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In the Beginning… Recasting the Christian Story in Light of Scientific Developments February 2, 2012 |
Heidi Russell, PhD, program director for the M.A. in pastoral studies at Loyola University’s Institute for Pastoral Studies, asks: With the world changing all around us at such a rapid pace, from the development of new technology to the discovery of new subatomic particles, how do we continue to speak the Christian story in a manner that is relevant to today’s world? What does it mean to talk about the human person as embodied spirit or enspirited body? How do we understand the place of Christ in a new cosmology? What does it mean to talk about salvation and resurrection in a world of quantum mechanics? We will explore the exciting new possibilities presented to Christian theology, as well as some of the difficult questions. To register, contact siena@dom.edu. St. Catherine of Siena Center |
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A Day Apart February 4, 2012 |
9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Andrea Beacham, an ordained, interfaith spiritual director, will lead a day of rest and renewal. An inspirational conversation will start the day along with instructions on how you might use your time. You will have a room where you may rest, read, and write. You will also have the opportunity to experience spiritual direction and walk a labyrinth. Beacham works with all ages and traditions providing spiritual, premarital, and end-of-life guidance. Fee: $45. Registration deadline: Jan. 27. For information, call 608-748-4411 or visit www.sinsinawa.org. Sinsinawa Mound, the motherhouse for the Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters, is located in southwest Wisconsin on County Road Z, off Highway 11, about five miles northeast of Dubuque. |
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Taize Prayer Service February 9, 2012; March 8, 2012 |
7 p.m. Thursdays Rosaryville Spirit Life Center invites all persons to a non-denominational candlelight Taize prayer service in the center’s chapel. The prayer service consists of scripture readings, meditative, repetitive chants which lead to a deepening of prayer, periods of silent prayer and prayer around the cross. This is a prayer which must be experienced to appreciate because words cannot convey the power of this prayer. The prayer lasts for approximately one hour. Rosaryville Spirit Life Center |
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Catholics in the Public Square: Prophecy, Civility, and Truth February 9, 2012 |
7 p.m. Priory Campus Auditorium In this lecture, M. Cathleen Kaveny, JD, PhD, John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law and Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, will discuss how Catholics in a pluralistic society such as our own should frame their public discussion of controversial issues. Committed Christians often feel caught between two obligations. On the one hand, we experience a call to speak prophetically, calling attention to moral scandals in our society. On the other hand is the conflicting demand to speak politely and respectfully, taking into account the concerns and needs of those who disagree. Kaveny will argue that this tension is grounded in two demands of truth in service of the common good: the prophetic demand to "speak the truth to power" about controversial moral issues, and the demands of civility, which recognize the equal dignity of our fellow citizens. She will suggest various ways in which that tension can be identified and managed in the context of our national elections. Cost: $10. To register, contact siena@dom.edu. St. Catherine of Siena Center |
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Soul Sisters February 9-12, 2012 |
7:30 p.m. Thursday to 12:30 p.m. Sunday We will explore the feminine divine and how women have a significant role to play in bringing balance and healing to our world of war and suffering. We will take a look at the history of God as Mother and explore how women in Scripture, as well as contemporary women, can be models of hope and new life for our globe. This time with God, our souls and our sisters, will leave us forever changed! |
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A Morning with the Psalms February 11, 2012 |
9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Richard Bruxvoort Colligan will lead participants in musical meditation on 10 Psalms. From thanksgiving to lament, joyfulness to grief, the Psalms of Scripture invite us to live life deeply. Richard is a liturgical theologian, spiritual director, and musician in the midst of a 12-year study of the Psalms of the Hebrew Scriptures. Fee: $40. Registration deadline: Feb. 3. To register or for more information, call 608-748-4411 or visit www.sinsinawa.org. Sinsinawa Mound, the motherhouse for the Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters, is located in southwest Wisconsin on County Road Z, off Highway 11, about five miles northeast of Dubuque. |
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A Valentine’s Evening February 14, 2012 |
5:45 p.m. candlelight dinner; 7 p.m. concert featuring Moldy Jam of Madison, Wisconsin. Moldy Jam is the longest running jam of old time and Irish music in the Madison area. Started in the mid-1980s, the group has members from age 16 to 60. Please join us for a wonderful evening to celebrate love and life with your special someone. Registration deadline: Feb. 10. To register, call 608-748-4411 or visit www.sinsinawa.org. Sinsinawa Mound, the motherhouse for the Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters, is located in southwest Wisconsin on County Road Z, off Highway 11, about five miles northeast of Dubuque, Iowa. |
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Earth Insights: A Nature-Based Christian Spirituality February 22 to May 9, 2012 |
This course is the inaugural course of a completely online MA in Spirituality offered by the Oblate School of Theology. Face to face and enrichment options are available for students in the San Antonio, Texas, area. Presented by Dominican Sister of Houston Linda Gibler, OP, PhD. Drawing from Christian Tradition and contemporary science, the course builds on the work of Teilhard de Chardin to explore the Christian journey. Students enrolled in this course will reflect on the relevance of dynamics that occur at all levels of creation, (Cosmic, Earth, and Human) and apply them to their own spiritual paths. The work of Brian Swimme, Steven Chase, and Brennan Hills form the backbone of the course. Linda is the associate academic dean at the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio. She is also an adjunct professor for the Loyola Institute for Ministry, and a science editor for the Collins Foundation Press. Linda studied with Brian Swimme at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco and completed her PhD in Philosophy and Religion in 2007. For more information, call Linda at 210-341-1366 or email at lgibler@ost.edu. |
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Conversations and Lessons with Dominican Theologians February 28, 2012 |
5 p.m. Lewis Lounge, Lewis Hall, Main Campus Join with us in an evening’s celebration of Dominican University’s own faculty theologians whose new books explore the lasting meaning and contemporary significance of two historical figures: the medieval mystic Meister Eckhart, and the 20th century psychologist Carl Jung. “Meister Eckhart: Master of Mystics” by Richard Woods, OP, PhD, bridges Eckhart's medieval mystical teaching and our own turbulent times, exploring many issues including global climate change and the sacredness of Creation, the meaning of detachment, the challenges of pain and suffering, and the possibility of wider and deeper encounters among world religions. “Teaching Jung,” co-edited by Clodagh Weldon, DPhil, offers a collection of original articles which address the significance and challenges of Jung’s contributions to the study of human religiosity. To register, contact siena@dom.edu. St. Catherine of Siena Center |
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Discernment: Finding Our Way in Divine Love March 9-10, 2012 |
7:30 p.m. Friday to 3:30 p.m. Saturday Your discernment focus at present may be situational—an opportunity, a difficulty, a sense of call. At the same time, “discernment” goes on every day—in large and small choices that together create a “way” for us. With faith and hope, we “choose life.” In our time together, we will look at three qualities at work in the discernment processes, large and small, of our lives: Willingness, Attentiveness, and Responsiveness. We will do this reflectively within the summoning love of God. Miriam Brown, OP, is a Sinsinawa Dominican and member of the staff of Siena Retreat Center where she is a spiritual guide, retreat facilitator, and on the team for the Center’s Spiritual Guidance Training Program. She has a zestful eye for the Spirit’s movement in the world. Cost: $110. Location: Siena Retreat Center, Racine, Wisconsin. For information, call 262-639-4100 x1234, e-mail retreats@racinedominicans.org, or visit www.racinedominicans.org/retreats.cfm. |
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To Know We Have Enough is to be Rich March 9-11, 2012 |
7:30 p.m. Friday to 12:30 p.m. Sunday We are called to a new way of seeing, a new way of being. In this world filled with so much we think we need, we will gratefully remember the abundant bounty we have. We will celebrate the treasures within us and reflect on our call to greater compassion to all that lives. In this time of economic crisis and the fragility of our planet, we will reflect on what brings us deep joy, inner peace, and spiritual fulfillment. Kathleen Bohn, OP, a Racine Dominican, is a staff member of the Siena Retreat Center. She is a spiritual guide, retreat leader, labyrinth facilitator, weaver, and is deeply committed to Earth. She helped initiate and lives at the Racine Dominican Eco-Justice Center. Cost: $190. Location: Siena Retreat Center, Racine, Wisconsin. For information, call 262-639-4100 x1234, e-mail retreats@racinedominicans.org, or visit www.racinedominicans.org/retreats.cfm. |
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Women’s Retreat: Mother Night and Seeing in the Dark March 9-11, 2012 |
7:30 p.m. Friday to 1 p.m. Sunday The Creative life force is urging and nudging us to move into the realm of mystery, dreams, darkness and the unexpected. At this turning of the year, we awaken and welcome the Medial Woman within, who walks between the worlds. With her guidance we reclaim the soulful gifts set into out soul at birth, gifts abandoned possibly in the unconscious through neglect, ignorance and fear. We will draw upon “Mother Night: Myths, Stories and Teachings” by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. Mother Night, our wild, loving companion as we kneel to dig down to mine the raw gems of spirit, soul and creative life, bringing diamonds from the darkness into the light of loving service. Esther Kennedy, OP, MSW, a Dominican Sister of Adrian, believes that we are created with a depth of spirit and presence that yearns to be freely poured out into the world. Esther is the Director of Spirit Mountain Retreat in Idyllwild, CA (www.spiritmountainretreat.org). Single occupancy: $325 The Weber Retreat and Conference Center is located at 1257 East Siena Heights Drive, Adrian, Michigan. For more information, call 517-266-4000 or e-mail webercenter@adriandominicans.org |
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Taking Up the Cross: From Atonement for Sins to Birthing New Life March 14, 2012 |
7 p.m. Priory Campus Auditorium Barbara E. Reid, OP, PhD, professor of New Testament studies, vice president and academic dean of Catholic Theological Union, offers our annual lecture of the Lenten season. She will explore select New Testament texts and their differing theologies of the cross, with a view toward identifying those that can feed cycles of violence and victimization and those that can open liberating paths. Reid is the author of many books, including Taking Up the Cross: New Testament Interpretations Through Latina and Feminist Eyes, Las Parábolas: Predicándolas y Viviéndolas, and Choosing the Better Part? Women in the Gospel of Luke. She writes the weekly column on “The Word” for America magazine, and is at work on two new books on feminist interpretation of the Scriptures. Cost: $10. To register, contact siena@dom.edu. St. Catherine of Siena Center |
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Nuclear Power: Promise and Peril March 22, 2012 |
7 p.m. Priory Campus, Room 263 William George, PhD, professor of theology at Dominican University, and Thomas L. George, PhD, president of Numerical Applications, Inc., mechanical engineer and developer of software used by the nuclear power industry, will share the podium to address the questions: Can nuclear power be a morally and technically responsible path into the future? Or is it better seen as a Promethean quest to steal fire from the gods and to venture where human beings ought not to go? In this presentation and discussion, two brothers—an engineer who uses mathematics to ensure nuclear safety and a moral theologian who writes on obligations to future generations—explore both the promises and the perils of nuclear power. To register, contact siena@dom.edu. St. Catherine of Siena Center |
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A Question of Habit March 29, 2012 |
6 p.m. Bluhm Lecture Hall, Parmer Hall, Main Campus Although most Roman Catholic women religious in the U.S. have not worn the full habits of their orders for over 40 years, images of nuns and sisters in such habits can be found in numerous and surprising aspects of pop culture. They are proliferating both in number and kind. Join filmmaker Bren Ortega Murphy, PhD, for a screening of her documentary film that examines the wide variety of visual images of Catholic nuns and sisters used in contemporary U.S. popular culture and contrasts these images with the lives of actual women religious, both historical and current. The film looks at the nature, scope and significance of these images as well as possible explanations for their increasing popularity and possible impact on our understanding of women religious. It includes interviews with Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ (Dead Man Walking), Tom Fontana (Oz, Homicide), Sister Joan Chittister, OSB (Benedictine writer), and is narrated by Susan Sarandon. Cost: $5. To register, contact siena@dom.edu St. Catherine of Siena Center |
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Holy Week Retreat April 1-4, 2012 |
3 p.m. Sunday to 1 p.m. Wednesday One gift of Holy Week is the challenge to look out at the world not only from our own eyes, but from all eyes, letting our hearts be transformed by love. Questions present themselves: What do I love? What am I helping to be born in the world? What do I see when I look past what is happening on the surface of my life? What people/events have been given to me as my own Jerusalem? Paula D’Arcy is an author, speaker, playwright and former therapist. Among her bestselling books are “Gift of the Red Bird,” “Song for Sarah” and “Sacred Threshold.” Paula is president of the Red Bird Foundation, www.redbirdfoundation.com, which ministers to those in need of healing. Single occupancy: $375 The Weber Retreat and Conference Center is located at 1257 East Siena Heights Drive, Adrian, Michigan. For more information, call 517-266-4000 or e-mail webercenter@adriandominicans.org |
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Dr. Frankenstein’s Footsteps: A Critical Look at Some Key Films April 19, 2012 |
7 p.m. Bluhm Lecture Hall, Parmer Hall, Main Campus Daniel Dinello, MFA, professor of film and video at Columbia College Chicago, and author of “Technophobia!: Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology,” will use film clips to show that the amoral mad scientist of popular culture often serves as a lightning rod for contemporary anxieties about irresponsible scientists, their technological creations, and the unforeseen consequences of their work. While sometimes written off as the product of knee-jerk anti-intellectualism, the madly over-reaching scientist reveals himself as a critical response to the perception that too much of what science produces results in horrific weapons, corporate profits, and dehumanizing technological systems. Further, the mad scientist can be seen as a metaphor for Scientism—science transmuted into a self-congratulatory, quasi-religious belief-system within which scientists become priests in the religion of technology. Dinello was recognized as the 2010 Columbia College Chicago Distinguished Faculty Scholar. To register, contact siena@dom.edu St. Catherine of Siena Center |
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Healing Our World from the Inside Out: A Deeper Look at the Way We Are All Living Our Lives April 20-22, 2012 |
7:30 p.m. Friday to 12:30 p.m. Sunday What happens when we stop believing that change will only happen "out there," and begin to see that we are the world, and healing begins from the inside out? Cost: $240. Location: Siena Retreat Center, Racine, Wisconsin. For information, call 262-639-4100 x1234, e-mail retreats@racinedominicans.org, or visit www.racinedominicans.org/retreats.cfm. |
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From Spotless Bride to Working Partner: Images of the Laity in the 21st Century Church April 24, 2012 |
7 p.m. Prayer, Priory Campus Chapel followed by lecture at 7:30 p.m. in the Priory Campus Auditorium Feminine language for the church and for the laity has a very long history, dating from the Hebrew prophets to St. Paul to St. Catherine of Siena to the Catechism. But in a time of changing roles for women and the exponential growth of lay ecclesial ministry, what kinds of messages does this language convey? Susan Ross, PhD, professor of theology at Loyola University Chicago, will explore the ways that feminine language for the church and the laity has evolved over the centuries, what it means for the present, and what options we have for the future. Ross is president-elect of the Catholic Theological Society of America, and author of “Extravagant Affections: A Feminist Sacramental Theology” and “For the Beauty of the Earth: Women, Sacramentality and Justice.” To register, contact siena@dom.edu St. Catherine of Siena Center |
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Going for the Core: Thomas Merton on Contemplative Prayer May 4-6, 2012 |
7:30 p.m. Friday to 12:30 p.m. Sunday This weekend retreat will be an exploration of what is meant by contemplative prayer—as Thomas Merton discovered and lived. There will be opportunity for centering prayer as a group along with time for personal reflection and prayer. Through times of discussion and practice, we hope to deepen our understanding of prayer and grow in awareness of our deepest center and the “Source” in all. Pat Shutts has a BA in Theology and an MA in Pastoral Studies, and received certification in spiritual guidance from Creighton University and bereavement ministry from the Diocese of Joliet, Illinois. Pat is a lay covenant member of the Wheaton Franciscans. Cost: $190. Location: Siena Retreat Center, Racine, Wisconsin. For information, call 262-639-4100 x1234, e-mail retreats@racinedominicans.org, or visit www.racinedominicans.org/retreats.cfm. |
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Icon Retreat: Mary Hodasz June 10-16, 2012 |
Through the process of painting an icon, one can enter into the mysteries represented by the image. In this retreat, the image of Mary Hodasz, or Mary with the White Rose, will serve as the model. After demonstration of each step of the painting, participants will have time to create their own representation of Mary Hodasz. Prayer and meditation with icons will be an integral part of each day. The history and background of iconography will be illuminated through videos and presentations. Presenter: Maryam Gossling, FSPA |
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Women and the Word: Preaching with the Mind, Eyes and Heart of a Woman June 11–15, 2012 |
Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. In celebration of the 800th Anniversary of the founding of the Dominican Order, Dominican Center at Marywood presents a week-long conference and retreat for women, men, preachers, hearers and doers of the Word. Each day will begin with Morning Prayer with Preaching. Optional workshops, including storytelling, poetry, photography, music, movement and art, will be offered Monday through Thursday afternoons. Each day will close with Eucharist or Evening Prayer with Preaching. Major presentations and speakers: Preaching with the Mind, Eyes and Heart of a Woman (Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to noon) How can women and men work as partners to bring feminist perspectives to preaching the Gospel? Monday we will explore some of the global realities of women's lives and the importance of bringing women's perspectives to the reading of Scripture. Tuesday through Friday, we will explore ways of reading the Scriptures and preaching with the mind, eyes, and heart of a woman from each of the four Gospels. Presenter: Barbara Reid, OP, Professor of New Testament Studies, Vice President and Academic Dean, Catholic Theological Union in Chicago Misunderstanding Judaism Means Misunderstanding Jesus (Tuesday, June 12, 7 to 9 p.m.) Jesus of Nazareth followed the Torah of Moses, found inspiration in the Prophets of Israel, and founded a community of fellow Jews. Yet often Jesus is misunderstood as rejecting Judaism, and first-century Judaism is misunderstood as legalistic, misogynist, vengeful, and xenophobic. Correctly locating Jesus in his Jewish context not only brings new meaning to his parables, his politics, and his piety, it both prevents anti-Jewish teaching and opens a new path for Jewish-Christian relations. Presenter: Amy-Jill Levine, PhD, University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies, Vanderbilt University and School of Divinity. Response and dialogue with Barbara Reid, OP. Entrusted with the Word (Friday, June 15, 1 to 3 p.m.) According to Vatican II’s Constitution on Divine Revelation, Dei Verbum, the Word of God has been entrusted to the entire church. This presentation will focus on the share of all baptized persons in the prophetic mission of the church and the charisms given by the Holy Spirit as the source of the authority to preach. Particular attention will be given to the experience of women since the time of the Second Vatican Council and how Dominican spirituality can be a resource for the preaching ministry of the entire church. Presenter: Mary Catherine Hilkert, OP, Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame. Costs
Dominican Center at Marywood, 2025 Fulton Street East, Grand Rapids MI 49503. For more information, contact Mary Vaccaro at mvaccaro@dominicancenter.com. |
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Holy Land Pilgrimage at Weber Center: An Experiential Journey June 11-16, 2012 |
3:30 p.m. Monday to 1 p.m. Saturday Unable to travel in person to the Holy Land? This is an opportunity for you to experience a journey and place without leaving the country. “…when I least expected it, the Spirit rushed in, (and I was) surprised by tears, surprised by joy. The pilgrimage was life-changing in ways I could not have guessed, and the gifts continue to be revealed nearly every day.” As we become acquainted with the religious, cultural and socio-political realities that were the Judaism of Jesus’ day, lived under Roman occupation, we will read the Gospel narratives with a new and deepened grasp of how Jesus experienced his world and how he struggled to effect God's reign within it, a struggle that continues to this day in his homeland and in every land. The Holy Land Pilgrimage at Weber Center has been designed with the hope that each pilgrim will experience the Jesus of ancient Palestine and the Jesus of today with an immediacy that gives us access anew to his living presence among us. Our pilgrimage will start at the Orthodox Church of St. George in Madaba, Jordan, where pilgrims since Byzantium gathered to “map” the holy sites. From there we will travel to Nazareth, the Judean desert, Capernaum, throughout Galilee and then on to Bethlehem and Jerusalem where we will conclude our pilgrimage with Liturgy on Saturday at 11 a.m. Pilgrimage Guides: Carol Johannes, OP, a Dominican Sister of Adrian, has been involved in the ministry of spiritual direction. She has conducted workshops, addressed many groups exploring issues of spirituality, provided days of prayer and directed retreats throughout the United States and beyond. In 2008, Carol joined the group from the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago who journeyed to Israel to make the Holy Land Retreat. Cheryl Liske, OP, a Dominican Sister of Adrian, has spent the last 20 years as a community organizer with the Gamaliel network, working with the interfaith community in the urban areas of Michigan. Cheryl has traveled twice to the Holy Land with a group led by Bishop Dimitrios of Xanthos (Couchell), special consultant to Archbishop Dimitrios of America, on Inter-Orthodox, Ecumenical and Interfaith Affairs. Joanne Podlucky, OP, is a Dominican Sister of Adrian and the director of the Dominican Center for Religious Development (DCRD). At the DCRD, she teaches in the Internship in Spiritual Direction Program and also ministers as a spiritual director. She has also ministered as a teacher, director of communications, and a free-lance video producer for not-for-profit organizations. Joanne journeyed to the Holy Land in 2009. Anneliese Sinnott, OP, is a Dominican Sister of Adrian. She is currently a professor of systematic theology at Ecumenical Theological Seminary in Detroit. Anneliese participated in two trips to the Holy Land, in 2009 and in 2010. Roland Calvert, OSFS, is a member of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales and a priest for 45 years. He taught for 22 years and served as chaplain at the Adrian Dominican Motherhouse for 22 years. In 2008, he spent an extended period of study at the Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem. Roland has visited every part of the Holy Land. Helena of Constantinople started life as an inn-keeper on the edges of the Roman Empire and, over time, became the mother of Emperor Constantine and Co-regent of the Empire. She traveled to the Holy Land in 327 when she was nearly 80 years old and is said to have discovered the site of the tomb of Christ and the true cross. Helena is recognized as a saint in both the eastern and western churches. Single Occupancy: $425 The Weber Retreat and Conference Center is located at 1257 East Siena Heights Drive, Adrian, Michigan. For more information, call 517-266-4000 or e-mail webercenter@adriandominicans.org |
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Aquinas Philosophy Workshop: “Thomas Aquinas & the Mind/Body Problem” June 21–24, 2012 |
How might Aquinas’ philosophy of the human person speak to dilemmas in contemporary philosophy of mind? What is Aquinas’ hylomorphic conception of the human being as body and soul? How does his study of the diverse faculties of the human person (intellect, free will, emotions, physiological living processes) provide an illuminating account of human life? This conference will explore Aquinas’ understanding of the person, asking the question of the perennial relevance of his contribution. Presenters: Charles Morerod, OP, Bishop of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg, Switzerland; Candace Vogler, Unversity of Chicago; Alfred Freddoso, University of Notre Dame; Thomas Hibbs, Baylor University; Michael Gorman, The Catholic University of America; James Brent, OP, The Catholic University of America; John O’Callaghan, University of Notre Dame. Sponsored by the Catholic and Dominican Institute of Mount Saint Mary’s College, Newburgh, New York, and the Thomistic Institute of the Dominican House of Studies, Washington, DC. Location: Mount Saint Mary College, 330 Powell Ave., Newburgh NY 12550 Registration deadline: June 1. Cost: $200 per person includes meals, campus lodging and workshop; $150 per person for meals and workshop only; $140 graduate student (non-scholarship) all-inclusive. Information and to register online: |
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Silent Directed Retreat June 24-30, 2012 |
This retreat will focus on silence as a way to inner stillness, to listening attentively to the music of life, the still small voice of the Holy One. Spiritual guidance and centering prayer will be a part of each day. Come to this retreat if quiet and peace are your longing. Come to listen, to live in the awareness that we dwell in Holy Presence. Directors are Claudia Greco; Maureen McDonnell, OP; and Clare Wagner, OP |
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Engaged Contemplation, Communion, & Consciousness June 24-30, 2012 |
A retreat with Don Goergen, OP This silent retreat will emphasize the practice of contemplation, explore its connections to presence in the world, and help to weave together the new emergent consciousness with the Christian contemplative traditions. There will be time for presentation, for interaction, for silence, and for celebration. For details and registration, contact Siena Retreat Center, 5635 Erie St., Racine, WI 53402, 262-639-4100 x1234, e-mail: retreats@racinedominicans.org, or visit www.racinedominicans.org. |
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Fireworks: The Grace of God in Our Souls July 5-8, 2012 |
11:15 a.m. Thursday to 12:30 p.m. Sunday Fireworks: Darkness… a Spark… Propulsion… Explosion—beauty that lights up the sky! So we experience the divine Work of Fire, from darkness to light, the explosion of Spirit in creation and in the life of our souls. Such is the divine-human grace that fills the universe with the fullness of life and love. Miriam Brown, OP, is a Sinsinawa Dominican and member of the staff of Siena Retreat Center where she is a spiritual guide, retreat facilitator, and on the team for the center’s Spiritual Guidance Training Program. She has a zestful eye for the Spirit’s movement in the world. Cost: $250. For details and registration, contact Siena Retreat Center, 5635 Erie St., Racine, WI 53402, 262-639-4100 x1234, e-mail: retreats@racinedominicans.org, or visit www.racinedominicans.org. |
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Rekindling the Vision of Dominic July 13-24, 2012 |
A retreat and one-day tours with Sister Mary O’Driscoll, OP
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Cost: $1,450 for retreat and tours (does not include airfare). Deposit of $200 with application form is due ASAP to hold your place (deposit is non-refundable after Jan. 1, 2012). Balance of $1,250 is due May 1. Please make checks payable to Sisters of Saint Dominic, and mail to Sister Jeanne Goyette, OP, 22 Lakeside Avenue, Verona, NJ 07044. Download registration form We will provide an optional stay in Paris, July 10–13 for those interested and able. The stay in Paris involves a lot of walking, stairs and travel by Metro. The cost for lodging and breakfast is $250 which includes all four nights. All other expenses are the responsibility of the participant. Download brochure Contact: Sister Jeanne Goyette, OP, 973-239-4767; jgoyetteop@yahoo.com |
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Nurturing Life’s Blessings July 22-28, 2012 |
3:30 p.m. Sunday to 12:30 p.m. Saturday Embrace and nurture life’s blessings, all of them, in a retreat tailored to your individual encounter with the Holy. This retreat includes a daily meeting with a director, time for solitude, and the opportunity to gather with others for prayer. This year’s theme, Living in the Certainty of Grace, will be the focus of morning and evening prayers. While this is a silent retreat, there will be designated optional times for sharing with each other. Directors: Miriam Brown, OP; Mary Therese Johnson, OP; Diane Poplawski, OP; Lorrita Verhey, SSND; and Linda Wieser, OSF. Cost: $460. For details and registration, contact Siena Retreat Center, 5635 Erie St., Racine, WI 53402, 262-639-4100 x1234, e-mail: retreats@racinedominicans.org, or visit www.racinedominicans.org. |
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