I.   Introductory provisions

An Oratory is a place of instruction, administration and sacred ceremony designated by competent authority for the benefit of some community or group of members of a particular Religion or Cult into which other non-members of the Religion or Cult may also come with the consent of some competent superior.

An Oratory is equivalent to a Court granted certain ecclesiastical powers by a competent authority of a particular Religion or Cult in accordance with its own laws. Hence, the Latin word orator being “one who speaks”.

No temporary or permanent Oratory may be formed, without the express written permission of a competent authority of a particular Religion or Cult in accordance with its own laws. Once validly established, an oratory cannot be converted to profane use without the authority of the same competent authority that granted it.

In the context of an Oratory, a private Chapel is a place for administration and sacred ceremony designated by competent authority for the benefit of one or more physical persons. The Chambers of a judge is equivalent to a private chapel.

It is fitting for oratories and private chapels to be blessed according to the rite prescribed in the liturgical books of a particular Religion or Cult. They must, however, be reserved for divine worship alone and free from all domestic uses.

The most sacred and senior of any kind of Oratory, possessing the greatest ecclesiastical powers is a Court of a Ucadian society. The highest court of all courts and therefore Oratory is the Supreme Court of One Heaven, or a Court bestowed with such temporary or permanent powers.

As the Society of One Heaven is the one See, the true See and the only Holy See, all ecclesiastical powers of Courts and Oratories granted under the power of the See are vested in Ucadian Courts only, particularly the powers of the Sacred Rota and twelve Apostolic Prothonotaries.

Any Court, claiming itself to be an Oratory that does not recognize the superior standing of these Canons is by definition a false court and an outlawed venue, possessing neither any ecclesiastical power, nor judicial or lawful power whatsoever.

Any judgment from a false court that denies the validity of these canons and rule of law is automatically null and void having no weight in law, nor ecclesiastical power of enforcement.