“And hospitality do not forget; for by this some, being not aware of it, have entertained angels.” – Hebrews 13:2
TRANSITUS – OBLATES OF THE LAST MARTYRDOM is a private association of the faithful within the Catholic Church, open to all the Christian laity (Catholic and Non-Catholic, male and female), and is organized as an international association of lay monastics, arranged in local, regional, national, and international Fraternities.
Members live in their own residences, provide for their own material necessities, and fulfill their normal duties of the lay state but share a common way of life under the guidance of a monastic rule and spiritual directorship--whose duty is to guide the Oblates at all times toward the one true light of the Gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The association is governed by the Founder with the General Council of Directors under the jurisdictional supervision of our Bishop Protector in union with the Pope (the Apostolic See of Saint Peter in Rome).
All Transitus members--whether they are Catholic or non-Catholic (Orthodox, Protestant, or Emergent)--will possess the fullness of their rights as Transitus Oblates, each according to their level of commitment and their fidelity to the Rule and School of Perfection. Yet each member will retain his or her distinct identity as Catholic or non-Catholic.
All members are obliged to obey the laws governed by the ecclesiastical authority of their own church, ecclesial community, or confession. Yet all members (Catholic and non-Catholic) must submit to jurisdictional authority of the Roman Catholic Church as it pertains to their relationship to Transitus. They must honor the Church’s traditional disciplines and customs especially regarding matters of the Liturgy and Holy Communion, catechesis and evangelization, and one's interaction with the ministerial priesthood and consecrated religious as defined in the Rule.
Members are to love one another as brothers and sisters in Christ and fellow oblates in Transitus. If a member would prove himself or herself to be a disruptor or enemy of Transitus or the Catholic Church, he or she will be disciplined or even expelled from the association. The measure of all discipline, punishment, and (when necessary) expulsion will be proportioned to the gravity of the fault, which is determined by the General Council of Directors.
