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“Jesus’ Holy Week Journey of Nonviolence”
April 1, 2023
11 am Pacific/ 12pm Mountain/ 1 pm Central/ 2pm Eastern
During this Saturday zoom session, the day before Palm Sunday and the beginning of Holy Week, Fr. John Dear will guide us through ten key Holy Week episodes from the Gospels to examine the nonviolence of Jesus for clues about how we can be better disciples and better practitioners of Gospel nonviolence.
We will begin with the famous episode from John’s Gospel about the washing of the feet. John Dear will propose that it has nothing to do with service, that instead, a close reading reveals it is a call to anoint one another, to prepare one another to follow Jesus to the cross and be nonviolent martyrs for justice and peace. (This is explained in detail in John’s book, “Lazarus Come Forth!”)
Then, John will reflect from the perspective of nonviolence how Jesus weeps when he sees Jerusalem; rides into Jerusalem on a donkey; engages in civil disobedience in the Temple; offers the Eucharist at the Last Supper; prays in Gethsemane; commands his followers to put down the sword; faces arrest and trial; and goes to his death and resurrection.
Join Fr. John Dear to prepare for Holy Week that together we might accompany Jesus as he carries the cross for justice and disarmament today, that we might deepen in Holy Week nonviolence and discipleship. Most of these reflections are from John’s book, “Walking the Way,” available from wipfandstock.com, which you may want to study ahead of time.
This session will last an hour and a half; Cost: $30.
Cancellation Policy: Refunds will not be honored after Zoom link is issued.
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Pope Francis’ Call to Peace in ‘Fratelli Tutti’”
with Bishop John Stowe, Pres. of Pax Christi USA
April 15, 2023
11 am Pacific/ 12pm Mountain/ 1 pm Central/ 2pm Eastern
For years now, Pope Francis has been calling the church and the whole human race to practice global mercy, universal love, Gospel peacemaking, even creative nonviolence, so that we might all get to work following the nonviolent Jesus by ending our wars, abolishing our nuclear weapons, feeding and healing the poor, and caring for our common home, Mother Earth. He’s trying hard to live up to his namesake St. Francis.
One of his great documents, “Fratelli Tutti,” (“On Fraternity and Social Friendship,” published on October 3, 2020) calls us to become global people. The title is from an admonition of St. Francis who called everyone to see each other as brothers and sisters in a kind of global friendship. The Pope’s letter was written during the pandemic, which set a new urgency to his call, that we can no longer live in isolation but must all see ourselves as part of the global human family, “brothers and sisters all.”
In his document, Pope Francis reflects on the Good Samaritan parable as a way for all of us to live—with utmost concern and compassion for those in need, for the suffering and the poor. He calls each of us to have “a heart open to the whole world,” to develop “a better kind of politics” aimed at serving the whole human race, and to practice “proactive peacemaking,” so that we might abolish war itself, the death penalty, poverty and violence.
You can read the document online for free at:
We are pleased to welcome Bishop John Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky, president of Pax Christi USA, to speak on this great call to peace. As you may know, Pax Christi USA is part of Pax Christi International, the official Catholic peace movement. You can visit them at www.paxchristiusa.org and www.paxchristi.net.
Bishop John Stowe was born April 15, 1966 in Amherst, Ohio. After a year of community college, he joined the formation program for the Conventual Franciscan Province of Our Lady of Consolation at St. Bonaventure Friary in St. Louis, MO. During the time of his candidacy, he began studies in philosophy and history at St. Louis University and completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in each in 1990, after an interruption for his novitiate. He subsequently earned a Masters in Divinity and a Licentiate in Church History from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, CA (where he studied with John Dear).
Bishop John made his solemn vows on August 1, 1992, and was ordained to the priesthood on September 16, 1995. He served in Texas as a pastor, Moderator of the Curia, and eventually as Chancellor for the Diocese of El Paso. In 2010, he was elected Vicar Provincial of the Province of Our Lady of Consolation and became Pastor and Rector of the Basilica and National Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation in Carey, OH. On March 12, 2015, Pope Francis named him the third Bishop of Lexington, Kentucky. Please join us as Bishop John, a Franciscan bishop, reflects on Pope Francis’ call to proactive peacemaking!
This session will last an hour and a half; Cost: $30.
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“100 Years of Philip Berrigan: Remembering, Honoring and Motivating”
with Frida Berrigan
May 6, 2023
11 am Pacific/2 pm Eastern
Philip Berrigan, along with his brother Daniel, was one of the giant peacemakers of the twentieth century. A former Josephite priest, he spent his life protesting the Vietnam War and nuclear weapons. In October, 1967, he was arrested as part of the Baltimore Four for pouring blood on draft files. Then on May 17, 1968, he was part of the Catonsville Nine which poured homemade napalm to burn draft files. He spent several years in prison, later married Elizabeth McAlister, founded Jonah House, a community of resistance in Baltimore, and then founded the Plowshares movement.
On September 9, 1980, Phil, Dan and the Plowshares 8 hammered on unarmed nuclear nose cones in King of Prussia, PA. He later did four more Plowshares action, including the Pax Christi-Spirit of Life Plowshares action with John Dear in 1993. Phil spent over 11 years of his life in prison for nonviolent civil disobedience. Phil authored several books and hundreds of articles; was nominated for the Nobel peace prize, and was featured on the cover of TIME magazine. He died on December 6, 2002.
This year, on October 5th, 2023, marks the 100th anniversary of Philip Berrigan’s birth. To begin the celebrations, the Beatitudes Center is pleased to welcome Phil’s daughter Frida Berrigan, a community activist and urban gardener who lives in New London, CT with her husband, three kids and four chickens. Frida is the author of It Runs In the Family: On Being Raised By Radicals and Growing Into Rebellious Motherhood (OR Books, 2015). Her writing appears regularly at TomDispath.com and WagingNonviolence.org. She will reflect with us on the life and lessons of her father, Philip Berrigan. Please join us!
This session will last an hour and a half; Cost: $30.
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“Following the Nonviolent Jesus in a ‘Pro-Rich, Pro-War, Pro-U.S. Empire’ Church,”
with Frank Cordaro
Saturday, June 3, 2023
11 am Pacific/2 pm Eastern
How do we follow the nonviolent Jesus and his Beatitude way of life, especially when so many Catholics and fellow Christians across the country seem to support wealth, war and the U.S. empire? This is a question we all need to grapple with. What does discipleship to the nonviolent Jesus look like for those of us living in the U.S.?
Fortunately, we have many saints in our own history to help us follow the nonviolent Jesus, such as Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Thomas Merton, Daniel Berrigan, Cesar Chavez, and Jean Donovan.
Long time peace activist and former Catholic priest Frank Cordaro has been asking this question for decades, and will join us on June 3rd to reflect on his own journey and some lessons for all of us that we might better follow Jesus in these days.
Frank Cordaro is the cofounder of the Des Moines Catholic Worker. Started in 1976, it is an ecumenical, interfaith, nonviolent, anarchist Catholic Worker community living in voluntary poverty and intentional community which serves the poor and needy.
Frank has spent six years in jail for nonviolence civil disobedience actions over the years, including eight separate six month sentences for “crossing the line” at Offutt Air Force Base. He participated in the May 1997 Gods of Metal plowshares witness when he and four others hammered on a B52 fighter bomber at Andrews Air Force Base.
Frank believes that any fair reading of the New Testament leads to the conclusion that Jesus and his followers were not ‘pro rich, pro war, or pro Roman Empire,’ that his commandment to “love your enemies” means we can’t kill them, and that the Gospel demands that we do the works of mercy (Matt. 25)—feed the hungry, clothe the naked, house the homeless, and care for the sick and imprisoned as a requirement for discipleship. He will share his faith journey from his college years when he sought a personal relationship with Jesus to living a life of steadfast nonviolent resistance to the U.S. empire and to his decades of service to the poor through the Catholic Worker community.
This session will last an hour and a half; Cost: $30.
You will be sent a zoom link for the event on the Wednesday before the event. Please be on the lookout for it!
You will receive a recording of the event two days after it, in case you were not able to attend the live program, or want to watch it again.
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“Following the Nonviolent Jesus and Serving Creation in a Time of Climate Catastrophe” with Larry Rasmussen
June 17, 2023
11 am Pacific/2 pm Eastern
Every day we see the ravages of climate chaos all around us in massive rain storms and flooding, blizzards, tornadoes, wildfires, droughts, and the hottest years ever. How do we follow the nonviolent Jesus and his Beatitude way of life, and serve creation, in this time of catastrophic climate change?
To help us with the reality of climate catastrophe, we will welcome one of the original and greatest environmental theologians in the world, Larry Rasmussen, to talk about “Following the Nonviolent Jesus and Serving Creation in a Time of Climate Catastrophe.”
Larry Rasmussen is Reinhold Niebuhr Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary, New York City. His new book is The Planet You Inherit: Letters to My Grandchildren When Uncertainty’s a Sure Thing (Broadleaf Books, 2022). There he asks “What kind of planet do our children and grandchildren have a right to expect from us?”
His 2013 book, Earth-Honoring Faith: Religious Ethics in a New Key (Oxford University Press), received the Nautilus Gold Prize for Ecology/Environment and the Nautilus Grand Prize for best 2014 book overall. An earlier volume, Earth Community, Earth Ethics (Orbis Books, 1996), won the prestigious Grawemeyer Award in Religion of 1997.
Larry Rasmussen served as a member of the Science, Ethics, and Religion Advisory Committee of the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) and was a recipient of a Henry Luce Fellowship in Theology, 1998-99, the Burnice Fjellman Award for Distinguished Christian Ministries in Higher Education, the Joseph Sittler Award for Outstanding Leadership in Theological Education, and the UNITAS (Distinguished Alumnus) Award from Union Theological Seminary, New York.
From 1990-2000 he served as co-moderator of the World Council of Churches unit, Justice, Peace, Creation. He was the organizer of the decade project on Earth-Honoring Faith at Ghost Ranch, 2008 – 2017. In the Spring Semester 2018 he was guest professor at Union Theological Seminary and Yale University Divinity School. In the summer of 2019 he taught in Cambridge University, England. In 2021 he was granted the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Society of Christian Ethics. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. For information, see: www.larrywrites.info
Please join us, and share the program with friends and fellow churchgoers.
This session will last an hour and a half; Cost: $30.
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You will receive a recording of the event two days after it, in case you were not able to attend the live program, or want to watch it again.
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“No Retiring from the Struggle!—Third Act and the Effort to Mobilize ‘Experienced Americans’ to Fight Climate Change” with Bill McKibben
Saturday, June 24, 2023
11 am Pacific/2 pm Eastern
Bill McKibben is one of the world’s leading environmentalists, and it is a great blessing to welcome him to the Beatitudes Center.
His 1989 book, “The End of Nature” was one of the first major books to address climate change and helped raise global awareness. He is the Schumann Distinguished Professor in Residence at Middlebury College in Vermont; a contributing writer to “The New Yorker,” “Rolling Stone,” and “Sojourners;” and founder of the first global grassroots climate campaign, www.350.org and the founder of the new organization, www.thirdact.org about mobilizing Americans over sixty to continue to work to fight climate change.
In 2014, Bill McKibben was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the “alternative” Nobel in the Swedish Parliament. He has been awarded the Gandhi Peace Award, and 19 honorary degrees from colleges and universities. He has written over a dozen best-selling books including, “Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?” and most recently, “The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at his Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened.”
In 2009, Bill and 350.org led the largest global protest against environmental destruction with some 5,200 simultaneous demonstrations in 181 countries. In 2011 and 2012, he led the environmental campaign against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project; he is also a key advisor to Jane Fonda’s Fire Drill Fridays movement.
In 2009, Foreign Policy magazine named him to its inaugural list of the 100 most important global thinkers, and MSN named him one of the dozen most influential people on the planet. In 2010, the Boston Globe called him “the nation’s leading environmentalist,” and TIME magazine described him as “the world’s best green journalist.”
In January, 2023, Bill was featured in the New York Times about his new organization, www.thirdact.org which seeks to mobilize all those over 60 in the US in the fight against climate change. He will speak to us about what we all can do to help support and build the global grassroots movement to protect Mother Earth and fight fossil fuels and all environmental destruction.
Please mark your calendars and sign up now to spend time on June 24th with this great thinker, activist, environmental leader and peacemaker. And tell all your friends and relatives. Let’s get a huge crowd to hear Bill. (We recommend that you read one of his books and study www.thirdact.org before the event.)
This session will last an hour and a half; Cost: $30. Scholarships are available.
You will be sent a zoom link for the event on the Wednesday before the event. Please be on the lookout for it!
You will receive a recording of the event two days after it, in case you were not able to attend the live program, or want to watch it again.
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Cancellation Policy: Refunds will not be honored after Zoom link is issued.
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“Wade in the Water: Following the Nonviolent Jesus Means Pursuing Equality and Justice” with Rev. Joseph Brown
Saturday, July 15, 2023
11 am Pacific/2 pm Eastern
In recent years, we’ve been horrified by the growing racism and brutal police killings of so many unarmed African Americans, such as George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Tyre Nichols. Today, Black Lives Matter, the largest grassroots nonviolent movement in U.S. history, continues to demand an end to racism, segregation, and police brutality.
To reflect with us on racism and the Gospel call for justice and equality, we welcome Rev. Joseph Brown, S.J., a longtime teacher of justice and peace. A native of East St. Louis, Illinois, and a Jesuit, Father Brown has graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins University (The Writing Seminars, 1969) and a doctorate from Yale University (1983, Afro-American Studies; 1984, American Studies). He has taught at Creighton University, the University of Virginia, Xavier University (where he was the Director of the Institute for Black Catholic Studies, 1991-94), and at Southern Illinois University Carbondale – where he is a Professor in the Africana Studies Department. In addition to having been National Black Catholic Congress Liturgist in 1992 (New Orleans) and 2002 (Chicago), he has published many articles in African American literary criticism and cultural studies. See his blog, “The Sankofa Muse”: http://sankofamuse.blogspot.com/
He is the author of: “Accidental Grace” (Callaloo Poetry Series; 1986); “A Retreat with Thea Bowman and Bede Abram: Leaning on the Lord” (1997); “To Stand on the Rock: Meditations on Black Catholic Identity” (1996); “Sweet, Sweet Spirit: Prayer Services in the Black Catholic Tradition” (2006); and “The Sun Whispers, Wait: New and Collected Poems” (Brown Turtle Press; 2009).
“What is the horizon of Justice?” he asks. “How can we see ‘by the eyes of faith’? How does our heart know how to follow the vision of faith? To radically claim participation in the New Covenant as Jesus announced it, we must all understand what justice requires.” Fr. Brown will use verses from old African American spirituals to help us unpack the vision of justice and racial equality—starting with the great hymn, “Wade in the Water.”
“Wade in the water,
Wade in the water, children
Wade in the water,
God is gonna trouble these waters”
This session will last an hour and a half; Cost: $30. Scholarships are available.
You will be sent a zoom link for the event on the Wednesday before the event. Please be on the lookout for it!
You will receive a recording of the event two days after it, in case you were not able to attend the live program, or want to watch it again.
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Cancellation Policy: Refunds will not be honored after Zoom link is issued.
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“Blessed Are the Peacemakers” with Medea Benjamin
Saturday, July 29, 2023
11 am Pacific/2 pm Eastern
Medea Benjamin is one of the leading peacemakers, peace activists, organizers and movement leaders in the nation, if not the world. She is the co-founder of the women-led peace organization, CODEPINK (visit www.codepink.org) and Global Exchange (visit www.globalexchange.org). She also founded the Peace In Ukraine Coalition; Unfreeze Afghanistan (which advocates for the returning the $7 billion of Afghan funds frozen in U.S. banks); and ACERE, the Alliance for Cuba Engagement and Respect.
Medea has been an advocate for peace and social justice full time for fifty years. New York Newsday describes her as “one of America’s most committed—and most effective—fights for human rights.” The Los Angeles Times calls her “one of the high profile leaders of the peace movement.” She was one of 1,000 exemplary women from 140 countries nominated to receive the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the millions of women around the world who work for peace.
Medea is the author of ten books, including: Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control; Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection; and Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Recently, she coauthored with Nicolas Davies, War In Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict. She has written extensively for Salon, Common Dreams, The Progressive, and The Hill.
Medea Benjamin will discuss the issues and challenges of peacemaking today, including the war on Ukraine; drone warfare; nuclear weapons; the U.S. military budget and economy; Afghanistan and Iraq; and latest strategies and plans for anti-war organizing. Please study www.codepink.org and bring your questions for Medea so together we can renew our work for disarmament and peace in this world of permanent war, that we might be who we are called to be: blessed peacemakers.
This session will last an hour and a half; Cost: $30. Scholarships are available.
You will be sent a zoom link for the event on the Wednesday before the event. Please be on the lookout for it!
You will receive a recording of the event two days after it, in case you were not able to attend the live program, or want to watch it again.
Registration is limited
Cancellation Policy: Refunds will not be honored after Zoom link is issued.
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“Following the Nonviolent Jesus in Palestine,” with Zoughbi Zoughbi
Saturday, August 12, 2023
11 am Pacific/2 pm Eastern
Zoughbi Zoughbi is one of the world’s great leaders of Christian nonviolence and a world reknown speaker, activist, nonviolence trainer, organizer, and writer. He is currently the president of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR, the oldest peace group in the world, see www.ifor.org) and the founder and director of the Palestinian Conflict Transformation Center in Bethlehem, Palestine, known by the name “Wi’am,” the Arabic word meaning, “Cordial Relationships.” (Please visit their website, www.alaslah.org)
Zoughbi has lived and worked for peace in Bethlehem his entire life. At the Wi’am Center, he and his team offer peaceful mediation, nonviolence training, and psycho-social counseling to help resolve community disputes and alleviate the suffering of the people. Their work includes a trauma-coping program for children, leadership training for women, ending community violence, trying to eliminate violence against women and children, and nonviolence education programs.
“The Israeli-imposed closure of Jerusalem and restrictions on movement in the West Bank, including Jerusalem and Gaza, create enormous hardships in Palestinian society,” Zoughbi writes. “The unemployment rate varies depending on the severity of the closure. With Israeli confiscation of Palestinian land to build settlements and to construct the infamous Wall, Palestinians have less and less land on which to live and work. More and more, people lack the means to meet the basic needs of their families, and thus the complicated situation feeds the cycle of violence on every level of society. As a result, we face a growing demand for the work of conflict transformation, mediation and reconciliation, and training in different fields such as human rights, democracy, negotiation, and cultural dialogue. The work of Wi’am is on the ground, down to earth with people, as we address the urgent needs of Palestinians. As a staff, we work on Kairos time and not chronos, meaning we are available when we are needed rather than only on a schedule, and it is informed by our personal experiences, as we seek to live with dignity as human beings. We create hope in times of fear, extremism, anxiety, hopelessness, and helplessness. We try to equip our people with steadfastness, resilience and perseverance.”
“The Israeli occupation has created an alarming deterioration of political, economic, environmental, psychological status and social structures,” Zoughbi writes. “But even in the midst of this deterioration, I experience great joy in responding to people’s needs and enhancing their hopes.”
Wi’am was honored with the 2010 Peacebuilding Award in the World Vision International Peace Prize competition for “successfully integrating traditional Palestinian mediation customs with innovative academic models of conflict analysis to address the very difficult circumstances of Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank. In 1993, Zoughbi was awarded the International Peacemaker Award from Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Zoughbi has written and edited articles, booklets and books on justice, peace and reconciliation and also on oral history and didactic stories. He has been involved with the Kairos Palestine document, a Christian statement calling for justice and peace in the Middle East since its inception (please read it before the zoom at: www.kairospalestine.ps) . He first met John Dear in 1989, and has worked with him and hosted him in Palestine many times over the decades. Please join us!
This session will last an hour and a half; Cost: $30. Scholarships are available.
You will be sent a zoom link for the event on the Wednesday before the event. Please be on the lookout for it!
You will receive a recording of the event two days after it, in case you were not able to attend the live program, or want to watch it again.
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Cancellation Policy: Refunds will not be honored after Zoom link is issued.
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“Dr. Cornel West in Conversation with Fr. John Dear”
RESCHEDULED
September 9, 2023
11 am Pacific/2 pm Eastern
Dr. Cornel West is one of the leading public intellectuals in the U.S. A philosopher, theologian, activist, and social critic, he has taught at Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth and Princeton, and is currently the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.
Dr. West is the author of many books, including his classic best-sellers, Race Matters and Democracy Matters, as well as his memoir: Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. He is widely featured on TV, radio and film, such as “Democracy Now” and “Real Time with Bill Maher,” and continues to speak out prophetically for racial justice and peace. His edited collection The Radical King helps explain Martin Luther King, Jr’s. radical message of justice, nonviolence and peace.
Dr. West will have a conversation with John Dear about justice, peace and nonviolence. Please join us!
This session will last an hour and a half; Cost: $30.
You will be sent a zoom link for the event on the Wednesday before the event. Please be on the lookout for it!
You will receive a recording of the event two days after it, in case you were not able to attend the live program, or want to watch it again.
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Cancellation Policy: Refunds will not be honored after Zoom link is issued.
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“Let Your Heartbreak Be Your Guide: On Engaged Contemplation” with Rev. Adam Bucko
September 23, 2023
11 am Pacific/2 pm Eastern
Rev. Adam Bucko has taught engaged contemplation for two decades and co-authored The New Monasticism with Rory McEntee, and Occupy Spirituality with Matthew Fox. After fifteen years working among homeless and LGBTQ youth in New York City, he was ordained a priest in the Episcopal church and currently serves as a director of the Center for Spiritual Imagination (www.spiritualimagination.org) at the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Garden City, New York.
He lives in New York with his partner, Kaira Jewel Lingo, a Buddhist teacher and former nun in the community of Thich Nhat Hanh. Together they lead the Buddhist-Christian Community for Meditation and Action. To learn more, visit www.adambucko.com
Adam will reflect on his new book, Let Your Heartbreak Be Your Guide: Lessons in Engaged in Contemplation, which invites us to become “contemplative activists” who live at the intersection of working for justice while practice contemplation. You may want to get the book before the zoom session (Orbis Books, 2023).
“As you move toward a life of personal and political holiness,” he writes in the conclusion, “may your journey be blessed and may your life and presence remind those around you of God’s presence. Deepening your connection to God, in you and around you, do not be afraid to feel the love, the joy and also the pain that are present. Don’t be afraid to have a heart and to risk breaking your heart. Feel into it all and know that every time you are touching the pain, you are touching the sacred wound of God—God who is always accompanying us and guiding us, God who is suffering with us, God who is moving us toward healing and liberation, God whose life-giving love and justice will one day be ‘all in all.'”
This session will last an hour and a half; Cost: $30.
You will be sent a zoom link for the event on the Wednesday before the event. Please be on the lookout for it!
You will receive a recording of the event two days after it, in case you were not able to attend the live program, or want to watch it again.
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