Vestiges of Christianity is a news blog maintained under the direction of Bishop Bryan D. Ouellette, Ph.D., SOSM. Our goal is to reconcile ancient Christian theology with contemporary orthodox Christian practices and understandings. Our praxis carries with it a strong eastern liturgical focus while maintaining a freedom of spirituality that is true to ancient Christian ideology. We welcome anyone who desires to discover gnosis through the expression of early Christianity. We use the word "gnosis" with the intention to reflect its original meaning of soteriological knowledge, mystical wisdom and spiritual realization. While we encourage a working philosophical comprehension of Classical Gnosticism from antiquity, we are not a Gnostic or reconstructionist church. Our theology is orthodox, our approach, furthermore, is mystically liberating.
Bishop Bryan Ouellette discuses the soteriology of the Holy Nicholean Catholic Church and offers a complete esoteric Christian perspective on how one successfully enters into the Kingdom of Heaven promised by Jesus Christ.
The Holy Nicholean Catholic Church is working on setting up a more regular weekly liturgical schedule for Sunday Mass. Please let us know if you would be interested in such a program by answering the poll below (Atlanta area residents only please).
Currently, we are considering a Saturday vigil Mass starting at 9:00PM or a Sunday morning Mass at 8:30AM.
Prepare yourselves while Bishop Bryan takes you through the processes of death and dying as he has studied it through his work in paranormal investigation, exorcism ministry, and mystical observation. Does reincarnation play a part in the afterlife and if so, how does the Christian reconcile with it? How does the Buddhist Doctrine of Dependent Origination play a useful part in understanding death from a Christian perspective? What's the actual difference between a spirit and a soul? This and more, today on Vestiges of Christianity.
This episode is not intended for all audiences. Listener discretion is advised.
Bishop Bryan takes on the subject of purgatory, limbo, and ghosts from an Esoteric Christian perspective. What is purgatory exactly? Do ghosts really exist or are they demons in disguise? Do unbaptized children end up forever in limbo? This and more on today's edition of Vestiges of Christianity.
+Bryan D. Ouellette, Ph.D., SOSM is a semi-retired bi-ritual autocephalous eastern Orthodox/western Catholic bishop and exorcist for the Order of St. Michael the Archangel also currently offering private instruction in Gedo Zen, meditation, mysticism, prayer, and Christian esotericism. Through his commitment to the clerical life, Bishop Ouellette has brought the theological diversity of the early Church to our contemporary world. Formulating a specific praxis, he has established programs for his monks, clergy, and students that offer a direct and tangible relationship with God, one that is based primarily on experience rather than on a faith in what is often left to unjustified speculation.
Bishop Ouellette is a modern, revolutionary Catholic bishop with an unyielding respect for ancient tradition; yet, he advocates strongly for the evolution of the Church and for that of spirituality itself. He presently holds the Office of Patriarch for the esoteric religious organizations: the Holy Nicholean Catholic and the Holy Imperial Russian Orthodox Churches. These Churches function internally, behind the Christian cloister, hidden far away within the heart of contemplative monasticism.
We are an autocephalous Patriarchate operating under the pastoral apostolic care of Sovereign Patriarch Nicholas III. Our tradition exists to heal the wounds of division so prevalent today within the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. Our special charism is to inspire a revival of ecumenism that respects all individual traditions of the Body of Christ, the Church.
Holy Imperial Russian Orthodox Church
The Holy Imperial Russian Orthodox Church is an autocephalous reestablishment of the true Imperial Church of Rusland that existed before the fall of the Russian Tsars in 1917. Based on more than 1,000 years of tradition, our church wishes to reawaken the image of Russian Christianity founded upon the inspirations of Tsar Peter the Great, whose current heir, Mikhail Ivan Freyovich Yngling-Romanov {Tsar Peter Alexander Mikhailovich Romanov}, is the first to appoint a Patriarch to the Imperial Church since the 18th Century.
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