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style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Experiencing the Goddess
Rosary </SPAN></B><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">by Dalyn Cook</SPAN></I></DIV>
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<DIV><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The banner on the outside of
</SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Ebenezer</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN><st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Lutheran</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN><st1:PlaceType><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Church</SPAN></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> boldly proclaims “Goddess Rosary
Every Wednesday </SPAN><st1:time Minute="0" Hour="19"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">7 p.m.</SPAN></st1:time><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">” Doubtless this precipitates
questions in the minds of passers-by: a rosary at a Lutheran church? A feminist
take on a ritual indigenous to a denomination with an especially strong
patriarchal foundation? I was eager to experience this new phenomenon, and it
was with open mind and heart that I entered Ebenezer on my first Wednesday
evening in the City. Thought the church was empty, I felt that I had stepped
into a Presence, like a mother’s warm embrace. The attendees were few in number,
yet there was a sense of fullness in this welcoming space. I inhaled deeply the
earthy scent of the incense, sending up delicate tendrils of smoke which curled
around the altar in a nimbus visible against the warm rays of the evening sun
filtering through the stained-glass windows.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A
href="http://www.herchurch.org/id8.html">http://www.herchurch.org/id8.html</A></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I've put my comments on my blog site
at <A
href="http://www.theotokos.co.za/blog/catholic.php?id=53">http://www.theotokos.co.za/blog/catholic.php?id=53</A></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">God
bless,</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Stephen</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">--<BR>Stephen Korsman<BR><A
href="mailto:skorsman@theotokos.co.za">skorsman@theotokos.co.za</A><BR><A
href="http://www.theotokos.co.za">www.theotokos.co.za</A><BR> <BR>IC |
XC<BR>---------<BR>NI | KA<BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>