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Fr. Francis Robert Syms OSJB
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- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- United States
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Fr. Francis Robert Syms OSJB's Groups
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Slow Church
32 members
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Spiritual Directors
56 members
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ANGLICAN CHURCH IN NORTH…
17 members
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New Monastic
70 members
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Profile Information
- Your Anglican Church Body Affiliation (CofE, TEC, AMiA...) - Leave blank if not applicable
- Anglican Diocese of St. Antony and Order of St. John the Beloved (our Franciscan-based monastic order)
- Your Diocese
- Anglican Diocese of St. Antony ("three sreams")
- Your City
- Oklahoma City
- Your Parish
- Church of the Holy Spirit, Oklahoma City (Dean), and St. Timothy's Church, Tulsa (priest on staff).
- Your parish website
- http://netministries.org/frames.asp?ch=ch07969&st=OK&name=M...
- Your Anglican 'Species'
- Priest, Religious/Monastic, New Monastic
- Your 'Day Job'
- pastor-priest/musician/inside sales
- What you do for fun and re-creation?
- Travel, walks and enjoying the Creation with my wife Shirley and daughter Cheyenne, longhaired dachshund Georgia and conure AbbeyRuth, playing drums in a rock band (Wretch), reading, growing my hair long again, love music and radio - and have worked on-air in the Houston-TX and Oklahoma City areas for over 20 years, cooking and eating good food, enjoying a pipe and cigar smoke, a good beer, wine and other libation, and music of all sorts. And of course the monastic life.
- What do you see as some of the biggest challenges facing Anglicans today?
- Making the Lord Jesus Christ the center of all things, showing His love in all that we do, and laying down our pride. Bringing together the evangelical and mystical.
- What do you see as some of the biggest opportunities for Anglicans today?
- To show that WHO and what we have to offer is relevant and needed by the world and the Church.
I do what I do...
I am privileged and blessed to be the usual Celebrant for Church of the Holy Spirit's Wednesday 7pm Eucharist.
I am privileged and blessed to lead St. Timothy's Saturday afternoon 'alternative' service, which begins at 2pm with lunch, then we have Bible teaching/discussion, prayer and Communion...our prayer and Communion has a small bit o' liturgy (we burn incense during prayer) and is influenced, of course, by the Book of Common Prayer.
I am privileged and blessed to serve as an 'urban missionary' with Hope for the Hopeless ministry in Oklahoma City. We meet for prayer at 7am weekdays, and from that flows ministry to 'the least, the lost and the outcasts' - we are known for a weekly life and employment class for ex-felons, ministry to ex-sex offenders and to the poor.
I am privileged and blessed to do radio ministry and entertainment. Currently I host the 'Robbie Allen Show' Mondays 4-6pm (CST) on www.91online.com (christian rock, top 40, hip-hop and rap, metal, dance and electronica).
I am also privileged and blessed to be a huge music lover, and to play drums and percussion. I have been blessed to play in mainstream rock bands and worship bands in churches, and to have been involved in the recording of 3 albums - 'And Then There's A Rose' with Stage Dive (Houston,TX, original alternative hard rock - drums), a worship cd with Holy Comforter Episcopal Church Worship Team (Sping,TX - percussion), and '14 Songs' with Fung-eye (Oklahoma City, OK - original hard rock bordering on metal - drums, percussion, and writing). I currently play drums in the band Wretch (2-guitar classic rock and hard rock).
And I am a permanently-vowed monk and the Postulant Master in the Franciscan-based Order of St. John the Beloved, with all the wonder that the monastic life is...
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John (monk from the UK and France, at present in Africa)