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Moot at Greenbelt 2011

Very pleased that participants in the community are contributing quite a lot to this years festival that includes:

Moot Contemplative Worship at ABIDE
Sat 1pm, Dreaming together with the help of God
Sun 5pm, Dreaming generously with the help of God
Mon 11am, Dreaming for justice with the help of God

Serum Spirituality discussion at JESUS ARMS
Sat 12.30pm, Bigotry
Sun 12.30pm, Divinity
Mon 12.30pm, Belief

Sat 3.30pm GALILEE, Ian Mobsby, Panel Discussion
New Monasticism: is it all hype or refriaring the church?

Sat 3.30pm 6.30pm KITCHEN, Clare Catford, Panel Discussion
Off with the heads – discussion on monarchy and social mobility

Sat 10pm: SOUL SPACE, Ian Mobsby, Contemplative reflection
Contemplative Home-Coming

Sun 2pm-3pm, JESUS ARMS, Meet the Mooters for a drink
Join us to chat about what we are doing, particularly if you are looking for a Christian spiritual community in London.

Mon 3.30pm, JERICHO, Clare Catford, Talk
Forgiveness, the forgotten gift.

Mon 7pm, THE HUB, Katherine Venn, Literature
As you set out for Ithaka, hope the voyage is a long one.

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Podcast: Sunday before Lent: seeking the spiritual in the ordinary

clarecatford2010.jpg At the Alt Eucharist Service of the Moot Community on the 14th February 2010, Clare Catford explores the whole issue of seeking God in the details of life. This importantly includes the difficulties of living, in our journeys of human becoming. We do not need to feel ashamed or hidden. We are all broken, and it is helpful to live out the struggles of our lives in community, where others can encourage us to be whole both emotionally and physically. Hiding your struggles and shame can become toxic, that prevent wellbeing and a healthy spirituality. God loves us, even in our brokenness.

Apologies for the slight interference in this recording. We have worked out why, and it won’t happen in future recordings.

 
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Clare Catford on Balance in the challenge of this life

For March 2009, we have recorded three podcasts.  The first is the interview with the Bishop of London on the theme of spirituality in the city.  Ian Mobsby joins a discussion on Australian National Radio on the theme of church for a post-christian age, and finally, Clare Catford explores the theme of balance in the context of the challenge of this life.  To listen to these online or to subscribe, click here

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Zen on the Tube and Beyond Belief

Had a funny moment on the tube.  The lady with the book, is reading a little book of Zen, all about finding peace and centredness.  Five minutes before this scene, the woman with the book on centredness screamed and shouted out “Jesus Christ, you are standing on my b****y h**l don’t you think you should be a bit more careful’.  He responded ‘that’s not very Zen’, to which she responded with another expletive.

This whole scene so reminds me of the problems of today.  People trying to find techniques to keep control all on the brink of anxiety, where people are just not very generous in their closed worlds…. as we looked earlier in the year, a form of afluenza coming home to roost.

Congrats to Clare Catford, she shared her heart and experience on the BBC Radio 4 ‘Beyond Belief’ programme.  Clare you were great!!  Hear the show for a week here. Go to the bottom of the screen and click on Feb 09 – Love.

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Clare Catford: Living beyond consuming to fill the gap in your soul

In addition to the podcast that Aaron kennedy led with Ian Mobsby, we have re-recorded Clare Catford’s important homily on the subject of getting beyond addiction and consumption. To listen to this, click here. Clare will be speaking about this issue and her book at this year’s Greenbelt Festival

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Affluenza and Addicted to Love

Without deliberately wanting to embarrass Mike & Clare, I just wanted to point out that I think Moot is entering a new phase when we again consider the question “How should we live?” which we entered when we created our Rhythm of Life drawing on the wisdom of the Monastics. This requires us to consider how we live in contemporary culture but not of the darker sides of culture. Or put another way, where are we called to affirm the good things within culture and where are we called to be counter-cultural about the things that impair healthy living and being.

One of the important areas of being counter-cultural – is the whole issue of naming addiction that arises out of a life strategy dependent on consumption and the desire for affluence. Both Clare’s book, and the book Mike has recommended us to read as a community in June, not only name these addictions, but taken together, challenge us to face our Rhythm of Life elements of Balance and Presence for a start, and then into all the other elements. Clare’s book ‘Addicted to Love’ tells her story, and the place of Moot within it. She names the patterns of addiction she has experienced alongside God’s grace in loving her and not shaming her towards her own human becoming. Affluenza, the book Mike has suggested, takes this further, and re-evaluates the pressures on us in Western postmodern culture, and names how affluence when gained, does little more than create more stress and unhappiness.

So if you are in Moot, do consider getting both these books, and we will be reading Affluenza together for June. If you have not got a copy yet, click here and Moot get’s some money against every sale. Personally, I am very grateful for the input Mike & Clare bring to our community, which is at one level very challenging and at another, incredibly encouraging and loving – with a sense of humour!! Our community would be severely impoverished without either of them.

So we will be discussing this together in the new term, and the implications not only for ourselves, but for the health of our community. See the website for the term May to Aug 08.

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Read All about it

Just to let you know, our very own Clare Catford is in the Daily Mail today.

There’s a link to the article online here.

Don’t forget her new book “Addicted to Love” is also out, which you can buy from Amazon through the search facility on the right of this page.

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Clare’s new book

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Clare's new book

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Anger and Patience – A personal view by Clare Catford

Clare Catford gave the homily in last Sunday’s Eucharist, which was very moving and well worth reading if you were not there. To download it click here. Not an easy thing to talk about from life experience. So thanks Clare for your honesty….

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