'The harvest of righteousness shall be sown in peace
by those who make peace'
(Letter of St James)
FRIENDS OF THE LITTLE SISTERS OF JOY
an ecumenical foundation of Prayer, Peace and Reconcilation
My dear Friends
As we move towards Easter, I wish you a Happy Feast! For those of you waiting for Passover, I wish you Chag Sameach!
Some of you may have wondered what has happened to The Little Sisters of Joy - well, the Foundation is alive and well and on the way to becoming a registered charity.
I contiune to do my music and recently did a musical evening in Starbucks coffee shop near the Grafton Centre in Cambridge. I was invited by the Israeli manager to perform some Hebrew music for Peace and Reconciliation. It was a great evening, with the gathering adding its own Hebrew and Yiddish songs. At the end we even danced a Horah! In between the Jewish music I interspersed some songs of the 60's and some traditional folk songs. I have been asked to do it again for a larger gathering in the same place, which reminds me of my wild youth and hence where I feel comfortable!
I shall be conducting the Seder meal once again in Holy week-the Passover supper relating the story of the Exodus. Always a very moving occasion. again the liturgy is interspersed with Hebrew music, while the gathering participated in the elaborate ritual. This consists of the narrative of the Exodus and the different foods which represent the slavery in Egypt and the 4 cups of wine of liberation, with an extra cup at the end for Elijah the Prophet, heralding the Messiah.
For a break, I had a marvellous trip to Suffolk at the home of one of our Associates and visited some beautiful mediaeval Churches as well as attending Evensong in the Cathedral in Bury St Edmunds.
I am also writing to ask you if you have any feedback as to how the foundation is running and also any ideas to make it run more efficiently and interstingly. Your contributions would be very welcom and if you are able to offer any time or support I would be grateful for that also. Please let me have your email addresses as that seems an obvious way forward for the future, to run the Newsletter and to keep in touch. Any donations would be gratefully accepted, mad payable to 'The Little Sisters of Joy' to help meet the cost of expenses and to build up some proper funding required by the Charities Commission. My little autobiography, The Moving Swan, is still also available. These are exciting times!
Summer event Sunday 26th July 2009 in the Old Library, Darwin College,Cambridge 2-4pm
Jewish - Christian reconcilaition in the postwar period
Jonathan Gorsky will give a talk on the above theme. Jonathan is an expert on Jewish-Christain relations, having worked for the Council of Christians and Jews. He now works for Heythrop College in the University of London, lecturing for a B.A. degree he heloped to devise, based on the 3 Abrahamic faiths, Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
I am making another trip to Toronto in June, after which I should have some more exciting news. Due to a recent illness I have decided not to emigrate as planned, but to consolidate the contacts on both sides of the Pond.
It has been a strange spring, with the snow, but, as we await the Resurrection, the daffodils and crocuses are now coming up in the earth. I wish you a peaceful transition from spring into summer.
United in prayer for the peace of our troubled world
and always Shalom
Sister Gila
The Little Sisters of Joy
The Haven
61 Edgecombe
Cambridge
CB4 2LW
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