy and laity dedicated to the idea that the Patriarch of the West is the Center of Christian Unity. Members see a model of Christianity in Jesus' prayer: That they all may be one. His words motivate us to bring his prayer into a lived reality. The Order was founded by the Reverends Frederick George Lee, Thomas Mossman and Joseph Seccombe in 1874 in London and it was officially promulgated in 1877 after their consecrations. Lee was pastor of All Saints Church in Lambeth.
Lee, Mossman and Seccombe were consecrated bishops in 1877 and were instrumental in providing valid orders to clergy of the Anglican church at a time when their orders seemed to be under question. The line of succession of the Order of Corporate Reunion is still extant today and is treasured and protected by our clergy members. The current Primate of the Order is The Most Reverend Peter Paul Brennan. Our Primate Emeritus is +Bertil Persson.
That All May Be One -- Ut Omnes Unum Sint
In his book, Order Out of Chaos, the Founder of the Order, the Rev. Dr. Frederick George Lee wrote in 1881 that " the visible head of the One Christian Family....is the Bishop of the See of St. Peter." His motto became THAT ALL MAY BE ONE. The purpose of the OCR is the reconciliation of Anglicans and Roman Catholics. The OCR first served Anglicans who belonged to the Catholic party in the Church of England, but today's OCR is Ecumenical and Interdenominational. To obtain a copy of THE ORDER OF CORPORATE REUNION (ISBN 91 85734 04 7) by Dr. Bertil Persson, write to him at: Illerstigen 22, S-170 71, SOLNA, SWEDEN. E-mail: berper@bredband.net Dr. Persson has also written books on the first American Provincial, Archbishop Brooks and on J.R. Vilatte as well. These are also available from him. Frederick George Lee,(1832-1902) was Rector of All Saints, Lambeth, and the Founder of the Order of Corporate Reunion. The Lee family descended from Caroline divines via the Non-jurors. The purpose of the OCR and its previous organization, the Association for the Promotion of the Unity of Christendom, was the reunification of the Holy Catholic Church of both the West and the East. This is the true and original Order of Corporate Reunion.
A cordial WELCOME is given to those interested in fostering and praying for Christian Unity and you are invited to join the Order of Corporate Reunion. Contact the Universal Primate. Visit our Yahoo E-group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OrderofCorporateReunion/?yguid=1961647
Another website is at: http://netministries.org/see/churches/ch04671
The Order In the USA
In the USA the OCR joins in prayer with the Anglican Church Inc. and its various member dioceses, in the US, Africa, India and Latin America. In New York City the OCR supports morally and spiritually the people and clergy of the Anglican Church of St. John, Episcopal American Catholic in Manhattan. Sunday Mass is at 11 AM. We also support the Queens' Congregation of SS. Peter and Paul, 14th St. and 27th Ave., Astoria, NYC; Divine Worship, 3 PM, Sunday. The Universal Primate is Bishop Visitor for SS. Peter and Paul. For the location of places of worship in the Greater NY area please e-mail either: the Rt. Rev. Francis C. Spataro, DD, OCR, GCTm or the Rt. Rev. Paget E. J. Mack, DMin, KCTm, OSBM at the above e-mail addresses or write Archbishop Brennan at the International Headquarters.
I have been in contact with Joan Toogood, editor of the Brookwood Express, which is the newsletter of the Brookwood Cemetery Society in Woking, London, England. She has sent me two issues of the newsletter nos. 59 and 60
These issues contain a biography of Frederick George Lee, OCR founder, written by Robert Alexander. The biography is highlighting Lee as someone who is buried at the cemetery. But it has great value as the biography is written by someone who is not a member of OCR and who is thereby more objective. The biography is entitled: Anglican Vicar and Catholic Bishop.
Lee is buried in his wife's grave. The tombstone only commemorates his wife. No mention is made of Lee himself. The grave is in the original Catholic section of the cemetery which is also known as Plot 131 and his grave number is 147468. The cemetery is currently restoring grave sites. I will work with them to see if there is a way that we can have a plaque placed there to commemorate the life of our founder. Lee's wife Elvira died in 1890 and since she had become a Catholic she was buried in the Catholic section. Lee was buried there on Jan 27, 1902 following a solemn requiem mass at St. George's, Southwark.
Lee retired in 1899 when All Saints Church was sold by an act of Parliment to the South Western Railway to enlarge the train station. Waterloo Station in London is the site where All Saints Church was previously.
The Roman Catholic Church through the Order of Corporate Reunion (O.C.R.) (1)
+ Dominicus Cardinal Agostino (CardinalPatriarch of Venice), assisted by + Luigi Cardinal Nazari di Calabiana (Archbishop of Milan), + Vincentius Cardinal Moretti, and + Ignatios Ghiurekian (a Byzantine Catholic Archbishop and Abbot-General of Ordo Mechitaristarum Venetiarum from the Island of Saint Lazarus near Venice) in 1877, acting under the authorization of Pope Pius IX, consecrated + Frederick George Lee, + Thomas Wimberley Mossman, and + John Thomas Seccombe
+ Stanton + Conybeare + Mathew + Howarth + Nichols + Plummer + DeWitow + Propheta + Ryan + Curreri +Brennan
The Roman Catholic Church through the Order of Corporate Reunion (O.C.R.) (2)
+ Frederick George Lee, + Thomas Wimberley Mossman, and + John Thomas Seccombe:
to + Stanton, to + Conybeare, to + Mathew, to + Howarth, to +Nichols, to +Plummer, to +De Witow, to + Propheta, to + D. M. Baxter, + Forest Ernest Barber, + Peter Paul Brennan
The Roman Catholic Church through the Order of Corporate Reunion (O.C.R.) (3)
+ Frederick George Lee, + Thomas Wimberley Mossman, and + John Thomas Seccombe:
to +Morgan, to +Stevens, to +Checkemian, to +McLaglen, to +Herbert James Monzani-Heard, to +William Bernard Crow, to +Hugh George de Willmott Newman, to + Herman Philip Abbinga, to + Perry Nikolaus Cedarholm, + Nils Bertil Persson, + Peter Paul Brennan,
Lee Collection at Pitts Theological Library
There is a small collection of Lee writings and works at the Pitts Theological Library. The webpage is: http://www.pitts.emory.edu/Archives/text/mss212.html
Kirkenlexikon Bibliographies: F G LEE
Automatic Internet Translation.
Volume IV (1992)Columns 1343-1345 Author: Guenther Thomann
LEE, Frederick George, * 6.1. 1832 in Thame/Oxfordshire, + 22.1. 1902 in London. -
F.G.Lee began studies in 1851 at pc. Edmund resounds, Oxford, graduated however not, but became 1854 student of the civil law (S.C.L.) and stepped briefly thereafter into the Cuddesdon Theological college a 1856 received it the Priesthood in the Anglican Church. 1858 he was "assistant Minister" to the Berkeley Chapel, London, and showed soon thereafter his sympathy for the "ritualistic" clergymen of St.George's into the East (B.King, C.F.Lowder, A.H.Mackonochie), which was exposed to substantial excesses. 1859 he became a minister at St.John's Aberdeen/Scotland, where it came to a lengthy conflict with the bishop because of Tractarianism practices. With a new church, which was built under Lee's supervision, the bishop finally refused the Rectorship to Lee. 1867 returned Lee to London and received the charge of Rector at All Saints, Lower Marsh Street, Lambeth. Lee held this post up to his retirement in the year 1899, when his church was sold to the Railroad for Waterloo Station. Shortly before his death he joined the Roman Catholic Church. Lee was a representative of the ritualistic and extremely ultramontanen wing of the Church of England. In the hope, which becomes Oxford movement the reunification of Rome, Canterbury and Konstantinopel causes, he created 1857 with Ambrose Phillips de Lisle, one roem. kath. Noble one, the "Association for Promoting the union OF Christian cathedral" (A.P.U.C.), for which it published 1863-69 the "union Review". For approx. 1870 it doubted the "order OF Corporate RH union" (ocr) the validity of its Weihen and created 1877. This medal with strict Arkandisziplin should become the basis of a anglikanischen union church with Rome, as rite should the medieval Sarum sarum-Missale serve. For this purpose L was konsekriert 1877 in Italy secretly to the bishop. The closer circumstances of its Konsekration, as well as those his trailer Thomas Mossman and John Seccombe could be never clarified clearly, since L eliminated all documents. The project pushed in the anglikanischen church on clear refusal, the medal must around 1890 have expired to a large extent. L published several magazines, thus from 1877-79 "Reunion of magazines", the popular "Church News", "Church Herald" and "penny of post office" as well as some very short-lived sheets.
Works: Poems, 1850, 1854 2 ; Clinton May pool of broadcasting corporations, 1862; The Communion Office OF the Church OF Scotland [ = Episcopal Church OF Scotland ] (Hgg.), 1862; Prayers for the Reunion OF Christian cathedral (Hgg.), 1863; Sermons on the Reunion OF Christian cathedral (Hgg.), 1864; Directorium Anglicanum, 1865 2 , 1878 4 ; Franciscus A Sancta Clara [ = Christopher Dave haven ], Paraphrastica expositio articulorum Confessionis Anglicanae (Hgg.), 1865; Manual OF Devotions for the Blessed Sacrament, 1866, 1869 2 ; Notitia Liturgica, 1866; The King's Highway, 1866, 1872 2 ; Altar service Book, 3 Bde., 1867; Essay on the Reunion OF Christian cathedral (Hgg.), 1867; Sermons, 1868; The Validity OF the Orders OF the Church OF England maintained, 1869; The Beauty OF Holiness, 1860, 1869 4 ; A Dictionary OF ritual, 1871; The Christian Doctrine OF Prayer for the Departed, 1872; Manuals Clericorum, 1874; The Bells OF Botteville Tower, 1874; Glimpses OF the Supernatural, 2 Bde., 1875; Memorials OF R.S. Hawker (Hgg.), 1876; A Glossary OF Liturgical and Ecclesiastical of term, 1877; anon., Pastoral type character by the Rector, Provincials, and Provosts OF the order OF Corporate Reunion, 1877; More Glimpses OF the World Unseen, 1878; Historical Sketches OF the reformation, 1879; The Church of under Queen Elizabeth, 2 Bde., 1880, 1892 2 ; Hymns for Several Occasions, 1880; Reginald Barentyne, 1881, 1883 2 ; The History OF the Prebendal Church OF the Blessed Virgin Mary OF Thame, 1883; Glimpses into the Twilight, 1885; King Edward the Sixth, supreme Head, 1886; Reginald of poles, 1888; A manual OF Politics, 1889; The Sinless Conception OF the Mother OF God, 1891; Sights and Shadows, 1894.
Bibliography: Cunning OF the Works by the Rev. F.G.L., 1876; British museum Catalogue, CXXXIII, 177-81; National union Catalogue, CCC XXII, 665-8. Lit.: William grant, Is the order OF Corporate Reunion Schismatical?, 1878; - Society OF the Holy CROSS, A statement by the SHC concerning the ocr, 1879 2 ; - walter Walsh, The Secret History OF the Oxford Movement, 1897; - Edmund Purcell (Hgg.), Life and Letters OF Ambrose Phillipps de Lisle, 2 Bde., 1900; - Thomas's WRIGHT, The Life OF walter Pater, 2 Bde., 1907; - John R. S.Leslie, Henry Edward Manning, 1921; - Gaius J. Slosser, Christian Unity, 1929; - James Embry, The Catholic Movement and the Society OF the Holy CROSS, 1931; - S.L. Ollard, A Short History OF the Oxford Movement, 1932 2 , reproduction 1963; - Henry R.T. Brandreth, The Oecumenical of ideal OF the Oxford Movement, 1947; - ders., Episcopi Vagantes and the Anglican Church, 1947, 1961 2 ; - ders., Dr.L. OF Lambeth, 1951 (Lit.); - Robert D Middleton, Newman and Bloxam, at Oxford Friendship, 1947; - Joseph Crehan, Black Market in Episcopal Orders?, The Month, N.S. 9, 1953, 352-58; - Peter F. Anson, Bishops RK Large, 1964 (Lit.); - Lida Ellsworth, Charles Lowder and the ritualist Movement, 1982; - Alan Bain, Bishops Irregular, 1985; - DNB 2. Supplement, II, 440-42 (Lit.); - Concise DNB 1901-70, 401; - ODCC 2 , 809. Guenther Thomann Last change: 09.06.1998
September 8 - the Nativity of the BVM - was always celebrated by Bishop Lee as the anniversary of both the Order of Corporate Reunion and of his prior foundation the Association for the Pormotion of the Unity of Christendom.
Each year Lee would hold a formal annual service of commemoration at All Saints Church in Lambeth where he was the pastor. It was usually a Vespers Service and reknowned speakers were often invited to speak. Clergy members and laity came to All Saints to celebrate their work for Christian Unity.
Prayer for Christian Unity
May God grant you to be of one mind towards one another; that with one mind and one mouth you may honor our God. Rom. 15:5-6
We being many are one bread and one body, all that partake of the one bread and of the one chalice. ! Cor 10:17
Prayer -
O God, who does correct what has gone astray, and gather together what has been scattered, and keeps what you have gathered together, we beseech you, in your mercy to pour upon your Christian people the grace of union with you that putting aside disunion and attaching themselves to you, the true Shepherd of the Church may be able to render due service to you. Through Jesus Christ, Our Lord... Amen.
Prayer from the Mass of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
We beseech you, O Lord, to grant to your servants the gift of your heavenly grace: that as the childbearing of the Blessed Virgin was the beginning of salvation, so the joyful festival of her birth may bring us an increase of peace. Through Jesus Christ, Our Lord... Amen.
The Order of Corporate Reunion 1874 - 2005 126th Anniversary
The Association for the Promotion of the Unity of Christendom 1857 -- 1877
Work For Restoration Of Full Communion Between East And West
On Saturday morning, 3 July 2001 on the occasion of the third centenary of their founding, the Holy Father received in audience a group of priests of the Mechitarist Order. "Mechitar saw the fulfilment of a longing ever present in the heart of Armenians when he realized communion with the See of Rome", John Paul II. The Holy Father celebrated the union of the two branches of the order: "He certainly rejoiced from Heaven for the recent reunification of the two branches of your Congregation, fruit of the desire to seek together the roots of the charism of your monastic life to serve the new needs of the Armenian people in a renewed and united spirit". The Pope also stressed the ecumenical vocation of the congregation. The Pope urged them to take part in "frontier ecumenism" with Christians of the Armenian Apostolic Church in their homeland because monastic life prevents the monk from withdrawing into isolation or fundamentalism, but opens him out toward all who are seeking the face of God. Here is an English translation of the address given in Italian.
The OCR connection is that Frederick Lee was likely consecrated by the Mechitarist Abbot-Archbishop and probably on the Island Monastery in 1877 of San Lazarro near Venice.
History Of Mechitarist Order
The Mechitarists are a community of Catholic Armenian monks founded at Constantinople in 1701 in union with Rome by Fr Mechitar Petrosian (1676-1749) of Sebaste. Mechitar was ordained an Armenian Catholic priest in 1696. On the feast of the Nativity of Our Lady 8 September 1701 he dedicated himself and the community to Our Lady. The community lives under a modified form of the Benedictine Rule and Clement XI approved the Order in 1711. In 1703 the community was driven from Constantinople to Modon in Morea (1703-1715) and finally in 1717 settled on the island of San Lazarro, Venice. In 1772, however, due to an argument over a revised constitution drawn up by Abbot Stephen Molkonen, a group of dissidents left Venice for Trieste where they remained until 1810 when they were forced out by Napoleon. They moved to Vienna where they obtained the permission to own a printing press. The two branches are now united in one congregation.
The Mechitarists devote themselves to study, education and missionary work; they have a missionary outreach and have established parishes in Budapest, Cambridge (Mass.) and Los Angeles. The congregation is also famous for having published many important Armenian books both in Venice and Vienna. The Armenian Academy at San Lazarro, set up in the early 19th century, pioneered a dictionary of the Armenian language (1836) and continues to publish classics and original works in Armenian. Vienna publishes Handes Amsorya (since 1887) a journal of Armenian philology. Since 1906 the cause of Abbot Mechitar has been in the hands of the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints.
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