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Morning
Worship @ Home First published 11/10/2008
Updated 12/04/2010 Taking time to create some sacred space in our daily life has always been with us in some way. At meal times we would read a bible story with our children, we also experimented with different prayers after supper, and I did a bit of zen meditation, but only during our time on Iona we really experienced the impact of daily worship. After we left the island we continued to have Iona style morning worship at home. The format comes from the Iona Abbey Worship Book, but we have experimented a bit with the contents and structure. You can have a look at the texts if you are curious what we made of it. For us it is an important part of our commitment to the Iona Community's rule and a meaningful start of the day. Well, sometimes more of a lunch break... NOTE: We continue to change minor or major things in the worship texts, so there can be differences between the same file downloaded at various times. The Lectionary 2009, for example, got its last update on New Year's Day. The texts Basically we made it shorter: just 10-15 minutes. Directly after the opening responses we say the affirmation. We have skipped the confession, because we seriously feel this traditional focus on faults, frailties and sin is not a good starter. Instead we want to begin the day by praising God for the goodness in creation and the good we are called to do, despite - and especially because of! - all that contradicts it. The morning prayer is a simple one, with a 'christened' version of the Jewish morning prayer as an alternative option. For the Lord's prayer we use the version handed down by Luke, primarily for its conciseness. The concluding prayer has three parts: + silent prayer
(which we also use for intercession or confession if something in
particular pops up);
+ prayer for those we have met (with a new response); + prayer for the day (with an alternative choice for Tuesday and small changes in some other). Having kept to the Members & Associates Book for these prayers for over a year, but missing quite a few names of others, we decided for a change. Now we use a list of Members and Associates we actually know, with the names of Iona Staff who were on Iona with us, of family and friends, and of others we have met, added to the list. With those who have died we remember the Members we have known, as well as family and friends. There is something to say against leaving out names of Members and Associates, but so far it does seem to work in our situation. The closing responses are taken from the Members Book, because it applies better to our situation off Iona than the Worship Book version. A morning song is optional and a privilege for our guests to choose. The Psalms and the order of reading them comes from the Iona Abbey Worship Book. However, a few adaptations are made: + where the Hebrew
has 'Shadday' as a name for God, the erroneous translation 'Almighty'
is removed;
+ the four letter Name YHWH is represented by '(HOLY) ONE', 'MAKER' or 'ETERNAL', in capitals; + Psalm 65:2 has been corrected to avoid reading a doctrine of original sin into the psalm; + in Psalm 98:6 'the mighty God' has been replaced by 'the kingship of God', more in accordance with the Hebrew. The readings The Lectionary 2008 followed the Revised Common Lectionary for Sundays and Christian feasts, but the daily readings came from the synagogue's weekly sidrah, plus 10 Minutes Torah, an email service from the Union for Reform Judaism in the USA. In 2008 very few feasts coincided with shabbat, so the (lenghty) readings could be spread pretty equally. This has enabled us to read through the whole of the Torah in the course of a year, something we had never done before, although it really was Jesus' own bible... It also linked us to the Jewish feasts from which our own holy days have originated, again something we had never done before. Because we wanted to test it for daily use we read from the new Naardense bijbel - and we really liked it for its faithfulness to the Hebrew and its fresh Dutch. Download it here. The Lectionary 2009 will read through all four Gospels. Initially I thought to do that by linking them to the Torah lectionary, in a similar way as has been explored by M.D. Goulder and D. Monshouwer. But that was far too complicated and elaborate. So it is just a lectio continua, starting with Mark as the oldest Gospel, followed by Matthew and Luke, and with John as the conclusion. Now we will find out how that will work. For example, we will be reading the final parts of Mark, plus the first chapters of Matthew throughout Lent... We'll see. For the Sundays I just chose the Psalms from the Revised Common Lectionary. NOTE: The making of the Lectionary 2009 turns out to have been slightly hastily in the end. Typos and minor errors continue to appear. Downloading the most recent version will overcome the inconvenience. Apologies for that. The Lectionary 2010 has been completed: a lectio continua of the three major prophets, Isaiah, Jeremia and Ezekiel. I have tried to follow the (sub)division of the Hebrew text as close as possible (for those who understand: that is about the pe and samekh signs in BHS). This resulted in readings of rather unequal length, and often the divisions seem illogical, but I thought it could be a useful excercise to stay closely with the Hebrew original. Who knows if that leads to new insights? Download the Lectionary here. Leaving worship Since we left Iona we have welcomed a steady flow of guests, which is always a pleasure. So, why don't we use the Leaving Worship as we did on Iona every Friday morning when guests were leaving? We have now corrected this omission and added our own customised Leaving worship. © Copyright The morning worship materials on this site are partly copyrighted by The Iona Community, partly by Martin Grashoff. They are presented here with courtesy of Wild Goose Publications on the following condition. THE TEXTS ARE AVAILABLE FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY, AND MUST NOT BE COPIED OR PUBLISHED IN ANY FORM WITHOUT PRIOR PERMISSION FROM THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS. For any enqueries please contact Wild Goose Publications or me. Back to top |
| Weblinks Updated 01/06/2010
The following weblinks are so carefully selected that there is no need to have Windows Vista Parental Control activated on your computer. (Is there need for Vista anyway?) Just click 'n go! The recumbent bikes we once had (both out of production now): Martin's M5 -- M5 Ligfietsen, Middelburg, The Netherlands Nelleke's Jouta -- Jouta history page We are no longer members of the oldest camping club in the world: Nederlandse Toeristen Kampeer Club -- NTKC But we just swapped to the next oldest: Caravanning and Camping Club -- CCC To read the news from different sources is a good way to correct what the media put forward as 'the true reality'. My personal mix: Dutch -- NRC Handelsblad, Trouw, PZC British -- BBC, BBC Scotland, BBC Religion, Guardian German -- Frankfurter Allgemeine Israeli -- Haaretz American -- New York Times Arabic -- Al-Ahram Weekly If I pick up archery again, I might like to find a place for traditional longbow archery: British Long-bow Society in Scotland "BTW, if you don't know how to burn a CD RTM (LOL)" Now if that doesn't make any sense to you, look it up in the Free Dictionary's Acronym section. Back to top |
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| Writings
on the Web First published 11/04/2008
1. Below Sea Level (5.3 MB) -- obvious information for most Dutch people, but abroad everyone keeps asking you about it. 2. Tolkien Names/Namen (174 KB) -- a list I made of the names in Tolkien's opus magnus, The Lord Of The Rings, and their Dutch translations. You can right-click the links
and choose something like 'Save
link as...' from the popup menu to save the PDF-document directly
without opening it first.
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The Boat That Did Not Break First published 01/06/2010
It happened on the high seas: an unarmed ship trying to land on the coast of Palestine was stopped and raided by navy ships. Several people were killed, many were wounded, all others were placed in internment camps. Eventually most of them got where they wanted: in Palestine. The date was 18 July 1947, and the ship was known as SS Exodus. Or was the date 31 May 2010 and was the ship MV Mavi Marmara? Both vessels sailed with the main purpose of breaking a blockade and mobilising public opinion. In the first incident the navy was British, in the second it was Israeli. In both cases people were exposed to brute violence, in both cases the navy got the blame, but in none of the cases it led to breaking the blockade. Eventually things changed in 1947 and the Exodus action did contribute to the outcomes. So will the voyage of today's Gaza flotilla, eventually. But the Israeli government should have remembered its own national history. Unless you bring in a full army, you cannot break a blockade, but using violence to maintain a blockade, especially if the world does not see any good reason for it, is highly counterproductive. Especially if part of the peace activists on-board of the Mavi Marmara were explicitly seeking a violent confrontation. The action was wrong, and the cabinet's decision to go this way was far worse. But peace activists and Palestinians too should have remembered the story of SS Exodus. You cannot beat a well-prepared professional army. If the purpose was to bring relief goods to Gaza, the option offered by the Israelis, i.e. to berth in Asdod and bring the goods to Gaza over land, was a reasonable proposal. But obviously reason was not en vogue. All we have now is losers. Worst of all: the people in Gaza on whose heads the media power play was imposed and who will possibly not see the goods they need arriving. Then the Israelis: they lose even more support, while there was already very little left. All that happens now is a world-wide screaming against Israel, which blocks Israel in an attitude of persistent use of (too much) military force and it blocks Palestinians in their hate against Israel. Who's guilty? I don't know. There is no use whatsoever in pointing at one of both sides. It will only create a winner and a loser and that will not end the conflict. Instead of finding the bad guys -- or the scapegoats -- I do hope some way forward to Palestian and Israeli freedom will be found. But it's a desperate kind of hope. Back to top |
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Pilgrims
from Zealand First published 06/04/2009
Long ago -- 'twas AD 2000 -- I started a pilgrimage with a colourful group of people from Zealand. (That is: the old province in The Netherlands, as opposed to New Zealand.) We decided we could walk from Goes to Cologne, in stages of three days a year. At the end of 2004 we moved home to Scotland ourselves, but the group kept walking. In 2010 they will reach Cologne. One member of the group, Mieke Braamse, recently wrote a book about the pilgrims' experiences so far. Read more about it on her website. (Aye, that's in Dutch.) And have a look on this page from time to time to check if there is any news. Back to top |
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