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The book is a spiritual exercise which meant to serve as a companion for someone who is serious about a spiritual life that is rooted in tradition and yet committed to being relevant to the twenty-first century.
The book is the attempt of a person who spent his life in the priesthood of the church, mainly as pastor, to share his own personal love for the church and its traditions and his commitment to intellectual honesty and an adequate response to the social reality of the present. It should be taken as gift which hopes that it will guide and encourage others in search of spiritual understanding in their own stories..

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Date de parution	17 novembre 2022
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EAN13	9781663246783
Langue	English

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The Great Crowd: A Love Story about a Large Urban Parish
To Make Myself a Word: The Collected Poems and Images of a Parish Priest

ON GIVING M Y W ORD

Poems, Stories, and Aphorism of a Priest in Retirement

MICHAEL J. TAN CRETI

ON GIVINGMYWORD
POEMS, STORIES, AND APHORISM OF A PRIEST IN RETIREMENT

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CONTENTS
Introduction
The Origins Of Narrative
The Angel Of God’s Silence
Aphorism §1 Silence
The Weaver’s Whisper
Aphorism §2 Silence And Time
The Icon Of The Descent Of The Holy Spirit
Aphorism §3 The Enigma Of Time
Aphorism §4 Our Consciousness And Time
Faith, Hope, And Love
Aphorism §5 God Consciousness And Time
The Quiet Weaver
Aphorism §6 The Trajectory Of Created Time
Meditations On The Consciousness Of Time
Your Word
Can Flesh Become Word?
Legacy
Remembered
An Old Man
Fragments Of A Natural Narrative
Aphorism §7 A Difficult Mistress
Some Mimsy
Ode To The Quantum Moon
The Paired Particle
Aphorism §8 The Error Of The Creationist
Cupping
The Ultimate Show
The Journey Of The Mind To Ultimate Smallness And Back
An Invitation
To The Spring
The First Cup
When The Cup Became A Cell
Aphorism §9 The Torah In Things
Aphorism §10 The Soul Of The Torah
Aphorism §11 The Universe And Narrative
Aphorism §12 The Oddity Of The Human Brain
Aphorism §13 Brain And Memory
The Meaning Of A Line
Aphorism §14 Homo Sapiens And Human Beings
A Hand
Fragments Of A Personal Narrative
Aphorism §15 Personal Stories And The Narrative
Three Women In The Air
The Bridge
Desire, Iowa
An Ode To A Little Church
I. Finding God
II. Ordained A Priest
III. Made A Priest
IV. Sent
V. The Quest For The Great Crowd
A Confession Before The Holy Angels
A Confession Of A Recovering Misogynist
You Should Know
Thinking Is Fun
Conversations With Nonagenarians
Estelle
A Special Pair
The End Of Faithfulness: Comedy, Tragedy, Or Grace?
In The Mood To Hold On
Nasturtiums In Fall
Walking The Stations Of The Cross Backward
A Short Jane Song
To My Beloved
Light On The Word
Let Us Go Off
A Dark Wood
A Curious Fact
A Late Jane Song
The Priest In An Opera Of Grace
Aphorism §16 Sex Without A Narrative
On Finding A Breath Prayer
Aphorism §17 The Problem With Communion
In Search Of The Edge
Upon The Setting Of The Table
When In The Upper Room
Communion In The Pandemic Of 2020
Ramblings Of A Very Old Priest
Holy Week In The Pandemic
From The Vigil Of Pentecost 2021
I Will Die In A Small Church
Given Life, In Retrospect
Out Through The Garden
A Brief History Of Gardens
I Slept In The Garden
A Free Me?
Tossed On The Far Shore Of Eternity
After Life?
Aphorism §18 Life After Death
Fragments Of A National Narrative
Americana
The American Dream
On The Praise Of A Particular Star
Aphorism §19 A Puritan Poet?
The End Of The Story 1831
Aphorism §20 Life Between Polarities
Independence At One Hundred 1876
Aphorism §21 A Missed Turn
Aphorism §22 Renaming: Memory Loss Or Gain
Man In His Garden: An Ekphrasis
A Comparative Ekphrasis On Two Mountains
Mountain 1: Marsden Hartley’s New Mexico Recollections #15
Mountain 2: Word/Play , an Ed Ruscha Retrospect, and the Lion in Oil
Paterson: A Review Of The Movie, 2016,
PESD (Post Election Stress Disorder)
Love
Served
Lines
Played By The Russian Bear?
In The State Of Illusion
Babel
PESD Revisited
Aphorism §23 On Being Great
Aphorism §24 At War
Ultra-Maris
Tancredi Overseas
Aphorism §25 The Transition Narrative
Aphorism §26 Being Western
Aphorism §27 Ren, Or The Man Choosing
Aphorism §28 The Dream And The Red Chamber
Fragments Of The Spiritual Narrative
Fragments In Text
Aphorism §29 Mythic Or Mechanistic
Aphorism §30 Thinking Honestly About God
Aphorism §31 Modernity
The Undone Narrative: Virgil Is Called To The Court
The Make-Do Poet
Aphorism §32 Sacred Text
Different Acts
Aphorism §33 Unread
When David
A Levite Lad
When I Pray The Book Of Psalms
Three Prophets
Elijah The Tishbite
Isaiah: God Saves
Jeremiah: The Man Beyond The Text
Aphorism §34 The People Of The Book
At The Table Of History
Fragments Of Flesh
Aphorism §35 Beyond The Written Text
Mary’s Journey To Bethlehem
The Journey Of Joseph And The Family Into Egypt
A Second Beginning In Bethlehem
The Loss Of Bethlehem A Second Time
A Stop Among The Oaks Of Mamre
Under A Broom Tree Near Beersheba
The Sycamore At The Edge Of Egypt
Deeper Into Egypt
The Return To Cairo
Zechariah In Silence
From Qumran To The River
Aphorism §36 Jesus: Story And Myth
Water Transformed
From Hasid To Son
John At Aenon
Aphorism §37 The Loss Of Myth
O Son
High On A Hill
Tabor
One Winter
Immanuel
The After Story And A Return To The Text
Aphorism §38 Narrative And Doctrine
Telling Beads
The Conversion Of Paul
The Song Of The Three Matthews
O Judaica
Aphorism §39 Antisemitism And Semiticism
An Uncomfortable Order
Aphorism §40 Freedom
Aphorism §41 Sonship And Freedom
Aphorism §42 Free Will
As God Wills
Aphorism §43 Reason And Will
I Know. I Know.
Aphorism §44 Reason And Calculation
Aphorism §45 Jesus And Free Will
The End Of The Narrative: Resurrection
Aphorism §46 Narrative And Resurrection
In Time-Space
An Intersection
Aphorism §47 Resurrection And Location
Aphorism §48 With What Body?
The Body Of Glory
Aphorism §49 Where Does The Body Go?
Indeterminacy Is At The Door
On The Metaphysics Of Snarks
What Mary Saw
First To Peter
What Thomas Touched
Aphorism §50 A Hapax
Light Of Christ
Aphorism §51 Resurrection And Ultimate Judgment
Dear Edith
Theodicy And The Pandemic
At The End Of All This
Aphorism §52 Silence Returns
He Is The All

INTRODUCTION
In 2010, I published a collection of poems and stories that had accumulated during my twenty-nine years of ministry at All Saints Episcopal Church, in Omaha, Nebraska. In many ways, the pieces composed a sidebar to my ministry, a kind of conversation with myself and my God. In retrospect, I saw in the words of these poems and stories the beginning of a translation of myself into a single word, a self-expression, that would ultimately represent the essence of who I am. It occurred to me that publishing them would be valuable for me and possibly for others as an encouragement for my and their continued efforts at self-expression. The result was To Make Myself a Word: The Collected Poems and Images of a Parish Priest .
Shortly after that, I was asked to write a history of All Saints, which I was reluctant to do. I rather understood my retirement as a freedom from having to explain the parish and the Episcopal Church to the world. I trusted that this freedom would allow me to turn to other forms of writing that had always taken a back seat in respect to the practical demands of pastoral life. The pressure to do so, however, continued, and I finally relented, with the proviso that if I did, it would not be a typical parish history that chronicled the succession of rectors, building projects, and the so-called great events. It would be an attempt to narrate the way an American parish had responded to its social context and navigated the changing currents of theology through the course of its 120-some years of existence.
What emerged from four years of research and writing was a narrative that I came to understand as a love story. It was published in 2014 under the title The Great Crowd: A Love Story about a Large Urban Parish .
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