[TSSF-studies] Re: From the Chaplain

[Averil Swanton]

Thank you for this, David. It reassured me and encourages me to take a
fuller part.

Life is pretty busy at the moment, but I do manage to read all the e-mails.
It is not quite the deluge it was at first,

Two books I have recently read  :Undersong by Peter Price, DLT 2002 and A
Condition of Complete Simplicity by Rowan Clare Williams, Canterbury
Press2003. I am sure you will have thought of the latter.

Good to hear from you. Hope all is well.

Pax & Bonum

Averil

Averil Swanton
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Subject: [TSSF-studies] Re: From the Chaplain

Hi everyone,
And welcome to those who have recently joined.

My name is David Swain,
I am the Chaplain to this venture. It is still in its very early days and we
are all learning, so we are really interested in your ideas!

There is  a Steering Group.  It is chaired by Adrian Noble the Provincial
Formation Guardian for the European Province.

This site is managed as you know, by Andrew Dochin, who is also the editor
of the Third Order Chronicle for the European Province. He is also a member
of the Provincial Communications Team. All technical questions regarding
this site and how it works or might work , should go to Andrew direct, (as
he sets out in the introduction to the digest, as it is circulated each
time).

Other members of the Steering Group are Nancy Adams who is very interested
in issues of Justice Peace and the Integrity of Creation.Very shortly on
this site we will be posting up a paper by Nancy entitled 'In Community ..
In Communication..' I am sure we will all find it very helpful.

Hugh Beach has introduced himself and many of you will know him. He has, as
a General in the British Army, grappled with the complex issues of peace for
a life time. With Hugh some of us hope to post up something on the
TSSFStudies Website in the coming months - as to why Francis recommended the
Song of Roland to his folowers.

Nell Slocock is the Secretary to the Steering Group and brings to it her
experience as Area Minister of Sussex.

As a Consultant, we have too, John Morrison who is also our Provincial
Chapter Secretary and on the Governing Body of the International Francican
Study Centre in Canterbury. This is particularly helpful to those members
who are undertaking, or who would like to undertake, study at the Franciscan
Centre in Canterbury. We hope to have more information to share with you
about the Centre shortly.

Brother Austin SSF is also a consultant, to keep us linked with the first
Order Brothers and sisters.

Discussion Subject:

For those of you who have recently joined; the subject for discussion at the
moment is 'Local Groups'. You will find in the Third Order European Province
Website, a section headed TSSFStudies, and there are already a number of
papers on various subjects.

Two papers in particular

1. Towards a theology of meeting and belonging to a Local Group in the Third
Order by David Swain and Brenda Stephenson.

and

2.The Theology and nature of Local TSSF groups, by John Wiltshire, are the
starter papers for thought and response.

John Wiltshire is also a member of the steering Group and together, we shall
after we have collected various responses and thoughts from members, come
back to you all with further thought for discussion.

We are with Brenda Stephenson, particularly interested to know if anyone has
read John English SJ,  'Spiritual intimacy and community' and the thought of
Hanri Nouwen on community life?

It may be too that some of you are aware of other books on the subject of
Christians in Community. If you do know of some helpful titles, please do
share them with us.

Books for York General Chapter:

I have also been asked by Dick Bird our Minster Provincial to collect titles
 for a bookstall  to be provided and set up by SPCK at our York General
Chapter this year.

If you could share with us the titles of books you have found helpful, or
that your local group has found helpful and studied, I should be very
pleased to learn about them.

In this way, we can really begin to help each other and particularly
isolated Tertiaries for whom this means of communication by email, may be
increasingly helpful in time.

Pax et Bonum

David
Chaplain

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The Revd David Swain TSSF
77 Trent Boulevard
West Bridgford
Nottinham
NG2 5BE

Tel 01159 821222

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