'A Mystagogue 27/09/09 Poem by Margaret Alice

'A Mystagogue 27/09/09



Wishing to become a mystagogue practising
Christian mystagogy, preferring experience
to intellectual knowing

Surpassing the traditional doctrinal proclaiming
a Tridentine godliness, decrying affective
experience as ephemeral

Christian mystagogy offers an experience of the
divine mystery, based on a small bibliography
proving it is more than

Mere homespun fantasy, Regan taught liturgy at
the seminary and theology faculty, and studied
missiology at the

Pontifical Universty School of Spirituality; ancient
practice was inculturated for Christian formation -
a holistic approach based on experience

For the initiation and transmission of Christian faith
religious education with a wider scope instead of
learning intellectual doctrine only

Providing the Christian Mystery with a psychic
substratum by which all of life acquires
new meaning

Ah, Sweet Mystery of the Divine, I always feel
your maddening joy when contemplating the
most enchanting aspects of

Intersubjective experience!

David Regan “Experience The Mystery” Pastoral
Possibilities for Christian Mystagogy - Geoffrey
Chapman, London,1994 pp.1-22

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
G. Murdock 27 September 2009

I wish I had your depth and reach and you had a wart on your chin. I would also wish to have the faith you have in the divine mystery. You remind me of Joyce in many ways and your poems are always personal and more soliloquoy than anything , This is no exception.

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Margaret Alice

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Pretoria - South Africa
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