Index

 

2007 SummerWorkshop

 

Application form  Derry

 

Application form Dalgan

 

CHOKMAH NEWS

The Armagh Diocesan Initiative forNarrative&Prayer&Healing

TO KNOW&EMBODY THE CHRIST IN THE MODERN WORLD  

 

THE CHOKMAH SUMMER WORKSHOPS 2007

What a BItterSweet Mystery,

TheBright & Dark of TheSacredMarriage

of TheGod & TheGoddess!

 

Opportunities to explore our shared experience

of the interrelatedness of

SacredFeminine&SacredMasculine!

with an eye on ancient mythemes that still flourish today!

 

so that women & men, alone & together,

may create-anew & embody-for-now

their archetypal wholeness!

 

How do the workshop descriptions impinge on the spectrum of my experience?

In what ways has the mythology of 'TheSacredMarriage' been unveiled to me?

What have I learned from TheBible about

TheSacredFeminine/TheMotherGoddess?

To what extent have 'Feminism', 'Women'sLib', &'GayPride' clarified for me?

Where is TheSacredFeminine in the mindset&structures of RomanCatholicism?

How is TheFeminine represented&nuanced in ancient Gaelic storytelling?

In TheDivineMarriages of ancient mythology, is any of them unambiguously happy?

Mary's 'Assumption', any hint of a 'SacredMarriage' in its wake?

Would it benefit, to recover 'SacredMarriage' for TheJewishChristian 'paradigm'?

How has the preponderance of 'masculine divinity' affected 'christianity'?

What about claims, that the earth is 'Gaia, DynamicFeminineDivineOrganism'?

&Various beliefs, that the fully-integrated human is 'feminine&masculine-at-one'?

Is there a tendency in religion&culture to ascribe maximum value to TheMasculine?

 

 

IMU DalganPark, Navan, Co Meath. 2-6July2007

Information: Yvonne 042 9352757 Gerry 042 9339983

 

Termonbacca Carmelite Retreat Centre, Derry 5-10Aug2007

Information: Liz 074 9384374 (Donegal) Nóirín 028 71359556 (Derry)

 

Ochone! ThePotential-of-Children&Women&Men-Together!

Ochone! Chokmah&Yahweh!

Will-ever-TheBanns-be-Sung? Will-ever-TheBells-be-Rung?

 

hard to visualise, the entourage

of Yahweh-in-Jesus, children&women&men!

the pecking order, say, of a rural parish?

did TheTwelve, especially Kephas, maintain the order,

&regulate healing, &other, access

to TheChrist? &'children partic'r'ly, keep your distance!

&women, not at TheTable, leaning-in,

but over there, to cook&serve the food...'...?

how can we know? one thing the stories,

called 'word of god' to keep us dumb!

another, who got to tell them, for-why...?

TheUncreatedBreath-that-Thrilled-TheChrist

in EveryNow, &EveryEncounter-with-Woe,

there's no dear doubt at all, that She,

prior to TheReign-of-Story, &Disposition,

&ClawingBack, &Gelling-TheLord'sFluidity,

She opened HisHeart&Eyes&Arms

to Gather-All-in-OneDilectiveEmbrace...

 

Yes! EveryChild-Immersed-in-MyLove!

Yes! EveryChild-Mirror-of-TheGift!

Yes! TheWoman! MotherEve&Mary!

Yes! TheWoman! Never-Raise-a-Stone!

Yes! TheMan! Called-to-Renounce-TheFist!

Yes! TheMan! Protect&Restore-TheDignity!

Yes! MyFollower! Be-as-I-to-All!

Yes! MyFollower! Cherish-Each-as-Yourself!

Yes! TheGathering! Discern&Shed-Pretension!

Yes! TheGathering! Recover-TheTruth-that-Frees!

Yes! TheBreath! TheStillUnopened-Gift!

Yes! TheBreath! Drink-HerSmile&Dance!

Yes! Chokmah&Yahweh! Amen!

 

'I asst y' b'fore, why 'ntcha talk landwitch?

all this pick-me-nose-an'-ate-it,

watch y're no' called-up f'r blas'mee!

not that Ah'd mind, it'd gimme head a rest...'

 

perhaps we prefer to leave TheThink-UnThought:

Was TheCosmicEvent-of-TheChrist Transformed&Lost?

or skewed in Ways-that-still-Frustrate-TheFruitfullness?

 

Ochone! ThePotential-of-Children&Women&Men-Together!

Ochone! Chokmah&Yahweh!

Will-ever-TheBanns-be-Sung? Will-ever-TheBells-be-Rung?

 

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COORDINATOR

Tom Hamill (‘Chokmah’ Initiative)