© 2023 Olga López
© 2023 Urantia Association of Spain
Bulletin of the Urantia Association of Spain
Light and Life — October 2023
¶ In this issue
- Editorial – October 2023 — M. José Sánchez Santamaría
- Presentations of the XIX Meeting of Readers of The Urantia Book in Spain
- History and teachings: Chronicle of the life of Jesus
- Urantia Book Children’s Guide: Jesus at Age 14
- UBIS “In Focus” presentation series
- XIX Readers’ Meeting – Ciudad Real, 2023
¶ Editorial – October 2023 — M. José Sánchez Santamaría
Washing ourselves in silence
A very overwhelmed young nun went to consult her spiritual director:
—Look, Father, I’m very worried. It’s just that, when I feel better in the chapel is when I don’t do anything, I don’t think about anything; I just am.
The priest smiled.
—Don’t worry, sister, you just discovered silence.
The nun did not leave very convinced. How could she achieve that inner peace without thinking, without reflecting, without reading something? And yet, simply being like that, she savored a stillness and a joy that she had never enjoyed until then.
¶ Presentations from the XIX Meeting of Readers of The Urantia Book in Spain
The commitment to be a believer
Meditation in the Urantian movement (Francisco J. Santos)
Paco begins by reviewing what The Urantia Book says about meditation, and reaches some initial conclusions about it:
- It is a tool to connect mind and spirit
- It must be a habit that favors religious growth
- It is a practice that the Master carried out regularly
- It is a perfect activity to do as a community.
However, the book does not explain to us how to meditate, but rather we must be the ones to find out how to do it. Starting from the definition of meditation, it then explains what its components are: relaxation, concentration and introspection. It is about emptying the mind and filling it with transcendental things (such as God, the Adjuster, etc.).
¶ History and teachings: Chronicle of the life of Jesus
JOURNALISTIC ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF JESUS ACCORDING TO THE URANTIA BOOK
We present to you the next installment of the chronicles of the life of Jesus, which on this occasion contains what the revelators tell us in paper 148 (The training of evangelists in Bethsaida). Within the PDF you will see a button from which you can access the text of the document from the Urantia Foundation website.
¶ Urantia Book Children’s Guide: Jesus at Age 14
We continue reviewing the secondary work A Child’s Guide to The Urantia Book, by Mary Livingston.
This is the next chapter, which is about Jesus at fourteen years old, and it begins like this:
“During that summer Jesus went up to the top of the mountain many times. There, He would talk with God and worship Him. Slowly He remembered that He was a Paradise Son of God. Slowly He also remembered about God’s plan for the children of Paradise.”
Download the full chapter in PDF format
¶ UBIS “In the Spotlight” Presentation Series
The Uran_tia Book International School (UBIS) offers a series of “In Focus” webinars related to topics from The Urantia Book or the reader community.
In the Spanish language, sessions last between 60 and 90 minutes, and are held one Saturday a month at 6 pm (Madrid, Paris, Rome time). The presenter gives an introductory presentation on the topic in question, after which there is an opportunity for attendees to participate in a debate.
This is the presentation scheduled for the month of October:
Day: Saturday, October 7
Time: 18:00 hours CET (Madrid, Paris, Rome)
Title: The education of children in the family: the teachings of Jesus
Presented by: Olga López
Zoom Room: https://urantia-org.zoom.us/j/5136302555
You can watch the video of the previous session at this link
https://youtu.be/HUniksXvDxk?si=aY73-YQOYQ7oM46V
¶ XIX Readers’ Meeting – Ciudad Real, 2023
Date: September 7-10, 2023
Location: Hotel Santa Cecilia, C/ Tinte nº 3, Ciudad Real
Topic: The commitment to be a believer. Life practices in light of The Urantia Book
The XIX Meeting of Spanish Readers began on Thursday, September 7 in the afternoon at the Hotel Santa Cecilia, located in the center of Ciudad Real. About 30 people attended from all corners of the country: Alicante, Almería, Ávila, Barcelona, Burgos, Cáceres, Madrid, Málaga, Murcia, Navarra, Seville, Tarragona and Valencia. We also had the presence of Antonio Schefer, from the Netherlands, president of the AUI Congress Committee, who honored us with his presence.
After eighteen national meetings of readers in Spain, the time has come to reflect and weigh what The Urantia Book has contributed to our lives, after so many years of readings, debates, analysis and meetings. As readers of the book we face a great challenge: if society, or at least an important part of it, is lethargic, precarious, infantilized, polarized, what can we offer to wake it up and revitalize it? If we live in a “postmodern” society that denies and rejects everything that came before, that only pays attention to the present without thinking about the past, where the value of commitment and certainties is lost and characters as mediatic as they are mediocre and transitory are adored, the readers of The Urantia Book can offer an anchor that stabilizes this life adrift that we observe. And that was precisely the topic that was discussed at this meeting.
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¶ References
- Index of the magazine “Luz y Vida” of the Association of Spain
- This article from the magazine “Luz y Vida Online”
- Index of the magazine “Luz y Vida Online”