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SAINT ANNE’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
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FROM THE BOOK CLUB
"Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and - if at all possible - speak a few sensible words." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and - if at all possible - speak a few sensible words." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Liz Mitchell has been enjoying Susan Boyle’s ‘The Woman I Was Meant to Be’ and writes:
“This is a book about a woman that everyone has an opinion about, a woman with an amazing talent and a refreshing down-to-earthiness about her. I found her book in the library and took it home. It’s the story of a woman whose life in many ways has been a challenge from the moment she was born, but also the story of a strongly supportive mother and family. A woman who found great joy in singing and who worked hard to achieve her dream. A woman who can laugh at herself, and who takes no nonsense from anyone. Above all, a woman of strong faith who knows that God gave her the gift of her voice and who believes that God has been with her and will be with her wherever she goes and wherever her life takes her. I was very moved by parts of this book but I also laughed out loud at some of her misadventures in fashion. I have been there myself – as women, haven’t we all?
“This is a book about a woman that everyone has an opinion about, a woman with an amazing talent and a refreshing down-to-earthiness about her. I found her book in the library and took it home. It’s the story of a woman whose life in many ways has been a challenge from the moment she was born, but also the story of a strongly supportive mother and family. A woman who found great joy in singing and who worked hard to achieve her dream. A woman who can laugh at herself, and who takes no nonsense from anyone. Above all, a woman of strong faith who knows that God gave her the gift of her voice and who believes that God has been with her and will be with her wherever she goes and wherever her life takes her. I was very moved by parts of this book but I also laughed out loud at some of her misadventures in fashion. I have been there myself – as women, haven’t we all?
A good read, an inspiring story, I recommend it.”
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Michael van de Zande has been reading about another woman of faith:
“We remember Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) through the lines of two unforgettable Christmas carols written by her: ‘In the bleak midwinter’ and ‘Love came down at Christmas’. Not so well known is the life of which these words, and others like them, were so much an expressive part. A brief summary of Christina Rossetti’s life is sketched for us by Dr Gaius Davies, a medical man whose book Genius, Grief and Grace (reprinted 2003) explores the character of her religious commitment and the steadfast effort that joined it and made her life a creative work of love and art. Christina was born in London, the daughter of Italian immigrants, and educated at home by her mother. Her father was a professor of Italian at King’s College, London. Christina was the youngest of four children. Her brother, Dante Gabriel, himself became a poet as well as a painter, later emerging as the driving force of a new movement in art, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Christina’s elder sister Maria became an Anglican nun. The eldest brother William succeeded as an art critic and author.
“Like her sister Maria, Christina made faith and devotion a central part of her life. An inward awareness that divine love and human passion were not compatible both illuminated the direction of her vocation and sustained the response given it. The piety, both Evangelical and High Anglican in turn, which Christina made her own, brought with it dedication to the virtue of self-denial. William Rossetti wrote of his sister: ‘She is by far over-scrupulous.’ From where she stood in God’s grace, Christina was able to see her situation and the life-experiences that characterized it as ‘a world of hope deferred.’ These descriptions reveal an adherence on her part to a sanctified ideal and its perceived hereafter: ‘There God shall join and no man part, I full of Christ and Christ of me.’ Christina Rossetti is commemorated in the liturgical calendar on 27 April.”
“We remember Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) through the lines of two unforgettable Christmas carols written by her: ‘In the bleak midwinter’ and ‘Love came down at Christmas’. Not so well known is the life of which these words, and others like them, were so much an expressive part. A brief summary of Christina Rossetti’s life is sketched for us by Dr Gaius Davies, a medical man whose book Genius, Grief and Grace (reprinted 2003) explores the character of her religious commitment and the steadfast effort that joined it and made her life a creative work of love and art. Christina was born in London, the daughter of Italian immigrants, and educated at home by her mother. Her father was a professor of Italian at King’s College, London. Christina was the youngest of four children. Her brother, Dante Gabriel, himself became a poet as well as a painter, later emerging as the driving force of a new movement in art, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Christina’s elder sister Maria became an Anglican nun. The eldest brother William succeeded as an art critic and author.
“Like her sister Maria, Christina made faith and devotion a central part of her life. An inward awareness that divine love and human passion were not compatible both illuminated the direction of her vocation and sustained the response given it. The piety, both Evangelical and High Anglican in turn, which Christina made her own, brought with it dedication to the virtue of self-denial. William Rossetti wrote of his sister: ‘She is by far over-scrupulous.’ From where she stood in God’s grace, Christina was able to see her situation and the life-experiences that characterized it as ‘a world of hope deferred.’ These descriptions reveal an adherence on her part to a sanctified ideal and its perceived hereafter: ‘There God shall join and no man part, I full of Christ and Christ of me.’ Christina Rossetti is commemorated in the liturgical calendar on 27 April.”