Heck If I Know (books)

A Pilgrim’s Guide to the Old Catholic Church

A Best­seller at Amazon.com

100% Catholic — 0% Roman Catholic

The OLD CATHOLIC CHURCH has been around for hun­dreds of years, but few peo­ple today know about it. Larger groups that use the word “Catholic” rarely like to admit its exis­tence, but it does exist. It is com­pletely Catholic, but with­out the pope, the Inqui­si­tion and all the guilt. Arch­bishop Wynn Wag­ner intro­duces you to the beliefs of this small group of Catholics with their mod­ern phi­los­o­phy that is wrapped inside a very tra­di­tional liturgy. Expect to be amazed at the spir­i­tual tools that are avail­able to you today. When some­one says you can’t marry because you are gay, or that you can’t be a Catholic priest because you are mar­ried or a female: read this book and find your answer: Yes, you can.

Recov­er­ing Catholic: How to be Catholic with­out being Roman Catholic

This book is not about con­vinc­ing and/​or allur­ing believ­ers; it is about acknowl­edg­ing the schism exist­ing between the Roman Catholic and the Old Catholic churches and under­stand­ing that choices can be made freely, with our deci­sions rooted in knowl­edge, and with­out the guilt and threat of damna­tion too often heaped upon parish­ioners at every level of the Roman Catholic Church. Rather than con­sider this book an indict­ment, read­ers must rec­og­nize it for what is was intended to achieve: pro­tec­tion and encour­age­ment for every­one who has suf­fered the dogma. Straight or gay, divorced or mar­ried, lib­eral or con­ser­v­a­tive, there is a place for you in the Chris­t­ian world, a place where you will not be judged, pro­voked, humil­i­ated, or even banned. This book is about find­ing your path and fol­low­ing it to a joy­ful and ful­fill­ing life.

A Cat­e­chism of the Lib­eral Catholic Church

The Lib­eral Catholic Church was started in Eng­land in the early part of the 20^th cen­tury, an off­shoot of the Old Catholic Church of Hol­land. It wel­comes every­one — espe­cially sin­ners — and is one of the most tol­er­ant and accept­ing denom­i­na­tions you can imag­ine. Straight/​gay, young/​old, pro-​​life/​pro-​​choice. Some believe in rein­car­na­tion and ascended mas­ters. Oth­ers come for the mys­ti­cism or heal­ing litur­gies, while many attend because of the stately beauty of the Lib­eral Catholic liturgy. The amaz­ing thing is that the Lib­eral Rite works for all of them. It is authen­ti­cally tra­di­tional, yet sur­pris­ingly modern.

Divine & Heal­ing Path: An Old Catholic Catechism

by Bp Eli­jah (Jim Rankin), the late Old Catholic bishop of California.

Many books that intro­duce a reli­gious sect either get you so pumped up that you are in dan­ger of explod­ing. Oth­ers are so “dry” that you seri­ously con­sider implod­ing before you get to the third chap­ter. This isn’t like that. Expect the story of a man from Cal­i­for­nia who took a jour­ney toward God. He tells you about his jour­ney, warns you about some of the pit­falls he found, and invites you to join him on a spir­i­tual quest. In a nut­shell, Old Catholics are some­thing like Roman Catholics, but with­out the Inqui­si­tion. They have all the sacra­ments. Yes: there are women priests and bish­ops. Yes: there are openly gay priests and bish­ops. Some mem­bers are pro-​​life, while oth­ers are pro choice. Don’t let any­body pull the pal­lium over your eyes because that is the way ancient Chris­tian­ity used to be every­where. You are in store for a wonder-​​filled spir­i­tual journey.

The Com­plete Liturgy for Inde­pen­dent, Mys­ti­cal and Lib­eral Catholics

This is avail­able as hard­back, paper­back and e-​​Book.

his is the most indis­pens­able book avail­able for inde­pen­dent priests and bish­ops, espe­cially those who want to bal­ance tra­di­tional litur­gies with pro­gres­sive atti­tudes. This is 400+ pages (103,000+ words) of rites, rit­u­als, litur­gies and prac­tices that cover the entire spec­trum of Sacra­ments for the entire Chris­t­ian year.

Old Catholic Sacramentary

We have the Sacra­men­tary in paper­back (both color and black-​​and-​​white) and e-​​Book.

The Mass of the Old Catholic Church is com­pletely tra­di­tional. This altar-​​size book is in full color and intended to be used by a priest say­ing Mass. It has the com­plete Mass in Latin (1928), the Tra­di­tional Mass in Eng­lish (Knott, 1912 with the Coverdale Canon of 1550), the Mys­ti­cal Mass in Eng­lish (Wedg­wood /​ Lead­beater, 1916), all the Prop­ers and Com­mons in Latin and Eng­lish, and the Old Catholic Litur­gi­cal Canon (through 2020).

Old Catholic Lectionary

This is a hard­back book (case wrap).

The LECTIONARY of the Old Catholic Church con­tains read­ings (lessons, grad­u­als, tracts, alleluias, sequences and gospels) for the Tra­di­tional Catholic Cal­en­dar. The text is in both ENGLISH and LATIN.

Old Catholic Missalette

The people’s book­let. This is the smaller pew ver­sion of the Old Catholic missal.

The Eucharist: The Blessed Sacra­ment The Rit­ual of the Eucharist in the Old Catholic Church. This book­let con­tains the con­gre­ga­tion parts of the Mass: The Tra­di­tional Mass in Latin (1928, typ­i­cal) and the Tra­di­tional Mass in Eng­lish (1928, Knott Form) with the Canon by Miles Coverdale (1550). The Latin and Eng­lish ver­sions are side-​​by-​​side.