Father Francis Robert
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Religion |
| Occupation | minister/musician/hospitality industry/radio |
| Location | Warr Acres (Oklahoma City), Oklahoma, United States |
| Introduction | I am an evangelical Anglican priest and monk, musician, and radio man--I have committed my life to the Lord Jesus Christ, our great God and Savior. My wife Shirley and I and our bird Abbey Ruth live in a house, Mercy House, our hermitage (monastic house), in Warr Acres (northwest Oklahoma City), and I have a daughter, Cheyenne. I am concerned about things ancient Church and monastic, and I am a priest in The Communion of the Holy Trinity, a jurisdiction of the Church in the evangelical Anglican tradition--the ancient apostolic Church, when she was one and undivided and called catholic, as she grew in the British Isles. Our parish, Chapel of St. Francis, meets in our home. The monastic order I'm part of, The Order of St. John the Beloved, is a Franciscan monastic order of The Communion of the Holy Trinity. We are "convergence" or "three streams" -- a blending of evangelical, sacramental/liturgical, and Spirit-filled--the life of the Holy Spirit, the elements of belief, practice, and worship of the ancient Church. These elements, rediscovered and allowed to be as they were in the early Church, makes for a balanced, relevant Church today. |
| Interests | I love my beautiful wife Shirley and enjoy sharing our new life together as a married couple and serving our Lord together., I am a married priest and monk, in the Order of St. John the Beloved (Franciscan) (In the Order of St. John the Beloved, Franciscan, monastic order, we may marry, there are married monks, married nuns, married oblates, and their families, as did those in ancient, Celtic monastic orders, we live and work out in the world, and some of us are in the planning stages of an integrated community, for those vowed and their families, and oblates and their families; our order is, a mix of active and contemplative, -- we want to shine as lights in the world), I play drums in a rock band, play drums and percussion in our church, work in the hospitality industry, work in and enjoy radio, the Bible, prayer books, reading, music, drums & percussion, art and artists, teaching, movies, racquetball, cooking, coffee, walks with my wife, good beer and wine, pipes and cigars, seminary, the Church Fathers, the monastic fathers, the desert fathers, Convergence worship, also known as, three streams worship, liturgical worship, Eucharist-centered worship, the Creation. |
| Favorite movies | The Passion of the Christ, Westworld, Brother Son Sister Moon, The Song Remains the Same, Signs, Jaws, The Lord of the Rings, Shadowlands, Chronicles of Narnia, Indiana Jones |
| Favorite music | My favorite artist is, John Michael Talbot, (we sing much of his music in our church). I have been blessed with a broad taste in music--I enjoy various styles of music, almost anything from monastic chant to hard rock and metal. I am a drummer and percussionist, and some of my favorite drummers are John Bonham, Neil Peart, Steve Smith, John Siomos (Frampton), Mike Portnoy, Keith Moon, Ringo Starr, Peter Criss, King Vandenberg (Through You), John Simmons (Atomic Opera & Smith Band), Don Henley, Phil Ehart, Phil Collins, Lars Ulrich, John Herrin (Resurrection band/Rez/Rez Band), Joe English (Paul McCartney & Wings & solo work), Alex Van Halen, (including the music of the bands they play/played in). I am privileged to have facilitated in the worship of God through music the Church in a few parishes, and to have played with, contributed to the music of and recorded an album and music videos with the band, Stage Dive, a Houston, TX-based modern hard rock band. Our album we recorded together is, "And Then There's A Rose.", The CD and cuts from it and previous albums are available from the band's sites--, www.myspace.com/stagedivetheband, www.stagedivetheband.com., (They continue to write and perform creative rock music with their great new drummer Joe, who has done session work in the past.) Since moving to OKC, I have been privileged to play drums and percussion in, "Sanctus" the worship band for Chapel of St. Francis our church., I am now involved in a rock effort with a great guitarists. We are writing and recording original hard rock/metal music, and will perform publicly. A guitarist friend I've known for years will move here in November, help us with the church and play with me in our worship band, and write new music -- worship as well as rock. I am excited about this, as the Spirit has been speaking to us concerning such an effort for several months. |
| Favorite books | The Bible, the writings of the Church Fathers, The Lord of the Rings, prayer books, esp., St. Augustine's Prayer Book, The Omnibus of Sources of St. Francis, A Monastic Year: Reflections from a monastery by, Brother Victor-Antoine d'Avila-Latourette, and, the writings of C.S. Lewis, (fiction and non-fiction), John Michael Talbot, Thomas Merton, David Bercot's dictionary of topics by the early Church Fathers (haven't been able to afford a full set of the Fathers yet -- Christmas??). I have posted the beginnings of a suggested book list on the hermitage page--www.netministries.org/see/churches/ch07969. |