Aotearoa NZ 2010

A Warm Welcome

Nau Mai ~ Haere Mai

Gather us O God Unify

and set us free!Gather us O GodMay Your Spirit

with us be!

Kia KotahiKia Kotahi Ra Katoa

Kia KotahiTonoa Mai To Wairua

“Where shall I go for Enlightenment?”“Here.”

“When will it happen?”“It is happening right now.”

“Then why don’t I experience it?”“Because you do not look.”

“At what?”“Anything your eyes alight upon.”

“Must I look in a special kind of way?”No just the ordinary way will do.”

“But don’t I always look in the ordinary way?”“No.”

“Why ever not?”“Because to look – you must be here. You’re

mostly…somewhere else.”

The Gift of Presence

Experience

StoryScript

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Weaving the Threads of our Traditions

together

Mission

In the Beginning…was the Mission.

And the Mission was with GodAnd the Mission was God

God who is Love.The Mission does not belong to any Group

or Church or Religion.

Spirituality

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Is what your theology looks

like…?

Spirituality

Spirituality• Derived from the Latin –

Spirare – “to breathe”. (Genesis – The Spirit hovering over Creation -

x;Wr breath, wind, Spirit)

• Spirituality is not something added onto our humanity – It is of the very essence of what it is to be human.

“I have come that you may

have lifeand have it to the full.”

John 10:10

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This is what Yahweh asks of You:only one thingTo do justice

To love hesed,To walk humbly with your God.

Micah 6:8

Micah 6:8

tAfÜ[]-~ai yKiä ^ªM.mi vrEäAD hw"ùhy>-hm'(W bAJ+-hm; ~d"Þa' ^±l. dyGIïhip `^yh,(l{a/-~[i tk,l,Þ [;nEïc.h;w> ds,x,ê tb;h]a;äw> ‘jP'v.mi

From the Hebrew Tradition

The Highpoint of First Testament Spirituality

that sums up the stance of the human being towards the Divine – (YHWH) and towards humanity.

Poetically and succinctly expresses the legal, ethical and

moral requirements of YHWH.

Micah 6:8Micah "envisions

a changed social system," an "alternative way

to order society around the Gifts

(Charisms) of God"

Walter Brueggemann

Micah 6:8

Micah 6:8 is about doing “Humanness”

“I will consider the human person as one who listens (obeys), discerns, and trusts. These three disciplines of humanness together provide a foundation for life of buoyant freedom, free of fear and cynicism, a life rooted in complete commitment to YHWH, full adherence to YHWH’s sovereignty, and full of confidence in YHWH’s reliable ordering of reality.” Brueggemann

Hungers (Micah 6)Right-

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The ‘More’Spirituality

As a leader – Imagine…Past Experience…Present Reality…

3 things…?Your School CommunityHow would you like it to ‘look’?3 Descriptors???

From the TraditionThe ‘Four Marks of the

Church’ (Ideal)Four Descriptors of Catholic

Christian Community

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ONEWTT Deuteronomy 6:4

`dx'(a, Ÿhw"ïhy> WnyheÞl{a/ hw"ïhy> lae_r"f.yI [m;Þv. WTT

"Hear, O Israel! YHWH our God, is one!Leviticus 19:18 18 …You shall love your neighbour as yourself:Luke 10:27 "You shall love YHWH your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and …your neighbour as yourself."

HOLY?

What’s it to you??

Jesus’ Life and Ministry is

Grounded in a Symbol

from His Ancient Hebrew Tradition

At the Core of Jesus’ Life and Ministry is a Symbol ?

The Kin-domThe Reign of God

The Basileia basilei,a,Your Kingdom ComeYour Will be Done

Here – on earth - as it is in Heaven.

For What… did Jesus Stand?

Jesus loved His People – and was impelled by a Vision of what they

could become… He not only loved His nation – He held for it a Tender Vision of Peace (Shalom) and Hope. He had

long been compelled by that Covenant born to the nation on Exodus. It was the clash between this covenant ideal (of what could be) and the disturbing realities being lived around Him (what actually was) that finally moved Jesus into Public Activity… A Consequence

of His own Baptismal Choice.

~Alv' Shalom derived from the Hebrew verb

[v;y" {yaw-shah'}

swth,rio,nSoteria GreekSalus LatinSalvation English

Shalom ~Alv

God’s Will – God’s Dream – For each human being – in the context of Creation.

God’s Will for my Health, Healing, Wholeness, Holiness, Well-Being.

God’s Will for my liberation from all that prevents me from becoming whole, being healed, becoming holy, becoming free, living the Gift of Life to the Full (John 10:10).

Shalom – A BlessingA Greeting – Be well – Be whole –May you become whole as God

is whole. May you become the Gift God created you to become. “Kia Ora”

Literal meaning - “Broad, Spacious, Room for all” – especially those who have few choices in life – the

‘actually poor’.

What is God’s Will for me – right now? – In terms of the Call to Wholeness?

[v;y" {yaw-shah'} Meaning: 1) to save, be saved, be delivered, to set free, to

liberate from all that is oppresses and diminishes fullness of life.

• Messiah [;yvi²AmJoshua [;vuªAhy>

• Hosea ‘[;ve’AhIsaiah hy"[.v;y>

• Jesus - the Greek Form of Joshua (Hebrew)

~Alv‘ ShalomGod’s Dream for our coming to wholeness

Our well-being – realising our Call to Wholeness/Holiness

Literally – Broad – spacious – room for all’ - completeness, soundness, welfare, safety, soundness, in body, health,

prosperity, well-being, quiet, tranquility.Contentment - friendship: human relations: peace with God,

esp. in covenant relation peace from war: to make peace.

• Contentment – Not having what you want – but – wanting

what you already have!

The Will of God - – Shalom – A Blessing of Wholeness, Healing, Liberation and

Holiness.• I am the Ground of

your Prayers. First, it is My Will that you have what you desire. Later, I cause you to pray for it, and you do so. How then can you not have what you desire?

Julian of Norwich

Often… we anxiously seek the will of God, as if God had gleefully hidden dreams for us in unfathomable places…as if it were God’s intention that our whole lives be spent in endless searching for signs and directions buried in obscurity.

The Will of God is the Seed of our Dreams ever gestating with possibility and longing to leap forward scattering new and surprising Blessings throughout our everyday reality.

(Edwina Gately)

Hear then what YHWH asks of You!

To doJusticeTo Love Hesed (Kindness)

And to walk humbly with your God

Walk Humbly[;nEïc.h;

Walking the Talk

Walk ‘Humbly' [;nEïc.h; To walk ‘humbly’ (carries notions of

walking cautiously, circumspectly, wisely, discerningly) with your God. It conveys the idea of a measured, considered and careful way of living – with integrity. ‘Humble’ refers not so much to a self-effacing stance as to a way of living characterized by a careful attentiveness to the Will of God through another.

`^yh,(l{a/-~[i tk,l,Þ [;nEïc.h;w> …appears elsewhere only in the

Wisdom Literature (Proverbs 11:2, Sirach 16:25, 35:3)

Walk ‘Humbly’ [;Wnc' A Humble Spirit

Being realistic about one-self (modest) gifts and strengths

Offering those gifts for the good of the community

Recognising and Acknowledging the Source of the Gifts for Mission – the Gospel (Charism)

Integrity – Pono - Humility [;Wnc' It is Truth grounded in Faith as TrustIt is the joining of love and truth in

action.It calls forth listening with love,

bringing forth truth and responding with honesty. It challenges justice and mercy to become embodied in

action.It is experienced through disciplined

words and actions that have their roots in Reverence for Human Dignity

A Mystic is One

who is constantly aware

of the Presence of the Divine

within the Mystery

of Everyday Life

‘There, where you are – you will find God.’ 1874

‘Believe the whisperings of god within your own heart.’ 1868

‘God gave me such a sense of God’s wonderful presence’ 1871

‘God’s love is too deep for words to express .’1870

‘I felt nearer to God than I ever felt before .’1871

‘See the beauty of God .’1873

‘See the hand of God in all that happens .’1871

‘Let us be entirely God’s’. 1890

Mary and Julian ...as

Mystics

Walking Humbly with your God, in each other, in creation in one’s own being.

The way we walk is with each other. As part of Community for Mission The call is to this with integrity and humility.

Our Yes to the Reign of God’s Love in our ‘Here and Now’.

In Jewish spirituality, two concepts dominate and are intertwined: The one, devekut, translates as "clinging to God" or contemplation; the other, tikkun o'lam, translates "repairing the world" the work of justice. One without the other--contemplation without justice, clinging to mystery without repairing the real world--is unfinished, the tradition teaches, is dark without light, is grand without great, is soul without body.

Those who have no flame in their hearts for justice, no consciousness of responsibility for the reign of God, no raging commitment to human community may indeed be seeking God. But make no mistake, God is still, at best, only an idea to them, not a reality. Indeed, contemplation is a very dangerous activity. It not only brings us face to face with God. It brings us, as well, face to face with the world, face to face with the self. And then, of course, something must be done. Nothing stays the same once we have found the God within.... We carry the world in our hearts: the oppression of all peoples, the suffering of our friends, the burdens of our enemies, the raping of the Earth, the hunger of the starving, the joy of every laughing child.

MISSIONMission can be described as an encounter with mystery in unexpected places and in unsuspected ways.

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