The Benedictine Oblate

Newsletter of St. Gregory’s Chapter Perth WA

Oblates affiliated to Holy Trinity Abbey New Norcia

 

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Period

September 2001 – November 2001                                            Issue 3/2001

 

NEW MEETING PLACE

After many months of deliberation and investigating several alternative premises, a decision was finally made to relocate the venue for our Chapter meetings to St. Joseph’s Convent, York Street, South Perth. Oblates will remember this was the location for the presentation of the Psalms series of lectures held last year and which were so successful. The first meeting was held there on 19 August. Meetings will continue as previously each 3rd. Sunday, commencing at 2.00pm prompt.

September -     Regular Chapter meeting 16 September – Rule 69 & 70 plus Gospel of the day

October     -     Regular Chapter meeting 21 October – Rule 71 & 72 plus Gospel of the day

November -     Regular Chapter meeting 18 November – Rule 73 & Gospel of the day

 

PRAYER LIST

Would all oblates join in offering Joan Smurthwaite and her family their prayers and condolences on the death of Joan’s mother Molly Stokes, who passed away on 22 July 2001.

Please remember all our sick oblates, - In particular Tom Gollop, Pat Cockett and Johanna Pokucinski who have all spent some time in hospital recently.

Also a request from oblate Barbara Miller to remember her mother, Thelma Rocchi who passed away last year.

Please also continue to pray for our parent community in New Norcia.

 

ITEMS OF INTEREST

Late cancellations due to illness and work commitments meant that our annual retreat at New Norcia was down in numbers on our original estimates, with a total of twelve being in attendance during the weekend of Trinity Sunday, 8, 9 & 10 June. Fr. David was at his usual brilliant best during this occasion by opening up for us Ephesians Chptrs. 2 & 3, following on from Ephesians 1, the subject taken for our retreat last year. It was pleasing to note the interest taken by the monks in the Community who turned out en masse to witness firstly Steve Storer being received as a Novice, followed by Nick and Barbara Agocs who took their final oblation, presided over by Abbot Placid. All oblates were of the opinion that they had had an enjoyable weekend despite some fairly rainy weather, and our thoughts and prayers were for those not able to join us.

At our 15 July Chapter meeting in Perth, Peter Driver was received as a Novice, which ceremony was presided over by Fr. Anthony. Congratulations to Peter, as well as Steve, Nick and Barbara mentioned above.

Our fond farewells to Oblate A J Carew, who has informed us that he is heading back to his home town of Adelaide. A J was hoping to make it up to New Norcia on the Sunday of our retreat but the pressure of finalising his arrangements made this not possible and he sent his apologies. We will keep A J notified of events via the newsletter, however he let it be known that he may return. We trust all goes well for you A J.

 

Some seven oblates turned up to be present at the public lecture given by Michael Casey OCSO, held at the St. Joseph’s Convent in South Perth on 1 August. Michael had come from providing a one week retreat to the monks at New Norcia and was introduced by Abbot Placid. His talk was on the subject of his latest book – ‘Truthful Living – St. Benedict’s Teaching on Humility’. In particular

the truth of who we are. Our able librarian managed to secure a copy, autographed of course, for the oblate library which he had had sent over from Tarrawarra Abbey. We have attached a review of the lecture/book.

 

Our first chapter meeting at St. Joseph’s Convent in South Perth was well attended by oblates, with some sixteen being present at the meeting. In particular we were pleased to have oblate Barbara Miller join us whilst down here from Kalgoorlie.

Also we welcomed a new enquirer, Brennan Sia from Malaysia, currently at Curtin University, who shared with us some of his experiences at the recent world youth meeting in Rome.

Vespers in the beautiful chapel rounded off a good start to our new meeting place.

 

FAITH FORMATION

Hospitality

The majority of this article was taken with permission from the web site of the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, Missouri. Sr. Dolores Dowling OSB.

Questions:

The most universal and the oldest way monasticism has made its presence felt in the world is hospitality. Of course, hospitality was a tradition long before the Christian era. In the ancient world it usually had spiritual overtones. The Greeks used to consider readiness to offer hospitality the criterion which distinguished the civilized person from the barbarian. In the Bible, hospitality is seen both as a work of mercy and a witness to faith. Think of Abraham who left the shade of his tent in the noonday heat to welcome three strangers who turned out to be messengers from God. Having been a stranger himself in desperate places, Abraham was willing to open his life deliberately to what was unknown and unprogrammed.

In one of the last climactic chapters of Matthew's Gospel, the evangelist records the Last Judgment scene. Here Jesus reveals the depth of the mystery of Christian hospitality: to welcome strangers is to welcome Christ. "I was a stranger and you took me in" (25:35). In Luke's Gospel we have the wonderful Emmaus story. Two distinguished disciples are walking along the road to Emmaus. They meet a stranger and tell him about their sorrow at the death of all their hopes. The stranger, who is Jesus, then begins to tell them why the Messiah had to suffer. When they come to an inn, the disciples persuade him to eat with them and only when eating together do they recognize him as their crucified Lord. Only in breaking the bread of hospitality did their confusion turn to hope. And the Book of Revelation says, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and sit down to supper" (3:20).

To welcome the stranger is an act of faith. That is why Benedict stresses, as he does, hospitality to guests. The stranger is not just a person, but all the ambiguity, the unknown, the otherness in life. Faith can help us greet this otherness not as a threat, but as a possible gift. God is the ultimate stranger, unpredictable, potentially threatening our security. Faith is the attitude of one who searches the face of every stranger and guest looking for God.

The first monks, those men and women of the Syrian and Egyptian deserts, who lived in austerity, silence, and faith, knew the meaning of hospitality and were ready to dispense with their usual practices of asceticism to welcome a guest. There are some endearing little anecdotes on this theme. Consider the following. Once a monk came to a hermit, and as he was taking his leave he apologized, "Forgive me for hampering you in keeping your rule." But the hermit answered, "My rule is to welcome you with hospitality and to send you on your way in peace." Another time, two monks came to an old hermit whose custom it was not to eat every day. When the hermit saw them, he greeted them gladly and said, "A fast has its reward. Those who eat from a motive of charity obey two commandments; they leave their self-will and refresh their guests."

In Chapter 53 of his Rule, Saint Benedict provides for guests and is quite evidently glad that there will always be guests in a monastery. He is prepared for considerable inconvenience to take care of guests, because he is convinced that they represent Christ. Benedict goes on to make clear that the care of guests is to have a distinctively religious tone and that it be done in a way that does not disturb the peace of the community. The Rule shows Benedict's belief that spiritual values can be transmitted through hospitality. It does not consider that guests are to be merely entertained. but that the monks are to witness to a life experienced as deeply meaningful, with Christ as its centre.

We notice that Benedict seems to stress in Chptr 53 that all guests are to be received. However on closer examination we see that this does not mean that every person is to be received. Although he sets out the ideal, he hedges it with some qualifications. He mentions that proper honour is to be shown to all, especially those who share our faith. Monks and those connected with the monastery by bonds of faith and shared ideals and we could extend this to all Catholics but the point is the same, Benedict sets up a doctrinal criterion for all guests. Even the New Testament allows us to prefer our own kind to other people Gal.6:10. In a world like our own, where religious differences are so often used as a pretext for plain hatred, one hesitates to dwell on the kind of ancient sentiment that urges Christians to shun pagans and heretics and form a tight group of orthodox believers. Yet once the doors of the monastery are open to all kinds of people, we soon find that some of them hold religious convictions incompatible with our own. It is a sad fact that some religions are worse than no religion at all and in our human limitedness, we may have to exclude such people to maintain our sanity, if not our orthodoxy. The other qualification is that ‘prayer must always precede the kiss of peace because of the delusions of the devil’. No doubt this verse has bemused readers down through the ages. Here the concern is simple human respect. Benedict asks the monk to prepare for human encounters by prayer because the gift of discernment is needed in these situations.

Guests who come to our Benedictine monasteries today find many reasons for visiting. Basic to all these is a desire to experience God through a lifestyle that speaks to them of peace and deeply held convictions. So many people today are wearied of a hectic, impersonal existence, wearied of the kind of competition and materialism that seems to lead only to despair. These people come to monastic houses looking for a vision of life with Christ at the heart of it, Christ with his power to reconcile and transcend differences of age, background, education, and opinion.

Benedictine Oblates who share the monastic experience and the monastic vision can witness this to their own guests and in their own kind of hospitality. For the greatest source of hospitality is not our houses but ourselves. It is we who can allow them to be what they really are and who through this gift of self can help restore some measure of balance and wholeness to their lives. Hospitality is the challenge of welcoming the other who may look at first like the gardener whom Mary Magdalene saw in the garden at Easter, or like the traveler on his way to Emmaus, but who turns out to be Christ.

 

 

 

 

 


THE THEOLOGIAN’S TALE

(The Legend Beautiful) submitted by Oblate Doris Walton.

“Hadst thou stayed I must have fled!”

That is what the Vision said.

 

In his chamber all alone,

kneeling on the floor of stone,

prayed the monk in deep contrition

for his sins of indecision,

prayed for greater self denial

in temptation and in trial;

it was noon day by the dial,

and the monk was all alone.

 

Suddenly, as if it lightened,

an unwonted splendour brighted

all within him and without him

in that narrow cell of stone;

and he saw the Blessed Vision

of our Lord, with light Elysian

like a vesture wrapped about him,

like a garment round him thrown.

Not as crucified and slain,

not in agonies of pain,

not with bleeding hands and feet,

in the house or harvest field,

halt and lame and blind he healed,

when he walked in Galilee.

 

In an attitude imploring,

hands upon his bosom crossed,

wondering, worshiping, adoring,

knelt the monk in rapture list.

Lord, he thought, in heaven that reignest

who am I, that from the centre

of thy glory thou shouldest enter

this poor cell, my guest to be?

Then amid his exaltation,

loud the convent bell appalling,

from its belfry calling, calling,

rang through court and corridor

with persistent iteration

he had never heard before,

it was now the appointed hour.

 

When alike in shine or shower

winter’s cold or summer’s heat

to the convent portals came

all the blind and halt and lame,

all the beggars of the street,

 

for their daily dole of food

dealt them by the brotherhood;

and their almoner was he

who upon his bended knee,

rapt in silent ecstasy

of divinest self-surrender

saw the Vision and the Splendour.

 

Deep distress and hesitation

mingled with his adoration;

should he go, or should he stay?

Should he leave the poor to wait

hungry at the convent gate,

till the Vision passed away.

Should he slight his radiant guest,

slight his visitant celestial,

for a crowd of ragged, bestial

beggars at the convent gate?

Would the Vision there remain?

Would the Vision come again?

 

Then a voice within his breast

whispered, audible and clear,

as if to the outward ear,

‘Do thy duty; that is best;

leave unto thy Lord the rest!’

Straightway to his feet he started,

and longing look intent

on the Blessed Vision bent,

slowly from his cell departed,

slowly on his errand went.

 

At the gate the poor were waiting

looking through the iron grating.

With that terror in the eye

that is only seen in those

who amid their wants and woes

hear the sound of doors that close,

and of feet that pass them by;

grown familiar with the savour

of the bread by which men die!

 

But today, they knew not why,

like the gate of Paradise

seemed the convent gate to rise,

like a sacrament divine

seemed to them the bread and wine,

in his heart the monk was praying

thinking of the homeless poor,

what they suffer and endure;

what we see not, what we see;

and the inward voice was saying

‘Whatsoever thing thou doest

to the least of mine and lowest,

that thou doest unto me!

 

Unto me! But had the Vision

come to him in beggar’s clothing’

come a mendicant imploring

would he then have knelt adoring,

or have listened with derision

and have turned away with loathing?

Thus his conscience put the question,

full of troublesome suggestion,

as at length with hurried pace,

towards his cell he turned his face,

and beheld the convent bright

with a supernatural light,

like a luminous cloud expanding

over floor and wall and ceiling.

 

But he paused with awe-struck feeling

at the threshold of his door,

for the Vision still was standing

as he left it there before,

when the convent bell appalling

from its belfry calling, calling,

summoned him to feed the poor,

through the long hour intervening

it had waited his return,

and he felt his bosom burn,

comprehending all the meaning,

 

When the Blessed Vision said,

“Hadst thou stayed, I must have fled!”


 

 

THE LAST MONK OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY

Dom Sigebert Buckley 1517 – 1610

By Dom Jonathan Whiting OSB , Ealing Abbey. Courtesy ‘The Chapter’ newsletter 1996.

 

In January 1995 four monks from Ealing Abbey set off on pilgrimage to a small farm near West Meon in East Hampshire where the remains of the last monk of Westminster Abbey, Dom Sigebert Buckley, lie. He died in 1610 at the age of 94 having lived through the turbulent years of the 16th. century. Buckley and his Abbot, John Feckenham, showed remarkable loyalty to the Catholic faith after the Dissolution of the abbey in 1559; although their names are largely forgotten today, they have earned themselves a place in the history of Catholic England and are men of whom any Catholic and Benedictine can be immensely proud.

 

Sigebert Buckley was born in 1517 but we know little of him until 17th. December 1557 when he received minor orders at the newly revived Westminster Abbey; here he was ordained priest six months later on 4 June 1558. The abbey had been suppressed by Henry V111 in 1540 but re-founded on 21 November 1556 by Queen Mary. The revived monastic community was, however, to be short lived. Queen Mary and her cousin Cardinal Pole died in November 1558 and on 15 January 1559 Elizabeth’s coronation took place in Westminster Abbey. Elizabeth began immediately to restore the Protestant religion of Edward V1 and within just seven months the abbey was dissolved and the monks dispersed.

 

In the Spring of 1559 the Abbot of Westminster, John Feckenham, was speaking out in the Lords and voting against the bills which would eventually outlaw the Catholic Church in England and establish the new state religion. ‘Two sundry kinds of religion are here set before you’ he told the Lords, one, one thousand four hundred years old… the other in a book established by the authority of Parliament’. Feckenham maintained firmly that the marks of the Catholic faith were unbroken continuity and visible and international unity, none of which Elizabeth’s church would be able to claim. On 29 April 1559 Parliament passed the Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity; in the following month all the bishops refused to take the Oath of Supremacy replacing the spiritual supremacy of the successor of St. Peter with that of the Queen of England. For refusing to acknowledge Elizabeth as Supreme Governor of the English church they were deposed and deprived of their sees and all died state prisoners with the exception of two who fled abroad and died in exile and the Bishop of Llandaff who escaped prison by apostacy. In June 1559 Abbot Feckenham of Westminster also refused to take the Oath of Supremacy. In the following month Westminster Abbey was dissolved. Dom Sigebert Buckley had been a priest there for only one year.

 

As far as we know, neither the Abbot nor the monks received a pension and it would appear that few, if any, conformed or accepted positions in the ‘Church by Law Established’, which makes them difficult to trace after the Dissolution. Abbot Feckenham remained at Westminster for a year arranging the transference of the buildings before being taken to the Tower of London on 20 May 1560 ‘at nyght abowt viii of the cloke’. He was to spend the next twenty four years in gaol, never renouncing the Catholic faith and continuing in his refusal to take the Oath of Supremacy and conform to the new Protestant Religion. Four years before he died, he raised hopes by stating that he would love to accept Elizabeth’s Book of Common Prayer and attend the services of her Church – if they restored what was lacking, namely the Mass. Feckenham died at Wisbech Castle in October 1584 having been faithful to the end. He was buried by an Anglican minister and the parish records state quite simply ‘Decimo sixto die Octobris 1584 – Thomas Cromer alias ffeckenham papist fuit sepult’. Of this Dom David Knowles has remarked that although never a martyr, Feckenham was certainly a confessor for the Faith; as we shall see, Buckley was no less devoted in his loyalty to the old religion.

 

The first reference to Buckley after the Dissolution of Westminster Abbey is twenty three years later in 1582 when he was imprisoned at Marshalsea. He had two years of freedom between 1586 and 1588 before being re-imprisoned, firstly at Wisbech 1588-1599 and then at Framlington 1599-1603. At Wisbech we gain a glimpse of him from an imprisoned secular priest, Dr. Christopher Bagshawe who was there from 1593. Bagshawe had been a student in Rome at the English College and mentions in a letter from Wisbech that Buckley ‘the last survivor of those monks who once lived in Catholic England’ was ready to meet death with Holy Simeon’s joy because he has seen his order reviving once more again’. It was probably through Bagshawe that the English monks abroad had learned that the elderly Westminster monk was still alive and on arriving in England from the continent they recognised in Buckley the last link with the monks of Catholic England.

 

Queen Elizabeth died in March 1603 and on the accession of James 1 there was a general release of priests, including Buckley. It was soon after this that English monks of the Cassinese and Spanish congregations began returning to England following permission granted by Pope Clement V111 in 1602. Buckley was eighty six years old when released.

 

Buckley’s importance in the history of the English Benedictine Congregation lies in the events of 1607 which will be briefly recounted. It has been traditionally been held in the English Congregation that through him there exists a canonical continuity between the pre-reformation and post-reformation Congregations in England. The old Congregation, canonically erected in the thirteenth century by the Holy See, was nearly extinguished after Henry V111’s suppression of the monasteries. The revival at Westminster Abbey was short lived, ending in 1559; by 1607 Buckley was almost certainly the only surviving monk of both Westminster and the old Congregation.

 

End of Part One……..Final Part next issue.

 

THE PRODIGAL SON

The following item is reproduced courtesy ‘The Oblate’ newsletter of St. John’s Abbey MN. 

 

The Faithful Father

     Feeling footloose and frisky, a feather-brained fellow forced his fond father to fork over the family finances. He flew far to foreign fields and frittered his fortune feasting fabulously with faithless friends. 
     Finally facing famine and fleeced by his fellows in folly, he found himself a feed - flinger in a filthy farmyard. Fairly famished he fain would have filled his frame with the foraged foods of the fodder frag-ments left by the filthy farmyard creatures.
     "Fooey", he said, "My father's flunkies fare far fancier," the frazzled fugitive found, feverishly frankly facing facts.  Frustrated by failure and filled with foreboding he forthwith fled to his family.  Falling at his father's feet, he floundered forlornly. "Father, I have flunked and fruitlessly forfeited family favour."

     But the faithful father, forestalling further flinching frantically flagged the flunkies. "Fetch forth the finest fatling and fix a feaSaint"
     But the fugitive's fault-finding elder frater frowned on the fickle forgiveness of the former folderol. His fury flashed!
     But fussing was futile, for the far-sighted father figured, such filial fidelity is fine, but what forbids fervent festivity when the former fugitive is found!  "Unfurl the flags, with fanfares flaring!  Let fun and frolic freely flow!"  "Former failure is forgotten, folly is forsaken!  And forgiveness forms the foundation for future fortitude." 

--The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice.  Proverbs 12:15

Submitted by Kelly Ryan, monk of Saint John's Abbey

 

REFLECTION

An old Indian chief once described his own inner struggles in this manner:

 "Inside of me there are two dogs. "One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is gentle and good. The mean dog fights with the good dog all the time." When asked which dog wins, he reflected a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."     -- Anonymous

 

BOOK REVIEW

‘Truthful Living’ by Michael Casey OCSO, Prior of Tarrawarra Abbey, Victoria.

The following are some notes taken during Michael Casey’s public lecture in Perth.

To live truthfully is humility; to live the truth of who we are. It is a fundamental gospel value. To better define humility it is sometimes better to analyse what it isn’t as well as what it is.

The case against it – too negative/passive, no sense of mission, a cloak for tyranny, not person centred, low self esteem, breeds a culture of compliance and doesn’t aid spontaneity or self expression.

 

However, humility is the capacity to receive God’s gifts and graces. But for us to receive the kingdom as a child, requires a re-education of our inner (beliefs & values) and outer (behaviour).

Humility is truth – reflected in our self-honesty, in our compassion for others and our response to God in worship, obedience and love. We are always to remember – we are not divine, we are creatures, we are sinners, we are stalled humans.

 

St. John Cassian on humility – Humility is the effect of spiritual progress, rather than its cause.

Cassian sets out ten milestones that one passes through on the way to humility –

A.     Open to Direction

1.      Not self-willed.

2.      Ready for disclosure about self.

3.      Trusting in the guidance of an elder.

B.     Meek.

4.          Obedient and patient.

5.          Non-violent and not aggrieved.

C.     Low Profile.

6.          Invisible.

7.          Easily pleased.

8.          Happy with the lowest place.

D.     Quiet.

9.          Taciturn and soft spoken.

10.      Grave.

Benedict sets out his twelve steps to humility in RB7.

Humility is therefore the practical expression of –

Faith in God’s providence.

Hope in hard times.

Love to forget self.

 

REVISIONS TO BACK PAGE

After trialing the Gospel of the day format for the past two years on the back page, the Committee has decided to change the Bible reading section to an arrangement that will enable oblates to read completely through the New Testament once a year.

We propose to follow the programme outlined at the back of the Good News Bible edition, although of course oblates will use their own Bible for this exercise.

Naturally we would not expect oblates to follow this format as a replacement for daily lectio but as an addition, if time is available to them.

To quote from the authors of this edition:

 The Bible is mostly presented to us in unconnected bits. Readings in church are often chosen in a random manner and if people dip into the Bible, many read just where it falls open. Yet the Bible is for real situations and written under the inspiration of God. Its real benefit comes when we approach it like this and read it all in a sensible way looking for God to speak to us as we read.

The reading plan has been designed to help us get to know the whole New Testament in one year.

The plan has four cycles based on the four different portraits of Jesus in the Gospels. It begins with the Gospel of Luke, to give a comprehensive run through of Jesus’ life, death and resurrection. It follows on to get a comprehensive picture of the first Christians in Acts and the letters of Paul. The second cycle takes us through Matthews Gospel and with it are grouped the more Jewish bits of the New Testament like Hebrews and James. Our third conductor through the life of Jesus is Mark, who gives us Peter’s picture and with him therefore are grouped the two letters of Peter. Towards the end, John takes over and tells us his memories of Jesus in his Gospel and letters.

Logically the plan ends with the finale, the book of the Apocalypse.

 

 


Recommended Oblate daily reading – New Testament reading and Rule of Benedict

     September 2001

    Bible reading        RB

1    Luke 1:1-25       Prol 01-07

2    Luke 1:26-56     Prol 08-13

3    Luke 1:57-80     Prol 14-21

4    Luke 2:1-21       Prol 22-30

5    Luke 2:22-40     Prol 31-38

6    Luke 2:41-52     Prol 39-44

7    Luke 3:1-38       Prol 45-50

8    Luke 4:1-15       1

9    Luke 4:16-30     2:1-5

10   Luke 4:31-44    2:6-10

11   Luke 5:1-26      2:11-15

12   Luke 5:26-6:11 2:16-22

13   Luke 6:12-36    2:23-29

14   Luke 6:37-49    2:30-32

15   Luke 7:1-28      2:33-40

16   Luke 7:29-50    3:1-6

17   Luke 8:1-21      3:7-13

18   Luke 8:22-30    4:1-19

19   Luke 8:40-56    4:20-40

20   Luke 9:1-27      4:41-54

21   Luke 9:28-62    4:55-78

22   Luke 10:1-24    5:1-13

23   Luke 10:25-42  5:14-19

24   Luke 11:1-23    6

25   Luke 11:24-36  7:1-9

26   Luke 11:37-54  7:10-13

27   Luke 12:1-21    7:14-18

28   Luke 12:24-40  7:19-25

29   Luke 12:41-59  7:26-30

 

 

     October 2001

    Bible reading        RB

1     Luke 13:22-35     7:34

2     Luke 14:1-24       7:35-43

3     Luke 14:25-35     7:44-48

4     Luke 15:1-32       7:49-50

5     Luke 16:1-18       7:51-54

6     Luke 16:19-17:10 7:55

7     Luke 17:11-37     7:56-58

8     Luke 18:1-17       7:59

9     Luke 18:18-43     7:60-61

10   Luke 19:1-27       7:62-70

11   Luke 19:28-48     8

12   Luke 20:1-26       9

13   Luke 20:27-21:6  10

14   Luke 21:7-38     11

15   Luke 22:1-38     12

16   Luke 22:39-71   13:1-11

17   Luke 23:1-25     13:12-14

18   Luke 23:26-56   14

19   Luke 24:1-35     15

20   Luke 24:36-53   16

21   Acts 1:1-26        17

22   Acts 2:1-21        18:1-6

23   Acts 2:22-47      18:7-11

24   Acts 3:1-26        18:12-18

25   Acts 4:1-22        18:19-25

26   Acts 4:23-37      19

27   Acts 5:1-16        20

28   Acts 5:17-42      21

29   Acts 6:1-15        22

30   Acts 7:1-29        23

31   Acts 7:30-8:1a   24

 

     November 2001

    Bible reading        RB

1     Acts 8:1b-5         25

2     Acts 8:26-40       26

3     Acts 9:1-31         27

4     Acts 9:32-43       28

5     Acts 10:1-33       29

6     Acts 10:34-11:18 30

7     Acts 11:19-30     31:1-18

8     Acts 12:1-25       31:13-19

9     Acts 13:1-12       32

10   Acts 13:13-52     33

11   Acts 14:1-28       34

12   Acts 15:1-35       35:1-11

13   Gal  1:1-24         35:12-18

14   Gal  2:1-21         36

15   Gal  3:1-20         37

16   Gal  3:21-4:7      38

17   Gal  4:8-31         39

18   Gal  5:1-26         40

19   Gal  6:1-18         41

20   Acts 15:36-16:15  42

21   Acts 16:16-40    43:1-12

22   Acts 17:1-15      43:13-19

23   Acts 17:16-34    44

24   1Thes 1:1-2:16   45

25   1Thes 2:17-4:12  46

26   1Thes 4:13-5:28  47

27   2Thes 1:1-2:12    48:1-9

28   2Thes 2:13-3:18  48:10-21

29   Acts 18:1-23        48:22-25

30   Acts 18:24-19:20  49


30   Luke 13:1-21    7:31-33