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² Lectio Divina news ² Reach for the skies ² Down Memory Lane ² A Favourite Church ² June Cookery plus stories and all our ² usual news from around the region Chaplaincy of Aquitaine Newsletter June 2013 The Chaplaincy of Aquitaine is part of the Church of England Diocese in Europe, working in partnership with The Intercontinental Church Society, in ministry to people who speak English. It covers Gironde, Dordogne and Lot-et-Garonne. CHURCH SERVICES, JUNE 2013 (see Around the Chaplaincy for location details) SUNDAY 02 JUNE 10:30 Service of the Word Bertric Burée 10:30 Holy Communion Bordeaux 10:30 Prayer & Praise Limeuil 10:30 Morning Worship Monteton 11:00 Holy Communion Doudrac 11:00 Holy Communion Temniac, nr Sarlat (note change of venue) 18:00 Evensong Bertric Burée Chancelade SUNDAY 16 JUNE TUESDAY 04 JUNE 10:30 All Age Worship Bertric Burée 11:00 Holy Communion Allez 10:30 Holy Communion Bordeaux 10:30 Holy Communion Chancelade 10:30 Holy Comminion Dondas SUNDAY 09 JUNE 10.30 Morning Worship Limeuil 10:30 Holy Communion Bertric Burée 10:30 Prayer and Praise Monteton 10:30 Family Communion Bordeaux 11:00 Service of the Word Sainte Nathalène 10:30 Holy Communion Limeuil 17:00 Evensong Limeuil 10:30 Morning Prayer Monteton 11:00 Family Service Negrondes THURSDAY 20 JUNE 10:30 Holy Communion Limeuil TUESDAY 11 JUNE 11:00 Ecumenical Service Trentels, Lot et Garonne SUNDAY 23 JUNE 10:30 Holy Communion Bertric Burée WEDNESDAY 12 JUNE 10:30 All Age Worship Bordeaux 11:00 Holy Communion Bertric Burée 10:30 Holy Communion Monteton 10.30 Holy Communion Limeuil TUESDAY 25 JUNE 11:00 Holy Communion Negrondes SUNDAY 30 JUNE 10:30 Special Service Bertric Burée 10:30 Youth Service Bordeaux 10:30 Holy Communion Limeuil 16:00 Evensong Monteton Front cover: Detail of Stained Glass Allez Window of the Holy Spirit at St Paul’s Shrine, Cleveland, Ohio Chaplaincy of Aquitaine Newsletter June 2013 2 At the very last moment (and with no rehearsal) I thought that it would be good for Yasmin to tell her own Clerical The Wind of the Holy story and she told the congregation about her journey of Corner Spirit faith.The wind of The Holy Spirit moved amongst us as she spoke and then Yasmin was baptised in the name of The Father and of the Son and of The Holy Spirit.. Chen we were younger my family and I used to go Wsailing in Greece. Well, to be precise, we went on I thought that I had a clear plan for the service but the holiday to Greece and I would make my family go sailing wind took us in a different direction. with me. For the most part Jennifer and the girls enjoyed it but they would have rather hired a motor boat. Bramwell VVVVVVV It was the unpredictability of it all that they did not like. Sometimes we would sail smoothly out of Nidri and From your Editor end up without mishap in Spartahori , have a delightful lunch and sail back but sometimes it just didn’t work out that way. I really really hope that by the time you read this it has stopped raining! I ought On one occasion we became becalmed on the way to be doing my 50 lengths a day by now back....floating aimlessly in the clear blue sea but being but no chance. Never mind, lots of good fried by the burning sun. The fact that I had forgotten to things have been happening as you can pack extra drinking water did not help either. The wind see from this month’s reports and lots of good things to refused to blow and we were left stranded. We drifted come too. for hours and I was not at all popular. When I suggested going sailing the next holiday I was greeted with a stony I’m still, as ever, on the outlook for contributions to this silence. magazine so do think about sending in something either written by yourself or maybe pointing me to an item As we prepared for our Pentecost service you’ve come across that you think others would like too. yesterday the words of John 3 came to me. ‘The wind blows where it wishes, At the end of the month a group of us are off to Frejus for and you hear the sound of it, but cannot a residential singing weekend organised by the RSCM tell where it comes from and where it France - we’ll tell you how we got on next month! goes. So is everyone who is born of the Gill Spirit.’ (John 3 v 8) VVVVVVV Sometimes we, as The Church, can set off in new directions and we find that they lead us nowhere. We Chaplaincy AGM elections can become becalmed because the wind of the Spirit is not blowing in our sails. Perhaps we have omiitted to At the recent AGM, the following were elected: ask God for guidance and have forgotten to prepare properly for the journey. Chaplaincy Wardens: Jennifer Lord and Ian Couper At our service yesterday I had Chaplaincy Council representatives: the pleasure of baptising Yasmin Bertric Burée: Sheila Marshall and Mike Duncan Berrou, a young mother who is Bordeaux: Pamela Prior a lawyer by profession. During Limeuil: David Albrecht and Anne Penfold the service and just before Lot & Garonne: Paul Mazzotti her baptism I shared with the Monteton: Doris Hogarth and Sue Blomley congregation that Yasmin had Ste Nathalène: Sheila Campbell and Judith Thomason told me that, as a lawyer, she Sorges/Chancelade: Liz Oaten and Lin Tarrant had always asked too many questions. Faith had not been Jeff Warin was elected as independent examiner for the easy for her, she could always see the argument from the accounts. other side. David Tervet (Secretary) June 2013 Chaplaincy of Aquitaine Newsletter 3 Lectio Divina bookmarks now spontaneously from within your experience of this available! word or phrase. These may be prayers of thanksgiving, petition, intercession, lament or praise. You could write ur spiritual focus this is year is Lectio Divina, down the thoughts that come your way. Sometimes Othat age-old discipline to prayer through the ‘silence’ is enough – without any words or prayers. Scriptures....or to read Scripture prayerfully. Resting: Allow yourself to simply rest silently for a time in the stillness of your heart – remaining open to A beautiful Lectio Divina bookmark has been the quiet fullness of God’s love and peace. Spend a few produced....and I hope you will get your own copy soon. moments thanking God for His love and grace towards Please ask your local warden(s). you. Our topic at the Belloc retreat was “Eat this...” - digesting These four movements of ’Lectio Divina’ may not always Scripture prayerfully. If you did not manage to join us for follow a linear progression. Allow yourself freedom. The that, but are interesting in this topic, I am very willing aim is to move into the depths of silence and stillness to come to where you are to give a 1-day workshop. where we can hear the Word of God spoken to us in love Please contact me directly, or ask your local warden(s) and respond to this Word with our love and our life. to organise something for your congregation or small group. VVVVVVV Looking forward to seeing you soon. Blessings, Paul E-mail from God One day God was looking down at Earth and saw all of the evil that was going on. He decided to send an angel down to Earth to check it out. So he called one of His best angels and sent the angel to Earth for a time. When the angel returned she told God, yes it is bad on ‘Lectio Divina’ is ‘Sacred Reading’ Earth, 95% is bad and 5% is good. Well, God thought for It is a good way of opening ourselves up to God. It a moment and said “Maybe I had better send down a involves a ‘slow reading’ of a chosen text from the Bible second angel, to get another point of view.” and allowing the words to speak in a new way. It can be described as ‘attentive’ listening or ‘looking’ – allowing So God called another angel and sent her to Earth for a God to speak from His Word into your situation. As time too. preparation it is important to fix the time to allow for it. Find a quiet place to still yourself before God. When the angel returned she went to God and told Him yes, the Earth was in decline, 95% was bad and 5% was There are four parts to a Lectio Divina exercise: good. God said this was not good. Reading: Slowly begin reading a biblical passage, possibly a few times. Approach it reverentially and So He decided to E-mail the 5% that were good. He expectantly, in a way that savours each word and phrase. wanted to encourage them..............give them a little Read the passage until you hear a word or phrase that something to help them keep going. speaks to you, or even disturbs you. If this is all you do then this alone may be sufficient. Do you know what that E-mail said? Reflecting: Ponder this word or phrase for a few minutes. Let it sink in slowly and deeply until you are resting in * * * * * * * * * it. Listen for what the word or phrase is saying to you at this moment in your life, what it may be offering you, You didn’t get one either, huh? what it may be demanding of you.