Dancing and Chanting the Lord's Prayer
in Aramaic- the language of Jesus
Date: Saturday, 14 February 2015
Venue: The Apple Loft, Drumcondra House, All Hallows’ College, Dublin 9.
Time: 10.30 am until 5:00 pm
Cost: €60 (sixty euro)
(Tea and coffee provided. Please bring lunch to share)
CLICK HERE TO BOOK YOUR PLACE
Pre-registration necessary:
Please book by 31st January
CPD certificate available.
For further information please contact Anne Gill at anne.gill33@gmail.com or by phone at (01)845 0698
Venue: The Apple Loft, Drumcondra House, All Hallows’ College, Dublin 9.
Time: 10.30 am until 5:00 pm
Cost: €60 (sixty euro)
(Tea and coffee provided. Please bring lunch to share)
CLICK HERE TO BOOK YOUR PLACE
Pre-registration necessary:
Please book by 31st January
CPD certificate available.
For further information please contact Anne Gill at anne.gill33@gmail.com or by phone at (01)845 0698
THE ARAMAIC LORD’S PRAYER
This is a unique opportunity to share the ‘Lord’s Prayer’ in its original language, using the chant and circle dance movements of the Dances of Universal Peace. Using music
(there will be guitar accompaniment) we will move and sing phrases from the original language of Jesus. This will be interspersed with meditations which will allow us deepen our understanding of the prayer and its relevance for us today.
No previous experience is required apart from a willingness to share your voice and participate. We will share wine (or juice) and (gluten free) bread as part of the prayer.
We will be facilitated by Alima Stoeckel who is a dance leader, a psychotherapist and
a spiritual guide on the path of Universal Sufism. About the prayer she finds that the words of Yeshua lead us into the wisdom of the heart, where we can touch and embrace in love what needs healing, change and a new direction. Chanting and moving to these words can have a deeply nourishing effect within us. Our soul is breathing in light and love and peace. Alima has studied with Neil Douglas-Klotz who is her spiritual guide. His translations and meditations on the Aramaic Jesus appear in his books The Hidden Gospel and Prayers of the Cosmos. We will be acknowledging the wisdom of the three religious traditions which have their source in the Middle Eastern view of the world. You will find the words and translation of the prayer on the website www.sufiireland.com
Chairs will be provided for the meditation however you may wish to bring a cushion or meditation stool. If possible, a rug and something to keep warm.
There will be a recess for lunch so please bring food to share. Tea and Coffee will be provided.
(there will be guitar accompaniment) we will move and sing phrases from the original language of Jesus. This will be interspersed with meditations which will allow us deepen our understanding of the prayer and its relevance for us today.
No previous experience is required apart from a willingness to share your voice and participate. We will share wine (or juice) and (gluten free) bread as part of the prayer.
We will be facilitated by Alima Stoeckel who is a dance leader, a psychotherapist and
a spiritual guide on the path of Universal Sufism. About the prayer she finds that the words of Yeshua lead us into the wisdom of the heart, where we can touch and embrace in love what needs healing, change and a new direction. Chanting and moving to these words can have a deeply nourishing effect within us. Our soul is breathing in light and love and peace. Alima has studied with Neil Douglas-Klotz who is her spiritual guide. His translations and meditations on the Aramaic Jesus appear in his books The Hidden Gospel and Prayers of the Cosmos. We will be acknowledging the wisdom of the three religious traditions which have their source in the Middle Eastern view of the world. You will find the words and translation of the prayer on the website www.sufiireland.com
Chairs will be provided for the meditation however you may wish to bring a cushion or meditation stool. If possible, a rug and something to keep warm.
There will be a recess for lunch so please bring food to share. Tea and Coffee will be provided.
The Aramaic Prayer of Jesus (“Lord's Prayer”)
1. Abwoon d'bwashmaya
O Birther! Father-Mother of the Cosmos/ you create all that moves in light.
(Countermelody: Allaha Allah Elohim Elat)
2. Nethqadash shmakh
Focus your light within us--make it useful: as the rays of a beacon show the way.
3. Teytey malkuthakh
Create your reign of unity now--through our fiery hearts and willing hands.
4. Nehwey tzevyanach aykanna d'bwashmaya aph b'arha.
Your one desire then acts with ours, as in all light, so in all forms.
(Conclusion of first part of Dance cycle: Abwoon Abwoon Abwoon Hayy)
5. Hawvlan lachma d'sunqanan yaomana.
Grant what we need each day in bread and insight: subsistence for the call of growing life.
6. Washboqlan khaubayn (wakhtahayn) aykana daph khnan shbwoqan l'khayyabayn.
Loose the cords of mistakes binding us, as we release the strands we hold of others' guilt.
7. Wela tahlan l'nesyuna
Don't let us enter forgetfulness
8. Ela patzan min bisha.
But free us from unripeness
9. Metol dilakhie malkutha wahayla wateshbukhta l'ahlam almin.
From you is born all ruling will, the power and the life to do, the song that beautifies all, from age to age it renews.
10. Ameyn.
Truly--power to these statements- may they be the source from which all my actions grow. Sealed in trust & faith. Amen.
Transliterations and translations: Prayers of the Cosmos : Meditations on the Aramaic Words of Jesus (Harper, San Francisco, ©1990 Neil Douglas-Klotz.)
(Original transliteration and translation from the Peshitta (Syriac-Aramaic) version of Matthew 6:9-13 & Luke 11:2-4 by Neil Douglas-Klotz)
