The overarching vision of this congregation is to be a place of becoming the Beloved Community

Metropolitan Anthony Bloom of London

where the healing and reconciling work of Jesus and the Spirit of God are consciously evoked, sought after, and lived out within the bonds of ecclesial communion and within the context of the third millennium.

Special Congregation within the Episcopal Church and Anglican Communion

Recognized and received by the Bishop and Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado as a Special Congregation with rites other than that of the Episcopal Church, while being fully integrated into the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado.

We identify as a reformed Roman and Byzantine Catholic community that enjoys full communion with the Episcopal Church and Anglican Communion yet retain the historic traditions of the Christian East and West. Although uncommon, our Special Congregation status is preceded by historical models such as the Old Catholic Union of Utrecht and the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church. 

Our Vision: Becoming the Beloved Community.

An Integrative Approach—Bring together what has for too long been separated.

We have committed ourselves to:

Full Catholic liturgical life and social and ecological justice

  •  articulated by the Reclaiming Jesus: A Confession of Faith in a Time of Crisis

  • fully within and not counter to the historic traditions of the faith as articulated by the Scriptures, the early Church Fathers, the seven Ecumenical Councils and the continuing communion of the Western churches within the sphere of the See of Rome and the Eastern churches within the sphere of the See of New Rome/Constantinople.

A bi-ritual liturgical community

  •  a commitment to learning to “breathe with two lungs”, both Eastern and Western.

  • embody in our own day the Christian consensus and the diversity of liturgical life and thought found in the first millennium of the Church’s existence.


Integration of the ecumenical Traditions of the undivided Church and contemporary developments, such as: 

  •  the place of the laity in the structures of the Church

  •  the dialogical and co-operative character of decision-making processes

  •  issues with regard to gender and sexuality

  •  the crucial problem of climate change and earth-caring.

Mission/Purpose of the Congregation of St. Mary Magdalene, Equal to the Apostles:  

To learn to be disciples of Jesus Christ and to love one another within the structure of an inclusive and welcoming Christian Community rooted in prayer, centered in the Holy Eucharist, and dedicated to a vision of social and ecological justice. We seek to be an active and authentic reformed Catholic Christian community within the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado, nourished by the spiritual, theological, and liturgical traditions of both East and West, committed to the Catholic creeds and to the Scriptures as containing what is necessary for salvation, and living a church life which is inclusive, diverse, ecumenical, and welcoming.