Convergent Streams

Convergent Streams Convergent Streams is a magazine for the Independent Sacramental Movement.

Real stories. Real people. Real hope.The Veritas Manifesto Project and the OCCI Office of Faith, Justice, and Humanitari...
08/19/2026

Real stories. Real people. Real hope.

The Veritas Manifesto Project and the OCCI Office of Faith, Justice, and Humanitarian Efforts invite you to a special viewing of the documentary "Which Way Home" — a journey, a choice, a human story.

Join us online on August 19 at 8:00 PM Eastern Time to watch, reflect, and be inspired together as a community grounded in compassion, justice, and dignity.

NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED!

Visit https://video.myocci.social to join.

Be part of the conversation. Be part of the change.

Real stories. Real people. Real hope.The Veritas Manifesto Project and the OCCI Office of Faith, Justice, and Humanitari...
08/16/2026

Real stories. Real people. Real hope.

The Veritas Manifesto Project and the OCCI Office of Faith, Justice, and Humanitarian Efforts invite you to a special viewing of the documentary "Which Way Home" — a journey, a choice, a human story.

Join us online on August 19 at 8:00 PM Eastern Time to watch, reflect, and be inspired together as a community grounded in compassion, justice, and dignity.

Visit https://video.myocci.social to join.

Be part of the conversation. Be part of the change.

Write for Convergent Streams: Belonging and AdventThe season of Advent is almost here, and we want your voice in our Fou...
08/16/2026

Write for Convergent Streams: Belonging and Advent

The season of Advent is almost here, and we want your voice in our Fourth Quarter edition.

Theme: Belonging and Advent — A Season of Waiting, A Season of Displacement

Long before Christ was born, Mary and Joseph were already on the move, forced by census decree to travel while she was heavy with child. Soon after his birth, the Holy Family fled as refugees into Egypt to escape a ruler's violence. Advent is not only a season of quiet waiting. It is a season that remembers what it means to wait without a home.

We are inviting essays, reflections, sermons, and pastoral stories that explore Advent through this lens: displacement, hope, hospitality, and what it means to belong when you have nowhere to lay your head.

Whether you are clergy, a lay minister, an activist, or simply someone with something to say, we want to hear from you.

Submission Deadline: September 11, 2026
Submit to: [email protected]
Edition releases: October 1, 2026

Learn more: https://convergentstreams.org

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Belonging and Advent: A Season of Waiting, A Season of DisplacementThe Fourth Quarter edition of Convergent Streams is n...
07/17/2026

Belonging and Advent: A Season of Waiting, A Season of Displacement

The Fourth Quarter edition of Convergent Streams is now accepting submissions, and the theme carries forward the conversation we began this quarter on immigration and belonging.

Theme: Belonging and Advent

Advent has always been a season of waiting. But it is worth remembering that the Holy Family themselves knew displacement intimately. Mary and Joseph traveled while pregnant under census decree with nowhere to lay their heads. And soon after, the newborn Christ became a refugee, carried into Egypt to escape violence at home.

This Advent, we want to sit with that truth. What does it mean to wait in hope while displaced? What does it mean to find belonging in a manger, in exile, on the road? We are looking for reflections, essays, sermons, and pastoral stories that hold Advent and immigration together, not as separate themes, but as one continuous witness.

We welcome submissions from clergy, lay ministers, activists, and anyone moved to write on this theme.

Submission Deadline: September 11, 2026
Submit to: [email protected]
Edition goes to print: October 1, 2026

More info: https://convergentstreams.org

Pax et Bonum

**NEW RELEASE: Convergent Streams Vol. 9, No. 2 is here!**This bilingual edition confronts one of the defining moral cha...
07/11/2026

**NEW RELEASE: Convergent Streams Vol. 9, No. 2 is here!**

This bilingual edition confronts one of the defining moral challenges of our time: Immigration, Belonging, and the Work of Peace.

Featured in this issue:

"The Monopoly of Faith" — Bishop David Castro on religious intolerance in Latin America

"The Nazareth Manifest as a Vessel for Modern Liberation" — Father Ricardo Romero's bold call to action

A Corpus Christi reflection on migration from Bishop Juan Carlos Mogollón Fernández

"Seeking the Living Word in the Shadows of Exile" — Father Nasir Gill's firsthand account from Bangkok

"The Open Table of Grace" — Bishop Ben Williams on the Beatitudes and belonging

Available now in print and Kindle on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H8G4VBP3

Articles are also available at convergentstreams.org, but we encourage you to grab your copy on Amazon to support this ministry and keep it in your hands, on your shelf, or on your Kindle wherever you go.

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📣 **Good news — you have more time!**We are extending the submission deadline for the Third Quarter edition of *Converge...
06/07/2026

📣 **Good news — you have more time!**

We are extending the submission deadline for the Third Quarter edition of *Convergent Streams!*

📅 **New Deadline: June 14, 2026**
📧 **[email protected]**
🕊️ **Theme: Immigration, Belonging, and the Work of Peace**

If life got in the way and you did not get your submission in by June 1, this is your second chance. We want to hear from you. Essays, reflections, pastoral stories, poetry, theological perspectives — if it speaks to the theme, send it our way.

The Q3 edition releases July 1, 2026. Do not miss your opportunity to be part of this conversation.

🌐 https://convergentstreams.org

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⏰ **The clock is ticking, writers!**The submission deadline for the Third Quarter edition of *Convergent Streams* is jus...
05/30/2026

⏰ **The clock is ticking, writers!**

The submission deadline for the Third Quarter edition of *Convergent Streams* is just around the corner.

📅 **June 1, 2026**
📧 **[email protected]**
🕊️ **Theme: Immigration, Belonging, and the Work of Peace**

If you have been sitting on a reflection, essay, or story that needs to be told — now is the time. Send it in before the deadline and help shape a conversation the Church needs to be having.

🌐 https://convergentstreams.org

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✍️ **Do you have something to say? We're listening.***Convergent Streams* is now accepting submissions for our Third Qua...
05/19/2026

✍️ **Do you have something to say? We're listening.**

*Convergent Streams* is now accepting submissions for our Third Quarter 2026 edition, and the theme could not be more timely:

🕊️ **Immigration, Belonging, and the Work of Peace**

In a world that is increasingly choosing fear over welcome, we believe the Church has a prophetic word to speak. We are looking for that word from you — essays, reflections, pastoral stories, theological perspectives, poetry, and reports from communities doing the hard and holy work of peacemaking and hospitality.

Are you walking alongside immigrant families? Working for justice in your community? Wrestling with what belonging really means in the light of the Gospel? **Write it down and send it to us.**

📅 **Submissions due:** June 1, 2026
📧 **Send to:** [email protected]
📰 **Edition releases:** July 1, 2026
🌐 **More info:** https://convergentstreams.org

All are welcome to submit — clergy, laity, activists, theologians, community leaders, and everyday disciples who have something worth saying.

The world needs these voices. Let yours be one of them.

*Pax et Bonum* 🕊️

✍️ Do you have something to say? We're listening.Convergent Streams is now accepting submissions for our Third Quarter 2...
05/09/2026

✍️ Do you have something to say? We're listening.

Convergent Streams is now accepting submissions for our Third Quarter 2026 edition, and the theme could not be more timely:
🕊️ Immigration, Belonging, and the Work of Peace

In a world that is increasingly choosing fear over welcome, we believe the Church has a prophetic word to speak. We are looking for that word from you — essays, reflections, pastoral stories, theological perspectives, poetry, and reports from communities doing the hard and holy work of peacemaking and hospitality.

Are you walking alongside immigrant families? Working for justice in your community? Wrestling with what belonging really means in the light of the Gospel? Write it down and send it to us.

📅 Submissions due: June 1, 2026
📧 Send to: [email protected]
📰 Edition releases: July 1, 2026
🌐 More info: https://convergentstreams.org

All are welcome to submit — clergy, laity, activists, theologians, community leaders, and everyday disciples who have something worth saying.

The world needs these voices. Let yours be one of them.

Pax et Bonum 🕊️

✍️ Call for Submissions — Convergent Streams Q3 2026 Edition!The Third Quarter edition of Convergent Streams is on its w...
04/16/2026

✍️ Call for Submissions — Convergent Streams Q3 2026 Edition!

The Third Quarter edition of Convergent Streams is on its way, and we want to hear from YOU!

📌 Theme: Immigration, Belonging, and the Work of Peace
This edition — covering July, August, and September 2026 — will explore what it means to truly welcome the stranger, build communities of belonging, and pursue peace in a world that too often chooses walls over bridges. If you have a story, reflection, theological essay, pastoral insight, or report from the ground, we want your voice in these pages.

📅 Submission Deadline: June 1, 2026
📧 Submit to: [email protected]
🚀 Release Date: July 1, 2026
🌐 Learn more: https://convergentstreams.org

We welcome submissions from clergy, lay ministers, activists, theologians, community organizers, and anyone moved by the call to love their neighbor — regardless of where that neighbor was born.

📖 Haven't read our Spring 2026 return edition yet? Print copies are available now:
https://www.lulu.com/shop/father-ricardo-romero-and-bishop-ben-williams-and-bishop-juan-carlos-mogollon-fernandez-and-bishop-david-castro/convergent-streams-v9-n1-2026/paperback/product-84d959v.html?page=1&pageSize=4

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