From tim at saint-uriels.org Fri Nov 7 05:49:17 2008 From: tim at saint-uriels.org (Fr Tim Mansfield) Date: Fri Nov 7 05:49:39 2008 Subject: [st u's community] [st uriel's] St Uriel's events Nov-Dec 2008 Message-ID: <35565cab0811070349l6da69465i8e93b66a33b0082d@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 From tim at saint-uriels.org Fri Nov 7 18:57:28 2008 From: tim at saint-uriels.org (Fr Tim Mansfield) Date: Fri Nov 7 18:57:31 2008 Subject: [st u's community] Sunday meeting Message-ID: <35565cab0811071657g4239fd8bm718d3b4810c4abe@mail.gmail.com> Hi community folks, First, welcome to Ian, Sass, Lynette and Terry who I've just added to the Community list. I'm bewildered why Ian and Sass weren't already on there, but still. Welcome! I'm sorry for sending out the meeting announcement so late in the week. I guess that's likely to make it hard for people to have planned to be there tomorrow. I thought I'd drop a note to ask if anyone is planning to come along. I'm thinking the format for the evening will be something like: 6pm-6:15pm - hellos, checking in. 6:15-6:30 - centering prayer 6:30-7:45 - discussion: What aspects of Gnosticism resonate for me? 8pm-ish - finish It's flexible, we can shift the discussion if the people there want to. The whole evening will be in the hall part of the Unitarian centre, not the chapel. Please drop a note to the list if you're planning to come. Love, Tim+ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://laika.gnusto.com/pipermail/community/attachments/20081109/6583769a/attachment.htm From karyn.krawford at gmail.com Sat Nov 8 23:30:27 2008 From: karyn.krawford at gmail.com (karyn krawford) Date: Sat Nov 8 23:30:30 2008 Subject: [st u's community] Sunday meeting In-Reply-To: <49166DFF.2000002@bigpond.com> References: <35565cab0811071657g4239fd8bm718d3b4810c4abe@mail.gmail.com> <49166DFF.2000002@bigpond.com> Message-ID: Hi Tim, I would love to catch up with everyone however am coping with muscular aches by resting after a 30km mountain bike ride in the bush! Look forward to catching you all soon. Karyn On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 3:58 PM, lunetta777 wrote: > Thanks for the welcome. > > I won't be coming this evening - I've picked up a cold and I'm all snotty > and red-eyed. No-one would enjoy having me there, believe me. *I'm* not > enjoying being aorund me right now LOL > > Pity . . . > > Love to hear how it went. > > - > Lynette > > Fr Tim Mansfield wrote: > > Hi community folks, > > First, welcome to Ian, Sass, Lynette and Terry who I've just added to the > Community list. I'm bewildered why Ian and Sass weren't already on there, > but still. Welcome! > > _______________________________________________ > community mailing listcommunity@saint-uriels.orghttp://laika.gnusto.com/mailman/listinfo/community > > > -- > ******* > Lynette > > 93 > 93/93 > http://www.okulture.com > > > _______________________________________________ > community mailing list > community@saint-uriels.org > http://laika.gnusto.com/mailman/listinfo/community > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Message-ID: <35565cab0811140516m66fd46a0rb31a9d0f297811bb@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 From nowlandtr at gmail.com Fri Nov 14 07:37:08 2008 From: nowlandtr at gmail.com (Trisha Nowland) Date: Fri Nov 14 07:37:21 2008 Subject: [st u's community] [st uriel's] Narthex meeting Sunday at 6pm, 15 Francis St - "What is the soul?" In-Reply-To: <35565cab0811140516m66fd46a0rb31a9d0f297811bb@mail.gmail.com> References: <35565cab0811140516m66fd46a0rb31a9d0f297811bb@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Thanks Father Tim+, I don't know if you'd like us to respond to the list if we're planning on coming along this week, in the same manner as last week, but, um, I'll be there! Blessings, Trish -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://laika.gnusto.com/pipermail/community/attachments/20081115/42e8b66b/attachment.htm From tim at saint-uriels.org Fri Nov 14 22:03:41 2008 From: tim at saint-uriels.org (Fr Tim Mansfield) Date: Fri Nov 14 22:04:13 2008 Subject: [st u's community] Undercover Eucharist tomorrow Message-ID: <35565cab0811142003k2ee941efh90c5df5d91ab3f1@mail.gmail.com> Hi Folks, Jamie Thomas will be joining us for the narthex meeting tomorrow, but since he's been away for so long he's asked me to celebrate the Eucharist with him beforehand. We'll be at the Unitarian Church at 5pm to celebrate a swift, low-key Eucharist, if any of you would like to join us. Otherwise, I hope I'll see you at 6pm for the narthex meeting. Tim+ 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/20081115/9679fe37/attachment.htm From tim at saint-uriels.org Tue Nov 18 01:29:52 2008 From: tim at saint-uriels.org (Fr Tim Mansfield) Date: Tue Nov 18 01:30:11 2008 Subject: [st u's community] [st uriel's] On the Soul Message-ID: <35565cab0811172329hf06f3d5y9bf5dfe5d15e9200@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 From tim at saint-uriels.org Wed Nov 19 19:07:34 2008 From: tim at saint-uriels.org (Fr Tim Mansfield) Date: Wed Nov 19 19:07:47 2008 Subject: [st u's community] [st uriel's] Reading programme to end of 2008 Message-ID: <35565cab0811191707m269be6ay6aa4906da2b5a1b6@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 From tim at saint-uriels.org Wed Nov 26 16:17:40 2008 From: tim at saint-uriels.org (Fr Tim Mansfield) Date: Wed Nov 26 16:17:50 2008 Subject: [st u's community] [st uriel's] Next Sunday: The Hymn of the Pearl Message-ID: <35565cab0811261417n6eaf80d6kd45527f968ddc4f@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 From karyn.krawford at gmail.com Thu Nov 27 04:36:58 2008 From: karyn.krawford at gmail.com (karyn krawford) Date: Thu Nov 27 04:37:09 2008 Subject: [st u's community] [st uriel's] Next Sunday: The Hymn of the Pearl In-Reply-To: <35565cab0811261417n6eaf80d6kd45527f968ddc4f@mail.gmail.com> References: <35565cab0811261417n6eaf80d6kd45527f968ddc4f@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Hi Tim, thanks for letting me know I can still come along next time I am running late. I wasn't sure if the others appreciated it but I'll do my best to get there on time anyway. When is the next church session? Karyn On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Fr Tim Mansfield wrote: > Sisters and brothers, > > Our narthex meeting on Sunday (30 Nov) is at our usual venue, 15 Francis St, > Darlinghurst at 6pm. Next week (7 Dec), we begin the "Living Gnosticism" > study group and there'll be copies on-hand this Sunday to pick up. They're > $25 each. Once you've got your own copy, you can get started on reading and > get ready to discuss Chapter 1. > > But first, this Sunday offers an opportunity to meet with one of the most > beloved tales in the Western tradition, "The Hymn of the Pearl". > > The story of a young prince who travels from his home country to Egypt in > search of a pearl guarded by a serpent is told in all western wisdom > traditions, there are Jewish, Sufi and Christian versions. The story is such > a great example of the archetypal Hero's Journey that it seems like you've > heard it before even when you read it for the first time. > > During the discussion of the "Exegesis of the Soul" last time, we talked a > lot about the Soul and how to interpret it in our own experience. Both the > Exegesis and the Hymn pair a character representing the Soul with a > character representing the Spirit. > > To prepare a little for the discussion on Sunday, I thought it might be > useful to say a few things about the Spirit. > > The word "spirit" in English is derived from the Latin "spiritus", which > means "breath". The same root gives us "respiration". In Greek the word for > spirit is "pneuma" which also means breath (you might recall we use "Pneuma > Hagion" for Holy Spirit in the Eucharist service) and which gives us > "pneumatic". In Hebrew, spirit is "Ruach" also breath or air. > > I've always thought all this spirit=air thing was a kind of poetic analogy. > Spirit is light like air, it's invisible, and so on. As I've pondered it a > little more and especially looked at how the world seemed to people in the > first century of the Common Era, a few things jump out. > > The first is that they had no concept of vacuum or space, no real concept of > multiple gases. Air or atmosphere was everything between you and me. It is > the space containing the mysterious force of wind, the vehicle for weather > and it extends up to the Moon, the other planets and as far as the fixed > stars and presumably beyond. > > When we breathe in, we are taking some of that empty space into ourselves, > the same space that extends all the way from me, to you, to the planets and > stars - all the way to God. > > Looked at from within that kind of lifeworld, the metaphor of spirit as > breath seems more common-sense, more obvious and more clear than from mine. > Entering that simpler way of seeing that our ancestors inhabited, especially > when we engage in a practice like breath meditation, connects us to them, > their thoughtworld and earlier aspects of ourselves while bringing to life > the simple act of breathing. > > Every breath connects me to God. > > Try living with that thought today and bring your insights with you on > Sunday to discuss the Hymn of the Pearl. > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > community mailing list > community@saint-uriels.org > http://laika.gnusto.com/mailman/listinfo/community > > From jamie.edwin.thomas at gmail.com Thu Nov 27 16:44:57 2008 From: jamie.edwin.thomas at gmail.com (Jamie Thomas) Date: Thu Nov 27 16:45:08 2008 Subject: [st u's community] [st uriel's] On the Soul In-Reply-To: <35565cab0811172329hf06f3d5y9bf5dfe5d15e9200@mail.gmail.com> References: <35565cab0811172329hf06f3d5y9bf5dfe5d15e9200@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: 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 > > -- Jamie Thomas Authorised Representative Financial Wisdom PO Box 8 181 Ballina Road, LismoreN.S.W.2480 phone: (02)66213096 fax: (02)66221330 email: jamie.edwin.thomas@gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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