Newsletter

From the Director - The Revd Dr Liz Carmichael

December 2009

Dear Friends of St Theosevia,

Welcome to the Hilary Term 2010 programme. Thank you for your support of the very informative and interesting programme last term.

In Hilary Term we have two study days and one poetry evening.

The first study day affords an opportunity to explore the art and science of spiritual direction in three very varied contexts: We begin in the desert of Palestine with Barsanuphius and John, then move to the C20th Church of England and the work of Reginald Somerset Ward, whom Evelyn Underhill found to be ‘the most remarkable soul-specialist I’ve ever met since the Baron (von Hügel)’. Finally, we focus on Ignatius of Loyola whose C16th ‘spiritual exercises’ have been revisited and brought alive in a fresh way by his fellow Jesuits and widely shared with others in the past few decades.

The Song of Songs, allegorically interpreted as referring to love between God and those who seek Him in prayer, has been central to the Christian mystical tradition. Sr Edmée SLG (Fairacres) will share her recent research, The Song of Songs and the Eros of God: A Study in Biblical Intertextuality (OUP 2009). The day includes musical settings which the words of the Song have inspired. down the ages in both Judaism and Christianity.

Finally, you are invited to a bring-and-share poetry evening led by Metropolitan Kallistos. Come and bring poetry (and perhaps other offerings) on the theme of ‘Heaven and Hell’.

We look forward to seeing you, and encourage you to make this programme widely known among your friends and to bring them along.

If you have ideas for future topics or speakers, or would like to receive extra newsletters or posters, please let us know.

LIZ CARMICHAEL
Tel. (01865) 277351
liz.carmichael@sjc.ox.ac.uk




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