{"id":668,"date":"2019-07-25T23:07:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T22:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oblates.wccm.org\/v2019\/?p=668"},"modified":"2019-07-25T23:11:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T22:11:48","slug":"a-contemplative-ministry-for-and-with-lgbtq-catholics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oblates.wccm.org\/v2019\/news-from-the-oblate-community\/a-contemplative-ministry-for-and-with-lgbtq-catholics\/","title":{"rendered":"A Contemplative Ministry for and with LGBTQ Catholics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/oblates.wccm.org\/v2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/fordham4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oblates.wccm.org\/v2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/fordham4.jpg 960w, https:\/\/oblates.wccm.org\/v2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/fordham4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oblates.wccm.org\/v2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/fordham4-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Argel Tuason, the Benedictine Oblate Coordinator for the Philippines, recently spoke as a panelist at the Fordham University in New York to share his journey and experience as a gay contemplative and activist working for welcome, affirmation and justice for LGBTQ Catholics. He co-founded the community Rainbow Catholics Philippines.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Held at\nthe Lincoln Center Campus on June 26, 2019 and co-presented by the Fordham\nUniversity Theology Department and the Church of Saint Francis Xavier, the\nevent was entitled <em>\u201cLGBTQ+ Catholic\nActivism: A Global Conversation.\u201d<\/em> The conversation was moderated by Craig\nFord, Ph.D., post-doctoral teaching fellow in Fordham\u2019s Department of Theology,\nand Jamie Manson, editor and writer for the <em>National\nCatholic Reporter<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Argel\nshared with around 200 participants, mostly parishioners of the Church of Saint\nFrancis Xavier, his spiritual journey to self-acceptance and affirmation as\nboth gay and Catholic. He even found his Damascus-like encounter with the\nall-loving and gender-affirming God a very mystical experience so much so that\nif he is to write a book about his story he quipped that he would entitle it <em>\u201cComing Out Within: A Gay Contemplative\nExperience.\u201d <\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A man and\na woman, a couple, from the audience who happened to be contemplatives\nthemselves, being practitioners of Centering Prayer, approached Argel during cocktails\nthat followed the event and offered words of encouragement and support for the\nministry he is doing for the Catholic Church. They also noticed his\nnon-bitterness towards the Church during his sharing of his experience of\nnon-acceptance from some members of the Church. Argel admitted to them that\nthere was a point in time when he thought of leaving the Church because of\noppressive elements and judgmental attitude in its teaching about\nhomosexuality. He attributed however his recovery from the Church\u2019s spiritual\nabuse to the healing and transformative effect of a contemplative practice\ncoupled with the experience of being loved, accepted, affirmed and supported by\nhis local meditation community as well as by the global community of WCCM,\nwhich is truly catholic. In the end, because of the couple\u2019s curiosity about\nChristian Meditation, Argel invited them to the monthly online Oblate Cell\nMeeting hosted by the Filipino community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information about the said event at the Fordham University, you may read articles written about it using these links:\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncronline.org\/news\/people\/activists-examine-church-impact-lgbtq-rights-movements-around-world\">https:\/\/www.ncronline.org\/news\/people\/activists-examine-church-impact-lgbtq-rights-movements-around-world<\/a><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/news.fordham.edu\/university-news\/in-moving-testimony-gay-catholics-reiterate-their-faith-in-the-church\/\">https:\/\/news.fordham.edu\/university-news\/in-moving-testimony-gay-catholics-reiterate-their-faith-in-the-church\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was\nable to begin and end the sessions with contemplative silence such as\npracticing breath prayer. He was also able to introduce and let the\nparticipants experience the practice of Christian Meditation. Participants came\nfrom countries such as Slovakia, USA, Chile, Germany, Australia and the\nPhilippines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"373\" height=\"280\" src=\"https:\/\/oblates.wccm.org\/v2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/deepng6.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oblates.wccm.org\/v2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/deepng6.jpg 373w, https:\/\/oblates.wccm.org\/v2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/deepng6-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 373px) 100vw, 373px\" \/><figcaption>Argel leading a meditation session<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Little by\nlittle, it is becoming clearer to Argel the ministry God has been calling and\npreparing him to do. That is to offer to the wider Church community \u201cthe gift\nof his own being\u201d as a homosexual and as being part of the LGBTQ movement\naround the world working for welcome, affirmation and justice for all. As the\nSynod Fathers mentioned: <em>\u201cHomosexual\npersons have gifts and qualities that they can offer to Christian communities:\nare we capable of welcoming these people while guaranteeing them a fraternal\nspace in our communities?\u201d<\/em>* And conversely, Argel would like to offer his\ncontemplative experience, presence and practices to his fellow LGBTQ Catholics\nand activists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Argel\nsenses his call to a kind of a bridge builder between the wider Catholic Church\nand its many estranged, alienated and disillusioned LGBTQ members who are\nplanning to leave or who have left the Church as well as those who chose to\nstay as a prophetic witness despite discrimination and non-acceptance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those\ninterested and would like to know more or support the contemplative ministry\nfor and with LGBTQ Catholics and seekers, you may get in touch with Argel\nTuason via his email address <a href=\"mailto:argel.tuason@gmail.com\">argel.tuason@gmail.com<\/a> or through his WhatsApp number\n+639235093463.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*<em>Synod on the Family: Relatio post disceptationem\nof the Reporter General, Cardinal Peter Erdo \u2013 13 October 2015, Article No. 50<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argel Tuason, the Benedictine Oblate Coordinator for the Philippines, recently spoke as a panelist at the Fordham University in New York to share his journey and experience as a gay contemplative and activist working for welcome, affirmation and justice for LGBTQ Catholics. 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