Aotearoa NZ 2010

1. A Warm Welcome Nau Mai ~ Haere Mai Aotearoa NZ 2010

2. Gather us O God Unify and set us free! Gather us O God May Your Spirit with us be! Kia Kotahi Kia Kotahi Ra Katoa Kia Kotahi Tonoa Mai To Wairua

3. The Gift of Presence “Where shall I go for Enlightenment?” “Here.” “When will it happen?” “It is happening right now.” “Then why don’t I experience it?” “Because you do not look.” “At what?” “Anything your eyes alight upon.” “Must I look in a special kind of way?” No just the ordinary way will do.” “But don’t I always look in the ordinary way?” “No.” “Why ever not?” “Because to look – you must be here. You’re mostly…somewhere else.” The greatest reality you bring to today is the gift of your Presence.

5. Weaving the Threads of our Traditions together

6. Mission In the Beginning… was the Mission. And the Mission was with God And the Mission was God God who is Love. The Mission does not belong to any Group or Church or Religion.

7. Spirituality Is what your theology looks like… ? Spirituality

8. Spirituality • Derived from the Latin – Spirare– “to breathe”. (Genesis – The Spirit hovering over Creation - x;Wr breath, wind, Spirit) • Spirituality is not something added onto our humanity – It is of the very essence of what it is to be human. “I have come that you may have life and have it to the full.” John 10:10

9. Micah 6:8 tAfÜ[]-~aiyKiä ^ªM.mivrEäADhw"ùhy>-hm'(W bAJ+-hm; ~d"Þa' ^±l. dyGIïhi p `^yh,(l{a/-~[itk,l,Þ [;nEïc.h;w> ds,x,êtb;h]a;äw> ‘jP'v.mi This is what Yahweh asks of You: only one thing To do justice To love hesed, To walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8

10. From the Hebrew Tradition The Highpoint of First Testament Spirituality that sums up the stance of the human being towards the Divine – (YHWH) and towards humanity. Poetically and succinctly expresses the legal, ethical and moral requirements of YHWH.

11. Micah 6:8 Micah "envisions a changed social system, " an "alternative way to order society around the Gifts (Charisms) of God" Walter Brueggemann

12. Micah 6:8 ‘A Passion for God and a Passion for Humanity.’

13. Micah 6:8 is about doing “Humanness” “I will consider the human person as one who listens (obeys), discerns, and trusts. These three disciplines of humanness together provide a foundation for life of buoyant freedom, free of fear and cynicism, a life rooted in complete commitment to YHWH, full adherence to YHWH’s sovereignty, and full of confidence in YHWH’s reliable ordering of reality.” Brueggemann

14. Hungers (Micah 6) • The ‘More’ • Spirituality

15. The Call to Justice Lived out relationally through Community Reflected upon Contemplatively as our Growth in Integrity

16. As a leader – Imagine…Past Experience…Present Reality… 3 things…? Your School Community How would you like it to ‘look’? 3 Descriptors???

17. From the Tradition The ‘Four Marks of the Church’ (Ideal) Four Descriptors of Catholic Christian Community ONE • HOLY • CATHOLIC • APOSTOLIC

18. One

19. ONE WTT Deuteronomy 6:4 `dx'(a, Ÿhw"ïhy> WnyheÞl{a/ hw"ïhy> lae_r"f.yI [m;Þv.WTT "Hear, O Israel! YHWH our God, is one! Leviticus 19:18 18…You shall love your neighbour as yourself: Luke 10:27 "You shall love YHWH your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and …your neighbour as yourself."

20. HOLY ? What’s it to you??

21. Jesus’ Life and Ministry is Grounded in a Symbol from His Ancient Hebrew Tradition

22. At the Core of Jesus’ Life and Ministry is a Symbol ? The Kin-dom The Reign of God The Basileiabasilei,a, Your Kingdom Come Your Will be Done Here – on earth - as it is in Heaven.

23. Shalom ~Alv

24. For What…did Jesus Stand? Jesus loved His People – and was impelled by a Vision of what they could become… He not only loved His nation – He held for it a Tender Vision of Peace (Shalom) and Hope. He had long been compelled by that Covenant born to the nation on Exodus. It was the clash between this covenant ideal (of what could be) and the disturbing realities being lived around Him (what actually was) that finally moved Jesus into Public Activity… A Consequence of His own Baptismal Choice.

25. ~Alv'Shalomderived from theHebrew verb [v;y" {yaw-shah'} swth,rio,n SoteriaGreek SalusLatin SalvationEnglish

26. Shalom ~Alv • God’s Will – God’s Dream – For each human being – in the context of Creation. • God’s Will for my Health, Healing, Wholeness, Holiness, Well-Being. • God’s Will for my liberation from all that prevents me from becoming whole, being healed, becoming holy, becoming free, living the Gift of Life to the Full (John 10:10). Shalom – A Blessing A Greeting – Be well – Be whole –May you become whole as God is whole. May you become the Gift God created you to become. “Kia Ora” Literal meaning - “Broad, Spacious, Room for all” – especially those who have few choices in life – the ‘actually poor’. What is God’s Will for me – right now? – In terms of the Call to Wholeness?

27. [v;y"{yaw-shah'} Meaning: 1) to save, be saved, be delivered, to set free, to liberate from all that is oppresses and diminishes fullness of life. • Messiah [;yvi²AmJoshua [;vuªAhy> • Hosea ‘[;ve’AhIsaiahhy"[.v;y> • Jesus - the Greek Form of Joshua (Hebrew)

28. ~Alv‘ Shalom God’s Dream for our coming to wholeness Our well-being – realising our Call to Wholeness/Holiness Literally – Broad – spacious – room for all’ - completeness, soundness, welfare, safety, soundness, in body, health, prosperity,well-being, quiet, tranquility. Contentment - friendship: human relations: peace with God, esp. in covenant relation peace from war: to make peace. • Contentment – Not having what you want – but – wanting what you already have!

29. The Will of God

30. I am the Ground of your Prayers. First, it is My Will that you have what you desire. Later, I cause you to pray for it, and you do so. How then can you not have what you desire? Julian of Norwich Often… we anxiously seek the will of God, as if God had gleefully hidden dreams for us in unfathomable places…as if it were God’s intention that our whole lives be spent in endless searching for signs and directions buried in obscurity. The Will of God is the Seed of our Dreams ever gestating with possibility and longing to leap forward scattering new and surprising Blessings throughout our everyday reality. (Edwina Gately) The Will of God - – Shalom – A Blessing of Wholeness, Healing, Liberation and Holiness.

31. Hear then what YHWH asks of You! To doJustice To Love Hesed (Kindness) And to walk humbly with your God

32. Walk Humbly [;nEïc.h; Walking the Talk

33. Walk ‘Humbly' [;nEïc.h; To walk ‘humbly’ (carries notions of walking cautiously, circumspectly, wisely, discerningly) with your God. It conveys the idea of a measured, considered and careful way of living – with integrity. ‘Humble’ refers not so much to a self-effacing stance as to a way of living characterized by a careful attentiveness to the Will of God through another. `^yh,(l{a/-~[itk,l,Þ [;nEïc.h;w> …appears elsewhere only in the Wisdom Literature (Proverbs 11:2, Sirach 16:25, 35:3)

34. Walk ‘Humbly’[;Wnc' A Humble Spirit Being realistic about one-self (modest) gifts and strengths Offering those gifts for the good of the community Recognising and Acknowledging the Source of the Gifts for Mission – the Gospel (Charism)

35. Integrity – Pono - Humility[;Wnc' It is Truth grounded in Faith as Trust It is the joining of love and truth in action. It calls forth listening with love, bringing forth truth and responding with honesty. It challenges justice and mercy to become embodied in action. It is experienced through disciplined words and actions that have their roots in Reverence for Human Dignity

36. Mary and Julian ...as Mystics ‘There, where you are – you will find God.’ 1874 ‘Believe the whisperings of god within your own heart.’ 1868 ‘God gave me such a sense of God’s wonderful presence’ 1871 ‘God’s love is too deep for words to express .’1870 ‘I felt nearer to God than I ever felt before .’1871 ‘See the beauty of God .’1873 ‘See the hand of God in all that happens .’1871 ‘Let us be entirely God’s’. 1890 A Mystic is One who is constantly aware of the Presence of the Divine within the Mystery of Everyday Life

37. Walking Humbly with your God, in each other, in creation in one’s own being. The way we walk is with each other. As part of Community for Mission The call is to this with integrity and humility.

38. Our Yes to the Reign of God’s Love in our ‘Here and Now’. In Jewish spirituality, two concepts dominate and are intertwined: The one, devekut, translates as "clinging to God" or contemplation; the other, tikkuno'lam, translates "repairing the world" the work of justice. One without the other--contemplation without justice, clinging to mystery without repairing the real world--is unfinished, the tradition teaches, is dark without light, is grand without great, is soul without body. Those who have no flame in their hearts for justice, no consciousness of responsibility for the reign of God, no raging commitment to human community may indeed be seeking God. But make no mistake, God is still, at best, only an idea to them, not a reality. Indeed, contemplation is a very dangerous activity. It not only brings us face to face with God. It brings us, as well, face to face with the world, face to face with the self. And then, of course, something must be done. Nothing stays the same once we have found the God within.... We carry the world in our hearts: the oppression of all peoples, the suffering of our friends, the burdens of our enemies, the raping of the Earth, the hunger of the starving, the joy of every laughing child. MISSION Mission can be described as an encounter with mystery in unexpected places and in unsuspected ways.

39. One Inclusive Open Welcoming Whole Holistic Becoming • Sent • avposte,llw • xlv