© 2024 Gaétan G. Charland, Francine Fortin, Robert Cadieux, Claude Flibotte, André Desjardins, France Tremblay
© 2024 Urantia Association of Quebec
¶ Summary
- Correspondence of Jacques Weiss by Gaétan Charland
- Retrospective on the 2024 UAI International Congress by Francine Fortin
- Words and feelings during the 2024 congress of the Urantia Association International by Robert Cadieux
- A hypothesis about personality by Claude Flibotte
- Speech to the Urantia fraternity by Gaétan Charland
- Gravities and mental influences by André Desjardins
- Everyone goes their own way by France Tremblay
¶ Word from the President May 2024
Gaetan G. Charland
president@urantiaqc.organique
Dear readers and esteemed members of the association,
We are preparing to experience an exceptional year within the Urantia movement, marked by a return to normality imbued with a renewal of hope for the future of our two fraternal organizations dedicated to the dissemination of the Urantia Book and its teachings. The year has already started well, with the holding of an international congress in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, an event in which several Quebec members of the Urantia Association of Quebec had the pleasure of participating.
In-person conferences are also planned around the world, hosted by various national Urantia associations. The Urantia Book Fellowship is hosting its annual meeting, The Summer Study Session, under the theme “Igniting the Word,” in Missouri from July 24-27. My wife Line and I will have the honor of leading a workshop on study groups. For those interested in participating, I invite you to visit urantiabook.org.
¶ Spotlight Series
The Urantia Book contains many fascinating teachings that deserve closer examination. Our speakers will highlight one of these interesting topics. This will be followed by a discussion with the audience.
Join Georges Michelson-Dupont who will explore the following topic
I AM
First part: Sunday April 21
https://www.urantia.org/fr/etudier/seminaires-et-presentations
Second part: Sunday May 19
Part three: Sunday June 16
TIME: 4 p.m. in Paris and 10 a.m. in Quebec
ZOOM LINK: https://urantia-org.zoom.us/j/86524722735
Please log in ten minutes before the scheduled time.
Since the dawn of time, man has sought to know the origin, history and destiny of the universe in which he lives. Science, philosophy and religions have tried to provide valid answers but in vain, always leaving man dissatisfied. By presenting the concept of I AM and its diversification, The Urantia Book reveals to us a rational explanation of the genesis of reality but these concepts are judged by some readers as too intellectual and having little or nothing to do with our daily lives.
In this series of three presentations based on the Introduction and papers 104, 105 and 106, I will endeavor to show that what is “above in eternity” conditions the becoming of what is “below, here on Urantia”, thus giving a new and enlarged perspective of our universal career.
Georges was born in Paris, France, in 1947. He was part of the team that spent fifteen years revising and correcting the French translation.
Georges became a Trustee of Urantia Foundation in September 1995. In 1999, he and Dorothy Elder launched the Urantia Book International School (UBIS), the first online school dedicated to the in-depth study of The Urantia Book. Today, Georges is Urantia Foundation’s International Vice President, Chief Translation Officer, and Director of UBIS.
¶ Videoconference on Sunday May 26, 2024 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Personal art of living
Gilles Mauroy, France
https://us02web.zoom.us///89317830424
The Urantia Book gives us cultural elements on the Age of Light and Life, the supreme destiny of a material planet inhabited by mortals. It also informs us that a mortal can personally attain the status of light and life, even on an isolated world like Urantia. What does the life of an individual who has attained such a personal status look like and how to achieve it? Gilles invites us on a little journey through an art of living starting from human needs and leading to personal happiness.
Gilles was born in the south-east of France where he spent his adolescence mainly occupied by his studies and the practice of competitive alpine skiing. Between the ages of 13 and 17, despite his atheist education, Gilles became aware of the quest for eternal perfection as a meaning to his life. A few years later, The Urantia Book invited itself into his life and has accompanied him ever since.
Gilles has a background and career as a scientific engineer. He is currently a logistics software consultant with expertise in demand forecasting and replenishment.
Gilles has been participating for several years in courses and workshops on the integration of Nonviolent Communication (NVC), a tool that he finds relevant to support personal, spiritual and social transformations. He is renovating his residence in the Alpes Maritimes in France in order to be able to host spiritual retreats whose objective is to offer a framework allowing trainees to develop living communion with the divine spirit within.
Sunday May 5, 2024 In person AUQ Annual General Meeting from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Conference: “Spiritual unity and us” from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Hotel le Dauphin :—: 600 Saint-Joseph Blvd., Drummondville J2C 2C1 Dear readers, an opportunity to meet in person for the first time in a long time!
You are invited to our Annual General Meeting, followed by Gaétan Charland’s conference, on the theme of Spiritual Unity and Us. Subsequently, discussions will take place in small groups.
Although we have an idea of the definition of the word “unity,” we will explore the meanings of unity as spiritual, what it requires of us, lovers of this revelation, and how we can manifest this spiritual unity in our lives.
We will also examine how spiritual unity is fundamental to our organization and why, without it, organizational unity will not be achieved, which could compromise the success of our mission, the dissemination of The Urantia Book and its wonderful teachings.
Free entry
¶ The CHRIST EXPERIMIENT’S — The School of Ambassadors
The Ambassadors School is in its second year introducing the course The Ministry of the Master. It offers new perspectives on sharing the knowledge of the book, in a natural way and without offending people who want to know more about divine reality.
Here is the students’ testimony:
“It is a very powerful course which reminded me of all the riches of divine teachings and particularly those of the Master! My inner life has gained in intimacy with the Father and with the Son and my desire to do the will of God has been consolidated!”
“It is a step forward towards the responsibility of fraternity among us through the example of Jesus and thanks to the love that the Father gives us.”
“This course is transformative. It gives us a taste for serving in brotherhood and in the love of the Father who is the supreme reality. It is transformative, but at the same time it leads us to want to do the will of God.”
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¶ Correspondence of Jacques Weiss
Gaetan Charland
Boucherville
Editor’s note: The beginning of this text was published in issue 376 of the February 2024 issue of the Réflectivité newspaper, here is finally the sequel! Our apologies for this oversight!
UBH MARIAN ROWLEY to JACQUES WEISS
Chicago, Illinois, May 11, 1958
Dear Mr. Weiss,
We are delighted to receive your very interesting letter of April 30th concerning the translation of The Urantia Book which you are currently making. You have apparently made a great deal of progress in a very short time.
The task of translation requires not only technical knowledge of both languages, but also a sympathetic understanding of the concepts expressed in The Urantia Book, and I can well understand that in the process of translation you will probably build up a study group of people who will become genuinely interested in the teachings of the Book.
¶ Retrospective on the 2024 UAI International Congress
Francine Fortin
Quebec
Come with me, I’ll take you to the 12th International Congress 2024 of the International Urantia Association “Nature and Nurture of the soul” “The nature and the culture of the soul” which took place from Friday March 29 to Sunday March 31, 2024 at the Maritime Conference Center, in the city of Baltimore in the United States.
A superb, comfortably furnished center, with indoor swimming pool, equipped with 232 rooms, 55 meeting rooms and an auditorium that can accommodate more than 350 people.
The name Maritime, referring to everything related to the navy, has inspired more than one reader to the following quote from The Urantia Book:
¶ Words and feelings at the 2024 Urantia Association International conference
Robert Cadieux
Montreal
Hello dear friends,
I am writing to tell you about my participation in the International Urantia Association conference which was held in Baltimore, Maryland from Thursday March 28 to Sunday March 31, 2024. I really enjoyed this conference whose theme was based on the soul: “The Nature and Nurture of the Soul”, nurture meaning the culture of the soul, that is to say the way in which we nourish it, maintain it and cultivate it.
¶ A hypothesis about personality
Claude Flibotte
Sainte-Julie
God is spirit and energy
In this simple description we have the personality aspect which is designated by the word “God”, because this term always designates personality (UB 0:2.10), then we have the description of the nature of God in that he is as much spirit as energy. Spirit in the sense that he is conscious, divine and perfect, capable of willing and choosing. In reference to the quote UB 1:3.4, the spirit of God is absolute, in the Son it is unqualified and in the Spirit it is universal, then by the union of the three in deity, it is infinite. Energy because it is the origin of the Isle of Paradise, the perfect opposite of the spiritual Son in its nature and function, all that has to do with things and the multiple manifestations of energy. In fact, what distinguishes personality from material, mind and spirit is that these last three enumerations are all diversified manifestations of energy, while personality is something else. By his personality, as Universal Father and as First Source and Center, the Father far transcends what he is as material energy, mental energy and spirit energy (UB 1:7.7).
¶ Address to the Urantia Brotherhood
Gaetan Charland
Boucherville
This text represents a distillation of the guidance or observations made by the revelators to the Forum members, which Christie meticulously conveyed to the members of the Urantia Brotherhood. It is interesting to note that several of these statements also appear in the Publication Mandate. They remain relevant in our time and would be wise to take them into consideration.
By E.L. (Christy) Christensen
January 27, 1963
¶ Gravities and mental influences
André Desjardins
St-Alexis-des-Monts
Our life has always been based on external influences in order to form our personality from a young age. What we are today is the result of our past actions according to the influences received. The influence of our parents, our educators, our entourage, our surroundings and our religious education has shaped our personality. These influences acquired by education, by conviction or by personal principles lead to seeking common points with other followers having the same ideals and forming an alliance aspiring to the same collective objectives. The desire to belong to a family whether familial, social, racial or criminal is part of the natural desires of each individual. Our perceived influences whether material or spiritual always pass through mental gravity before manifesting themselves in concrete action.
¶ In Memoriam
The entire Réflectivité newspaper team offers its sincere condolences to our two sisters who have just said a final goodbye to a loved one.
Chantale Chartier, a long-time reader of The Urantia Book, mourns the death of her mother, Louise Cloutier, who died of accidental causes on April 19 at the “Résidence Ciel Bleu”. The service will be held at the Complexe funéraire Des Trembles, 15005 Sherbrooke Est, Pointe-Aux-Trembles on Friday, May 10 at 1 p.m.
Agnès Lazar, teacher-facilitator at the UBIS school and resident in Belgium, deplores the death of her father, Stefan, early in the morning of April 27.
To you both and your loved ones, our thoughts are with you as we wait to meet again joyfully on the morontia worlds!
¶ Everyone goes their own way
France Tremblay
Sherbrooke
Everyone goes their own way
This is your destiny
What’s yours?
First of all mine
Your mission on this earth
Remains entirely
It is that of revealing
What is My Will
And what better way to get there?
Than learning to achieve
The multitude of Truths
That I taught you
¶ Study groups
This activity allows several readers of different levels of understanding to exchange and study together the teachings of The Urantia Book. It promotes spiritual progress by allowing its participants to find practical applications to the teachings of The Urantia Book in their daily lives. This important approach allows us to keep a broad point of view on the concepts of truth. You wish to participate or form a study group; we will be happy to assist you. If you wish to have your study group appear in this list, contact the person in charge, via email association.urantia.quebec@gmail.com or at 450-565-3323.
The team of your opinion journal Réflectivité would like to give you a voice, so please send us your texts and photos!
Group: “The United Family of Urantia”
Region: Montreal
Mondays, 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Diane Labrecque (514) 774-7733
Group: “Découverte”
Region: Montérégie (Boucherville)
Mondays, from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Gaétan Charland and Line St-Pierre Tel.: (450) 565-3323
Zoom virtual group. (Find out more)
Group: “Uni-Earth”
Region: Joliette
Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Eric Martel (450) 756-9387
Zoom virtual group. (Find out more)
Group : “Le Pont”
Region: Montérégie (Sainte-Julie)
Wednesdays, from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Claude Flibotte (438) 404-6399
Zoom virtual group. (Find out more)
Sherbrooke Group
Region: Sherbrooke
Every 2 weeks: Tuesday or Wednesday, (to be confirmed) from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Helene Boisvenue and Denis Gravelle
Tel.: (819) 569-6416
Study and sharing group: “La chapelle-Maisonnia”
Region: Quebec
Sundays, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Gilles Bertrand & Louise Renaud
(418) 871-4564
Zoom virtual group. (Find out more)
Group: “Urantian Universalists”
Every Monday from 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Eastern Time (Montreal)
Responsible: Claude Flibotte (438) 404-6399
Subject: Appendices of W. S. Sadler Jr.
Zoom virtual group. (Find out more)
We would like to get to know you! Study group facilitator, do not hesitate to send us your text and a photo of the group!
To see the official list of study groups in Quebec and elsewhere in the world:
Click directly on the following link: http://urantia-quebec.ca/activites_liste_des_groupes.php
For even more Urantian reading in French, you can follow this link: http://lien.urantia.fr
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