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Seasoned Greetings SEASONED GREETINGS A QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER OF ROANOKE MONTHLY MEETING Summer Edition 2017 “While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, And cold and heat, And summer and winter, And day and night Shall not cease.” ~ Genesis 8:22 SUMMER AT ROANOKE FRIENDS MEETING june, july, august, september Every Sunday: 10:30 am: Meeting for Worship every sunday: following rise of worship: snacks and fellowship First Sundays: 12 noon:potluck meal following rise of meeting at noon Collection of food items for back pack program on these Sundays (when school is in session) second sundays: 12 noon: Adult Religious Education Discussions Third Sundays: !2 noon, Meeting for worship with attention to business fourth sundays: 12 noon: Varied programs of interest to friends fourth tuesdays: 7:00 until 8:00 pm: Chanting at the Meetinghouse every third saturday: 12 noon: peace vigil at roanoke city market building upcoming special events: Mid Week worship occurs once a month on Wednesdays. There is no set schedule. The dates are aanounced by email. OTHER EVENTS, AS THEY ARE SCHEDULED, WILL APPEAR THE newsLetter IS PUBLISHED 4 TIMES ON THE MEETINGHOUSE CALENDAR, AT THE MEETING- A YEAR, on THE first daY of everY HOUSE, ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE AND ALSO WILL BE season. CIRCULATED VIA EMAILS THE autumn newsLetter WILL BE PUBLISHED on sePTEMBER 22ND, THE first daY of autumn. PLEASE NOTE THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR THE AUTUMN NEWS- LETTER IS SEPTEMBER 15TH. REGRETFULLY, SUBMISSIONS RECEIVED AFTER THAT DATE WILL NOT APPEAR IN THE AUTUMN NEWSLETTER. SOME QUERIES FOR SUMMER CARING FOR ONE ANOTHER WHAT IMPEDIMENTS DO I FIND TO REACHING OUT TO THOSE IN DISTRESS? WHAT DO I NEED TO DO TO OVERCOME THEM? AM I COMFORTABLE MAKING MY OWN NEEDS KNOWN TO MY MEETING? HOW DO WE SHARE IN THE DIVERSE JOYS AND TRANSITIONS IN EACH OTHER’S LIVES? you’re invited ! On Wednesday June 21st, Friends are invited to join Herb and Cecily for their annual Summer Solstice garden event at 2046 Knollwood Road, Roanoke Potluck at 6:00. Water and Lemonade provided, whatever else welcome. Around 7:30, we will move to the garden area and Charlie Finn will lead us in sharing thoughts, poems, songs, etc honoring the Earth, Beauty and abundance of the season. Parking along the median and in the next-door neighbor’s circle drive. Hope you can join us. (submitted by Cecily Wood) FROM RELIGIOUS EDUCATIon CoMMIttEE You may be aware that we have been showing QuakerSpeak videos as part of the Adult Religious Education program- ming. The most recent one we viewed sparked enthusiastic discussion and those in attendance were keen to share it with those who coulwd not be there. We invite you to connect to the internet, get yourself a cup of tea, and visit the link below to view some diverse and inter- esting perspectives! Do Quakers Quake? QuakerSpeak asked 15 modern Friends. http://quakerspeak.com/do-quakers-quake/ ~ Katrina Hurt FROM PEACE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE COMMIttEE Roanoke Refugee Partnership ~ Herb Beskar During the past months various new organizations have been formed to push back against the administration’s policies, and, translating energy into action, to provide services to those in need. Patterning itself on the Blacksburg Refugee Partnership, the Roanoke Refugee Partnership is developing its services to assist new refugees coming into our region. Our Meeting has a long history in providing services to refugees. Assisting a family of a single mother and eleven children from Eritrea was our last assist. There is some interest in our meeting to partner with the Roanoke Refugee Partnership. They have their non-profit status and an informative website describing the six areas of need. Transportation and donations, monetary and household items, are the two areas needing the most volunteer help. At this time we want to reach out to Friends to determine the amount of interest before starting to work with them. An advantage of working with such a part- nership is that we would not have the full responsibility of meeting the needs of a family. If you have an interest in helping, let Peace and Social Justice Committe know. Contact Herb Beskar, clerk, at 989-6875 or email: hbeskar@ gmail.com “God’s love for others does not stop at the border; neither should ours.” - Dillon Burroughs THINKING ABOUT RACE :(June 2017) Spare the Kids by Stacey Patton From The New York Times, March 12, 2017, “Stop Beating Black Children,” by Stacey Patton, Assistant Professor of multimedia journalism at Morgan State University and author of Spare the Kids: Why Whupping Children Won’t Save Black America.” “Black children are also more at risk of being assaulted, seriously injured or killed by a parent than by a police officer, a neighborhood watchman or an irritated racist who hates rap music. We have to stop hurting our children to pro- tect them. It is not working. And worse, it erodes our children’s humanity and co-signs the slave maser’s logic that you have to hit a black body to make it comply. …. “The violence that black children experience from trigger-happy cops, in the streets of cities like Baltimore and Chi- cago, in schools and at home is all inter-connected. It is all strange and bitter fruit from the same tree. I am asking that black parents stop assisting in the devaluation of our children. “Instead, we must make black children the antidote to centuries of racism.” This column is prepared by the BYM Working Group on Racism (WGR) and sent to the designated liaison at each Monthly and Preparative Meeting. The BYM WGR meets most months on the third Saturday from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. Locations vary to allow access to more Friends. If you would like to attend, on a regular or a drop-in basis, contact clerk David Etheridge, [email protected]. A MYSTICAL RELIGION Culture plays a big but implicit part in religious observance. African colleagues complain that they are being inculcated with Arab culture as well as Islam. African-American Quakers are trying to tease out the cultural underlay (British) from the religious content. So it probably is with most religions. Their mystical experiences are ritually reenacted as a practice of remembrance or possibly sympathetic magic. Often the meaning behind the ritual fades from collective memory and the rituals and doctrine begin to function for their own sake, thus leading to the view that religion often represents the ossification of mystic experience. (Noah Taylor’s PhD disserta- tion, p.106) If Quaker silence permitted the mystical experience, and the experience was so ineffable that it demanded silence, then the silence became Friends’ peculiar identifying mark. And does the silence continue to convey a desire for mystical experi- ence? Do Friends in Day Avenue on a Sunday still themselves in order to attend to God? Or has the mystical experience become forgotten, not trusted, and do we then end up with the silence as ritual? Mystical experience seems to defy ownership or gate-keeping by initiates, by priests or bishops. The silence obviates the role of priest as intermediary. Yet it is also a closed system, hidden from view. The meeting may react to what is said or even how it is said; indeed, gentle eldering is considered a function of selected members of meeting. But we have no inten- tion to intrude on individuals’ silence, on what they experience or expect in that silence. If it is for some just a quiet pause in busy lives, a space of refreshment, then that is a good result. If for some it is more mystical, the hope of actual contact with God or the spirit, then that seems good also. Does it matter if there are different objectives? I have participated in Quaker meetings with a wide variety of customs and behaviors. Some were programmed, with prepared sermons and selected hymns. Others were a struggle not to pay attention to soldiers shouting at people caught between battle lines. I used to tease Irish and British Friends that their services centered around an altar: a table in the middle, always with a large vase or bowl of flowers and a few devotional books. We held a meeting each Tuesday at Quaker House Belfast, and someone would always bring flowers and pull out a table to put them on. When I tried removing the table, or placing on it a sculpture or a rock or a bowl of goldfish, the flowers always reappeared. This really was a ritual, not subject to discussion. We, too, have rituals, some of which we are trying to create or re-create in our new space: shaking hands, holding hands, joys and concerns, snacks, ministry about the pillar… It would be uncomfortable to think of our silence as ‘ossification’, a living ritual become rigid and losing its content. Surely we are choosing this, not just doing what is done. And, if so, it remains a vital part of our religious experience, not just an empty ritual. But would it help if, from time to time, we shared with each other what happens in the silence? In my experience, the silence is not the absence of sound, but the waiting on God. Or, as my Russian Orthodox colleague expressed it: The outer silence comes from the inner silence, not the other way round. In my view, it is not so important whether there is no noise during a Quaker meeting. What is important is to listen attentively to the interior voice. ~Sue Williams Just remember, there’s a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way.
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