{"id":1101,"date":"2013-02-24T13:36:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-24T13:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bettina-network.com\/blog\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2018-10-21T09:39:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T09:39:57","slug":"a-tribute-to-the-rev-patricia-riley-colenback-1931-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/archives\/1101","title":{"rendered":"A Tribute to The Rev. Patricia Riley Colenback (1931-2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"

taken from “Alla Bozarth-Campbell’s – From Womanpriest: A Personal Odyssey, Paulist Press 1978<\/p>\n

Bakerwoman God<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n
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Bakerwoman God,<\/span><\/address>\n
I am your living Bread.<\/address>\n
Strong, brown, Bakerwoman God.<\/address>\n
I am your low, soft, and being-shaped loaf.<\/address>\n
\u00a0<\/address>\n
I am your rising bread,<\/address>\n
well-kneaded by some divine<\/address>\n
and knotty pair of knuckles,<\/address>\n
by your warm earth-hands.<\/address>\n
I am bread well-kneaded.<\/address>\n
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Put me in fire, Bakerwoman God,<\/address>\n
put me in your own bright fire.<\/address>\n
I am warm, warm as you from fire.<\/address>\n
I am white and gold, soft and hard,<\/address>\n
brown and round.<\/address>\n
I am so warm from fire.<\/address>\n
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Break me, Bakerwoman God!<\/address>\n
I am broken under your caring Word.<\/address>\n
Drop me in your special juice in pieces.<\/address>\n
Drop me in your blood.<\/address>\n
Drunken me in the great red flood.<\/address>\n
Self-giving chalice swallow me.<\/address>\n
My skin shines in the divine wine.<\/address>\n
My face is cup-covered and I drown.<\/address>\n
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I fall up<\/address>\n
in a red pool<\/address>\n
in a gold world<\/address>\n
where your warm<\/address>\n
sunskin hand<\/address>\n
is there to catch and hold me.<\/address>\n
Bakerwoman God,<\/address>\n
remake me.<\/address>\n
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And how many times, Pat, \u00a0did you say these words over others…………………..<\/p>\n

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taken from “Alla Bozarth-Campbell’s – From Womanpriest: A Personal Odyssey, Paulist Press 1978 Bakerwoman God \u00a0 Bakerwoman God, I am your living Bread. Strong, brown, Bakerwoman God. I am your low, soft, and being-shaped loaf. \u00a0 I am your rising bread, well-kneaded by some divine and knotty pair of knuckles, by your warm earth-hands. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38,12,17,33,193],"tags":[259,53,49,80,69,258,77,437,446],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4655,"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions\/4655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}