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02/03/2024

St. Christopher's Episcopal Church
Sunday 11 a.m. service and refreshments
Topic: To live a truly authentic spiritual life we are invited into a way of thinking that encompasses Mystery, including but also, beyond binary or dualistic thinking. This is the area of intelligent and conscious experience of the Divine.
This is the realm of paradox. This week's reading from John shows how the Christ was angry with a controlled, goal, oriented focus of anger, what the Greeks at that time called "orge," very different from the unconscious, broiling, or explosive anger we usually think of as anger.
Come and see.

02/05/2023

Next Class at the Port Orford Library starts Wednesdays June 7 - July 12. 11 a.m. - noon.

Title: An Overview of Jungian Psychology and How it Can Enhance One's Spiritual Life

As some of you may know, I have been a student of Jungian studies for thirty-five years and use dream work and other understandings of the soul from Jungian ideas to help people deepen their awareness of God's presence.

In this six-week course, participants will learn about how the archetypes that exist in all human beings express themselves through our dreams, fantasies, stories, and journaling, and how, as we learn to relate to them, we experience God within in greater awareness and joy.

We will be discussing creative ideas from some of the greatest writers in the Jungian world: John A. Sanford, Morton Kelsey, Robert Johnson, Verena Kast, Linda Leonard, Emma Jung, Anthony Storr, James Hollis, Marie-Louise Von Franz, and many others.

I also will be sharing some ideas of the archetypal energies we are experiencing collective in American culture today, in order to give us hope and deepen our sense of connection to each other, and experience greater community.

For more information and registration email Peter Fritsch at [email protected]

there is no fee. These classes are an offering of St. Christopher's Episcopal Church, Port Orford.

This offering is open to all in Coos and Curry County.

Sincerely,

The Rev. Peter Fritsch
Vicar, St. Christopher's

30/01/2023

Zoom Seminar: What Happens at Death and Afterlife

Saturday February 18, 8-11 a.m. Pacific Standard Time

Teacher: Author, priest, Peter L. Fritsch

Cost: $35 (scholarships available upon request)

Content: This three-hour interactive seminar will focus on the various world religion and philosophy possibilities of what happens to us at death and the Afterlife.

Participants will gain with a deeper understanding of the issues involved: justice (merit) verses beliefs, worldview, a better understanding of the ideas of heaven and other alternative assumptions, and why there is great hope and trust in a very positive ongoing fulfillment of life in the next dimension of reality.

Participants will gain deeper knowledge of how and why their faith in Afterlife is substantiated not only by the research into NDE (Near Death Experiences) but past and current views of theology and knowledge that support the reality of a dynamic Afterlife for all people.

Fritsch, an Episcopal priest and spiritual director, writes and teaches in the areas of Christian healing prayer, dreamwork, meditation, prayer, the reality of Evil and his life in Hungary.

Peter brings people together from North America and Europe for Zoom seminars on various subjects which strengthen the inner spiritual life. He lives in Port Orford, Oregon,

For registration and more email Peter Fritsch at [email protected] or reply by comments to this post below.

Payment can be by personal check, free online bank transfers using Zelle or Venmo. Once registered, you will receive a Zoom link for the seminar by email the morning of the seminar.

28/08/2022

Dear friends,

As you may know, Monika and I are in the throws of moving to Port Orford, Oregon, on the southern Pacific coast. I will be working to grow the Episcopal church in this small community of artists, writers, restauranters, environmentalists, and long standing residents based in the logging and fishing industries. We are excited to live in one of the most pristine, wild, and isolated parts of the USA Western coastline.

I am planning a very interesting and, I believe, helpful online class Saturday Sept. 24th, 8 am. - 11 a.m. Pacific Standard time. It is an introduction to a very interesting alternative to the dominant ethos of Western Christianity, that thrived among the Celtic Christians in Britain, Scotland, and Ireland, after St. Patrick's evangelism in the 4th century. The Celts had many similar ideas about God and Creation as the early Christians, and many welcomed the Jesus story when they learned of it, often changing the spiritual landscape of their homelands, just as this focus can help us change our own society for the better.

The Celtic Christians had a very high view of Nature, as God's Creation, as well as a different way of thinking about human nature. These Christians believed God has given us two books to read: The Bible, and Creation.

They did not believe in the Western idea of original sin, but felt that people had somehow been spiritually blinded to their own innate creation by God in goodness. The result was the dysfunctional lives we live apart from God. Christ sets people free from this blindness with the illumination of the Holy Spirit.

The two most successful evangelistic movements in Church history were Patrick's work among the early Irish Celts, and, using a similar model of building community first and foremost, John and Charles Wesley's work in London. They took the church to where the people were, and creating small groups where Christian living was experienced with teaching, sharing, and prayer together, before people were pressed to make any decision regarding Christianity.

In both Patrick's and the Wesley's path, people experienced Christian living in community, and came to Christ through experiencing belonging, open interactive dialogue, and eventual, at their own initiative, decisions to follow Christ's Way.

I am personally invested in this teaching because of my Methodist, and then early Anglican background, along with my Hungarian ancestral roots in Pecs, Hungary, home to a vast number of Celts living long ago in the Mecsek Mountains behind my European home.

This class will provide participants with current scholarship regarding a refreshingly ancient, and true way of understanding human nature, and be affirmed in the reality all people experience of the very thin line between the material and the spiritual dimensions, both as beautiful creations of God.

The class will teach the following benefits and prerogatives of Celtic Christianity and their importance in our lives today.
The necessary of solitude, isolation and in private prayer in Nature.
The value of finding and spending quality time with one's Anam Cara, Soul Friend.
The depths of fellowship available in properly directed small group encounters of teaching, personal sharing, and prayer together for one another. (Wherever two or three of you are gathered in My Name, there am I in their midst)
The joy of participation in a common worship, especially the value of worshipping outdoors or in other public places, not just in the confines of a church building.
Discovering God afresh with a world view much closer to that of Jesus' teaching and mentoring of his disciples, than what most of us have known in Western Christianity.
The spiritual benefits of developing the habit of creating increasing hospitality for strangers and known friends.
The value of Imaginative Prayer, the foundation of Celtic Christian Spirituality.
How to spend time with friends and learning how to talk about the innermost things of Spirit, and the life in God.
Cost: $35. Scholarships available upon request​. Payment can be done online Zelle, or personal check.
Registration: Email me at [email protected] or text me at 619 481 0714.
Bibliography available to participants for further study and practice in Celtic prayer and practice.

I look forward to seeing all of you. Thanks be to God!

Peter

18/04/2022

An Upcoming Online Class May 21. Register today. Limited Enrollment.

Subject: An Effective Prayer Life, and the Authentic Nature of the Church Within.

Date and Time: Saturday May 21, 9 a.m. - noon CMT (8-11 a.m. PST, 11-2 pm. EST)

Purpose: To help Christians understand the authentic nature really is of the church, and how to deal with frustrations regarding less than meaningful experiences with the outward, sacramentality of the institution.

Our prayer lives are enriched by a deeper understanding of what the church is within each one of us, as we learn of the deeper reality of God's purposes through us.

The truth is, that God is limited by the lack of intuitively informed and guided prayer from the Holy Spirit. This class will teach participants how to discern God's will to the best of their ability which then brings God's Kingdom, love, and grace, to the persons and situations that God desires to heal, confront, and transform.

All of us are devastated by the cruelty and evil that continues to abound in the world about us. This class will give participants hope and direction regarding how their prayers can make a real difference, and feelings of helplessness will be replaced by profound hope and trust in God's presence in the midst of such destruction.

Based on experience, church history, and scholarship, this class will provide participants with the tools needed to make a difference through their prayers, guided by God's teacher within, the Holy Spirit of Christ.

The roles of faith, doubt, uncertainty and clarity of purpose will be addressed to provide insight as how to pray most effectively to bring transformation to oneself and to others without manipulation, coercion, or projection of one's shadow.

Format: There will be two 55-minute talks, each followed by 25 minutes of interactive comments and questions. Between the two sessions will be a twenty-minute break. An extensive bibliography will be sent to each participant prior to the class, along with suggested reading of the most helpful books on the subject.

Registration and Suggested Donation: Indicate registration by return email to [email protected] and is payable by personal check or free bank transfer by Zelle or Wise. Suggested donation is $35. Scholarships are available upon request.

Feel free to pass along this email to others who may have an interest in a more effective prayer life in regards to petition prayer.

Blessings in Christ Jesus on Easter Monday.

The Rev. Peter L. Fritsch
Las Cruces, New Mexico

15/02/2022

Dear friends,

Next Sunday afternoon Feb. 20th, from 2-5 pm. Eastern Standard Time, I will be presenting two hour-long talks with interactive dialogue about how we realize our deepest joy by understanding and owning our own shadow aspects of our being. Integrating scripture, theology, psychology, and mythology, we will explore together the riches of integrating opposites within ourselves, transcending them, and finding new and profound, creative problem solving to the seemingly impossible situations we face.

Using tools provided for us by those from before us, C.G. Jung, Marie Louise-von Franz, John A. Sanford, Morton Kelsey, Ladislaus Boros, Dr. Sherman A. Johnson, and many others, we will explore what it means to own our neglected side and bring it into conscious integration and discover the great and beautiful energy and inner gold our shadow contains.

This process brings us freedom from black and white, either/or thinking which leads to continued frustration, anger, and a lack of love and compassion for ourselves and others. As Jesus taught, when we attempt to save our lives we lose them, and when we lose our lives for God's sake, we gain more than one hundredfold of all that brings us joy, blessing, and deepest love.

I will be presenting the first half of the seminar on Owning Our Own Shadow next Sunday Feb. 20, and the second half Sunday Feb. 27, both beginning and ending at the time mentioned above.

The suggested donation is $75 for the complete program. If you are unable to attend in person on Zoom, you may receive recordings of the talks to listen to at your convenience.

For more information and registration, please connect with my friend and host Mike Smoolca, at the following link.

https://ticketbud.com/events/92f0a6e2-4ef2-11ec-b25f-42010a717017

09/02/2022

Dear friends,
Below is a link for a very helpful program I am doing Sundays Feb. 20 and 27 with my friend Mike Smoolca that will help in identifying the Shadow and learning how to manage and grow from it as Christians. I hope you can join us.

https://ticketbud.com/events/92f0a6e2-4ef2-11ec-b25f-42010a717017

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Love in Christ Jesus,

Peter

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06/06/2021

Belonging and the Inner Place of God:
An Interactive Online Seminar

Dates: Saturdays July 10, 17, 24, 31.

Time: 8 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Pacific Standard Time.

Cost: $50 in USA and Canada. $25 equivalent in other European currencies.

Session I. Belonging: Belonging to God, the Basis of All Belonging

Session II. Spiritually Healthy Individualization and Damaging
Collective Mentality

Session III. Inward to Outward: How to Strengthen the Inner Belonging

Session IV. Finding Harmony in One’s Place, Person, and Purpose: Our Places Change.

This seminar will explore the various aspects of belonging from a Jungian/ Christian worldview: persons, places, and life purposes that make up our sense of Belonging. Using narratives from the Old and New Testament, we will learn about the basic need for belonging for which all humanity seeks, and how the movement from inward to outward in Spirit work together to give great peace, serenity, and joy.

Teachings from the writings of C.G. Jung, Marie Louise von Franz, Laurens van der Post, Ladislaus Boros, Paul Tournier, among others, will be emphasized which help us to understand how our needs for being our authentic self and supportive community can be realized.

Four weekly sessions consist of 45 minutes of teaching, a break, followed by 45 minutes of interactive dialogue with people from all over the world. The cost is $50 within the USA. $25 equivalent for persons outside the USA. Scholarships are available upon request. Payment requested by July 10.

Reservations by email required by June 30, limited enrollment. E-mail Peter at [email protected]

Peter Fritsch is a writer and teacher in the fields of Jungian/Christian Dialogue, dreamwork, healing prayer, his life in Hungary, and the life of the soul. He is the author of A Moment of Great Power: Sacramental Prayer and Generational Healing, Dreams: A Spiritual Guide to Healing and Wholeness, Hungary: Finding a Place to Call Home, and, The Spirituality of the Holy Grail: Restoring Feminine Spirit in the Western Soul.

Peter has a Masters of Divinity from The Church Divinity School of
the Pacific, Berkeley, CA, and a Bachelor of Music Therapy from the University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA. He studied dream work and Jungian studies for eleven years with the Episcopal priest/Jungian analyst John A. Sanford of San Diego. Additional mentors were Morton Kelsey, and Robert A. Johnson, and the Jungian Institute in Küsnacht, Switzerland.

Peter is an Episcopal priest canonically resident in the Diocese of Oregon and lives with his wife Dr. Mónika Farkas in the university cities of Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Pécs, Hungary.

30/05/2021

A very interesting article shared by a friend in Budapest

Contrary to the film, it is historical fact that 705 people survived the shipwreck of the Titanic, partly due to the ministrations of a Hungarian doctor. Even though this doctor has been buried alongside other eminent figures in Fiumei Road Cemetery, Budapest, few know who exactly Dr. Árpád Lengye...

13/05/2021

Yesterday I learned that this book can be preordered on at least three websites that I am aware of. Here are the links. Bookshop.org has the best price, and Amazon.com and Barnes and Nobles are selling it preordered for the list price. The book will be out on March 1, 2022, maybe earlier. I am still learning the process of how major publishers like John Hunt work.

https://bookshop.org/books/the-spirituality-of-the-holy-grail-restoring-feminine-spirit-in-the-western-soul/9781789047714

https://www.amazon.com/Spirituality-Holy-Grail-Restoring-Feminine/dp/1789047714/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Spirituality+of+the+Holy+Grail%3A+Restoring+Feminine+Spirit+in+the+Western+Soul&qid=1620843411&sr=8-1

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-spirituality-of-the-holy-grail-peter-l-fritsch/1139172976?ean=9781789047714