
Greetings from Residing Bishop Amy Skezas (prounced Skee-zuss) and all the ordained clergy and members of The Church of Tzaddi (pronounced T-zah-dee). Welcome to our web site!
Tzaddi
is a “church of the people” —a form and structure designed
to reach out to ordinary people in their lives. Founding Bishop Amy’s vision of
what this church should “look like” includes home study groups and metaphysical
classes to help people connect more with the inner Divine; she was inspired by
the example of the Essenes and other mystery schools.
Beyond the outer form of a church in society, in the inner reality of love that
connects all things, the energy body of Tzaddi is a large wheel generating spiritual
love, light, and flow. It is composed of smaller wheels of light, or stars—individual members, ordained
clergy, and light centers.
Each member in Tzaddi has a soul calling to a path of growth into light and chooses to belong to our church to support connection with Divine light. People have different spiritual
gifts and ways of viewing the Divine. In Tzaddi we embrace and welcome people
from many cultures as long as they are in alignment with our
beliefs—especially, that God is love and that we actively support only those realities
or Truths that honor growth and free will rather than seek to do harm or manipulate
others. Thus, although our umbrella is wide, we set forth guidelines in our code
of ethics which prohibit practices that are focused on hurting or manipulating
others, violating the law, etc.
Each
Tzaddian seeks, in the practices/path of his or her culture, to liberate the inner
potential that is waiting to be brought into greater love, light, and flow. This
inner potential can be expressed outwardly in any area of the member’s life—in
business, in work, in athletics, in family relationships, in health, in friendships,
in community, and so on. That which connects us in Tzaddi is an excitement and
commitment to this process of “riding the line” between being and becoming: the
process of growth, of unfolding potential in spiritual love, light, and flow.
People usually discover Tzaddi because they know someone who is studying with
ordained Tzaddi clergy. Tzaddi ordination programs are created and administered
through our seminary and the chartered light centers, under the supervision of the Bishop and the Board of Directors. Click here for more information about ordination through Tzaddi.
We invite you to explore our church through this web site, to join in our weekly worship service through prayer and inward focus from your own home, and to consider whether our ordination programs might be right for you on your path of service and growth.
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