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I. Author

II. Location

III. Communion

Background Background IInformationnformation

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Background Background IInformationnformation

Ⅰ. Author

Anwar F. Accawi

Teaching Experiences

Works

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• Born in Lebanon in a family whose ancestors are believed to have gone to Jerusalem in the Crusades.

• While he was living in Lebanon teaching English as a second language at the American University in Beruit, he married an American woman from Tennessee.

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• When the civil war broke out in Lebanon, Anwar F. Accawi and his wife were forced to leave the country and eventually moved to her native city of La Follette, Tennessee, and later settled down in the States.

• Anwar F. Accawi currently teaches as a full-time instructor at the English Language Institute of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

• He has lived and taught in the U.S. since 1965.

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As a teacher of ESL/EFL for thirty-two years.

He has taught in the USA and in Lebanon, first at the National Evangelical Institute and then at Sidoon High School, Sidon, Lebanon, and also taught at the American University of Beirut before coming to the University of Tennessee in 1979.

He has also trained students planning to become ESL teachers.

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Anwar is a published writer whose work has appeared in books, literary anthologies, reviews, and college textbooks in the USA and abroad.

• Bibliography

• Short Fiction "The Camera" in Homeworks (1996)

• Non-Fiction The Boy from the Tower of the Moon (1999) (Luminous memoir from a Lebanese village boy)

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• With the telephone everything is done. We

can get our mail, buy groceries, do research,

create websites, and get the latest news. On

the Internet, you can learn everything: how

to cook, and how to make a bomb. The

telephone, for Accawi, was, in fact, a bad

news. As for the world as a whole, the

telephone brought great technological

advances and the world would be a totally

different place without it.

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Cynthia Ozick selected “The Telephone” for the best American Essays in 1998.

Publishers Weekly described the piece as a memorizing and magical account of a boy's childhood, “a loving rendering of the Lebanese village of his childhood, where time was measured not by calendars and clocks, not by events—‘the year of whirlwind during which fish and orange fell from the sky’ and ‘after the big snow that caused the roof on the mayor’s house to cave in’.”

—December 30, 2002

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“If Mark Twain had been born in Magdaluna, Lebanon, instead of Hannibal, Missouri, his most enchanting character would have been named not Tom but Anwar. Here, then, is Anwar Accawi’s Tom Sawyerish boyhood in an idyll of village life—endearing, simple yet rich, given countless escapades and delights, where news and gossip and a sense of civilized fulfillment flow lavishly and purely, despite the absence of radio and telephone.

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But modernity does come, and so do the

devastations of civil war. All that is left of the old

Magdaluna resides in Anwar Accawi’s memory, and in

this radiant record of a childhood as engaging and

lively as Tom’s.”

—Cynthia Ozick

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Comments:

“I cannot think of another book I've read with greater

passion. Anwar F. Accawi possesses the ability to draw

the reader into the mind of a five-year-old boy, and

into the creative way its thinking process helps him

understand the world around him.

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At the crossroads of change in the 1940s, the Mount Lebanon village of Magdaluna has very colorful and unique characters living at the fringe of what (then) modern life had to offer. The five year old Anwar untethers his mind to describe the village, villagers and their changing way of life.”

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Magdaluna: a village that lies in the Lebanon Mountains running parallel to the Mediterranean coastline. A narrow plain lies along the Mediterranean coastline. In some places the plain is just wide enough for a road.

Sidon: a city on Lebanon’s southern coast, approximately 25 miles south of Beirut. It is one of the country’s largest ports and one of the oldest cities in the Middle East. In 1985, the city had approximately 100,000 residents.

II.II. LocationLocation

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III.III. CommunionCommunion

• What is a Sacrament in the United Church of

Christ?

• Sacraments are ritual actions in worship

which, according to Scripture, were

instituted by Jesus. In the sacraments of

baptism and communion we ask the Holy

Spirit to use water, bread, and wine to make

visible the grace, forgiveness, and presence

of God in Christ.

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• The communion meal recalls the table

fellowship Jesus shared with his disciples,

and in particular the Last Supper on the

night before his death as well as his

appearances to the disciples during meals

following his resurrection. Throughout its

history, these Biblical accounts of Last

Supper have been central to the Church's

worship life.

III.III. Communion—Communion—OriginOrigin

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• In the sacrament of Holy Communion, also

called the Lord's Supper or Eucharist, meaning

"thanksgiving", Christians hear, taste, touch

and receive the grace of God revealed through

Jesus Christ in a unique way.

• Communion is:

a joyous act of thanksgiving for all God has done,

is doing, and will do for the redeeming of creation.

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the broken bread and poured wine → the crucified

and risen Christ

the wheat (to bake one loaf) and the grapes (pressed

to make wine) → they are one body in Christ

the breaking and pouring → the costliness of Christ's

sacrifice for the forgiveness of sin

Some churches provide non-alcoholic and gluten-free

elements.

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How is Communion served?

• The pastor presides at the Table, normally assisted by elders or deacons

• the sharing of a common loaf or bread and the sharing of a common cup or of individual cups either at the Table or in the pews

• (Intinction) Dipping the bread in the wine is

also an acceptable practice.

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How often is Communion served?

• In the early church Communion was served

weekly.

• Gradually the frequency of Communion

decreased in many Protestant churches.

• Many congregations are moving toward

monthly or weekly Communion.

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Who may receive Communion?

• In most United Church of Christ churches,

the Communion Table is "open to all

Christians who wish to know the presence of

Christ and to share in the community of

God's people" (Book of Worship), even

including Christian baptized children and

even infants.

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• A PRAYER

Father in heaven, you call us into communion with you and with one another: Bless and strengthen the ties that bind us in the Anglican Communion, that we may be one as you and your Son Jesus are one, through the same Jesus Christ, who with you is the author and unifier of all creation, and who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

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