From tim at saint-uriels.org Wed Apr 1 23:58:23 2009 From: tim at saint-uriels.org (Fr Tim Mansfield) Date: Wed Apr 1 23:58:27 2009 Subject: [st u's community] new mailout In-Reply-To: References: <35565cab0903311451i46c75e5ap7c79ada12295f4ea@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <35565cab0904012158t75b38da8g1fc3b4f0c1a2b4f@mail.gmail.com> Yep, it's automatable (in fact I wrote that email on Sunday evening, it went on Wednesday with no help from me), its templatable, so I don't need to copy and paste all that every time and it's spam-law compliant - people can opt-out easily whenever they want. Thanks for all the feedback, everyone! Tim+ 2009/4/1 Trisha Nowland : > It rocks! (not in the Saint Peter way). > > It might be good to put 'Parish of St Uriels' in front of 'Services this > week'? My 'St Uriel's' filter didn't capture it, it couldn't find 'St > Uriels' in the pretty, code-enhanced body. > > And I wouldn't want to mistakenly trash it, thinking that it was abut 'Train > Services' or 'Hot Water Services'............ > > Is this an?example of a mail-out that is?automate-able? It looks fantastic > regardless, but if it is, that's really impressive. > > Trish > > > _______________________________________________ > community mailing list > community@saint-uriels.org > http://laika.gnusto.com/mailman/listinfo/community > > From father.mansfield at johannite.org Sat Apr 4 03:19:35 2009 From: father.mansfield at johannite.org (Rev Fr Tim Mansfield) Date: Sat Apr 4 03:19:43 2009 Subject: [st u's community] Easter services Message-ID: <35565cab0904040119k3fdd62f2xedf4f10ce97d7e02@mail.gmail.com> Hi folks, I need to decide by tomorrow which of the group of potential Easter services I'm actually going to hold. I've posted them in the Facebook group and a couple of people have responded, but I want to make sure I don't cancel anything anyone wants to attend. Tomorrow I'll need to send out an early newsletter with the service times in it. The current proposal is: Thu 9 (Maundy Thursday), around 7pm. Probably at the Unitarians. Or at my place, depending on people. An Agape meal with food and wine and a foot-washing ceremony. Gives us an informal chance to celebrate our community also commemorate the Last Supper. The foot-washing is a tangible way to emphasise the servant character of priesthood - both the eternal priesthood of Christ and the priesthood of your humble rector. Fri 10 (Good Friday), around 7pm. Probably at my house, unless there's a few people. A Tenebrae service. You might recall this one from last year. Solemn service with chanting and a set of candles which get extinguished one by one. This is in some ways the final moment of the inward journey begin 40 days ago at Ash Wednesday at the start of Lent. The Light shines in the Darkness and the Darkness has not overcome it. Sat 11 (Easter Saturday), ideally near midnight. But I'm flexible. A Eucharist of the Light. This will be the Johannite Divine Liturgy with the lighting of the Paschal candle at the start and the passing on of the light around the room. The three services make up the kind of minimal cycle of Holy Week and I love doing all of them, but if everyone's busy or out of town, I'll probably just stick to a private Eucharist for Easter Sunday. Drop me a note if you had been planning to come to any of those and I'll send out a newsletter tomorrow with final times and places. Love, Tim+ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://laika.gnusto.com/pipermail/community/attachments/20090404/c3acfc15/attachment.htm From father.mansfield at johannite.org Mon Apr 6 01:21:15 2009 From: father.mansfield at johannite.org (Rev Fr Tim Mansfield) Date: Mon Apr 6 01:21:17 2009 Subject: [st u's community] Services for Holy Week Message-ID: <35565cab0904052321r7a9bfacenc77a0cf79860efbf@mail.gmail.com> Hi folks, There's not many people available this week for services, so I've simplified the schedule a little. Good Friday evening, 7pm Tenebrae Service This is a short, rather beautiful service in which the events of Good Friday are meditatively recounted in a series of readings. The congregation are invited to sit with each section and allow it to resonate with their own lives and understanding. One by one candles are extinguished and darkness closes in. Eventually a single candle remains. "The Light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it." Shared meditation follows the service and participants are invited to a light supper. Venue: 5a Lilydale St, Marrickville Easter Saturday, 11.30pm Paschal Eucharist This is the symbolic commemoration of the emergence of the fully embodied light into the world. A celebration of contagious hope and deep, human wonder. Venue: To be confirmed, hopefully our usual venue 15 Francis St, Darlinghurst. Whether or not you can join me, please accept my heartfelt blessings for this Easter season. With Love, Rev Father Tim Mansfield -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://laika.gnusto.com/pipermail/community/attachments/20090406/74b2dabb/attachment.htm From timbomb at timbomb.net Mon Apr 6 16:48:51 2009 From: timbomb at timbomb.net (Tim Mansfield) Date: Mon Apr 6 16:49:09 2009 Subject: [st u's community] Re: Services for Holy Week In-Reply-To: <35565cab0904052321r7a9bfacenc77a0cf79860efbf@mail.gmail.com> References: <35565cab0904052321r7a9bfacenc77a0cf79860efbf@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Sisters and Brothers, Just confirming venues. Fri night at Marrickville. Saturday at Francis St. Tim Mansfield Sydney, Australia On 06/04/2009, at 4:21 PM, Rev Fr Tim Mansfield wrote: > Hi folks, > > There's not many people available this week for services, so I've > simplified the schedule a little. > > Good Friday evening, 7pm > Tenebrae Service > This is a short, rather beautiful service in which the events of > Good Friday are meditatively recounted in a series of readings. The > congregation are invited to sit with each section and allow it to > resonate with their own lives and understanding. One by one candles > are extinguished and darkness closes in. Eventually a single candle > remains. > > "The Light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome > it." > > Shared meditation follows the service and participants are invited > to a light supper. > > Venue: 5a Lilydale St, Marrickville > > Easter Saturday, 11.30pm > Paschal Eucharist > This is the symbolic commemoration of the emergence of the fully > embodied light into the world. A celebration of contagious hope and > deep, human wonder. > > Venue: To be confirmed, hopefully our usual venue 15 Francis St, > Darlinghurst. > > Whether or not you can join me, please accept my heartfelt blessings > for this Easter season. > > With Love, > > Rev Father Tim Mansfield From lunetta777 at bigpond.com Mon Apr 6 19:08:39 2009 From: lunetta777 at bigpond.com (lunetta777@bigpond.com) Date: Mon Apr 6 19:08:48 2009 Subject: [st u's community] Re: Services for Holy Week Message-ID: <380-220094270839328@M2W032.mail2web.com> I will try to be there, I will let you know closer to Friday Tim :) - Lynette Original Message: ----------------- From: Tim Mansfield timbomb@timbomb.net Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 07:48:51 +1000 To: father.mansfield@johannite.org, community@saint-uriels.org Subject: [st u's community] Re: Services for Holy Week Sisters and Brothers, Just confirming venues. Fri night at Marrickville. Saturday at Francis St. Tim Mansfield Sydney, Australia On 06/04/2009, at 4:21 PM, Rev Fr Tim Mansfield wrote: > Hi folks, > > There's not many people available this week for services, so I've > simplified the schedule a little. > > Good Friday evening, 7pm > Tenebrae Service > This is a short, rather beautiful service in which the events of > Good Friday are meditatively recounted in a series of readings. The > congregation are invited to sit with each section and allow it to > resonate with their own lives and understanding. One by one candles > are extinguished and darkness closes in. Eventually a single candle > remains. > > "The Light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome > it." > > Shared meditation follows the service and participants are invited > to a light supper. > > Venue: 5a Lilydale St, Marrickville > > Easter Saturday, 11.30pm > Paschal Eucharist > This is the symbolic commemoration of the emergence of the fully > embodied light into the world. A celebration of contagious hope and > deep, human wonder. > > Venue: To be confirmed, hopefully our usual venue 15 Francis St, > Darlinghurst. > > Whether or not you can join me, please accept my heartfelt blessings > for this Easter season. > > With Love, > > Rev Father Tim Mansfield _______________________________________________ community mailing list community@saint-uriels.org http://laika.gnusto.com/mailman/listinfo/community -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://link.mail2web.com/mail2web From father.mansfield at johannite.org Sun Apr 12 17:07:25 2009 From: father.mansfield at johannite.org (Rev Fr Tim Mansfield) Date: Sun Apr 12 17:07:29 2009 Subject: [st u's community] The Return of the Light Message-ID: <35565cab0904121507l42e5149ar62a32b17240fa388@mail.gmail.com> *Our Patriarch, +Shaun McCann on the subject of Easter. I found his words beautiful and deeply resonant, so I'm passing them on. Tim+ The Return of the Light **?Understand me then as the slaying of a Word, wound of a Word, hanging of a Word, suffering of a Word, fastening of a Word, death of a Word, resurrection of a Word, and defining this Word, I mean every man!? - The Acts of John. *In the story of Jesus in the canonical gospels, he returns to life but not as he once was- an appearance and an image illuminating something truly immanent and transcendent. So too are we reborn through our experience of the Divine- yet we are not as we once were. The reading from the Acts of John identifies a central interpretation of the Holy Week story in Gnostic Christianity- that it is a mirror for our own paths and lives. Indeed, in central portion of our liturgy, the bread and the wine are shown to those present with the words - "I am a lamp to those that see me, but I am a mirror to those that understand me" which are also based on the Acts of John. We do not enter, reach or journey to a new landscape, but rather see that which has always been here through new eyes, this is the true voyage of discovery as it has been said. The promised land is not a place you can travel to, because you never left it in the first place. The Magdalene encounters and sees the Risen Logos, not as Christ, but as the gardener- something I've taken as a subtle reference to the scriptural character of Adam, the first man. Paradise returns, and the Kingdom of Heaven is made manifest and yet everything looks and appears the same. It is when Jesus speaks that the Magdalene recognizes her teacher. So it is, with the voice of the Divine- which has always been present- once a low murmur against the hum of electronics, shifting gears, and the popping of cash registers. Existing not in a new world but in a new understanding, we can hear that voice in every passing car, click of pebble on stone, rush of wind in trees, and like the end result of Jesus appearing as the stranger to the disciples on the road to Emmaus, we can hear and see it in person of our fellow man, stranger and friend alike, should we but listen and see things as they are, and not as we wish them to be. A world where life itself becomes as the Eucharist in which one thing is seen and another understood, compelling us with the imperative to "Be what you see and receive what you are". "Do not cling to me for I have not yet ascended to the Father" says Jesus to the Magdalene, and transcending the images that we place over and in the way of the Sacred Flame and on each other, those images through which we create separation and shadow, we can become that voice to our fellow man. Like Jesus' instruction to the Magdalene, we can go forth and boldly proclaim the Resurrection, our Resurrection, not with evangelical zeal or the objectification of our fellow human beings as objects to be saved but with the example of our own lives. Yours before the Sacred Flame, * *+ Shaun Mar Iohannes Apostolic Johannite Church http://www.johannite.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://laika.gnusto.com/pipermail/community/attachments/20090413/70cdbc4b/attachment.htm