Christ Church Anglican Parish. O'Halloran Hill in Adelaide, South Australia | Religious organisation

Christ Church Anglican Parish. O'Halloran Hill

Locality: Adelaide, South Australia

Phone: 8381 3039

Address: 1708 Main South Road 5158 Adelaide, SA, Australia

Website: http://www.christchurchohh.org.au/

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23.01.2022 In John’s gospel, Jesus tells us that the Eucharist is the new manna, the new bread from heaven, the new way that God gives us daily sustenance. Eucharist As New Manna How does the Eucharist give us daily sustenance? The Eucharist nurtures us by giving us God’s physical embrace (the real presence) and, like a Quaker-silence, it gives us a oneness with each other that we cannot give to ourselves.... However it nurtures us in yet a further way. It provides us with a life-sustaining ritual, a regular meeting around the word and person of Christ that can become the daily bread of our lives and our communities. How? Monks have secrets worth knowing. One of these is that a community sustains itself not primarily through novelty, titillation, and high emotion but through rhythm and routine, namely, through simple, predictable, ritual processes. For example, a wise family will say to itself: We will all be home at regular times, we will all eat together twice a day, and we will all be together in the living room at least once a day even if it isn’t exciting, even if real feelings aren’t shared, even if some are bored, and even if some are protesting that this isn’t worthwhile. We will do this because, if we don’t, we will soon fall apart as a family. To stay together we need regular, straight-forward, predictable, daily rituals. We need the manna of daily presence to each other. Otherwise we’ll die. In the Eucharist, God sustains us in just this way. Ron Rolheiser, OMI

20.01.2022 Trinity Sunday - Blessing of a new window in the old church, with the donor, Margarette Powell & her family present. Parishioners also joined the celebration. The window is in 'grisaille' style, with depictions representing the attributes of Jesus' name and work. The border seeks to be evocative of patchworking, something which has been a passion of Margarette's for her whole life, and which she also sees as honouring the skills of early women settlers.

14.01.2022 Some thoughts from Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM Paul's Dialectical Teaching You Cannot Get There, You Can Only Be There... Tuesday, April 7, 2015 For Paul, community is the living organism that communicates the Gospel message. Paul, like Jesus, wants to change culture, not just send people away to a far off heaven! If Christ's cosmic message doesn't take form in a concrete group of people then, as far as Paul is concerned, it is an unbelievable message. An autonomous Christian is as impossible as an independent arm or leg. It will never work. Arms and legs exist only as parts. Believers exist as parts of the whole, the Body of Christ. Their very existence is the state that Paul calls love. Their existence is love. When Paul says "without love I am nothing" (1 Corinthians 13:2), he implies that he is inside of another Being who is Love. We train for this by loving real, live people. For Paul, this is what he means by Christ: the participatory mystery of Jesus continued through space and time in us! Paul sees what we eventually call the "communion of saints" as alive, real, and operative in this world. I like to call it an "energy field" created by all those who share various parts of Christ. "Salvation" is something we can participate in right here and now. No one individual is adequate to the task, yet we said they could be. No wonder so many people have either inflated or negative self-images. The paradox, of course, is that many who go to church today are not at all in the love energy field, and many who do not belong to church at all fully exemplify it! When Paul addresses his letters to "the saints," he is clearly not speaking of our later Roman idea of canonized saints. He is speaking of the people who make up his living communities and who are participating in this shared life of love in this world. Paul does not make heroes of individuals, but as members of the Body they "shine like stars" as "perfect children of God among a deceitful and underhanded brood" (Philippians 2:15). Following directly from Jesus, Paul sees his small communities as an adequate "leaven" by which God will eventually change the whole debauched Roman Empire. Talk about patience and confidence! Adapted from Great Themes of Paul: Life as Participation, disc 9 (CD); and St. Paul: The Misunderstood Mystic (MP3 download)

10.01.2022 Come Holy Spirit, and renew the face of the earth!

10.01.2022 The Desert Fathers and Mothers Thursday, April 30, 2015 The men and women who fled to the desert emphasized lifestyle practice, an alternative to empire and its economy, psychologically astute methods of prayer, and a very simple (some would say naïve) spirituality of transformation into Christ. The desert communities grew out of informal gatherings of monastic monks, functioning much like families. A good number also became hermits to mine the deep mystery of their inner e...xperience. This movement paralleled the monastic pattern in Hinduism and Buddhism. The desert tradition preceded the emergence of systematic theology and the formalization of doctrine. Faith was first a lifestyle before it was a belief system. In some areas, like Alexandria in Egypt, you had to be a long-standing monk before you could be a bishop, which entirely changed the character of bishops. These early monks and bishops were probably the link from the desert period to what became the "Eastern Church" with its unique insights. Since these desert monks were often formally uneducated, they told stories instead of using formal theology, much like Jesus did, to teach about essential issues of ego, love, virtue, surrender, peace, divine union, and inner freedom. But later, they also became much more formalized and argumentative, just like the Church in the West. Thomas Merton brilliantly recognized the importance of this early, desert form of Christianity. He describes those who fled to the wilderness as people "who did not believe in letting themselves be passively guided and ruled by a decadent state," who didn't wish to be ruled or to rule. He continues, saying that they primarily sought their "true self, in Christ"; to do so, they had to reject "the false, formal self, fabricated under social compulsion 'in the world.' They sought a way to God that was uncharted and freely chosen, not inherited from others who had mapped it out beforehand" (The Wisdom of the Desert, pp. 5-6). Can you see why we might need to learn from them? Next week we'll look more closely at the non-dual wisdom of the Desert Fathers and Mothers. Richard Rohr, OFM Adapted from the Mendicant, Vol. 5, No. 2

09.01.2022 When God and Science Meet

05.01.2022 Malaysian Churches trip. Tuesday to Thursday

04.01.2022 This evening’s meditation is from St. John Chrysostom (349-407 C.E.)