Dear Friends, WARNING! Entering "The Hologram of Hildegard" her life and creative genius. This class and book group may ignite invisible fires within you.
The Hologram of Hildegard
Book Group and Class
June 7- July 18th 6 weeks Saturday's 3-4:30 pm PST
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We will be using two books and both are available on Amazon. Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen with text and art work by Hildegard and commentary by Matthew Fox and Hildegard of Bingen and Her Visions of the Feminine by Nancy Fierro. (Also available as an audio book)
It is urgent that we honor our visions in order to create a new Ecologic Civilizations in this time of global catastrophe. Hildegard of Bingen a visionary and Earth ecologist, prophet and mystic, theologian, artist, saint, healer, church reformer, founder of women's communities, preacher and teacher, playwrite, composer of music and writer of 9 books is calling us to get to work! She calls us to take our visions, dreams and God experiences seriously. She is our guide and we need for her life to be a model for us during our ecologic crisis. On Saturday, June 12th we begin an adventure entering the hologram of her visions and her love of the Earth. "The Earth is the womb of God," she teaches and we become lovers of God and the Earth like her.
You are invited in this class to create mandalas, music, artwork and writings that we will share. Matthew Fox in Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen writes, "Hildegard breaks into imagery, mandala drawing, poetry, music and drama in her first theological work and never ceases this kind of learning and teaching the rest of her busy life.....Education must include process as well as concept.......the process of her illuminations begs us to enter into our own awakening, our own illuminations." This class/book group invites you to explore new expressions of the divine aka creating "illuminations." In "Hildegard's Hologram" there are an infinite number of possibilities that you may create from artwork to administrative ideas for community building, gardening, writing, designing civil disobedience and plans for fasting and/or beginning new practices..........who knows what!
June 6 Hildegard's Life as Model in Global Crisis
June 13 Hildegard's Visions
June 20 Theology and the Divine Feminine
June 27 Ecology and Hildegard's Love of the Earth
July 4 No Class
July 11 Hildegard's Music and Medicine
July 18 Creating Community and Women's Leadership
Hildegard and God are calling you to honor your visions, dreams, and experiences of the sacred. When you attend this class you may catch Hildegard's love of the Earth, and experience a creative outpouring of gifts, a more intimate relationship with God and begin doing more useful work of deep meaning beyond your wildest dreams. You have been WARNED!
There is no set charge for this class. If you can afford to make a tax deductible donation to Church for Our Common Home it will be much appreciated.
Sending love. Please contact me if you have prayer requests.
Rev. Bonnie Minister Church for Our Common Home Co-President of UUSCM https://www.uuscm.org/ Affiliated Community Minister First UU Church of SD
To join Zoom Church, Sunday's 5 pm PST go to church website www.churchforourcommonhome.com and click on Zoom link using the password of ten 9's or 9999999999 or contact Rev. Bonnie Tarwater (858) 248-5123, revtarwater@yahoo.com to receive an email reminder and link.
As soon as it is safe we will resume our time together for church, farming, dancing, sharing dreams, singing, art making, communing with nature, prayer and counseling in person, including weekly potlucks and dancing at the Mary Magdalene Cafe following weekly worship Sunday evenings, 15435 Strong Road, Dallas, Oregon 97338. We are less than a 30 minute drive from Salem, Oregon and about an hour plus south of Portland. Before we are able to safely gather in person we are meeting on the internet, phone and are together as we unite in our hearts and spirits in prayer!
Zoom worship, weekly Sunday 5 pm PST
Dream Group, Wednesday 7-8:30 pm PST for during collective crisis dreams often become very powerful and meaningful.
Lectio Divina and Centering Prayer Group
Tuesday 9 am PST change from 10 am.
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Church for Our Common Home is a "Home Church" and counseling center, God centered and guided that offers worship and programs online and in person, dedicated to the Earth, creating Loving Community and celebrating Beauty and the Arts. We have recently relocated to a 5 acre small farm in Dallas, Oregon for biodynamic farming, named in honor of the planetary treasure on Earth Day this year, the John Cobb Farm. We will be building an artistic, ecologic church to pray for the Earth.