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eep loss but also of profound thankfulness the reflective celtic but also quite ignatian path through a simple office of prayer that philip newell sets out certainly helped me tonight to name that and stay with it a while i m sure the morning and evenign prayers will help me through these first few weeks of a very new existence it is going to be fun but it is also going to be chaotic and hard work at times i will need discipline to make up in part for being less involved in preparing and leading public worship the opening prayer begins o christ of the lost and betrayed come close to me this night that i maycome close to you the closing prayer ends who keeps watch over us this night who but the christ of love publié par jane à l adresse 23 45 0 commentaires libellés celtic justice loss peace prayer spirituality this is what happens when you spend your life taking tomatoes out of sandwiches you get asked to join a blog called blt for a long time i never ate raw tomatoes then in my late 20s i got quite partial to the little cherry tomatoes and nice ripe vine tomatoes in salads i rome i got slightly obessesd with the very sweet mini plum tomatoes even now i suually offer the tomato bits in restaurant salads to dr b what i really take exception to though is tomatoes in sandwiches on planes and trains in cafés and bars i order a sandwich and then spend time opening it up and removing the what i consider to be utterly horrible slices of tomato the sliced version of the fruit just gives the bread and everything in the sarnie a sort of yucky texture and flavour out vile slice given this it was quite funny that i should be invited to post occasionally on a blog called blt in this case though it s not bacon lettuce and tomato but bible literature and translation and it s certainly not just a sandwich two folk whose blogs i admire and have been following for several years j k gayle and suzanne mccarthy blog there alongside theophrastus and craig r smith these folk are all seriously knowledgeable about biblical translation which i am not one of the reasons i read suzanne and kurk is because i learn so much anyway the blog is about community building as well as exchange of ideas and information about the bible translating and literature they would like me to add my voice which i am happy to do though it won t be often unfortunately as i shall have to start blogging or doing some web based work in french in coming months improve my typo 3 skills and more besides anyway i have two initial posts in gestation for blt and neither of them is about tomatoes you ll be pleased to hear writing this is my way of saying please be a bit patient guys your paris correspondent will be joining you soon i was just not in any fit state over the past few days to do blogging of any kind let alone try to learn wordpress so the best i can do is dedicate my first post from paris to blt i have however arrived in paris despite antibiotics and general sinusitus induced lethargy i managed to pack a suitcase and get myself here work begins tomorrow wonder if there will be sandwiches for lunch publié par jane à l adresse 22 39 0 commentaires libellés bible blogging food life translation tuesday 27 september 2011 beauty surprises and the generous liturgy of friendship and prayer it had not been easy to find a date to go out for a drink together and i was quite surprised that i was expected at the ecumenical centre reception for 17 00 i even got an sms reminder wow we must be having some serious fun ahead of us starting this early in honour of a night on the town i even put on some mascara with hindsight this was perhaps not a good idea i met with maike and she took me not out to the bar but into the chapel that place of course for the real gluttons and wine bibbers in the side chapel were quite a number of my colleagues gathered very quietly and maike explained that they simply wanted to say thank you by organising holden evening prayer in such a way that all i had to do was to be there i was very moved hence the problems with the recently applied mascara and the depserate search for a hankie in my bag i ve learnt from facebook they had even discussed this eventuality before my arriving this of course is what friends are for a group of my friends had been preparing for a long time rehearsing the piano and flute and solo parts since august tonight was the first time they sang and played together it was a very beautiful moment and the liturgy should be beautiful but not perfect i thought back to stephen and sara padre itonde kakoma luke smetters colin williams annie osbourne michael wallace and many others who have introduced and sung holden with us since 2004 it is so good to know that the singing will go on especially as more musicians know the parts it reminded me of all of those times when i have come to the end of very busy days in the office and felt that perhaps the most important thing i had done was pray with others tonight was truly leitourgia the work and praise of the people many were involved in reading the wonderful selection of bible verses chosen by ruthann in the music in the preparation i know how much coordination that takes so i felt very blessed the liturgy is the space that frames our grief joy distress and doubt this was the space where i could finally allow some tears to fall in public as i grieve at leaving a job i love recognising my failures seeing too some achievements and simply accepting that moving on is painful at this time tonight my tears were for the first time about leaving these wonderful people and this wonderful space rather than tears about that which is broken in the present and the past no more struggling is needed singing and praying to god held all of us in that moment together in love this was the second time this year i have received a sign of pure grace it is quite hard to receive such creative simple generosity but i realised that grace has that capacity to transform and heal the thirty minutes of tonight s service was a special gift to me nourishing me with joy despite the tears thank you all very very much and so to paris where i hope to occasionally say the beatitudes with others at midday according to the tradition of les veilleurs but for now simply gratitude publié par jane à l adresse 22 38 0 commentaires libellés friendship grief liturgy prayer prayers monday 26 september 2011 putting part of the puzzling ecumenical picture together my great wcc colleagues marc henri heiniger and muriel bataclan invited me to talk about the history of the ecumenical movement to group of people from specialised ministries who are at bossey for some days of quite intense ecumenical formation i haven t time now to say much about what i said tho i did manage to record it on my new ipad but our session ended in the sunshine trying to put together the ecumenical river it s such a good metaphor the puzzle of ecumenism anyway i also have a video of the group doing this but i think i need a bit of advanced technical assistance before posting that maybe tomorrow it s too long as it stands now anyway it was a good experience for me to speak with the group on this topic just a few days before ending my time working at the wcc as ever it was a real privilege to speak with them and i did promise them i would try to post at least some photos before the end of the day i also ended what i shared with quite a big plug for social media in building ecumenical capital be authentic be active be nice publié par jane à l adresse 18 16 0 commentaires libellés blogging bossey communication ecumenism social media so i should be but instead i am involved in many forms of perfect procrastination well i should be packing getting organised doing all sorts of things to clear my desk finish writing projects and get ready to move to paris so of course instead of doing any of that i am actually returning to the blog at long last and yes there is a great deal of tidying up to do here too of course because almost all of the information about me and about dr b needs to now change you have been warned you may turn up and discover the builders have been in and painted everything white though rest assured minimalism is not really my style yes i am moving on friday this week and on thursday this week i go to lyon for my first day conference in the new job pictured here is what the appartment in paris i shall be living in looked like when i visited 2 weeks ago the chef de chantier looked a little worried when i said i was hoping to move in on september 30 he looked a little better when i said but it s ok if it s only at midnight anyway you can see that my future colleagues can see straight into my place so you will understand why the only thing packed so far are 6 sets of ikea curtains bought on special offer last week i shall have to remember not to wander around this dwelling naked unless all the curtains are drawn then of course i had a little jaunt to and from prague on the train i was interpreting for the conference of european churches i think for now we ll just say it was another one of those ecuemnical meetings after all i do want them to invite me back then this morning i said yes to talking to a group of specialised ministries folk at the château de bossey and that was great fun for me if not for them but really i should have been packing anyway dr b drove me to the sncf even regular readers of this blog may not know that i do not have a driving licence and i am now the proud owner of an abonnement fréquence for the whole of france in germany this would cost 150 euros in switzerland about 150 chf in france 650 euros so i really should stop blathering on here and pack but you know what my wonderful colleagues gave me an ipad as a leaving gift and i m trying to learn that and then i took some really cool photos at the ecumenical formation session this morning and i think today is the perfect time to learn how toedit the video i took and then i d really like to write something about prague and of course before i pack a second suitcase i really should empy the dishwasher yes perfect procrastination when you cannot focus more soon folks who knows i might even tidy the house publié par jane à l adresse 17 27 0 commentaires libellés ecumenism life living in france moving sunday 25 september 2011 our favourite coffee cups sadly all but one of our favourite coffee cups have now lost their handles i was given them by tante lotte nearly thirty years ago so i suppose they have seen sterling service and even then they were at least second hand she always shopped at the local flea market we re sad to see them go though they are the perfect size shape coulour feel weight and those rogue handles that keep breaking are just a wonderful shape perfect for holding anyway the saucers have fared better than the cups so we shall still have the memory of the cups when eating desert off the saucers publié par jane à l adresse 22 52 0 commentaires saturday 24 september 2011 the outward journey to prague publié par jane à l adresse 18 44 0 commentaires wednesday 14 september 2011 an attempt at some kennings en français what follows is a list of some my attempts at kennings in french it s not a form that should work in a romance language but it was helpful for our feminist theology group last night and made us think about language for god and faith in different ways i m not sure the resutls are really french what would the académie française say about such neologising of course because of the way french works the kennings are the other way around to in english or german these are all loosely inspired by jesus in the gospels pêcheur d homme et de femmes fouetteur d injustice raconteur de paraboles quitteur de tombeau chemineur de route parleur de vérité ballayeur de poussière metteur de lumière prometteur de l esprit assureur de paix maudisseur de figuiers stériles pasteur de brébis perdu aube pascal levure de farine ensemenceur de champs lecteur de la synagogûe chasseur de vendeurs prieur de gethsemané rompeur de pain verseur de vin you can find some kennings in english here and here on my blog publié par jane à l adresse 06 03 0 commentaires libellés feminist theology french kennings language poetry tuesday 13 september 2011 playful wisdom transgression and mysticism at feminist theology i have come home from tonight s feminist theology group richly blessed as ever and laden with gifts including a copy of grace jantzen s a place of springs i am so delighted i also got some very special faverger chocolate and a splendid bottle of ecrivain poète genevan wine tonight was the last time i shall be with the group for quite some time as it really will not be possible for me to get back from paris on a regular basis to be with them this is a shame because the programme for the year ahead is really interesting obéissance et transgression créatrices et créateurs à la suite de dieu so we began tonight with an apple on the table as a symbol of trangression and its desirability i spoke about mysticism and integrating spirituality and faith for this first session and we did various exercises writing down the name of a woman and man who had been important for our spiritual formation either folk known to us or historical figures or even ficitonal ones each of us spent some time in the silence of our hearts comparing these two figures had their influence been different because of their gender is their a male or female spirituality or mysticism we held on to and contained these thoughts as i went on to lay out some thoughts from sarah coakley s book powers and submissions about how kenosis the notions which have grown up around self emptying have been seen in extremely different ways in by feminist theologians such as rosemary ruether and daphne hampson in her book coakley works carefully and persuasively through the text in philippians 2 to offer a non destructive basis for kenosis as a foundation for spirituality tonight i was trying to pick up the different ideas around kenosis as a way of trying to move us towards thinking about who the god we pray is i admitted taht despite decades of feminist theology i have deeply internalised a judgemental god fortunately not the only god i have internalised but part of teh god i pray to as we were workign through some of this i asked everyone in the group fot try to write some kennings and encouraged them by offering some that i had written earlier i wasn t at all sure about using this form in a raomance language but it actually worked quite well as we had some anglophone folk at the group tonight and i was interpreting myself into english most of the time it worked well as i tried to kenning what people said in french back into english two of my favourite ideas about god that came out of this exercise and i wish i d had the presence of mind to write them all down but hey were joueuse sagesse playful wisdom and berceur d enfant which i suppose i would t...