FOURTH ORDER NEWS
Press and Poetry
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"You play the hand you're dealt.
I think the game's worthwhile."
C.S. Lewis
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A Fourth Order Center?
Yes!
It's beginning in New Mexico.
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 from Alaska - the preface to a powerful manuscript of healing, Richie Boy: the Life and Suicide of a Young Alaska Native.
Ida Hildebrand writes of her brother, Ritchie, and the high suicide rates among Native American men. Courageous, insightful, inspiring, a book of wisdom and healing for all.
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Poems about Presence
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New Poetry
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Contributing Poets
We welcome Elizabeth's Poetic Journal as a ongoing featured section of Manifestations. Her love of Celtic tradition and her soul passion for life shine out of Elizabeth's writing. Her eye for nature and creation, her connection with cosmos and Spirit, her sense of justice in her daily presence to the world and its suffering make Elizabeth's journal very engaging.
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Ecuador
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United Kingdom
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San Francisco
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San Francisco
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Alaska
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Wisconsin
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Thomas Merton
Whether Splitting Logs or Writing Poems
"My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God out of an inner center of silence, gratitude, and ‘awareness.’ This can be realized in a life that apparently accomplishes nothing.
Without centering on accomplishment or nonaccomplishment, my task is simply the breathing of this gratitude from day to day, in simplicity, and for the rest turning my hand to whatever comes, work being part of praise, whether splitting logs or writing poems, or best of all simple notes."
from The Intimate Merton
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Call for submissions
Manifestation E-Zine
Editors Note: I am a Christian companion of the Fourth Order. If holy fools and companions of other faiths do not submit writing or stories of holy fools in their own faiths this ezine is unbalanced. It's up to you, folks!
Send a story or poem.
Tell us of a holy fool near you.
Send a story of Unexpected Grace.
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Deep is the ocean.
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BEARING WITNESS
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from Bro. Francis
Let nothing hinder us,
nothing separate us,
nothing come between us.
Wherever we are, in every place,
at every hour, at every moment
of the day, everyday and continually,
let all of us... love, honor, adore, serve, praise, bless, glorify and exalt, magnify, give thanks..
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Read excerpts.
John Ryan Haule
Now Available
This book takes the journey into Francis' spiritual path and his profound engagement with awareness. A fabulous companion for your journey - a must read.
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Unexpected Grace
Prayer and its Aftermath
An Experience of
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The spiritual path - an intention to go toward the truth by means of love and devotion so as to come into harmony with divine nature.
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Call for Submissions
Are you able to communicate
about the Fourth Order ?
The four small segments below are from the Fourth Order writings. Whether you are a companion or a friend of the The Fourth Order the editor invites you to submit your understanding and lived experience of these.
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Fourth Order Understanding of
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Fourth Order Understanding of
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Fourth Order Understanding of
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Fourth Order Understanding of
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Peter Illyn
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 James and Ruth Mulligan Carla Berkedal Pryne
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Commit an Act of Godly Folly
to keep the communication up.
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Call for Submissions
Our next issue of Manifestations
will focus on being present in the connection of
spirituality and sexuality.
We welcome your submissions: poetry, prose, fiction, serious, from the spiritual traditions or not, tender, intimate, cosmic, wet and juicy, humorous, erotic, gay or straight.
Artwork also welcome.
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Deep is the sea.
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BEING PRESENT
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from Castle Church
in Wittenburg, Germany
Holy Wisdom
Breaking through barriers of language and ideology Matthew Fox, Christian priest and theologian nails 95 theses at the door of Castle Church in Wittenburg where Luther nailed his 95 theses some 500 years ago.
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from Russia
An extraordinary biker leads us on a courageous journey
into the heart of Chernobyl.
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"I'm asking every person on this earth on Fridays at noontime everywhere in the world to pray in silence for one minute."
Ibrahim Abu El Hawa
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Correspondent Dahr Jamail
reports from Baghdad
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from China 
"Maybe you feel tired, maybe you think this is the end of the world, or maybe you have been wronged — but life comes only once, so please give yourself one more chance because tomorrow the sun will bring something new."
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from the San Francisco Tenderloin
Kay Jorgensen
Carmen Barsody
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from Vietnam and its Veterans
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The Fourth Order of Francis and Clare home
