From lukefullagar at hotmail.com Tue Dec 2 02:42:37 2008 From: lukefullagar at hotmail.com (Luke Fullagar) Date: Tue Dec 2 02:42:49 2008 Subject: [st u's community] [st uriel's] In-Reply-To: References: <35565cab0811172329hf06f3d5y9bf5dfe5d15e9200@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Cheers for that JT. I've been learning about Christopher McCandless the last week after watching Into The Wild. He's been a spiritual inspiration for me (and especially resonates with my background - law school fostering a premature obsession with the good and true leading to a ascetic bursting into the beautiful). If you haven't seen the movie or read the book, I implore you to join me and get amongst it... These lyrics from Eddie Vedder's soundtrack have kissed me sweetly (the first being the heavy hitter for this community): http://thepresentparticiple.blogspot.com/2008/11/long-nights.html http://thepresentparticiple.blogspot.com/2008/11/society-eddie-vedder.htmlhttp://thepresentparticiple.blogspot.com/2008/11/guaranteed-for-christopher-mccandless.html There's also some wonderful quotes he pulls out of literature along the way, like this crystalline offering from Tolstoy: "I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one?s neighbor ? such is my idea of happiness. And then, on the top of all that, you for a mate, and children perhaps ? what more can the heart of man desire?" Made me think of you Jamie. ... well, you, and myself just a little ;-) With love my friends, L. Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:44:57 +1100From: jamie.edwin.thomas@gmail.comTo: community@saint-uriels.orgSubject: Re: [st u's community] [st uriel's] On the Soul Hi all I was chatting to a friend about the service and our discussions about the Soul and its relationship to the divine. My friend in question is a big fan of Rudolph Steiner, and in response to our discussion she sent me an excerpt from Steiner's book Steiner's book, "Christianity As Mystical Fact". "The soul is the mother who is able to conceive the god by nature.If the soul allows herself to be impregnated by nature, she will give birth to the divine. God is born from the marriage of the soul with nature, - no longer a "hidden", but a manifest God. He has life, a perceptible life, wandering amongst men." Now if you replace Nature with Logos we have a fit. Through the nurturing properties of the inward Soul and its marriage to the Logos, our Soul becomes a conduit for Spirit and the we are able to give birth to our "God like" or higher self. This rebirth occurring from the inside out. I wish I was with you all for this weeks episode. "The Hymn of the Pearl" is such a wonderful myth/analogy of remembering and homecoming. I'll give it a read on Sunday night and think of you all. Blessings to you Jamie On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Fr Tim Mansfield wrote: On Sunday a half-dozen of us gathered at the Unitarian Centre to talk about the Soul led by the beautiful, troubling Gnostic text "The Exegesis on the Soul".http://www.piney.com/GnosExegesisSoul.htmlThe text uses the allegory of a woman who leaves her family to go into the world and becomes beguiled by wily men who take her to their beds, promising her love, fidelity and riches but leaving her penniless, forlorn and alone. She is taken in again and again and always left abandoned.Finally she cries out to her father for aid and undergoes a transformation, turning in on herself she enters the peace of her bed chamber and tingling with expectation begins to await, not yet another lover, but her Bridegroom. He eventually arrives and they are united, become one and return to the house of the father.My fairytale summary leaves out a great deal of bizarre detail which I'll leave you to discover yourself when you read the text.The story is old, it's taught in Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities and it points, I think, to a simple aspect of our experience.Before we begin to set our feet upon the path, many of us find it hard to even notice what is referred to in this story as the Soul. Our attention and awareness is so drawn by the phenomena of the material world, by other people, by television and relationships, McDonald's and birdsong that it's hard to even be aware that there's an interior experience to be attending to. It took me a long time to begin to really notice my interior, my judgements, my meaning-making, my thoughts, my feelings and to tease out those interior experiences from what and who I was looking at and hearing.At some point, for some reason, some of us resolve to make a change, to change how we're thinking and experiencing our lives. The traditional term for this is "metanoia" - to transform the mind, a word that gets translated as "repentance". The first step is to turn the attention inward and to start noticing our Soul."Soul" means many things for different people, but in the terms of the text we can take it to mean the aggregate of those interior experiences - feelings, thoughts, judgements, intentions and so on. In modern terms, perhaps we could use the shorthand that the Ego is the confused Soul, unaware of herself and turned outward.As we begin to attend to all that interior activity, a spaciousness can start to open around the Soul and an older, wiser aspect begins to be evident. My Spirit - that wider, wiser me-but-not-me - takes my Soul by her hand and leads her to the bridal chamber and to Union, rendering whole that which has been broken.Our Tradition suggests that our Spirit is ever-present with us, acting as our connection to the majestic grace and love we crave. I am so often so caught in my Ego's bluff and bluster, his pretended certainty that he can make it on his own, that he needs no help, that opening myself to anything else seems foolish and impossible.The Exegesis suggests that when we truly realise how badly we have been used and how "penniless" we are and simply cry out for help - for Mercy - then the bedchamber of our heart opens to admit the Bridegroom. It's a beautiful story and so clearly mirrored in so many personal experiences I've heard.Next week we meet to share the Divine Liturgy of the Eucharist in order to give thanks for the lives of All Gnostic Saints - all those blessed teachers who have gone before us and shared their sight with us.I hope you can join us.Divine Liturgy6pm Sunday 23 NovUnitarian Centre15 Francis StDarlinghurstFather Tim+http://www.saint-uriels.org_______________________________________________announce mailing listannounce@saint-uriels.orghttp://laika.gnusto.com/mailman/listinfo/announce_______________________________________________community mailing listcommunity@saint-uriels.orghttp://laika.gnusto.com/mailman/listinfo/community-- Jamie Thomas Authorised Representative Financial WisdomPO Box 8 181 Ballina Road, LismoreN.S.W.2480phone: (02)66213096 fax: (02)66221330email: jamie.edwin.thomas@gmail.com _________________________________________________________________ Messenger's gift to you! Download free emoticons today! http://livelife.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=669758 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://laika.gnusto.com/pipermail/community/attachments/20081202/14463364/attachment.htm From nowlandtr at gmail.com Tue Dec 2 07:42:00 2008 From: nowlandtr at gmail.com (Trisha Nowland) Date: Tue Dec 2 07:42:12 2008 Subject: [st u's community] The Soul in The Hymn Of The Pearl Message-ID: Blessings at Advent to all, Last Sunday we had the second of our reading group meetings dedicated to exploring the soul. This time we sampled a hero's journey in 'The Hymn of the Pearl'. The Hymn comes from the Acts of Thomas (ch 108-113). In the poem we see the hero(or 'soul') as a young child living with his Father in Parthia, from whence as an adult he is sent, leaving behind his glorious robe 'which in their love they had wrought me'. He is given a load of precious stones and instructions to fetch home the Pearl, which is guarded by a drakon, or serpent in the sea, in Egypt. Upon arriving in Egypt, he clothes himself in the somewhat grungy dress of the Egyptians, partakes of their heavy and intoxicating victuals, falls into a deep sleep, and consequently forgets about his mission. A letter is sent to him from home, on the wings of an eagle, which he both hears and reads, reminding him of his task. He successfully charms the serpent that guards the pearl, and returns with the pearl to his father, receiving, in return, the robe 'of his real nature'. Different versions of this same story come to us in the parable of the Prodigal Son in the Bible, Joseph and the Technicolour Dreamcoat in the story of Genesis, and in several other places: Version of this parable is in the Gospel of Thomas (1:76): "The Kingdom of the Father is like the man, a merchant, who possessed merchandise and discovered a pearl. The merchant was prudent. He sold the merchandise and bought 'the one pearl' for himself. Version of this parable from Syrian mystic Makarios: The man receives again the garment of glory that he had lost when the soul fell from it's height and became the slave of the true Pharaoh. Scripture is a letter written by a King, and the Christians are sons whom a father sent to foreign countries with drugs to soothe the dragons that attack them. Version of this parable in Gospel of Phillip (12): 'One single Name they do not utter in the world, the single Name which the Father gave to the Son, which is above all things, which is the Name of the Father. For the son would not become the Father except he clothe himself with the name of the Father. Version of this parable from the Odes of Solomon (39:8): Put on, therefore, the Name of the Most High and know Him, And you shall cross without danger, While the rivers shall be subject to you. Version of this parable from the Old Testament (Judges 6:34): The Spirit of God 'invests' man, so that he is clad with the Spirit. Version of this parable in a Samaritan Moses hymn: Mighty is the great prophet who clad himself in the name of the Godhead. So the soul, born in heavenly paradise, must be reminded of it's task in the body, so it can return to paradise and receive the original garment of Spirit. There is a split in this hymn, but it is not between the forces of good and evil, it is the split between fallen Man incarnate and his remembrance of his divinity. Gnosticism itself seems to me to be in many ways structured around the phenomenological remembrance of 'what we are, where we come from and whither we go'. Our sense of soul then includes both an inner awareness of the light of the absolute pearl of Spirit that we already always are, and also the relative inner engagement with the colourful 'gems' of the different personas and characters that we fleetingly robe ourselves in as we make our way through the everyday world. Collecting sparks, or dare I say pearls, of wisdom on the way. It was an inordinate amount of fun on Sunday, and I'm looking forward to seeing all who can come along this week for our first peek at Fr. Jordan Stratford's+ 'Living Gnosticism'. Peace be with you, Trish -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://laika.gnusto.com/pipermail/community/attachments/20081203/c0badeb6/attachment-0001.htm From jamie.edwin.thomas at gmail.com Tue Dec 2 19:46:04 2008 From: jamie.edwin.thomas at gmail.com (Jamie Thomas) Date: Tue Dec 2 19:46:09 2008 Subject: [st u's community] [st uriel's] In-Reply-To: References: <35565cab0811172329hf06f3d5y9bf5dfe5d15e9200@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Luke I love an e-mail that can hold a Quote by Eddie Vedder and Tolstoy without skipping a breath. Jamie On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Luke Fullagar wrote: > > Cheers for that JT. > > I've been learning about Christopher McCandless the last week after > watching Into The Wild. He's been a spiritual inspiration for me (and > especially resonates with my background - law school fostering a premature > obsession with the good and true leading to a ascetic bursting into the > beautiful). If you haven't seen the movie or read the book, I implore you > to join me and get amongst it... > > These lyrics from Eddie Vedder's soundtrack have kissed me sweetly (the > first being the heavy hitter for this community): > > http://thepresentparticiple.blogspot.com/2008/11/long-nights.html > http://thepresentparticiple.blogspot.com/2008/11/society-eddie-vedder.html > > http://thepresentparticiple.blogspot.com/2008/11/guaranteed-for-christopher-mccandless.html > > There's also some wonderful quotes he pulls out of literature along the > way, like this crystalline offering from Tolstoy: > > *"I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed > for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of > being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not > accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some > use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor ? such is my > idea of happiness. And then, on the top of all that, you for a mate, and > children perhaps ? what more can the heart of man desire?"* > > Made me think of you Jamie. ... well, you, and myself just a little ;-) > > With love my friends, > > L. > > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:44:57 +1100 > From: jamie.edwin.thomas@gmail.com > To: community@saint-uriels.org > Subject: Re: [st u's community] [st uriel's] On the Soul > > > > Hi all > > I was chatting to a friend about the service and our discussions about the > Soul and its relationship to the divine. > My friend in question is a big fan of Rudolph Steiner, and in response to > our discussion she sent me an excerpt from Steiner's book Steiner's book, > "Christianity As Mystical Fact". > > > "The soul is the mother who is able to conceive the god by nature.If the > soul allows herself to be impregnated by nature, she will give birth to the > divine. God is born from the marriage of the soul with nature, - no longer a > "hidden", but a manifest God. He has life, a perceptible life, wandering > amongst men." > > Now if you replace Nature with Logos we have a fit. > > Through the nurturing properties of the inward Soul and its marriage to > the Logos, our Soul becomes a conduit for Spirit and the we are able to give > birth to our "God like" or higher self. This rebirth occurring from the > inside out. > > I wish I was with you all for this weeks episode. > > "The Hymn of the Pearl" is such a wonderful myth/analogy of remembering and > homecoming. > > I'll give it a read on Sunday night and think of you all. > > Blessings to you > > Jamie > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Fr Tim Mansfield wrote: > > On Sunday a half-dozen of us gathered at the Unitarian Centre to talk about > the Soul led by the beautiful, troubling Gnostic text "The Exegesis on the > Soul". > > http://www.piney.com/GnosExegesisSoul.html > > The text uses the allegory of a woman who leaves her family to go into the > world and becomes beguiled by wily men who take her to their beds, promising > her love, fidelity and riches but leaving her penniless, forlorn and alone. > She is taken in again and again and always left abandoned. > > Finally she cries out to her father for aid and undergoes a transformation, > turning in on herself she enters the peace of her bed chamber and tingling > with expectation begins to await, not yet another lover, but her Bridegroom. > He eventually arrives and they are united, become one and return to the > house of the father. > > My fairytale summary leaves out a great deal of bizarre detail which I'll > leave you to discover yourself when you read the text. > > The story is old, it's taught in Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities > and it points, I think, to a simple aspect of our experience. > > Before we begin to set our feet upon the path, many of us find it hard to > even notice what is referred to in this story as the Soul. Our attention and > awareness is so drawn by the phenomena of the material world, by other > people, by television and relationships, McDonald's and birdsong that it's > hard to even be aware that there's an interior experience to be attending > to. > > It took me a long time to begin to really notice my interior, my > judgements, my meaning-making, my thoughts, my feelings and to tease out > those interior experiences from what and who I was looking at and hearing. > > At some point, for some reason, some of us resolve to make a change, to > change how we're thinking and experiencing our lives. The traditional term > for this is "metanoia" - to transform the mind, a word that gets translated > as "repentance". The first step is to turn the attention inward and to start > noticing our Soul. > > "Soul" means many things for different people, but in the terms of the text > we can take it to mean the aggregate of those interior experiences - > feelings, thoughts, judgements, intentions and so on. In modern terms, > perhaps we could use the shorthand that the Ego is the confused Soul, > unaware of herself and turned outward. > > As we begin to attend to all that interior activity, a spaciousness can > start to open around the Soul and an older, wiser aspect begins to be > evident. My Spirit - that wider, wiser me-but-not-me - takes my Soul by her > hand and leads her to the bridal chamber and to Union, rendering whole that > which has been broken. > > Our Tradition suggests that our Spirit is ever-present with us, acting as > our connection to the majestic grace and love we crave. I am so often so > caught in my Ego's bluff and bluster, his pretended certainty that he can > make it on his own, that he needs no help, that opening myself to anything > else seems foolish and impossible. > > The Exegesis suggests that when we truly realise how badly we have been > used and how "penniless" we are and simply cry out for help - for Mercy - > then the bedchamber of our heart opens to admit the Bridegroom. It's a > beautiful story and so clearly mirrored in so many personal experiences I've > heard. > > Next week we meet to share the Divine Liturgy of the Eucharist in order to > give thanks for the lives of All Gnostic Saints - all those blessed teachers > who have gone before us and shared their sight with us. > > I hope you can join us. > > Divine Liturgy > 6pm Sunday 23 Nov > Unitarian Centre > 15 Francis St > Darlinghurst > > Father Tim+ > http://www.saint-uriels.org > > > _______________________________________________ > announce mailing list > announce@saint-uriels.org > http://laika.gnusto.com/mailman/listinfo/announce > > _______________________________________________ > community mailing list > community@saint-uriels.org > http://laika.gnusto.com/mailman/listinfo/community > > > > > > ------------------------------ > Download free Holiday emoticons today! 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I had intended to make this a Christmas celebration, which in our church calendar is a time to celebrate the incarnation of the divine light in human form. It's also a time to remember St John the Beloved, one of the founders of our lineage. It would be a great night to bring along curious friends or family. I wondered who is likely to be in town that evening and able to come. I also wondered if it would be good to organise either a potluck dinner for after church or to book a restaurant somewhere. I'm a fan of sharing food we make ourselves, but I'm conscious that enthusiasm might be mine alone :) Karyn has also asked if it might be possible to have the service on 24 or 26 Dec instead. I'm hoping to go be with my family in Queensland on either the 24th or 25th for a few days, but the 24th might be possible for me. Would Christmas Eve, the 24th, be a better date for you? Would you be in town and available? If you can get me a response soon, I can organise a plan and start sending out announcements. Yours Before The Sacred Flame, Reverend Father Tim Mansfield Rector, Parish of Saint Uriel the Archangel , Sydney, Australia Apostolic Johannite Church -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://laika.gnusto.com/pipermail/community/attachments/20081208/a24689fc/attachment.htm From lunetta777 at bigpond.com Sun Dec 7 20:23:02 2008 From: lunetta777 at bigpond.com (lunetta777@bigpond.com) Date: Sun Dec 7 20:23:14 2008 Subject: [st u's community] Christmas service etc Message-ID: <380-2200812182232470@M2W015.mail2web.com> Hmm, I am on holidays from the end of this week until the 29th December so I guess 21st or the 24th would be fine, they each have their pros and cons. I don't have any plans, but my mother in Ipswich might be on her own for Christmas, so I might be using my bonus to fly up there and be with her, which would mean the 24th NIGHT would be out for me. The 21st would be busy for me, but with the normal evening timeslot would be definitely do-able and allows more flexibility for getting places for xmas day. Sorry for the stream of consciousness style of communication, I hope that gets across the necessary information :P Lynette Original Message: ----------------- From: Fr Tim Mansfield tim@saint-uriels.org Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 12:44:42 +1100 To: community@saint-uriels.org Subject: [st u's community] Christmas service etc Hi Folks, The calendar I sketched up has a Eucharist service scheduled for Sun 21 Dec in our usual timeslot on a Sunday. I had intended to make this a Christmas celebration, which in our church calendar is a time to celebrate the incarnation of the divine light in human form. It's also a time to remember St John the Beloved, one of the founders of our lineage. It would be a great night to bring along curious friends or family. I wondered who is likely to be in town that evening and able to come. I also wondered if it would be good to organise either a potluck dinner for after church or to book a restaurant somewhere. I'm a fan of sharing food we make ourselves, but I'm conscious that enthusiasm might be mine alone :) Karyn has also asked if it might be possible to have the service on 24 or 26 Dec instead. I'm hoping to go be with my family in Queensland on either the 24th or 25th for a few days, but the 24th might be possible for me. Would Christmas Eve, the 24th, be a better date for you? Would you be in town and available? If you can get me a response soon, I can organise a plan and start sending out announcements. Yours Before The Sacred Flame, Reverend Father Tim Mansfield Rector, Parish of Saint Uriel the Archangel , Sydney, Australia Apostolic Johannite Church -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://link.mail2web.com/mail2web From sass.e.nicholson at gmail.com Sun Dec 7 20:27:30 2008 From: sass.e.nicholson at gmail.com (sarah nicholson) Date: Sun Dec 7 20:27:33 2008 Subject: [st u's community] Christmas service etc In-Reply-To: <380-2200812182232470@M2W015.mail2web.com> References: <380-2200812182232470@M2W015.mail2web.com> Message-ID: <796e6f1d0812071827hfefcf4aube0b18a86f38c76f@mail.gmail.com> Hi I don't think the 24th is doable for me. I had the 21st in my diary and was hoping to come s x On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:23 PM, lunetta777@bigpond.com < lunetta777@bigpond.com> wrote: > Hmm, I am on holidays from the end of this week until the 29th December so > I guess 21st or the 24th would be fine, they each have their pros and cons. > I don't have any plans, but my mother in Ipswich might be on her own for > Christmas, so I might be using my bonus to fly up there and be with her, > which would mean the 24th NIGHT would be out for me. The 21st would be busy > for me, but with the normal evening timeslot would be definitely do-able > and allows more flexibility for getting places for xmas day. > > Sorry for the stream of consciousness style of communication, I hope that > gets across the necessary information :P > > Lynette > > Original Message: > ----------------- > From: Fr Tim Mansfield tim@saint-uriels.org > Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 12:44:42 +1100 > To: community@saint-uriels.org > Subject: [st u's community] Christmas service etc > > > Hi Folks, > > The calendar I sketched up has a Eucharist service scheduled for Sun 21 Dec > in our usual timeslot on a Sunday. I had intended to make this a Christmas > celebration, which in our church calendar is a time to celebrate the > incarnation of the divine light in human form. It's also a time to remember > St John the Beloved, one of the founders of our lineage. It would be a > great > night to bring along curious friends or family. > > I wondered who is likely to be in town that evening and able to come. > > I also wondered if it would be good to organise either a potluck dinner for > after church or to book a restaurant somewhere. I'm a fan of sharing food > we > make ourselves, but I'm conscious that enthusiasm might be mine alone :) > > Karyn has also asked if it might be possible to have the service on 24 or > 26 > Dec instead. I'm hoping to go be with my family in Queensland on either the > 24th or 25th for a few days, but the 24th might be possible for me. > > Would Christmas Eve, the 24th, be a better date for you? Would you be in > town and available? > > If you can get me a response soon, I can organise a plan and start sending > out announcements. > > Yours Before The Sacred Flame, > > Reverend Father Tim Mansfield > Rector, Parish of Saint Uriel the Archangel , > Sydney, Australia > Apostolic Johannite Church > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web - Check your email from the web at > http://link.mail2web.com/mail2web > > > > _______________________________________________ > community mailing list > community@saint-uriels.org > http://laika.gnusto.com/mailman/listinfo/community > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://laika.gnusto.com/pipermail/community/attachments/20081208/6d80d230/attachment.htm From karyn.krawford at gmail.com Mon Dec 8 03:03:26 2008 From: karyn.krawford at gmail.com (karyn krawford) Date: Mon Dec 8 03:03:31 2008 Subject: [st u's community] Christmas service etc In-Reply-To: <35565cab0812071744n33279fa1n8ff21b402edae1d@mail.gmail.com> References: <35565cab0812071744n33279fa1n8ff21b402edae1d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Hi Tim, I will be there for the 23rd and about 90% I can make it on the 21st as I have a big outing during the day. Thank you for asking us all and being flexible. regards, Karyn On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Fr Tim Mansfield wrote: > Hi Folks, > > The calendar I sketched up has a Eucharist service scheduled for Sun 21 Dec > in our usual timeslot on a Sunday. I had intended to make this a Christmas > celebration, which in our church calendar is a time to celebrate the > incarnation of the divine light in human form. It's also a time to remember > St John the Beloved, one of the founders of our lineage. It would be a great > night to bring along curious friends or family. > > I wondered who is likely to be in town that evening and able to come. > > I also wondered if it would be good to organise either a potluck dinner for > after church or to book a restaurant somewhere. I'm a fan of sharing food we > make ourselves, but I'm conscious that enthusiasm might be mine alone :) > > Karyn has also asked if it might be possible to have the service on 24 or 26 > Dec instead. I'm hoping to go be with my family in Queensland on either the > 24th or 25th for a few days, but the 24th might be possible for me. > > Would Christmas Eve, the 24th, be a better date for you? Would you be in > town and available? > > If you can get me a response soon, I can organise a plan and start sending > out announcements. > > Yours Before The Sacred Flame, > > Reverend Father Tim Mansfield > Rector, Parish of Saint Uriel the Archangel, Sydney, Australia > Apostolic Johannite Church > > _______________________________________________ > community mailing list > community@saint-uriels.org > http://laika.gnusto.com/mailman/listinfo/community > > From lukefullagar at hotmail.com Mon Dec 8 04:53:07 2008 From: lukefullagar at hotmail.com (Luke Fullagar) Date: Mon Dec 8 04:53:17 2008 Subject: [st u's community] Christmas service etc In-Reply-To: References: <35565cab0812071744n33279fa1n8ff21b402edae1d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Dudes, I'm a 21st definite for Church and feasting. I won't be here on the 24th unfort. Looking forward to it. L. > Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 20:03:26 +1100> From: karyn.krawford@gmail.com> To: community@saint-uriels.org> Subject: Re: [st u's community] Christmas service etc> > Hi Tim,> > I will be there for the 23rd and about 90% I can make it on the 21st> as I have a big outing during the day.> > Thank you for asking us all and being flexible.> > regards,> Karyn> > > > On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Fr Tim Mansfield wrote:> > Hi Folks,> >> > The calendar I sketched up has a Eucharist service scheduled for Sun 21 Dec> > in our usual timeslot on a Sunday. I had intended to make this a Christmas> > celebration, which in our church calendar is a time to celebrate the> > incarnation of the divine light in human form. It's also a time to remember> > St John the Beloved, one of the founders of our lineage. It would be a great> > night to bring along curious friends or family.> >> > I wondered who is likely to be in town that evening and able to come.> >> > I also wondered if it would be good to organise either a potluck dinner for> > after church or to book a restaurant somewhere. I'm a fan of sharing food we> > make ourselves, but I'm conscious that enthusiasm might be mine alone :)> >> > Karyn has also asked if it might be possible to have the service on 24 or 26> > Dec instead. I'm hoping to go be with my family in Queensland on either the> > 24th or 25th for a few days, but the 24th might be possible for me.> >> > Would Christmas Eve, the 24th, be a better date for you? Would you be in> > town and available?> >> > If you can get me a response soon, I can organise a plan and start sending> > out announcements.> >> > Yours Before The Sacred Flame,> >> > Reverend Father Tim Mansfield> > Rector, Parish of Saint Uriel the Archangel, Sydney, Australia> > Apostolic Johannite Church> >> > _______________________________________________> > community mailing list> > community@saint-uriels.org> > http://laika.gnusto.com/mailman/listinfo/community> >> >> _______________________________________________> community mailing list> community@saint-uriels.org> http://laika.gnusto.com/mailman/listinfo/community _________________________________________________________________ It's simple! Sell your car for just $40 at CarPoint.com.au http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fsecure%2Dau%2Eimrworldwide%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fa%2Fci%5F450304%2Fet%5F2%2Fcg%5F801459%2Fpi%5F1004813%2Fai%5F859641&_t=762955845&_r=tig_OCT07&_m=EXT -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://laika.gnusto.com/pipermail/community/attachments/20081208/61c031a5/attachment-0001.htm From nowlandtr at gmail.com Tue Dec 9 07:46:44 2008 From: nowlandtr at gmail.com (Trisha Nowland) Date: Tue Dec 9 07:47:00 2008 Subject: [st u's community] Christmas service etc In-Reply-To: References: <35565cab0812071744n33279fa1n8ff21b402edae1d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: It will be the lesser sabbat of Litha, the summer soltice, at 10:04PM on December 21st. The night when the Goddess becomes the Great Mother and gives birth to the new light, though in the southern hemisphere the light, and the celebrations, get all kind of...reversed. While I think fire restrictions might prohibit the lighting of a Yule log to burn for 12 hours and/or the building of a bonfire to dance over in celebration, (although we could have those lovely muscly firemen & women visit the Unitarian church again....hmm), dinner after worship sounds like a great idea, thanks Father Tim+, Blessings, Trish -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://laika.gnusto.com/pipermail/community/attachments/20081210/a717e1e4/attachment.htm From isdrummond at gmail.com Tue Dec 9 13:04:52 2008 From: isdrummond at gmail.com (Ian Drummond) Date: Tue Dec 9 13:05:00 2008 Subject: [st u's community] Christmas service etc In-Reply-To: References: <35565cab0812071744n33279fa1n8ff21b402edae1d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <3ac2e6990812091104v77c6bbd4xa9b110c694326212@mail.gmail.com> This all sounds great, though I won't be able to make it. I'll be celebrating the Solstice in Central Queensland after flying up on 20 Dec. All the best of the Season: Sol Invictus! Ian 2008/12/10 Trisha Nowland : > It will be the lesser sabbat of Litha, the summer soltice, at 10:04PM on > December 21st. The night when the Goddess becomes the Great Mother and gives > birth to the new light, though in the southern hemisphere the light, and the > celebrations, get all kind of...reversed. > > While I think fire restrictions might prohibit the lighting of a Yule log to > burn for 12 hours and/or the building of a bonfire to dance over in > celebration, > > (although we could have those lovely muscly firemen & women visit the > Unitarian church again....hmm), > > dinner after worship sounds like a great idea, thanks Father Tim+, > > Blessings, > Trish > > > > _______________________________________________ > community mailing list > community@saint-uriels.org > http://laika.gnusto.com/mailman/listinfo/community > > From father.mansfield at johannite.org Thu Dec 11 05:44:46 2008 From: father.mansfield at johannite.org (Rev Fr Tim Mansfield) Date: Thu Dec 11 05:44:52 2008 Subject: [st u's community] [st uriel's] Living Gnosticism reading group Message-ID: <35565cab0812110344x2929a7e4mfc48e6a600ee0824@mail.gmail.com> Beloved friends, Have you ever wished you could find a spiritual path that was individually yours, in which you had control of your journey, but somehow also connected you to a community of fellow seekers? "Living Gnosticism" portrays just such a path: the gnostic's path. Last Sunday we talked over the start of the book about the basics of Gnosticism and the Four Point definition of Gnosticism. This Sunday we'll be discussing up to p26 most of which is about the history of Gnosticism from the first century to the twentieth and each of the key "outbreaks" of Gnostic movements, many of which we in the Apostolic Johannite Church count as core parts of our lineage. If you'd like to join us this Sunday, please come along to the Unitarian Centre at 6pm. We'll have a few extra copies of "Living Gnosticism" so you can take one home. Come along and see if this path might be yours. When: 6pm, Sun 14 Dec 2008 Where: Unitarian Church, 15 Francis St, Darlinghurst Reverend Father Tim Mansfield Rector, Parish of Saint Uriel the Archangel, Sydney, Australia Apostolic Johannite Church _______________________________________________ announce mailing list announce@saint-uriels.org http://laika.gnusto.com/mailman/listinfo/announce From father.mansfield at johannite.org Fri Dec 12 22:15:57 2008 From: father.mansfield at johannite.org (Rev Fr Tim Mansfield) Date: Fri Dec 12 22:16:10 2008 Subject: [st u's community] [st uriel's] Christmas Service Message-ID: <35565cab0812122015u4b153eb4j2b5aa92aaa2cfae@mail.gmail.com> Beloved friends, Next Sunday (21 Dec) will be our last Eucharist service for 2008 and an opportunity to celebrate the Incarnation of the Light, the reality of the indwelling Divine in all humanity. I've attached an invitation, feel free to pass it on to interested friends. I'd love to see you there. 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I know Ian's leaving town on 20 Dec, so he won't be there. Could everyone else let me know if you're planning to come along on Sunday for the service and/or dinner so we have an idea of numbers? Also if you're bringing anyone else along. The service will be the normal Johannite Eucharist Liturgy with readings for the Incarnation and St John's day (27 Dec). Dinner will be a mix of meat and vege dishes with rice. If you'd like to collaborate on the food, let me know. Fiona? Stevie? You guys are very welcome to come join in if you're free. Tim+ From father.mansfield at johannite.org Mon Dec 29 17:09:44 2008 From: father.mansfield at johannite.org (Rev Fr Tim Mansfield) Date: Mon Dec 29 17:09:51 2008 Subject: [st u's community] [st uriel's] Christmas Message-ID: <35565cab0812291509i20003a36i31626c9da1ae3e4b@mail.gmail.com> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ announce mailing list announce@saint-uriels.org http://laika.gnusto.com/mailman/listinfo/announce