Sunday, November 15, 2015

October 2015 Meeting Minutes

Cincinnati Oblate Chapter Minutes
October 25, 2015

Attendance:
Nick McCarroll, Linda McCarroll, Linda Falhaber, Clyde Dorn, Pat Dorn, Susan Anderson, Kathy Gloeckner, John Rasche, Rosemary Conrad, Margaret Sherlock, Jim Sherlock, Eric Kenny, Joan Hilton.

Introductions and reading of the Mission Statement opened our meeting. Second Sunday Vespers of Week Two was prayed together. Lectio Divina was shared together using Mark 10: 46-52.

The Minutes of September 27 were approved.

Nick McCarroll says that our current chapter balance is $10.00.

New/Old Business:
John Campbell was able to attend Mary Steidle’s funeral. Thank you, John! John Rasche has transferred his Oblate membership from the Louisville chapter to our Cincinnati chapter. Welcome, John!

Video Conference:

Praying the Psalms by Fr. Harry Hagan, OSB

Fr. Harry explains three ways of understanding the poetry of the psalms:

1) Relating to the text from inside the text and just take it as it is.
2) Relating to the text from outside the text by asking questions about culture and repetitions of ideas.
3) Relating by standing between texts when we find connections between Christ and the psalms, between the Patristic fathers and the psalms, between other Scripture texts and the psalms.

Using Psalm 130, Fr. Harry explains that heart refers in Hebrew to the person or the mind whereas in Hebrew to feel is with the gut. There is a parallelism between the psychological and spiritual dimensions in this psalm. In Psalm 133, Fr. Harry suggests that we connect the psalm to the text of our own life.

Psalm 113 begins and ends with God’s people thanking God for his steadfast covenant love in contrast to those who make an idol of themselves and experience no loving trust in our Lord’s faithful mindfulness.

Submitted by Susan Anderson

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