The Mystery of Pentecost Dámh Imeall:(h)Edge School Notes and References and Participant Chat Stream

‘O make me wholly Thine! Thy love to me impart, And let Thy holy spirit shine For ever on my heart!’ - Anne Bronté

1 Holy Spirit, Spirit of Love, Spirit of discipline. In the silence Come to us and bring us your peace; Rest in us that we may be tranquil and still; Speak to us as each heart needs to hear; Reveal to us things hidden and things longed for; Rejoice in us that we may praise and be glad; Pray in us that we may be at one with you and with each other; Refresh and renew us from you Living Springs of water. Holy Spirit, dwell in us that your light may shine through us, And that in our hearts you may find your homeliest home And endless dwelling. Amen. Julian of Norwich - first woman writer in English

Songs mentioned in today’s session

‘spiritus domini replevit’ Gregorian Chant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XAQGmFHXec

‘Veni Creatur Spiritus’ Gregorian Chant and lyrics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u7jTuDBgA4

‘Spirituals album’ by Opera singer Jesse Norman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V9xg6OOv34

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‘Ubi Caritas’ chant sung by Owen & Mícheál https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2sCiV6BxUE

Poems mentioned in today’s session

God’s Grandeur By Gerard Manley Hopkins In The Major Works

THE WORLD is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off the black West went Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs— Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

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Pentecost acrostic By Elizabeth Padillo Olesen

People as real and common as they are Experience something spectacular Naked before the stretched out heaven Tantalized by fresh and oozing wind Elevated by the heavenly touch of fire Consumed by love and compassion Out they spread the fire lodged in the heart Speaking different tongues as they serve Thriving on faith from that mystery of love.

Visitation By Nicola Slee

I am old, I am near my time I am young, I have long to wait.

I was barren, I had given up hope I was virgin, hope was all I had

Long married, I had endured for years his despair Newly bethrothed, I witnessed his wakening desire

With my shriveled belly, other women shunned me With my body of promise, other women envied me

My duty was clear, I kept it as best I could My future was plain, I faced it with no complaint

4 All these years, I have kept my faith with God All my years, I will keep good faith with the Lord

Into my barrenness, God’s Spirit leapt and stirred Into my hiddenness, God’s Spirit moved and formed

My heart knows joy, my body quakes in fear My heart feels pain, my flesh is full of hope

Give me your hand, I need to feel you near Give me your hand, I need to know you are there

Wild Geese By Mary Oliver You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,

5 the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting — over and over announcing your place in the family of things

Participant Chat Stream

11:00:09 From Kathleen Bransfield : Just checking, anyone getting audio? 11:00:23 From Cindy Burroughs : no 11:00:31 From Susanne Mulcahy : Good morning from Sunnyvale CA, and no audio here either 11:00:49 From Diana Halpenny : Hi from Sacramento - same here - no audio. 11:00:51 From Olivia Huff : good morning from Sacramento…no audio either 11:00:54 From Marni Harmony : No audio here in Orlando 11:01:08 From Adam Forman : All Quiet here in Los Angeles 11:01:32 From Ann Murrah : I love the peace flags in this photo 11:02:14 From Ann Murrah : Hi Marni - from Winter Park! Some day I’ll have to meet you. 11:02:40 From Marni Harmony : Ann—love to meet you. I’m easy to find if you google 11:02:47 From Mary Hulnick : Good morning everyone! 11:02:54 From Cindy Burroughs : from Cindy Lou: Hey Patty! Did you get your new baby? 11:03:19 From Ann Murrah : Hi to breakout breaks - Ruby and Kristen, Kathleen 11:03:43 From Kathleen Bransfield : Yay, lovely to hear you! 11:03:57 From Mary Spike : Good Morning! Loving seeing your faces, familiar and new. 11:04:11 From Lorraine : Hi !!! 11:04:45 From Robin Garner : You’re great, Nóirín!! 11:05:29 From Marnie Rourke : I can’t hear anyone. 11:13:07 From Ron Wade : audio working here in Los Gatos, CA. You have to connect to internet audio with the computer, or call in using your phone. Check the audio settings, and your volume. 11:14:30 From francesca colletti : thank you owen and micheal- I am in. Blessed day. 11:14:33 From Marnie Rourke : Audio working but very faint. 11:15:13 From Marianne Tracy : O come Holy Spirit 11:15:42 From Marianne Tracy : Thank you may God Bless Us

6 11:17:45 From Carol Pate : Yes - thank you Micheal for acknowledging the voices screaming to be heard and understood. 11:18:41 From Marita Sheeran : Amen. Thank you Michael. 11:19:20 From Marnie Rourke : The fire of the Spirit is most difficult to feel this morning given the raging fires here in Chicago and across our country last night. 11:21:26 From Jane Catherine Severn : lovely to see the winds of Ireland outside Noirin's window 11:22:03 From Marnie Rourke : The last time there were riots like this was on the day Dr. King was assassinated. 11:22:29 From Marni Harmony : And how we long for a leader like Dr King right now 11:22:58 From Marnie Rourke : Yes! 11:23:24 From Allyson Green : Yes and in New York as well, with so much suffering already 11:23:36 From Marianne Tracy : the gifts of the Holy Spirit fire, wind, dove, breaths we take, all give life these are the gifts of Pentecost 11:24:05 From Marita Sheeran : We need to receive the grace of the Spirit more than ever this Pentecost and then share it with others. 11:24:37 From Marianne Tracy : with Joyful Boldness we find peace in the Holy Spiritl 11:25:06 From Marianne Tracy : we receive hope faith dreams in the Holy Spirit 11:28:07 From Marianne Tracy : with Bealtaine and the Holy Spirit we have new life here. 11:28:33 From Marnie Rourke : Many don’t know this but the list of towns in the passage from Acts is written in Astrological order. It was not only a way of saying that the Holy Spirit was blessing the whole world, but that you didn’t need to be Christian or Jewish to belong to the Body of Christ. You could be Zoroastrian or of any other faith. 11:30:02 From Marnie Rourke : That very chant, but spoken in English was included in my own ordination. Thank you for the blessing! 11:30:03 From Cindy Burroughs : wonderful! 11:30:52 From Albie Beannacht : I may have missed this, but why did God/Son send the Holy Spirit? 11:32:30 From N'Shama Sterling : Mícheál, thanks for that beautiful rendition of the Veni Creator...it was one of my favorites when I sang in the choir growing up 11:36:30 From Marnie Rourke : To tell the apostles that just as He said, Jesus would not leave us as orphans. And now they knew they truly were the beloved children of God, the Spirit was now sending them into the whole world to tell everyone, every soul, that they belong to the family. All are welcomed with unconditional love in Jesus name! 11:38:50 From Diana Halpenny : God appeared to Moses as a burning bush that was not consumed/ 11:39:35 From Jane Catherine Severn : May the fires across America become illuminating in the way that is so needed now 11:39:40 From Elaine Eachus : And in John 20:19-23 Jesus gives the Holy Spirit to the disciples on Easter evening. 11:40:18 From Mary Spike : Yes, now it seems that fire is getting our attention when other things have not.

7 11:41:35 From Marnie Rourke : Yes. And it was a sign that fire doesn’t always kill us, it can give us life...and anger is not always destructive, it can save us! 11:44:11 From Mary Spike : This, Wild Geese, was the first poem that ever took my breath away. 11:48:25 From Marnie Rourke : How the world needs hear the promise that is be 11:49:41 From Jan Raissle and Susanne Mulcahy : Oliver’s Wild Geese got me through a very difficult time, along with the Hail Mary (Susanne) 11:51:43 From Marnie Rourke : The Spirit is the breath of life, and George Floyd took his last breath in Jesus name despite his persecution by evil. 11:56:43 From Marianne Tracy : yay! 11:57:18 From Marianne Tracy : Good job Noirin 12:02:05 From Kathleen Bransfield : We desperately need an anthem of hope right now 12:02:22 From Page Allen : thank you, Owen, for that poem of GMH, so powerful and tender 12:02:48 From Jane Catherine Severn : so beautifully spoken Owen 12:09:00 From Olivia Huff : St Paul only lists 9 fruits of the Hoy Spirit… but I’ve hard there are 12… where did the other 3 come from? 12:13:04 From Jane Catherine Severn : Micheal I so love the way you can always be counted on to add a note of holy irreverence 12:14:13 From Marnie Rourke : The Holy Spirit is a wild and wonderful Woman, and when She flaps her wings, things happen! 12:32:06 From Ann Murrah : Loved meeting Marnie and welcoming Olivia to the “tribe” 12:32:53 From Marnie Rourke : Loved meeting you too! 12:33:04 From Richard Halford : Where is Rosemary? 12:33:08 From Olivia Huff : Likewise, Marnie and Ann! 12:33:24 From Cindy Burroughs : from Cindy Lou: Thank you Jane! 12:34:00 From Jane Catherine Severn : the burning up of the old to make way for the new is a painful and frightening experience, for sure 12:34:11 From Page Allen : for my fellow chat roomies: my art is on pageallenart.com and on the Owings gallery under Artists. thank you for being there. 12:34:46 From Beth Wylie : Thank you Page! 12:35:05 From Ann Murrah : Responding to Marnie, I think we all also have wings, and we need to start figuring just how to flap them going forward to bring about the change that’s needed! 12:35:21 From Diana Halpenny : I think there’s a message in the Pentecost story about the Holy Spirit bringing us the ability to speak so that all can hear, and hearing through our own filters 12:38:24 From Owen Ó Súilleabháin To clddoc8(privately) : Can I come to you next? What’s your name tell me :) 12:40:36 From Lizzy Dahl : Thank you, Page & Beth! 12:44:23 From Kerilyn Derkasch : I always think of the fire of the burning bush and of the Holy Spirit as illumination and not destructive. On Eastern Orthodox Holy Saturday, the Holy Fire descends on the Holy Sephluchre every year. The fire does not burn those who touch it.

8 You can see services of the Holy Fire on You Tube. This year’s service, it’s easier to see, since there were no crowds. 12:47:03 From Marnie Rourke : I suggest googling the lyrics to “Mary You Are Covered in Roses, You Are Covered in Ashes” as it lifts up much of what we are saying in very grace filled ways. 12:49:00 From Ron Wade : Look up the interview of Ruby Sales by Krista Tippett at onbeing.org. Also her interview with Joe Carter and his music. 12:49:45 From Ron Wade : Joe Carter sings spirituals in the interview. 12:49:56 From Kathleen Bransfield : That is a beautiful album. I have heard her several times and her passing over was a sad day in our household 12:50:25 From Marianne Tracy : is there a password for this on the vault? thank you! 12:51:04 From Page Allen : thank you Amanda. I haven’t heard the name Darkies since my Savannah grandmother, said with such love, such power, such attention 12:51:15 From valerie fagan : This has been an amazing session The power of hope - one by one- I am so glad you did it I t gives me hope to go forward 12:51:51 From Mary Spike : Yes, Power of Hope as another course theme? 12:52:35 From Cindy Burroughs To Owen Ó Súilleabháin(privately) : Wish we had known about the color red for today! 12:53:15 From Ron Wade : It doesn’t matter what color we are on the outside, we are all the same - red - on the inside. 12:55:57 From Mary Spike : Cracked and well loved. Still useful. I invite you to look up wabi-sabi. 12:57:45 From francesca colletti : Joan Halifax at upaya did an essay "Wise Hope in the Time of Pandemic." She quotes the author Barbara Kingslover- "The pessimist would say "It's going to be a terrible winter, we are all going to die." The optimist would say, "oh, it'll be all right, I don't think it's that bad. The hopeful person would say, "Maybe someone will still be alive in February, so I'M going tp potates in the rool cellar.....just in case....." Hope is a mode of resistance.... a gift I can cultivate. What will we leave in the the root cellar. 13:00:43 From Adam Forman : Thank you all. 13:00:43 From Lizzy Dahl : Thank you, Francesca! I have the Audio Book “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle” by Barbara Kingsolver up next. 13:00:52 From Kerilyn Derkasch : Thank you for this wonderful session! 13:01:26 From Marianne Tracy : May God Bless Us, Thank you 13:01:28 From Ellie Kincade : Gratitude and Blessings to all. 13:01:37 From Lynn McBrien : I’m sorry I could not participate in our breakout room today. Feeling such despair of late that I was afraid I’d be crying though our conversation. Thank you for this time to be with people who care. 13:01:50 From Marnie Rourke : Those of us who have had the privilege of observing surgery can testify to the truth that we all look the same on the inside while our organs are of many different colors. We are one in the Spirit. 13:02:01 From francesca colletti : thank you Owen, Michaeal and Noirin. These sessions have been a Turasanam. Blessings. 13:02:19 From Ron Wade : Lynn, crying is OK. Bless it. 13:02:34 From Lorraine : Thank you so much

9 13:03:40 From Marnie Rourke : Thank you all. And this little light of mine, I’m going to let it shine! 13:03:53 From Carrie Stanley : thank you everyone! 13:04:03 From Diana Halpenny : Thank you again!!! 13:04:28 From Mary Spike : Hope. 13:04:33 From Cindy Burroughs To Owen Ó Súilleabháin(privately) : from Cindy Lou: I love this format! It feels like I am on the front row! So close and yet so far! 13:04:34 From Melinda Deane : Thank you! May the Holy Spirit fill us all far and near! 13:05:16 From Jan Raissle and Susanne Mulcahy : Be well, everyone. Deep thanks and remember to take deep breaths! 13:05:36 From Beth Wylie : Thank you all so much. 13:05:56 From Frances Smith : Many, Many thanks—you are all treasures that I am so grateful for! 13:05:59 From Marianne Tracy : Owen do you have the former spirit of my soul song? May I please ask you to post this if you have this? thank you again. sending my love Marianne 13:06:46 From Catherine O'Callaghan : Gratitude for today’s session. This community is a sign of hope and sustenance in these painful times. Let’s listen to the cry of the unheard and “be silent and know that I am God.” Love, Catherine 13:07:53 From Patti Hammer : much love and gratitude to all. my cup is full �Patti

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