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Chokmah
The Armagh Diocesan Initiative for
Narrative&Prayer&Healing

An opportunity to leaven
our contemporary adult experience
with exemplars&rituals
that awaken us from dogmatic slumber!

So as to know&embody The Christ
in The Modern World!

The Chokmah Initiative

This Initative is inspired&nourished by several dynamic factors :

A. The generative work of The Mount Oliver Institute (1969 - 1992), briefly expressed thus :

Who Enslaves ThePeople? Who Liberates ThePeople?
The Urgent TwinQuestions! &What effective Response?
In TheSpirit-of-Jesus-TheNazarene, this Institute dares
To Explore-TheImplications-of-TheBiblicalMythos,
For our ContemporaryExperience
As Groups&Individuals, As Women&Men!
&To take-issue with TheGods-who-Infest-OurWorld!
In TheName-of-TheOne-who Calls-Everyone-toFreedom!

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B. The Archiepiscopal Motto of Cardinal Seán Brady, Coarb of St Patrick, spoken in Latin thus :

Jesum Christum Cognoscere


The Motto has been adopted as TheAim of this Initiative, spoken in English thus :

To know&embody The Christ
in The Modern World!

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C. The effort to recover & re-member, in partnership with other adult disciples,
the biblical divinities named as

CHOKMAH/SOPHIA/WISDOM ('Love-TheEarth!'),
&YAHWEH/ KYRIOS/THELORD ('HaveCompassion-for-All!')!

Chokmah especially, &to a lesser degree Yahweh, have been consciously reduced&occulted by the biblical 'orchestrators', ('TheScribes') for vested interests! &This arrangement 'in favour of temple interests' has been claimed to be 'inspired&word-of-god'!

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D. The valuing&enthusement of actual contemporary experience, both individual &collective!

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E. The encouraging of a critical&ironic&imaginal engagement with biblical narrative from a 21stC perspective : acknowledging the quite limited relevance or potency of 'traditional interpretations', &'rhetorical homiletics' : both of which largely flow from a 'medieval mindset'!
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The Chokmah Initiative
is co-ordinated in the Archdiocese by
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Welcome to the website of the Archdiocese of Armagh.

Our diocese of sixty-one parishes, from four counties, North and South of the Border, is knitted together closely to form the historic local Church of Armagh. As a diocese we seek not only to be faithful to the message of Jesus Christ himself, but also to embrace the challenges of the present and to look forward with confidence to the opportunities of the future. We strive to do this primarily by reflecting the healing love of Christ and the Truth of his Gospel through the ministry of his Church in the various parishes and pastoral agencies you will find outlined in this website.

I pray that visitors to this site may find the information it contains, the aspirations and resources it promotes, useful in helping to understand the mission of the Archdiocese of Armagh in building up the Kingdom of God in the twenty-first century.

We place it under the protection of Mary, Mother of the Church, who advised us to do whatever her son, Jesus, tells us. We invoke the help of the Patron Saints of the diocese, Patrick  and  Brigid, Malachy and Moninne  and the martyrs, Oliver Plunkett and Patrick O'Loughran,  that this website may prove to be of great help to all who strive to follow Christ faithfully.
 
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