My Ministerial Journey--Introduction

My name is Rita. Like all of us, I've am on the journey of Life. We all take the journey in different ways. That's the best part--our uniqueness --our individual journeys. I have always been a seeker, wanting to know more, to be more. I have lived 56 years, and the journey has been a long ever-changing one. I've never traveled far in the geographical sense, yet I have traveled millions of miles in the Mind. I've even been accused of being fickle. What do you really believe, Rita?

I came from a Catholic upbringing, wanting to be a nun, then moving into rebellion, then moving into Mormonism and a 27 year marriage in New Mexico. I've raised three beautiful children, taught mid school/high school theater, and sang and acted professionally. In the midst of all that, I've had some definite wild-woman times that I'll save for telling.

I came to Los Angeles in the arms of my soul mate, Patrick, thinking that the Entertainment Industry was my destination, only to find yet once again that Spirit in me had other plans. Spirit plopped me down in the City of Angels to find out ten years later that I am to become yet something else---a minister. I would say I am to become a minister of Religious Science, but that is too closed for me. I do not consider myself bound by a church. I am a woman open to knowing the ever-evolving Truth as it reveals itself to me. This truth is based in the knowing that we are all magnificent expressions of the One Infinite Intelligence. This is my truth and it is my journey to explore where that takes me.

I give thanks today for my beautiful husband, Patrick Feren who travels with me, for the magnificent inspiring mentor and friend I have in Rev. James J. Mellon, for my beautiful children who have accepted and loved me as I am, and for each and every person who have journeyed in and out of life with me. Here we go!!!!!!