THOUGHTS, WRITINGS, RECORDINGS
from our priests
2023 Affiliate Conference
Are you part of an affiliate congregation?
You are not alone!
Save the date for this special conference!
What: Announcing a first time conference for affiliate organizers of The Christian Community from across North America. Come join others in Tucson to get to know one another
and share in community.
Where and When: Tucson, Arizona. (zip code: 85719)
February 16, 5:00 PM – 19, 1:00 PM, 2023
Who will be present: Reverends Craig Wiggins, Ann Burfeind, Lisa Majoros, and Liza Marcato among others.
Participation Cost: From $150 – $400 depending on what you are able to contribute*
*Participation cost includes Thursday dinner, Friday lunch + dinner, Saturday lunch + dinner, Sunday potluck lunch, coffee and light refreshments. It does not include breakfasts, housing, and travel.
Together We Will Share
Worship!
Deepen our relationship with the Consecration of the Human Being
(The Act of Consecration of Man)
through daily worship and shared learning with each other and priests.
Fellowship!
Get to know each other and our shared goals, victories, struggles, and fears.
Organizing Skills!
Practice together the skills and capacities of organizing affiliate communities.
What has worked and what has not?
For more information, visit www.adventurecampscc.org/tucson-conference
You are not alone Behold, the hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered,
each to his own home, and will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me. I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world, you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.” ~ John 16: 32-33
Are Thoresen's Recordings
Recordings of Are Thoresen's TALKS • given August 20 – 21st at our Church and ArkLight are now accessible on the Anthroposophical Society Greater Boston Website.
Please click the link below.
Are Thoresen Recordings
Here is a link to a talk that Are gave earlier in Canada
on July 27, 2022
Are Thoresen at RSCC July 27, 2022 - Rumble
As A Child
Many parish members remember Bill Hunt, our local poet. He is now 88, and moved to Dartmouth, MA, to live with his daughter about a year ago. I love this simple, earthy poem he just sent me!
— Christiane Marks
AS A CHILD
We entered dirt with both hands
We entered as into a tunnel
We were on our knees
We had been given earth
And we made our way down
and down on all fours--recall?
Our two hands reached into earth
We were given work:
Help trees push upward
Help the oak, the elm, the apple
tree rise at our level
Then watch them rise above
Us.
We were soldiers
We soldiered thus for trees
On our knees on the earth
We were given childhood.
William Hunt, August 2022
The Peace of Christ
In our world peace is hard to find. Even if we live in a country with relatively uneventful circumstances, the discord of the world pushes its way into us from all sides. We only have to open the door or open the newspaper—the chaos of the world comes into us from all sides. Peace feels like a fata morgana that looms up on the horizon from time to time, and then disappears again without a trace in the desert of every day. How can you live in such a world and at the same time be at peace with the world?
And yet, the Act of Consecration of Man says of Christ: “I stand at peace with the world.” For many people of our time this sounds like an unattainable vision that every moment is dashed to pieces again by hard reality.
Christ is at peace with the world. We would actually have to say it differently, but our language fails us when we try to find the right words. In the original language of the Act of Consecration, it sounds different: Friedvoll stehe Ich zur Welt. He does not have peace with the world—on the contrary, He places His peace face to face with it. If He were at peace with the world as it is, He would leave everything as it is without undertaking anything. That is our traditional, authority-oriented picture of peace, where everything comes to a standstill: Rest in Peace. But that is not even true for the deceased, for they have to ceaselessly work on their purification.
The peace of Christ is not of this world. It is wrested free from death and the underworld. He wants to share this most precious gift of the Resurrection with us, so that we may bear His peace, which passes all understanding, with us in a restless world.
— Rev. Bastian Baan
August 15th, 2022
New reports from our affiliates in Ukraine
Video Christengemeinschaft Kyiv 2022
Click Here
Report from Kyiv
Click Here
7th Report from Odesa
Click Here
Donating directly to our affiliates in Ukraine
Donations to support refugees and humanitarian aid in connection with the war can please be transferred to the account of the Christian Community of the West German Region with an appropriate reference in the purpose of use:
Account holder: Die Christengemeinschaft
IBAN: DE96 3702 0500 0008 2597 00; BLZ/BIC: 37020500 / BFSWDE33XXX
Or:
Account holder: The Christian Community in Germany (Foundation)
IBAN: DE16 8502 0500 0003 6204 00: BLZ/BIC: 8502 0500 /BFSW DE33 DRE
globalgiving.org/projects/ukraine-crisis-relief-fund/
Awakening Christ in our midst • Are Thoresen
Are Thoresen • Speaking Tour 2022
Saturday, August 20 in Ghent, NY
at ArkLight — 4445 Crow Hill Road, Ghent, NY 12075 — see http://www.arklight.earth
(located near the Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School and the Hawthorne Valley Farm Store)
Event #1: 2:30 PM Social gathering, 3:00 — 5:30 PM Lecture
Are will address concerns about harmful emissions from devices we use or are exposed to every day.
By finding the mid- or Christ-point in such objects, we can then activate the Christ force that exists in the world even within such technological devices.
(Later, you can try this, for instance, on your cell phone).
This activation serves to lessen a device’s pathological effects.
Are may consider questions like this with us:
Can this method be used to mitigate the electromagnetic radiation of 5G transmitters?
Is there a way to release demons or elementals that have been trapped by technology?
Should the elementals be considered when we use solar power?
Event #1A: 5:30 — 7:00 PM Buffet (please bring a small donation to cover costs)
Event #2: 7:00 — 9:00 PM Workshop
Whereas Event 1 focuses on the subject of technical devices, Event 2 focuses on the subject of healing and people.
Are will demonstrate how a group of individuals, placed in a circle, may receive treatment by freeing up their etheric center (or life force)
to flow freely through the whole group enabling it to work in a healing and transformative way.
(Note: Are no longer uses an acupuncture needle in the chest area but he now uses just his fingers to affect this process).
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Sunday, August 21, in Hillsdale, NY
at The Christian Community - 10 Greene River Lane, Hillsdale, NY 12529
(located near the border of both Massachusetts and New York, on Route 71)
Event #3: 12-12:30 PM Lecture (immediately following the church service)
Are will consider with us questions such as:
• What do the Elemental beings need from human beings?
• How can we meet and experience them?
• What can we do for them?
• Does the Act of Consecration of the Human Being affect them?
• How may we become more aware of them and live with and among them in the future?
Event #3A: 12:30 Potluck lunch (open to all participants)
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There is no charge for any of these events this weekend.
However, free-will offerings will be gratefully accepted to help cover Are's travel and other expenses.