Month: April 2010

The next two Sunday afternoons, with Ben Burke from Sydney Integral I’m co-sponsoring a movie and discussion. The movie is a discussion between Father Thomas Keating, a Trappist monk and one of the leaders of the Centering Prayer movement and Ken Wilber, the central intellectual figure in the Integral movement and author of books like “No Boundary” and “Integral Spirituality”.

The topic is the future of Christianity and it covers some broad territory around different stages of spiritual maturity, the centrality of the contemplative traditions and prospects for the development of our tradition. These concerns are central to my own spiritual journey and I’m excited to have an opportunity to discuss them.

The plan is to gather at the Unitarian Church at 3pm – watch the movie, have some time for discussion and then we’ll celebrate our monthly chapel Eucharist service.

Come and join in on what promises to be an enlivening discussion!

Readings for the week

Movie – 3pm
“The Future of Christianity” with Father Thomas Keating and Ken Wilber

Discussion – 5pm
Open discussion about the themes of the movie and people’s own views about the evolution of Christian spirituality.

This invitation is from Sister Trish from the Order of Saint
Esclaremonde.

I’m passing it on because I thought some of you might be
interested.

Fr. Tim.
—-

Greetings all,

I’m planning on holding a Skype discussion call about one of my
favourite Nag Hammadi texts, this coming Friday night, US time,
and Saturday morning, Australian time.

I’d love it if you would consider joining me for the call.

Please find attached to this message a paper, ‘Two Female Gnostic
Revealers’ by Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley. The paper explores the
‘Thunder, Perfect Mind’ text by comparing it to a Mandean work, part
of the Right Ginza so-called ‘The Book Of Dinanukht’. As far as I am
aware, the Mandean text is not available online, but a link to
‘Thunder, Perfect Mind’ can be found below:

http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/thunder.html

The call will begin at 11:00am Sydney time, please see the below link
for a conversion to your own timezone:

http://alturl.com/fwnb

We will spend:

20 minutes to get online, introduce ourselves, have a chat;
30 minutes to read through ‘Thunder, Perfect Mind’, out loud for those
that would like to participate;
30 minutes to discuss the text and the paper. Depending on the number
of callers, this might need to be time-limited for each person. I’ll
let you know the process once we’re all online.

To be a part of this call, please forward me your Skype ID to my
email address, [email protected] or post it back to this thread.
Then all you have to do is be online and pick up when the Skype
phone chimes to let you know we’re online, on Friday/Saturday.

This is a test event, to gauge the level of interest in further voice
discussions or perhaps even online study groups. If you can’t make
this call, but have ideas about something similar or would like to
be involved in future discussions, by all means please take this
opportunity to let us know your thoughts.

Blessings all,

I hope to speak to you soon,

Sr Trish

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Sisters and Brothers,

A lot of people are away over the Easter weekend and so I’ve decided to keep the service schedule fairly minimal.

On Easter Sunday early in the morning, a group of us will travel out to a pretty spot near Wallacia where we will have an outdoor Eucharist and I will baptise a young man in the Nepean river.

We’d love to have you join us, if you’d like. Here’s the rough order of events:

Easter Baptismal Eucharist and picnic – Sun morning
meet at Marrickville (8:15am)
drive to the site
Eucharist and the baptism of Jonas (9:30am)
Picnic, optional swimming (11am)
drive back to Sydney (1-2pm)

If you want to make time to come to any of that, please shoot me an email back as soon as possible.

I would really welcome a few people coming along to that to witness the joyous event and share some fellowship with Jonas. If you’re prepared to drive a couple of people out to Wallacia, that’s also a bonus 🙂

If I don’t see you over the blessed season, please take a moment in whatever else you’re doing to feel into the energies of each of the following four days. Take some quiet time and notice how the Easter story shows up for you.

And don’t overdo the chocolate 😉

With love,

Father Tim+

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