August 2008

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SSF Video on YouTube

August 25, 2008 in Uncategorized by brnathan | 1 comment

I have uploaded my first attempt at doing a video to give people a brief overview of our community onto Youtube. Please visist YouTube and comment, rate, the video. Also if you use social networking site such as MySpace, Facebook etc, or have a website or blog, please consider either embedding the video in your site or linking to the site at YouTube. If you’re not sure how to link or embed the video to your website, blog, MySpace, Facebook etc, or to link to it at YouTube please email me and I’ll try and help.

Please feel free to send comments, thoughts suggestions to me also if you don’t want to post to this site, or YouTube. Email Br Nathan-James.

You can view the video at YouTube here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhfkeAj37fU

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A sermon for Br Joe

August 22, 2008 in preaching by brnathan | No comments

I have felt really blessed to have received quite a number of comments on the sermon preached at Br Joe’s profession. Several people have written to me thanking me for the way in which they related to some of the reflections in the sermon. The thing is I didn’t think it was all the special. Though it is interesting to hear what people heard and read from it. I sometimes asked myself when I got their email, did we hear or read the same sermon. Read the rest of this entry »

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The Anglican Rosary

August 22, 2008 in Uncategorized by brnathan | No comments

The Anglican Rosary blog has been created to enable people interested in using Anglican Prayer (Rosary) Beads to share thoughts, ideas and comments. Anyone who is interested in this form of contemplative prayer is welcome to participate in this blog.

Over the years that I have been facilitating workshops on making and using prayer beads I’ve kept saying that I would like to collect some of the great insights that are shared in the workshops. I finally got challenged a few weeks back at a workshop I was facilitating. So I decided to get on with it and get something done. So I created The Anglican Rosary.

I hope to mainly focus on collecting stories of the ways in which people’s lives have been touch by making and using prayer beads. The second is to collect some of the great prayers for the Anglican Rosary that come out of the workshops.

I hope to see you pass through there some time.

Inbetween two worlds of vocation and formation

August 22, 2008 in Formation, open space technology, vocation by brnathan | 1 comment

Last formation weekend we were exposed to method of running meetings called  Open Space Technology.

Open Space Technology enables groups of any size to address complex, important issues and achieve meaningful results quickly.

I have to say I’m not the one to quickly jump on the band wagon of the latest fad to be introduced. And I’m certainly one who is more interested in structured approaches to things. I prefer to know the who, what how, where and when of things; not the whoever comes, whatever happens approach we heard about and experienced on out last formation weekend.

But I’m also one to acknowledge insight from things, regardless of how ‘gimmicky’ it can sound at the time. We had an opportunity to experience this style of meeting leadership. Where you basically ‘go with the flow’ and essentially what happens happens. Read the rest of this entry »

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New web address

August 20, 2008 in General by brnathan | No comments

I trust you have not had any issue with migrating with me over to the new hosting service, and hence new URL, for The Mendicant Mind and Body. I will continue posting (well yes when I can) to my blog at the new site. The other will remain open as long as wordpress.com wants to keep it open though all new posts will come through www.mendicantsoul.info. Please update your links and Feeds.

Preaching is a conversation and it is God who speaks

August 19, 2008 in Formation, preaching by brnathan | No comments

I tell you what. I’ll leave it up to you. If a few minutes before you have to get up, and you don’t feel like you can, just go like this (nodding his head in a very particular and revernt way in my direction) and I’ll get up and do it for you.

Recently Br Joseph asked me to preach at his profession in vows. I light heartedly said to those at his service when I was offering a reflection for his profession that Joseph asked me to get back at me for the number of times I’ve stirred him up because he knows preaching is the last thing I’d offer to do. Read the rest of this entry »

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