"Listen with the Ear of your Heart"
(Rule of Benedict Prologue)
Sponsored by Feminist Theologies Committee
Offered via Zoom
(New registrations welcome!)
Join us for a series of virtual meetings via Zoom as we focus on transforming ourselves and communities in health and in social and environmental justice. Contemporary issues facing all of us such as white privilege, implicit bias and racism, and climate and environmental changes will be viewed through the lens of feminist, ecological, and liberation theologies. Multi-media will be used, and selected persons representing these areas will do short presentations followed by group discussion. Prior to each discussion you may be asked to read one article or other source that will provide background for the evening's discussion.
No cost, but please register.
Please note: You may attend any of these monthly sessions, regardless of attendance at the others.
*There is no need to re-register if you have already done so.
SESSION 1: October 29, 2020 from 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
- Introduction, overview, and brief discussion on each of the major issues.
SESSION 2: November 19, 2020 from 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
SESSION 3: December 17, 2020 from 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
SESSION 4: January 21, 2021 from 7:00 pm-8:30 pm - CANCELLED
- Celebration and discussion of learnings from Sessions 2 and 3 through the use of music, ritual, and art from the focus areas.
SESSION 5: February 18, 2021 from 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
- "Honoring our Sacred Relationship with Nature". Recognizing that our existence as spiritual/natural beings is distinct yet interconnected with all aspects of Nature, Sessions 5 and 6 will focus on fostering our relationship with all of creation, with special emphasis on our precious yet endangered ecosystems.
SESSION 6*: March 18, 2021 from 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
* See description under Session 5
SESSION 7: April 15, 2021 from 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
- Celebration and discussion of learnings from Sessions 5 and 6 through the use of music, ritual, and art from the focus areas.
SESSION 8: May 20, 2021 from 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
- Year-end wrap-up and discussion.
Because these major societal issues have many facets of meaning, we will listen to others with the ear of our hearts, as Benedict asks us to do, and leave with a deep respect for what others say from their hearts, whether we agree or disagree.
"One Mission, Two Locations"
St. Scholastica Monastery
1001 Kenwood Avenue
Duluth, MN 55811
218-723-6699
McCabe Renewal Center
2125 Abbotsford Avenue
Duluth, MN 55803
218-724-5266