Late Summer • Early September

Sunday, September 15th, 12:00 pm

The Trinity Epistle, a talk by Rev. Michael Brewer.

Tuesday, September 17th, 7:00 pm

Study Group Resumes.  We will start with The Spiritual Guidance of the Individual and Humanity by Rudolf Steiner.  This is a set of three lectures to get us back on track and then we will decide what to study next.  All are welcome!

Wednesday, September 18th, 7:00 pm
Board Meeting 

Presentation of a Nepali Eco Foundation 

Friday, September 27 • 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Krishna Gurung, the director/founder, and Santosh Chhetri, his colleague, will present the diverse array of programs offered by the Kevin Rohan Memorial Eco Foundation.  Kevin is Krishna’s son, who died at the age of seven.  He is present in all that goes on there.

KRMEF is integral to the small village of Kahara located ten miles south of Kathmandu — primarily our Waldorf inspired school has grown to 150 students, our health clinic has numerous practitioners with sophisticated equipment, our biodynamic gardens provide food for our cafe offering nurturing vegetarian food, our women’s workshop provides income for village women while making beautiful jewelry and crafts, and providing housing for those in need.

Krishna is soon on tour throughout the US (after a tour of Western Europe, including being a guest at the Goeteanum’s 100-year biodynamic conference), primarily building community to expand the holding of the foundation.  Please join us!

At Dale Harte’s Home • 4445 Crow Hill Rd., Ghent, NY
Please RSVP • Bill Hutchins, bill@krmef.org, (301) 404-5578

Seminary student Marc Delannoy has organized a fundraiser asking for support to cover his living expenses and tuition towards his Seminary Training in Toronto. Please Click Here for more information.

My dear friends, 
As many of you know, in just about two months time, I am taking my next steps in training at the Seminary of the Christian Community. I will need the support of friends and family, neighbors and strangers in order to continue walking the path.

Below is a link where those who feel called to contribute financially may do so. Please know that all of your support, whether financial, or through encouragement, prayers, and interest, are valued gifts, and a tremendous blessing. 

Support Sean's Path to Priesthood

Please share this appeal, if so inspired!

With deepest gratitude, 
Sean 

MICHAELMAS 2024!
Saturday, September 28th, 2:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Mettabee Farm & Arts, 551 Harlemville Rd., Harlemville, NY 12529
Join us at 6:00 pm for a Potluck Supper, Celebration, & Pageant

This year our festival will be a combined community effort of The Christian Community and The Anthroposophical Branch.
We are attempting a new form for the celebration of Michaelmas this year. The festival day will need FULL participation. We will be called upon to be "Socially Creative" as we try to reach earth to heaven and call heaven to earth! Michael is waiting. His mission is our mission. Please consider coming to the whole event, 2:30 pm to 9:00 pm. If you can only come to the evening, then please come at 7:00 pm. Everyone is welcome! Grade School age children and older as participants. 

Connecting the Earth with the Heavens

“If people could take the initiative to establish a Michael Festival worthy of the name, during the last days of September, this would be a most significant deed. But they would have to find the courage within themselves not merely to discuss such things as external social reforms, but to do something that connects the earth with the heavens, that re-connects physical with spiritual conditions. If the spirit was led down once more into earthly conditions, this would give humanity a might impetus and impulse for the continuation of life and civilization. “

Rudolf Steiner on “Festivals and Their Meaning”.

Michaelmas is fast upon us! We live in a world in which the Adversary has penetrated and permeated the human being and all of life with subtle and not-so-subtle deadening forces. We can observe the denial of the Spirit in education, medicine, art and the whole of human culture, put forth mightily through the media. The “battle” at hand is for the Human Being, the TRUE human being. 

This new Festival of Michael comes as a “rescue” to us in a time of turmoil. The Michael power is the ability to rise to the point at which thoughts of the Spirit can grip us as powerfully as anything in the physical world.

 Nobody wants the world to be the way it is right now. Every single person could articulate the many problems facing us today. But few could offer good solutions. That is because our thinking is merely materialistic and not Spiritually enlightened.  The receptive part of us is asleep. Rudolf Steiner tells us that two obstacles must be overcome: “Fear of the Spiritual World and Paralysis of the Will.” 

When our hearts burn for a new world, we can become “socially creative” together. We can reach up our hands to Michael and He will reach down to meet us. Then our thoughts will become living light, radiating from the heart. We will need Courage to attempt a Michael Festival which invites everyone who attends to take a risk, to become creative, to be willing to be moved inwardly!

There will be a Michaelmas co-created Festival on Saturday, September 28th at Mettabee. This is a united effort of The Christian Community and the Anthroposophical Branch. 

For more information, contact Rev. Carol Kelly carolkelly.cc@gmail.com