tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53905278051107087772024-03-13T13:58:28.600+11:00Desertreflecting the holistic nature of Desert Spirituality -
the justice of the prophets;
the contemplative prayer of the Desert Fathers & Mothers;
the love of Jesus's Commandments;
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the care of our Creator's design and work.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05972285659958872775noreply@blogger.comBlogger375125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5390527805110708777.post-65602801369571217782015-08-30T18:50:00.000+10:002015-08-30T18:50:46.807+10:00God of The Dance<div align="center">
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At the moment, our Muslim brothers and sisters are celebrating Ramadan. The document below will inform.
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05972285659958872775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5390527805110708777.post-26049648986888759012014-10-16T09:57:00.001+11:002014-10-16T09:57:36.083+11:00Hate evil and love good, then work it out in the public square: so sez Amos. #Blogaction14, #Inequality, #Oct16, #Ballarat<div align="right">
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<span class="text Amos-5-10-Amos-5-12" id="en-MSG-9544">People hate this kind of talk.</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Amos-5-10-Amos-5-12">Raw truth is never popular.</span></span><br /><span class="text Amos-5-10-Amos-5-12">But here it is, bluntly spoken:</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Amos-5-10-Amos-5-12">Because you run roughshod over the poor</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Amos-5-10-Amos-5-12">and take the bread right out of their mouths,</span></span><br /><span class="text Amos-5-10-Amos-5-12">You’re never going to move into</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Amos-5-10-Amos-5-12">the luxury homes you have built.</span></span><br />
<br /><span class="text Amos-5-10-Amos-5-12">You’re never going to drink wine</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Amos-5-10-Amos-5-12">from the expensive vineyards you’ve planted.</span></span><br /><span class="text Amos-5-10-Amos-5-12">I know precisely the extent of your violations,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Amos-5-10-Amos-5-12">the enormity of your sins. Appalling!</span></span><br />
<br /><span class="text Amos-5-10-Amos-5-12">You bully right-living people,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Amos-5-10-Amos-5-12">taking bribes right and left and kicking the poor when they’re down.</span></span><br />
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<span class="text Amos-5-15" id="en-MSG-9547"><sup class="versenum">15 </sup>Hate evil and love good,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Amos-5-15">then work it out in the public square.</span></span><br /><span class="text Amos-5-15">Maybe <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">God</span>, the God-of-the-Angel-Armies,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Amos-5-15">will notice your remnant and be gracious.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Amos-5-16-Amos-5-17">“Go out into the streets and lament loudly!</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Amos-5-16-Amos-5-17">Fill the malls and shops with cries of doom!</span></span><br /><span class="text Amos-5-16-Amos-5-17">Weep loudly, ‘Not me! Not us, Not now!’</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Amos-5-16-Amos-5-17">Empty offices, stores, factories, workplaces.</span></span><br /><span class="text Amos-5-16-Amos-5-17">Enlist everyone in the general lament.</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Amos-5-16-Amos-5-17">I want to hear it loud and clear when I make my visit.”</span></span><br /><span class="indent-2"><span class="indent-2-breaks"> </span><span class="text Amos-5-16-Amos-5-17"><span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">God</span>’s Decree.</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05972285659958872775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5390527805110708777.post-17995694101955763052014-09-26T12:35:00.000+10:002014-09-26T12:39:40.903+10:00#BlessedAreTheCrazy - Please join this synchroblog event<div align="right">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">To commemorate the launch of Sarah Griffith Lund‘s new book — Blessed Are The Crazy: Breaking the Silence About Mental Illness, Family, and Church — and to participate in National Mental Illness Awareness Week (Oct. 5-11), we invite you to join in a Synchroblog on mental illness, family, and church.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05972285659958872775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5390527805110708777.post-72405876235493248212014-08-27T08:28:00.000+10:002014-08-27T08:28:21.345+10:00From the desert ancient communities come... please consider how you can help them. They face extinction.<div style="text-align: center;">
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If you have been concerned about what you hear of the goings-on in Northern Iraq with regard to <a href="http://www.aina.org/news/20140825213339.htm">Christians and other minorities</a>, here is your opportunity to do something constructive ....<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minorities_in_Iraq"><span style="color: black;">Minorities in Iraq</span></a><i> </i></span><br />
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/07/who-yazidi-isis-iraq-religion-ethnicity-mountains">Who are the Yazidis and why is ISIS hunting them?</a><br />
<a href="http://www.catholicsun.org/2014/08/25/genocide-christians-religious-minorities-flee-violent-persecution-in-iraq/">GENOCIDE: Christians, religious minorities flee violent persecution in Iraq</a><br />
<a href="http://www.christiantoday.com/article/no.mass.said.in.mosul.for.first.time.in.1600.years.says.archbishop/38493.htm">No mass said in Mosul for the first time in 1600 years </a><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Adding to the great sufferings of peoples in the Middle East-North Africa Region are the currently unfolding events in Iraq. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">H.E. Sheikh Majid Hafeed, an Iraqi Kurdish Muslim and Honorary President of <i>Religions for Peace </i>International, has contacted our International Secretariat strongly calling for intervention and support to protect the Yazidis in the town of Sinjar, northern Iraq. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">They are currently undergoing an attack by the ISIS / ISIL terrorist group. Sheikh Majid reports to us that thousands have been massacred, hundreds of thousands have fled and their homes and shops have been looted and burned. You will find Sheikh Majid's appeal (in Arabic) <a cleaned="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001BupNMHLZRQgmsjmbfdQ87R_V6sc1I9ZCYymPR5uMQpjvciYgRQOfGVPqkZzNPGXfYtUG_rKAoVOnftH5Fpjnm16KfEAlpL38i6qOKHDvubf18i-CjPuP3tlmyNvyz3JoTwhGBVYoOsaqanjXFKW7noA8fu61-r7rrU3NXd6q59yla8FA0Yej85xF4LeIC_7U6n-NNQgLT6E6WzDVU2B53vzmBkhzvL8rXIA5Eff-TY_F110S5D2pfucFsnywd8DuWjk2gVn7NrU=&c=utHoLKJSaLmkKFCSkFlV2YdB7FWfBO7b6TctFpjbDBCfnA1DN2mNZQ==&ch=hl31LLSPs_IcPaTdPLsjbJ4RVK_Tv3VK2LqCv8O6FF58a6t5NaMxMQ==" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" track="on">here</a>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">His Holiness Louis Raphael Sako, the Christian Chaldean Patriarch of Babylon and a Co-President of <i>Religions for Peace</i> International, has also contacted us with an urgent appeal for the 100,000 Christians who have fled their homes toward the Kurdish cities of Erbil, Duhok and Soulaymiya. You will find Patriarch Sako's appeal <a cleaned="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001BupNMHLZRQgmsjmbfdQ87R_V6sc1I9ZCYymPR5uMQpjvciYgRQOfGVPqkZzNPGXfkPo5ZEaNCTMUW2e683zYIApJO0GZC0Drg-_h5kHuh5Mw9szXZjjuN1jE_Jm13cchMJ1dezDFG9Qaq3ruZkn6nmmBoMApe0D0ICIMAqRME-roTqZd_keZzsO5yBFmr07GU46T9jq1U5rYXiGKLHwv7rkzP3BJRTh5XkXX6OUL0wIw-GEyej5-3A==&c=utHoLKJSaLmkKFCSkFlV2YdB7FWfBO7b6TctFpjbDBCfnA1DN2mNZQ==&ch=hl31LLSPs_IcPaTdPLsjbJ4RVK_Tv3VK2LqCv8O6FF58a6t5NaMxMQ==" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" track="on">here</a>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In addition, <b>allow me also to request that all members of <i>Religions for Peace</i> around the world hold these suffering peoples in their prayers</b>. Let each of us pray in accord with her or his own tradition in solidarity with all across this region who are struggling to bear unbearable suffering. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><i><b>BTC Editor's Note:The area of the warfare mentioned above is in one of the oldest parts of human history in the world. War has diminished and eradicated much of this evidence. Readers will remember the looting of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_Iraq">National Museum of Iraq in 2003</a>. Readers will also recalled the destruction of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhas_of_Bamiyan">Buddhas of Bamiyah in 2001</a>. The heritage of these ancient civilisations are not only informative and precious to the peoples in whose regions they are situated. They are precious to all of us. The references used in the production of these antiquities are references to all of humanity. Human life to-day is of vital importance to all of us. So is our shared and ancient histories.</b></i></span><br />
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To find out more please visit <a href="http://interruptingthesilence.com/about/">Father Michael Marsh</a>'s blog, <a href="http://interruptingthesilence.com/2014/07/26/divna-in-search-of-divine-light/">Interrupting the Silence</a>.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We have been on pilgrimage for the last six weeks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">A pilgrimage of penitence and remembrance. </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">It began last night as we remmembered</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">which he celebrated with is friends. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">The photos below were taken by my friend, <a href="http://www.ian-hall-it-training.com.au/">Ian Hall</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> You can find more at his blog, <a href="http://spiritjourneyoflife.blogspot.com.au/">Spiritual Journey of life</a>. </span></span></div>
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11 a.m: Stations of the Cross</div>
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3 p.m: Liturgy of the Passion</div>
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8 p.m: Vigil Service at Christ Church Cathedral, Lydiard Street</div>
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<b>10 a.m: </b>Procession, Sung Eucharist, Renewal of Baptismal Vows</div>
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<i>God willing, the writer will be doing the Second Reading</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A feature of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Sunday">Palm Sunday</a> in Ballarat was the evening <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrim">Pilgrim</a>'s Service at the Anglican Cathedral. What follows is a Prayer to Jesus, Prince of Peace, to start - as pilgrims - our <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Week">Holy Week</a> journey. </span></div>
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you upset bad religion when it gets in the way of God.</div>
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Jesus, upsetter of self-righteousness,</div>
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you turn questions on their head, offering no instant answers, but showing the way.<br /><b><i>Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison, Kyrie eleison.</i></b></div>
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Jesus, lover of the lost,</div>
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you say "forgive" when we ant to shout "condemn!"</div>
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Jesus, host at the table,</div>
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you share your best even in the face of the worst.<br /><b><i>Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison, Kyrie eleison.</i></b></div>
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Jesus, Saviour of the world</div>
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which wants you</div>
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until it meets you<br /><b><i>Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison, Kyrie eleison.</i></b></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05972285659958872775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5390527805110708777.post-79754639851490078692014-03-24T05:26:00.001+11:002014-03-24T05:26:33.807+11:00Morning Prayer: The Way, The Truth and The Life<i><a href="http://eaglesnestcompanion.blogspot.com.au/2007/02/miss-eagles-morning-prayer.html">Back in 2007</a>, I posted the words of a Morning Prayer of my own devising. I thought it time to bring it once more to the forefront on this Monday of Week 3 of Lent, 2014. ~~~~~</i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: 85%;">Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.</span></i><br />
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You are The Way, The Truth and The Life.</div>
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You are The Way.</div>
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Guide me.</div>
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Plant my feet firmly in your path</div>
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Just an arm's length away that I might touch the hem of your garment:</div>
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Within earshot that I might hear your word and your will for my life.</div>
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You are The Truth</div>
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Teach me, Guide me, Illuminate me.</div>
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Teach me to worship you in Spirit.</div>
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Teach me to worship you in Truth.</div>
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So grace me and discipline me, Lord,</div>
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You are The Life</div>
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The Life given for me on Calvary</div>
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Grant that I might not live </div>
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Dreaming your dreams through me</div>
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Tasting, touching, sensing, the world</div>
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Through me.</div>
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Come, Lord Jesus, come in glory.</div>
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Last evening about a dozen or so people gathered in Saint Paul's Anglican Church in Ballarat at 5.30 pm for a Lenten evening.<br />
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We began with the ancient Christian meditation on the last hours of Jesus, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stations_of_the_Cross">The Stations of the Cross</a>. Last night, the experience had added flavour. As well as the traditional form of meditation, the words of <a href="http://www.totus2us.com/podcasts/stations-of-the-cross/with-julian-of-norwich/">Julian of Norwich</a> were added. These words come from her visions recorded in <a href="http://www.ccel.org/j/julian/revelations/">Revelations of Divine Love</a>. This way of 'doing' The Stations was most helpful and enlarging. <a href="http://write2rest.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/stations-of-cross-my-good-friday.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Picture at left from here.</i></span></a><br />
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After The Stations, we had a shared meal at The Parish Centre followed by a movie.<br />
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The movie was something very special - <b><i>Of gods and men</i>. </b></div>
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The movie is based on the events leading up to and surrounding <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_the_monks_of_Tibhirine">the deaths of seven Trappist monks</a>, men of the Cistercian order, in Algeria in 1996. These men were of the same religious order as the well-known <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Merton">Thomas Merton</a>. The film is beautiful, reflective, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Gods_and_Men_%28film%29">much awarded</a> and should be accompanied by a box of tissues. For a taste, please watch the trailer below.<br />
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The various characters depicted were interesting - but none more so than the leader of this little band of men living in the shadow of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Mountains">Atlas Mountains</a>, <a href="http://www.citeaux.net/wri-av/cherge-islam.htm">Christian de Cherge</a>. Christian's leadership and legacy demonstrate the kinship that can be found among the people called Christians and the people called Muslims. </div>
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In the movie, we see - without explanation - Christian writing a letter and putting it in an envelope and sitting it on his desk. This was duly found following his capture and death and is known as his "Last Testament".......</div>
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Taken from <a href="http://www.firstthings.com/article/2007/10/006-last-testament">First Things</a> -</div>
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<span style="color: #4d4e4e; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; letter-spacing: .1pt;">If it should happen one day—and it could be today—that I
become a victim of the terrorism which now seems ready to encompass all the
foreigners living in Algeria, I would like my community, my Church, my family,
to remember that my life was given to God and to this country. I ask them to
accept that the One Master of all life was not a stranger to this brutal
departure. I ask them to pray for me: for how could I be found worthy of such
an offering? I ask them to be able to associate such a death with the many
other deaths that were just as violent, but forgotten through indifference and
anonymity.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4d4e4e; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; letter-spacing: .1pt;">My
life has no more value than any other. Nor any less value. In any case, it has
not the innocence of childhood. I have lived long enough to know that I share
in the evil which seems, alas, to prevail in the world, even in that which
would strike me blindly. I should like, when the time comes, to have a clear
space which would allow me to beg forgiveness of God and of all my fellow human
beings, and at the same time to forgive with all my heart the one who would
strike me down.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4d4e4e; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; letter-spacing: .1pt;">I
could not desire such a death. It seems to me important to state this. I do not
see, in fact, how I could rejoice if this people I love were to be accused
indiscriminately of my murder. It would be to pay too dearly for what will,
perhaps, be called “the grace of martyrdom,” to owe it to an Algerian, whoever
he may be, especially if he says he is acting in fidelity to what he believes
to be Islam. I know the scorn with which Algerians as a whole can be regarded.
I know also the caricature of Islam which a certain kind of Islamism encourages.
It is too easy to give oneself a good conscience by identifying this religious
way with the fundamentalist ideologies of the extremists. For me, Algeria and
Islam are something different; they are a body and a soul. I have proclaimed
this often enough, I believe, in the sure knowledge of what I have received in
Algeria, in the respect of believing Muslims”finding there so often that true
strand of the Gospel I learned at my mother’s knee, my very first Church.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4d4e4e; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; letter-spacing: .1pt;">My
death, clearly, will appear to justify those who hastily judged me naive or
idealistic: “Let him tell us now what he thinks of it!” But these people must
realize that my most avid curiosity will then be satisfied. This is what I
shall be able to do, if God wills”immerse my gaze in that of the Father, to
contemplate with him his children of Islam just as he sees them, all shining
with the glory of Christ, the fruit of his Passion, filled with the Gift of the
Spirit, whose secret joy will always be to establish communion and to refashion
the likeness, delighting in the differences.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4d4e4e; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; letter-spacing: .1pt;">For
this life given up, totally mine and totally theirs, I thank God who seems to
have wished it entirely for the sake of that joy in everything and in spite of
everything. In this “thank you,” which is said for everything in my life from
now on, I certainly include you, friends of yesterday and today, and you my
friends of this place, along with my mother and father, my brothers and sisters
and their families the hundredfold granted as was promised!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4d4e4e; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; letter-spacing: .1pt;">And
you also, the friend of my final moment, who would not be aware of what you
were doing. Yes, for you also I wish this “thank you”—and this adieu—to
commend you to the God whose face I see in yours.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4d4e4e; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; letter-spacing: .1pt;">And
may we find each other, happy “good thieves,” in Paradise, if it pleases God,
the Father of us both. Amen.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ADAPTED BY FATHER
CONSTANTINE OSUCHUKWU</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">FROM “HEAVEN ON EARTH”
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Let us pray for peace of mind and healing of hearts,
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Let’s pray for those in the world who are suffering from
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For refugees and asylum seekers on Manus Island:</div>
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Let’s pray for those in our world who are grieving...those
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enduring physical or mental pain...who are facing or enduring losses:</div>
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the joyful ones, those who ease our lives and make them lighter, more glorious
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Let’s pray for our own selves ... our families ... our
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<i>This poem was made to those present at the</i><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05972285659958872775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5390527805110708777.post-86096662365266753722014-03-12T12:52:00.000+11:002014-03-12T12:58:07.430+11:00Life's journey - Threads of a life #1 My not quite connectedness to Catherine de Hueck Doherty<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4t4b52V3AU31Hridh3IIOXmFBkcJj4-GxjoWYfT8EUwGIVQMZOYFNVd5pc3r7f2PsgU1-pM_ap7ln020FafTZkiz542jFoashZYm3FRBm6c-Hyt2xVa2ZHMVAZHKE2nLFWFF5qp0nPxs/s640/Richard+and+Lilla.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4t4b52V3AU31Hridh3IIOXmFBkcJj4-GxjoWYfT8EUwGIVQMZOYFNVd5pc3r7f2PsgU1-pM_ap7ln020FafTZkiz542jFoashZYm3FRBm6c-Hyt2xVa2ZHMVAZHKE2nLFWFF5qp0nPxs/s640/Richard+and+Lilla.png" height="320" width="278" /></a>Back in the 1970s, I was involved in <a href="http://misseaglesnetwork.blogspot.com.au/search?q=apartheid">anti-apartheid protests against the Springboks</a>. That was where I first met <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/ockhamsrazor/the-great-australian-silence/3505828">Father Dick Buchhorn,</a> National Chaplain of the <a href="http://www.ycw.org.au/">YCW</a> - or, as he is known now, Richard Buchhorn. <a href="https://app.box.com/s/odbrva0jl297dwa6fnvk">I was a young Mum living in Toowoomba with my husband two children - the third child arrived the following year</a>. Richard introduced me to the American "Catholic Worker" and the imitative Australian journal, "The Catholic Worker" edited by <a href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11841-012-0345-x#page-1">Max Charlesworth</a>. Writer and commentator Niall Brennan who had an involvement in Christian communitarianism was a frequent contributor. This was when I first heard of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Day">Dorothy Day</a>, her spirituality and daring deeds in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Worker_Movement">The Catholic Worker Movement</a>.<br />
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A decade later I was immersed in the writings of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Merton">Thomas Merton</a> and <a href="http://brittonia.blogspot.com.au/2010/10/jesuit-mystic-william-johnston-passes.html">William Johnston</a>.<br />
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In reading of Thomas Merton as he sought to find a way to give expression to his God-given vocation, I recall coming across the story of Merton's friendship with Dorothy Day. One night, in need of a bed, he put up at Dorothy Day's place. However, Merton drew the short straw. He had to sleep in Dorothy Day's bath tub because the only spare sleeping pace was occupied by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Doherty">Catherine De Hueck Doherty</a>.<br />
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The story of Sue Gordon Woods is quite remarkable. She flew to Canada and met Catherine Doherty and experienced her spirituality at Madonna House. This part of her story impresses me. There was, it would seem, a clear sense of direction in the life of Sue at a young age. Sue's story can be read in the <a href="http://www.jmm.org.au/articles/2170.htm">Waterhole of Hope</a>. Here is the story of The House of Prayer - a community that was established in the old orphanage. At The House of Prayer, the community built a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poustinia">poustinia</a> in the garden.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif4Upp6DYayWqcqIdhHew1AnTOVrDMaUlyUHmsJQ3TORo7PvvUaYeAqsnyRtCUmr2yJOqpj4gR29QrvJcBVvEDXBYh1pEwHN0_lu_Uzk7of9fjL97Z1nBDQLc49SLZ-aKTBumApoxbvAIp/s1600/Waterhole+of+hope.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif4Upp6DYayWqcqIdhHew1AnTOVrDMaUlyUHmsJQ3TORo7PvvUaYeAqsnyRtCUmr2yJOqpj4gR29QrvJcBVvEDXBYh1pEwHN0_lu_Uzk7of9fjL97Z1nBDQLc49SLZ-aKTBumApoxbvAIp/s1600/Waterhole+of+hope.jpg" height="200" width="127" /></a>Fast forward from my Goulburn trip to 2009 and I am living in Melbourne. I am a Quaker as well as an Anglican. Many Quakers in Australia had longed for a study centre such as <a href="http://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/">Woodbrooke</a> in Britain and <a href="http://www.pendlehill.org/">Pendle Hill</a> in the USA. Eventually, the centre became a reality at <a href="http://silverwattle.org.au/">Silver Wattle</a>, near Bungendore in NSW which is only 45 minutes from the national capital, Canberra. <br />
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Silver Wattle is the result of much dedication, hard work, and sacrifice from a small number of Friends. I was the first cook at Silver Wattle. The property belonged to the Catholic Church and had been inhabited by members of the House of Prayer community who were formerly at Goulburn. <i>Waterhole of Hope</i> describes the difficulties that came upon the House of Prayer communities in later times at Goulburn. The move to the property at Silver Wattle was planned as a transition as members of the community 'transitioned' from what once was. As Quakers moved in, there were still members of the community residing at Silver Wattle.<br />
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<b>March 14 & 15 2014</b><br />
St. Paul's Bakery Hill<br />
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"Pray always and never lose heart" Luke 18:1<br />
"We don't go to prayer to get something from God; we go to prayer to be like God." <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cassian">Cassian</a><br />
"God is home, it's we who have gone for a walk." <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meister_Eckhart">Meister Eckhart</a></div>
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Sheila Upjohn is the author of <i>In Search of Julian of Norwich</i>, <i>All
Shall Be Well</i> and <i>Why Julian Now?</i> She also translated the extracts from
Julian's book for the best-selling anthologies <i>Enfolded In Love</i> and <i>In
Love Enclosed</i>. Like Julian, Sheila Upjohn is a Norwich woman, and for
most of her life has lived in the city where Julian wrote her book. She
now lives in Australia and is delighted to share with us her knowledge
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<b>5.30pm: Gathering, Introduction & Opening </b><br />
<i>The Very Revd. <a href="http://www.thecourier.com.au/story/2074787/new-dean-installed-at-christ-church-cathedral/">Chris Chataway</a></i><br />
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<b>6.00pm: Life of Prayer and Praying with the Saints</b><br />
<i>Sheila Upjohn</i><br />
This presentation provides an introduction to the weekend.<br />
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Participants
will be invited to reflect on their understanding of prayer, their own
life of prayer and the place it has in their lives. Prayer is
foundational to spiritual life and growth and at the same time it is
very personal. Each one of us needs to discover the forms of prayer
which are most helpful and to be faithful to a discipline of prayer. Our
preferred ways of praying will change during our life and the weekend
offers an opportunity for participants to explore new ways of praying
and to learn from holy men and women like Blessed Julian of Norwich. Her
messages of God's unqualified love for us are as true and needed today
as they were when she wrote them in the middle of the 14th century.</div>
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<b>7.15: Pizza & Drinks</b><br />
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<b>7.45pm - 8.30pm <a href="http://www.taize.fr/en_article5806.html">Taize Prayer </a></b><br />
<i>Fr. <a href="http://www.thecourier.com.au/story/1389274/day-of-renewal-for-regions-anglican-priests-at-annual-chrism-mass/">Constantine Osuchukwu</a> & Rev. <a href="http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Kate-Tierney/1185384970">Catherine Tierney</a></i><br />
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Taize
prayer is a contemplative style of prayer based on music and silence.
Created by the Taize community in France it has been found to be a very
attractive form of prayer for young people all over the world.</div>
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<b>10.00am: Arrival and Morning Tea</b><br />
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<b>10.30am - 11.30am: Julian of Norwich </b><br />
<i>Sheila Upjohn</i><br />
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<b>11.30am - 12.10: Prayer workshops </b><br />
Participants will be able to choose one of three workshops.<br />
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<b>Workshop 1: Praying with Scriptures</b><br />
<i>Rev'd Dr. <a href="http://www.araratadvertiser.com.au/story/1975291/ararats-new-anglican-priest-looks-to-the-future/">Tim Gaden</a></i><br />
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The traditional form of prayer known as
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lectio_Divina">Lectio Divina</a> helps people to engage with the living word of Scripture.
It allows the person the opportunity to hear this word three times in
the voice of different people. The first time allows a person to water
the earth of their lives, the second time allows that water to sink deep
into the earth, and the third time recognises the small shoots that
start to push up through the earth seeking light. This method of prayer
allows a word or phrase to stay with you each day in a way which allows
you to recognise how God is working in your life.</div>
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<b>Workshop 2: <a href="http://crsboston.org/eng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=89&Itemid=104">Charismatic Prayer</a></b><br />
<i>Rev. <a href="http://www.mailtimes.com.au/story/1969442/stawell-reverend-anne-mckenna-the-wimmeras-first-female-priest/">Anne McKenna</a></i><br />
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"With gratitude in your hearts sing psalms and hymns and inspired songs to God" (Col 3:17).</div>
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Prayer is also about praise and joyful
expression of our love for God. Rev. Anne will help us explore
Charismatic prayer and its relevance for us today.<br />
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<b>Workshop 3: Introduction to Christian Meditation</b><br />
<b> </b><i>Fr. <a href="http://www.christianmeditationaustralia.org/">Cliff Cheong</a></i></div>
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"Be still and know that I am God" (Ps 46:10)<br />
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<b>12.15pm - 1.00pm: Holy Eucharist</b><br />
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<b>1.10pm - 1.35pm: Lunch</b><br />
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<b>1.45pm - 2.15pm: Prayer workshops </b><br />
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<b>Workshop 1: <a href="https://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/practices/single_practice.php?id=17837">Praying with Icons</a></b><br />
<i>Rev. <a href="http://www.thecourier.com.au/story/1848978/robyn-shackell-has-waited-25-years-to-become-a-priest/">Robyn Schakell</a></i><br />
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Icons
are written (written, not painted, because they are the Word of God)
using traditional shapes and colours which help elucidate the
theological mystery presented in the image and also help the viewer to
be in a state conducive to prayer.</div>
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<b>Workshop 2: <a href="http://christianity.about.com/od/prayersverses/a/Healing-Prayer.htm">Healing through Prayer </a></b><br />
<i>Fr. <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=238035156&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=8aE9&locale=en_US&srchid=575996151394461530782&srchindex=9&srchtotal=10&trk=vsrp_people_res_name&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A575996151394461530782%2CVSRPtargetId%3A238035156%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary">George Parker</a></i><br />
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For
many years Fr George has witnessed to the healing power of Jesus Christ
through the celebration of the Healing Mass. He will share his
experiences with us and teach us more about faith in the healing power
of the Sacraments and the power of God's healing touch to bring
physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wholeness.</div>
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<b>Workshop 3: Spiritual Direction/Accompaniment</b><br />
<i>Fr. <a href="http://www.colacherald.com.au/2012/01/anglican-church-has-a-new-priest/">Graham Snell</a></i><br />
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An
introduction to the practice of spiritual accompaniment and direction,
its brief history and a look at how it can help us deepen our inner
lives and grow in our spiritual journey.</div>
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<b>2.20pm - 2.45pm: Time to write one's own prayer </b><br />
Followed by Feedback and Closing Prayer</div>
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spacb@bigpond.com<br />
03 5332 6479</div>
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<b>Cost:</b><br />
If you would like to share the costs of running this weekend we suggest:<br />
<b>$10 waged, $5 unwaged</b><br />
but if you can't share the costs,<br />
<i><b>please feel very welcome to come for free.</b></i></div>
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In all my years, one this does not change.<br />
However you disguise it, this thing does not change:<br />
The perpetual struggle of Good and Evil.<br />
Second, you neglect and belittle the desert.<br />
The desert is not remote in the southern tropics.<br />
The desert is not only around the corner,<br />
The desert is squeezed in the tube-train next to you.<br />
The desert is in the heart of your brother.<br />
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The last temptation is the greatest treason, to do the right thing for the wrong reason.<br />
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In this first week of Lent, we are called to go into the desert within and face the perennial struggle between good and evil; light and darkeness; etc. To paraphrase T.S. Eliot - 'The desert is in our hearts'.</div>
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<li>We will always be tempted as Jesus was tempted. He was tempted to abandon his chosen mission, to be powerful, and to rely not on God but on his status. But Jesus said not to disobedience, pleasure, power and possession; and yes to love of God and service to others. In an increasingly secular and materialistic world, we are often tempted to think that we don't need God. Let us re-affirm our need for God to-day and turn to him in all we do and say.</li>
<li>Our temptations may be different, but the reality is the same. Allures other than the Christian way will prove seductive. And sometimes our desires lead us into temptation. What should we do?</li>
<li>What are some of the temptations we often face? How do we respond to them? Do we choose God over pleasure, power and possessions? Is God our greatest good? Can we ask for the grace and strength to be faithful to God to-day, each day, every day?</li>
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Let us look into our hears this week and pray for the grace to face up to the perennial struggle between good and evil. Let us pray for the courage to stand firm like Jesus during times of temptation so that we can choose God over pleasure, power and possessions. On our own we can do nothing. Enabled by God's grace we shall do bravely. <br />
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