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“How shall we sing God’s song in a strange land?” laments the writer of Psalm 137. The exile in Babylon is far from home, far from the familiar. The Scriptures are filled with stories of people who dwell in the in-between—people who leave homes and seek them, or open doors to wandering strangers and welcome angels unaware. What does home mean, exactly? We decided to inquire. Forced from his own homeland, journalist and photographer Mike Kabeya Kazadi, interviewed over a dozen Twin Cities residents about being, making, losing, and reinventing home. The stories on pages 7-15 are jewels that touch our shared griefs, hopes and longings. They come as gifts,
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calling us to ponder how our own sense of home changes and transforms us throughout life. Each story is both particular and part of the sacred tapestry that connects all our stories to one another and to God’s ever-unfolding creation. The search for home is deep and holy. This spring, we search for home through the lenses of immigrants, artists, poets, writers, musicians, and advocates. We consider the ways we are at home on earth, in dreams, in prayer, in relationships, in new countries, in our bodies. Listening deeply, hearts wide open to one another, may we bless all our ways home. Rev. Barbara Lund, Director
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Wisdom Ways Center for Spirituality offers programs to explore the spiritual dimensions of contemporary life for women and men and to re-imagine and embody all that we can be as agents of transformation in church and society. Established in 1994, Wisdom Ways is a sponsored ministry of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, St. Paul Province, who build their ministries around love of God and the dear neighbor without distinction. Your comments are welcome. Please contact us at 651-696-2788 or info@wisdomwayscenter.org to share ideas or to notify us of address changes.
WISDOM WAYS’ ADVISORY COMMITTEE Mary Beckfeld, Consociate; Mary Farrell Bednarowski, Ph.D; Meg Gillespie, CSJ; Ginger Hedstrom, Consociate; Rev. Barbara Kellett, Consociate; William McDonough, Ph.D.; Joan Mitchell, CSJ, Ph.D.; Rev. Julie Neraas; Joan Pauly Schneider, M.Div., Consociate. HOME PROJECT COORDINATOR Mike Kabeya Kazadi is a Communications Technician at the University of Minnesota and owner of Kabeya Pictures, where he enjoys doing design, photography, videography, and sound engineering work. Originally from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Mike hosted the show, Matinée Sacrée (Sacred Morning) for many years in the DRC, providing a unique journalistic lens on a variety of spiritual topics.
2 All programs are held at Carondelet Center, 1890 Randolph Ave., St. Paul, unless otherwise noted.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Conversations about Sacred Wisdom, Divine Mysteries and Human Questions
Men’s Spirituality * Centering Prayer Circle......................................................... 23
* An Evening of Poetry and Reflection
SPIRITUAL PRACTICES * Writing the Sacred Journey:
with Naomi Shihab Nye........................................................... 4 * A Morning for Writers with Naomi Shihab Nye....................... 4 * Dreams: Stories Delivered in the Night.................................. 5 * Coming Home to Self: The Journey of a Lifetime................... 5 * Home: An Evening with Kevin Kling........................................ 6 * Boundless Compassion Retreat with Joyce Rupp................... 6
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The Art and Practice of Spiritual Memoir Workshop............ 24 * Spiritual Memoir Monthly Writing Sessions.......................... 24 * Spiritual Memoir Incubator Writing Groups.......................... 25 * Breathing into the Whole of Life: Meditations on Body and Earth................................................................. 25 * Walking in Harmony: A Labyrinth Journey............................ 26 * Labyrinth Dedication on the Vigil of Pentecost..................... 26 * Marking the Days in Life-Changing Times............................ 27
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ART EXHIBITS * Nine Gates: Thresholds of a Spiritual Journey..................... 28 * Green Card Voices: Immigrants Telling
New and Emerging Ideas and Understandings
* Women of Faith in the Gospel of Luke and Acts.................... 16 * Green Card Voices: Immigrants Telling Their Life Stories... 16 * Tents of Witness: Genocide and Conflict Exhibit and Programs............................................................ 17 * Conscious Living and Eating: Bridging Spirituality Earth Ethics and Practice—Hedgerow Initiative................... 18 * Red Roads and Blue Highways: An American Journey in Song and Word............................... 19 * Home: Probing Metaphors of Home...................................... 19 * Finding Home in an Interfaith Community............................ 20
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Their Life Stories................................................................... 28 * Brushed Back to Life: Healing from Illness through Intuitive Painting and Poems................................... 28 * Exploring Exposure................................................................ 28
ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES ~ SISTERS OF ST. JOSEPH SPIRITUALITY MINISTRIES Celeste’s Dream: Spirituality for Young Adults ....................... 29 Membership and Association .................................................. 29 Justice Commission ................................................................. 30 Rituals to Mark the Seasons ................................................... 30 Second Sunday ......................................................................... 30 Spiritual Direction .................................................................... 30
EVENTS IN THE WIDER COMMUNITY Celtic and Nordic Services at Pilgrim Lutheran Church, St. Paul...................................................................................... 31
Spiritual Practices for Everyday Living
MEDITATION Christian Meditation: A Way of Contemplative Prayer * Tuesday Evening Meditation.................................................. 21 * Ash Wednesday Ritual........................................................... 21 * Tuesday noontide and Saturday morning Meditations during Lent........................................................ 21 * Day of Contemplative Prayer................................................. 22 * Holy Saturday Meditation....................................................... 22
WISDOM WAYS LABYRINTH RESOURCES TO RENT .................................................... 32 CALENDAR OF PROGRAMS ....................................33-34 INDEX & REGISTRATION INFORMATION ............... 35 All programs are held at Carondelet Center, 1890 Randolph Ave., St. Paul, unless otherwise noted. You can learn more about programs and presenters at www.wisdomwayscenter.org
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TWO EVENTS WITH NAOMI SHIHAB NYE
Award winning Palestinian-American Poet, Writer, Anthologist, and Educator Wandering poet Naomi Shihab Nye has spent 40 years traveling the country and the world leading writing workshops and inspiring students of all ages. Born to a Palestinian father and an American mother, Nye grew up in St. Louis, Jerusalem, and San Antonio. Drawing on her Palestinian-American heritage, the cultural diversity of her home in Texas, and her experiences traveling in Asia, Europe, Canada, Mexico, and the Middle East, Nye uses her writing to attest to our shared humanity. Being part of multiple cultures shapes her poetry, which lends a fresh perspective to ordinary events, people, and objects. For Nye, “the primary source of poetry has always been local life, random characters met on the streets, our own ancestry sifting down to us through small essential daily tasks.” She is an active voice for Arab-Americans who explores her heritage in her work and speaks out against both terrorism and prejudice.
“ Nye observes the business of living and the continuity among all the world’s inhabitants…She is international in scope and internal in focus.”
* JANE TANNER, DICTIONARY OF LITERARY BIOGRAPHY
Naomi Shihab Nye is the author and/or editor of more than 30 volumes, including poetry, essays, short stories, novels for young readers, and picture books. The Turtle of Oman, her recent novel for children, Nye was named a Best Book of 2014 by The Horn Book, a 2015 Notable Children’s Book by the American Library Association, and received the 2015 Middle East Book Award for Youth Literature.
AN EVENING OF POETRY AND REFLECTION Naomi Shihab Nye believes that poetry calls us to pause. “There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.” Come listen as Nye reads her poems, reflects on poetry as an act of spiritual devotion, and probes the ways that poetry and literature help open our hearts to one another. Friday, March 18, 6:30 to 8:30 pm Reception and book signing following. WHERE: Coeur de Catherine Ballroom, St Catherine University, 2004 Randolph Ave. COST: $15.00, free for students with ID WHEN:
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A MORNING FOR WRITERS: CRAFT TALK AND PROCESS WITH NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Co-Sponsored by Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church “To counteract negative images conveyed by blazing headlines, writers must steadily transmit simple stories closer to heart and more common to everyday life. Then we will be doing our job,” says Nye. This morning will focus on the craft and process of poetry as well as the public role of writers in building bridges across cultures and providing counterframes to the lenses of fear and xenophobia around us. WHEN:
Saturday, March 19, 9:30 am to 12:00 pm $25.00 Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church 511 Groveland Ave., Minneapolis
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COMING HOME TO SELF: THE JOURNEY OF A LIFETIME RETREAT The journey home is a familiar story told through myth, fairytales and modern day favorites like The Wizard of Oz. Come explore this archetypal journey through the use of story, poetry, sand, symbol, and personal journey. During our time together, we will explore our earliest recollection of home, our experiences of leaving home and our journey to discover our truest and deepest home, the Self. As Helen Keller tells us, “What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.”
DREAMS: STORIES DELIVERED IN THE NIGHT Dreams are gifts from our psyche to aid us in balancing our lives. Dreams are healing whether we understand them or not. However, having a sense of what a dream might be about can be far more comforting. A third-century rabbi went so far as to say, “A dream uninterpreted is like a letter (from God) unopened.”
We will explore self-acceptance, self-kindness, forgiveness, empathy and courage, all qualities and experiences that have the potential to guide us on the journey that T.S. Eliot describes this way: “And the end of all our exploring/Will be to arrive where we started/ And know the place for the first time.”
Why this dream at this time? Bring a dream to this experiential evening (it will not be shared with the group) and explore where dreams come from and ways in which we can individually and collectively look at them. Dreamwork is about developing the tools to become friends with the dream and have it tell you its story. C.G. Jung wrote: “I know that if we meditate on a dream sufficiently long and thoroughly, if we carry it around with us and turn it over and over, something almost always comes of it.”
We will also explore the experiences and qualities that create barriers to getting to our true home: busyness, numbing, addictions, shame as well as the things we relied on in the first half of life. In the end we’ll recognize, as M.C. Richards so wisely wrote, “It takes a long time to realize that nothing is wasted.”
Facilitators: A lifelong learner in the area of human development, Carol Burling, MA, DMin focuses on spiritual development, shame, loss and grief, and resiliency. She is a program manager for Pathways Health Crisis Resource Center, a consultant for Simpson Housing Services, and a spiritual director. Dennis Galvin, FSC is the former director of Sangre de Cristo Center, an international sabbatical center for religious men and women and priests in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Trained in both spiritual direction and dreamwork, he works in ongoing formation for Lewis University and the Midwest Province of Christian Brothers.
Facilitators: Learn more about Carol Burling, and Dennis Galvin, in the left column of this page. Friday, April 1, 6:30 to 8:30 pm and Saturday, April 2, 9:00 to 4:00 pm COST: $115.00, includes lunch and materials WHEN:
WHEN: Thursday, March 31, 6:30 to 8:30 pm COST: $25.00
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Conversations about Sacred Wisdom, Divine Mysteries and Human Questions
HOME: AN EVENING WITH KEVIN KLING
BOUNDLESS COMPASSION RETREAT WITH JOYCE RUPP
It seems we spend the first half of our lives trying to run away from home and the second half trying to return. The Irish scholar John O’Donohue wrote of “the clay that forms us”. We all have a connection to this earth, a connection to a geology. There are mountain people, desert people, ocean people, each finding solace in a landscape. Is that an ancient memory, coming through our ancestors?
Compassion can change a heart, change a life, change a world. True compassionate presence involves more than offering a hand or heart to another. To become intrinsically compassionate, one needs self-awareness and a willingness to be personally transformed.
Come listen as Kevin Kling engages questions like, What constitutes home? How are we formed by community, faith and family? Does it define us, give us our identity? When we leave can we ever truly return? How does home provide resiliency in times of loss? The bridge collapse in Minneapolis, the twin towers in New York, the bombing in Boston, all brought out in people a strong sense of home.
“ In life’s journey it seems home has gone from a place that is, to one I remember, to one I create.” * K EVIN KLING
Minnesota storyteller, author, and playwright Kevin Kling calls his zodiac sign “Minnesota with Iowa rising….” He draws his inspiration, characters and themes extensively from his home. A commentator for National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered”, a collaborator with Minnesota Public Radio, and a frequent presenter at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee, he is author of The Dog Says How, Holiday Inn, Big Little Brother, and Come and Get It, the 2012 Minnesota Center for Books Arts Winter Book. WHEN: Thursday, April 21, 6:30 to 8:30 pm COST: $25.00
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Join Joyce Rupp in exploring this vital quality from many dimensions, including science, medicine, theology, spirituality, sociology, and psychology. During this week-long retreat, you will ponder your personal and professional experiences of compassion, reenergize your ability to offer loving kindness, and go forth with a renewed commitment to be a compassionate presence for yourself and those who are in the midst of pain, struggle and transition. With Joyce, you will examine the theoretical and experiential dynamics of compassionate presence, including relational skills, self-care, loss and suffering, compassion in the work place, and more. Based on the format and themes of The Institute of Compassionate Presence, our days will alternate content with participative processes of quiet reflection, various dialogue formats, music, and rituals that contribute to the integration of compassion in your life. No matter what your religious affiliation personal belief system, you are welcome. International speaker, retreat director and spiritual midwife Joyce Rupp is a transpersonal psychologist and author of almost two dozen best-selling books, including My Soul Feels Lean: Poems of Loss and Restoration. As the co-director of The Institute of Compassionate Presence, she teaches four-day conferences and leads retreats on the topic of compassion. She is a member of the Servants of Mary community and resides in Des Moines, Iowa. Sunday, June 19 through Thursday, June 23 (Sunday, 7:00 to 9:00 pm; Monday-Wednesday, 9:00 am to 4:30 pm; and Thursday, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm) COST: $385.00 Includes all materials, lunches, snacks, and beverages For overnight lodging, call 651-696-2788 WHEN:
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Millions and millions of people are on the move today, some attracted by new dreams and horizons, others uprooted by violence and conflict. No matter what the circumstances, leaving a home disrupts familiar habits and relationships. The simple ways we express ourselves each day—the way we set the table, the pot that holds our tea—are no more. So much gain. So much loss. Movement on the scale we are witnessing now raises emotions and questions that rock us to our core. Where to go? How to belong? How to welcome? Mindful of the people swept up by mass migration, Wisdom Ways is exploring home - home gained, home lost, home recreated. We asked journalist and photographer Mike Kabeya Kazadi to interview Minnesotans of different ages, genders, cultures and life experiences. Drawing from a list of 10 questions shaped for this project, he asked about their experiences of home. What they had to say reveals much about the ways we all carry our deep hunger for home. We are grateful to all who opened their hearts and shared their reflections. Their stories invite us to explore what home means. Join the continuing conversation at www.wisdomwayscenter.org. www.wisdomwayscenter.org
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EXPLORING HOME Exhibit and Reception Come meet and share your story with the people whose stories appear in the catalog and on the Wisdom Ways website. WHEN:
Thursday, June 2 from 6:30 to 8:00 pm. Free.
MIKE KABEYA KAZADI photographer/journalist: My
work on this project brought back the memory of my need to flee my homeland, the Democratic Republic of Congo, nearly a decade ago, which resulted in the reconstruction of my own home. Listening to the interviewees, I realized we each hold stories of forced movement—of needing to readjust or reinvent our sense of home at some point in our life. No matter the external circumstances, I have been touched by our mutual tendency to create an inner home that meets our shared human need of love, assurance, belonging and safety. I was amazed by all the different spaces and places that assist the growth of this inner home: Lake Superior, chakra meditation, centering prayer, important relationships, the church, the heart, a meditation spot in the back yard, even a red chair. From nine years old to 83 years old, we share a desire to be safe, to be at peace, to be loved, and to be accepted and these feelings are what seem to be foundational to our sense of building and making home! Our discussions enriched me and left me wondering: Isn’t our longing for home merely an echo of a higher invitation to regain that inner place where we connect with ourselves, and fall in sync with the entire universe?
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MANUELLA TSHIBANDA, Age 9
I think about a certain place where you can hang out with your family and your friends can come …where you can relax. Home is a great place to be and a great shelter to be in. ALBERT NYEMBWE , 64
Home is a place where you can express yourself, where you feel good, and where you have a good life…a place where you have good relationships with people. Back home, you know your neighbors, you talk to your neighbors all the time and you cannot ignore your neighbors. But when you come to the U.S., you have that feeling like it’s not your house because you cannot talk to your neighbors, and then you are by yourself. Over there in the Congo, you don’t get in your house without greeting all the neighbors… So that gives you those two kinds of feelings, that you are and you are not home. CECE RYAN, 73
Home is a place of love, where love is. And, my house is a home now because my love, my love still dwells here, but the beautiful love that I had with my husband no longer dwells here because he went home to our ultimate home. So, I have had to re-invent myself to keep love alive in my home. Home, to me, is where love is. So I find that in my faith community, in my Francophone community.
BENNETT KOUAMÉ, 11
[At someone else’s house] it would be kind of different if I were with my friends ‘cause they’re not my family, but they’re still my really good friends. And friends are different ‘cause, like, I can always rely on my family, but friends, like sometimes you never know. But some friends you might know that you can always trust them, but some you are not 100% sure. CINDIE KOUAMÉ, 39
When I hear the word home, I think of who surrounds me. Who’s here in my life helping me up, maybe pushing me down, even though they don’t want to be pushing me down or maybe they are pushing me down. But who’s also there to help me up and supporting me and joining me in my excitement, in my accomplishments and in hugging me through my sorrows.
You have to have love in order to have a home. To feel safe and secure, that love, the emotion of loving and feeling loved and feeling accepted and being wanted and showing that want to others who are around you. You want to make sure they’re feeling that same thing. And that’s how I feel like home is supposed to be. Now I am the parent and not the child anymore. I am the one who is doing the teaching and the one showing what home means to my kids and to my kids’ friends, showing
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them what that means, being in a home. Home is where you are going to make it to be.
I read a passage once from Catherine of Siena and she speaks about making two homes. To paraphrase, she says, “Make two homes for ANSGAR HOLMBERG, CSJ, 81 yourself. One actual home, which you enter What comes to my mind is peace, belonginto and find rest and recollect and strengthen ing, wholeness. I once swam in a bay of yourself for what you must do when you leave Lake Superior where the water was bracing, it. The other is a spiritual home, which you are transparent as air, and I could see each ripto carry with you always. This is the home of ple and tiny pebble on the sandy bottom far your true self-knowledge where you go to find below. I was as at home as a fish in the ocean within yourself knowledge of the goodness of and thought what a perfect time it would be God. These are two homes that are one and to die right then when I felt so entirely at one. when abiding in one, it should be that you abide in the other.” I used to think I would feel at home when I had one place I would live in for a long time. The second home that she talks about and And I found that is not true. For instance, that I so value is the interior home—your I had a very, very short journey to Sweden. home inside, that you have with you all the I stepped in to Sweden and I felt a mysteritime and that I strive to have with me all the ous feeling of being home. Even though I had time. So that you can travel without leaving never been there and I am quite sure that home. Getting to know yourself is a comI will never be there again. But it was the ing home and sometimes that is not very place where my father came from and I knew comfortable. You find out, “oh, I’m not who I that he’d walked those streets as a little boy thought I was.” But it is also the place where with his mother. And so I think that probably I learn the most, I guess. was mostly the connection with him. When my mother died, when I was a little girl, I remember the feeling of, “Whoa,” having everything taken away—that everything dropped. It was like falling into a hole—that deep root or that person, you’d never see again, that I would never see again. I think that was kind of a homeless feeling—losing home, losing contact, losing the most precious person in my life at that time. I think that now where I experience homelessness is when I am restless—you know, interior restless. Unsettled—without peace or a lack of peace.
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CHHIMI WANGCHUK, 43
Some people have to re-invent home many times in their lives. Either spiritually or physically, you know, some people have to run away from war and famine and natural disaster and sometimes even prejudices and greed…. I think I migrated to America looking for better opportunities and even after coming to America, I have moved different places many times. In this migration process, I think I have lost that sense of home because it is a new start all over in a new place.
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When have you experienced loss of home?
Wherever I go, I keep a very strong faith in my belief. I always take refuge in my spirituality. You know, I am Buddhist by belief and, I was instilled from the very young age in case of a downfall in your life that the only place you can seek refuge is in your belief and that will keep you strong and keep going. If you seek refuge in the belief, in yourself, most explicitly in your religious value, then I think you will always feel protected. It’s not something that is tangible—that you can see or feel. Having a strong belief in your spiritual being can protect you from really taking you to a wrong direction in your life. And I think when you feel protected, even if you are living in a very open field, you will still feel home, because you are protected. What feelings do you associate with home?
SONJA AUSEN ANIFRANI, 34
When I think of times I have not felt at home, when I’ve felt homeless, these really come down to times where I felt unloved or felt unseen, I’ve felt unheard or unacknowledged. What to do when you begin to pack up the items from your childhood home into different moving trucks because your mother told your father she didn’t want to live with him anymore? Or, when the buyer of your old home values so little that space, the memory, that he rents a bulldozer in order to build something bigger and better and all those components that made up your home are instantly dissolved, lost, and flattened to the ground? That is a double home demolition—physical destruction combined with a cracked family foundation. I am 34 years old;
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I have a spouse, a house, a job. I am a fullfledged adult, but in this situation, I feel like my 5-year-old self. I know that little person who I was—who is still inside of me—wonders at a way forward—how to re-create that essence of home from dust, brokenness? ELEA INGMAN, 22
While I was raised Catholic, and I am still Catholic, despite a lot of questions I’ve had about the church as a whole, it’s a place actually where I feel at home, so that is a huge part of my identity. And one of the things I love about the Catholic Church is that I can go anywhere in the world, and even if they are not speaking my language, I know when to stand and sit and what prayers are going
on at what times.…Whenever I find myself in a new place one of the first things that I seek out is a church where I can be a part of the community and kind of integrate myself in that way…. If I only define home as being family then that means I can’t find home because I am an adult now and I am not planning on living with my family again and so what does that mean? So the word home creates a lot of confusion, but it also is a word that means to me comfort.…Homes don’t happen singularly. I think they happen in communion and community, and so finding a place, finding people to align myself with, and to be in service with, is how I discover home.
What rituals or traditions do you have related to home?
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URSULA LYIMO, 63
The first home is my heart. Wherever I go here on earth, I carry my heart with me, even here in Minnesota. I am here because my heart is in peace here, such peace here. Another home is where I was born, in a very tiny village in Tanzania, Kilimanjaro region. Whenever I think of home, that small spot on earth is where I go. Even from here, I take, I don’t know how many—three flights to go to that space. And my parents are not there, my sisters, my brothers are not there. But still, I value that home. That is where I was born. BRIAN MOGREN, 49
I try to create an experience of home for everyone who comes here to the St. Jane House in North Minneapolis. When people come here, [they] have this experience that we’ve been waiting for them. Their name may be in chalk on the sidewalk when they approach if they are from a large group, or their name on their bedroom door or on a notecard on their bed next to some chocolates. Or flowers, fresh flowers in the room. These are ways that people feel welcomed. Home just seems to me to be one of the most important things that we can create for ourselves and one another, to create those safe places for people to feel at home. I wake up every morning just so grateful for having a place, a home. And to be able to share that home with others is really a wonderful experience. AJ BRISCOE, 37
In my household, growing up, the kitchen was a big deal. We kind of congregated around food. I always came to my
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grandmother’s house—and even in my mother’s house—and the smells would just overwhelm me—the delicious smells of the food. And it made it feel like home to me. ELIZABETH (LISA) TAFT, 57
The thing that comes to mind is the home that I grew up in, because that is the picture that I have—the quintessential home and it had family—I had a big family. But that no longer exists and so, I’m finding home somewhere else and right now I have a temporary home, but it is home because what I can bring to it is my own self. I heard something and it makes so much sense: home is where all of your details are accumulated. In this home that I have now, I came with very little—just a little bit of the details that I had accumulated in the past. And those details—they are pretty important. But, just being where I live right now is home and it’s not going to be a permanent home, but nonetheless, it’s where I come to be comfortable and I am familiar with the people there. My son is home. It’s interesting. I haven’t been with him for a while because of circumstances. But whenever I am with him, I’m who I am supposed to be, which is his mother. And so, that’s very much home. And I feel home when I pray, of course. God is home, ultimately. How has your meaning of home changed over time?
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EMILY JARRETT HUGHES, 39 and ELIZABETH JARRETT ANDREW, 46
Elizabeth: To me, home is the red chair. I can look out the window and see the lake and it’s next to the fireplace. So the first thing in the morning, I’m always coming down and getting my tea and sitting in the red chair and either reading or writing and build a fire and that’s like my grounding time.
it’s caring for the generations that are going to live in it after we do. So, it’s like, home is this container that is filled with stuff, but all of that has the ability to nurture us back.
Elizabeth: Home is a spiritual practice. We sometimes vie for hanging the laundry, because we both really love it! And it’s not even that I’m praying for Emily and Gwen when I’m folding their socks, it’s more that, here is this Emily: Home is where I have my deepest really ordinary way that we are connected, relationships—and for me that includes the that we are cared for, that we are nourishearth….We’ve raised caterpillars in our house ing each other, that we are nourished by our for several years and have the monarch but- things, so that we’re able to go out and nourterflies and creating pollinator habitat and ish the world. places for the water to settle where it is. And growing our food is really important for BERNADETTE NEWTON CSJ, 83 us, too. It’s also part of that relationship and I spend a lot of time out of my apartment that, kind of, spending years growing a fruit with other people and interacting with people tree until it bears its first fruit and then shar- and when I come back to that apartment ing it with people. and close that door, that space becomes my sanctuary, my place of refuge, my place I am affected by the whole Minnehaha Creek where I re-energize and get ready to go back watershed and I really care about my water- out. So it’s a very sacred place where I feel shed home. But having the specifics of our very connected to God and I spend time with house helps me as a way to practice relating people who have passed and I feel very conto the whole thing. nected and very close to them and when I go into that space, I know that they are there. Home is also to-do lists! There is all this When I go out to be present with other peolovely comfort stuff, but it’s also peeling ple, my focus is on the people I am with. But paint and the toilet that overflows too ofwhen I come back, it’s like it’s me and God ten….but another way of saying that is it’s a and my cat together. place where we have a lot of ownership and responsibility. Some really beautiful things I studied the chakras a lot and home is my come through seeing home in that way. It’s fourth chakra. It’s called the love chakra and how we love the earth and it’s how we love when I go in to that fourth chakra, all the each other and it’s how we care—caring for people who have gone before me are there. the house is not just caring for the building, And it’s a mingling of all the people in this How do you relate to nature as home? 14
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life and the people in another life that I’ve been associated with and I go there for guidance and I go there for comfort and I go there for direction. And that’s all within that fourth chakra, so wherever I am, that is home. How has your understanding of home
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I think the world is a confusing place. And when I can’t make sense of things, I feel like God is what holds me together and gives me meaning. I think of home as the place you return to, and remove those pretty but uncomfortable shoes and just be comfortable, be yourself. Home is really about where you can be who you are.
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WOMEN OF FAITH IN THE GOSPEL OF LUKE AND ACTS
Luke’s gospel tells more stories about women than the other gospels, but women’s place in Luke and Acts warrants a suspicious feminist eye. In Luke, Mary Magdalene acquires seven demons, Mary of Bethany listens without speaking, Martha is too hospitable. When Jesus straightens up the bent-over woman and forgives the woman who wipes his feet with her tears, their stories become all about the men who discuss their legality. What place do women have in the early Christian communities? What about the women who labor with Paul as coworkers, deacons, and apostles in his missionary world? How do these sacred canonical texts contribute to claiming equal place for women in our churches today? January 26 Women Full of Grace and Faith Luke 1.1-8.1-3 Mary, Elizabeth, Anna, the forgiven woman who loves too much, Peter’s mother-in-law, Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Suzanna, widow of Nain February 2 Women Preachers and Models Luke 8.4-56; Luke 10; 13.10-20; 15; 18.1-8 The hemorrhaging woman, Jairus’s daughter, the seventy, Martha and Mary of Bethany, bent over woman, woman who demands justice February 9
“ Remember How He Told You” Luke 23-24, Acts 1-2 Women at the Cross, Tomb, and Upper Room, Daughters of Jerusalem, Mary Magdalene, Cleopas’s wife, Mary the mother of Jesus and the women among the 120 awaiting the Holy Spirit
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Women of the Mission Church Acts 4.32-37; 5.1-2; 6.2-7; 9.36-43; 16.11-15; 18; Romans 16 Widows, Prophets, Deacons, Teachers, Leaders, Tabitha, Priscilla, Lydia, Junia, Phoebe
Tuesdays, January 26 to February 16, 1:30 to 3:00 pm TEXT: New Revised Standard Bible or New American Bible; Optional Reading: Choosing the Better Part, Barbara Reid, OP; Women in the Acts of the Apostles, Ivoni Richter Reimer COST: $10.00 per session; $35.00 for the series WHEN:
GREEN CARD VOICES EXHIBIT AND PROGRAM Immigrants Telling Their Life Stories Co-Sponsored by the Justice Commission of the Sisters of St. Joseph Majra Muci´c was born in Bosnia, coaches youth basketball and volleyball, and works for the Land O’ Lakes International Development. Spoken word poet Ibé Kaba comes from Guinea and Sierra Leone. Kim Vu Friesen, a retired counselor in the Minneapolis schools, came to the U.S. during the Vietnam War. Artist Cruz Eli Lara Silva, born in Mexico, infuses his art with Aztec influences. Come meet Majra, Ibé, Kim, Cruz, and Tea Rozman Clark, Executive Director for GCV in an evening of rich stories and conversation around the immigrant experience. This special event will launch the exhibit, “Immigrants Telling Their Life Stories.” Green Card Voices’ mission is to put a human face to the current immigration debate and to introduce immigrants as neighbors. Using web-based video storytelling, GCV is traveling the country and listening to those with the courage to share their journey, documenting each story in an authentic and unbiased way. By sharing these stories, we can instill a sense of pride in our nation’s immigrant population and thank them for all of their contributions. WHEN:
Thursday, February 4, 7:00 to 8:30 pm. Free, RSVP. For details on the exhibit, see page 27
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Co-Sponsored by the Justice Commission of the Sisters of St. Joseph and World Without Genocide at Mitchell Hamlin School of Law
TENTS OF WITNESS: GENOCIDE AND CONFLICT After the Holocaust the world said ‘never again,’ yet those words have come to mean ‘over and over again.’ Although there are many complicated reasons why genocides happen, there is one simple reason: we let them happen. We believe that ordinary people have the power to create a world without genocide. Tents of Witness: Genocide and Conflict is a multimedia, multicultural, multigenerational exhibit designed to educate people about genocide; explain the causes and consequences of genocide; present action steps to prevent it; and remember those in our own communities who have fled from these atrocities and whose families and communities have been destroyed. Tents of Witness features tents that simulate those used in refugee camps. The tents each depict the story of different groups persecuted based on their identity: race, religion, ethnicity, or national origin. Tents include the stories of Native Americans, Armenians, and the Holocaust; and the catastrophes in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, North Korea, Darfur, Argentina, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Each tent represents the diversity and beauty of each place and people. The exhibit illustrates clearly that no people or place has been immune from such atrocities. WHEN:
Exhibit is open daily from February 24 to 26, from 10:00 am to 7:00pm
Three programs related to the Tents of Witness: Genocide and Conflict The Rape Capital of the World: Standing Up for Women in Congo facilitated by Dr. Edwige Mubonzi, M.D. Dr. Mubonzi, a gynecologist-obstetrician, practiced medicine at Panzi Hospital, Congo, working with Dr. Denis Mukwege, Nobel Peace Prize nominee, to aid women victims of horrific sexual violence. She lives in St. Paul and raises awareness for the crisis in Congo and for support of initiatives to restore women and girls to physical and psycho-social health. WHEN: Wednesday, COST: Free, RSVP
February 24, 7:00 to 8:30 pm
The International Criminal Court: Women as Victims, Perpetrators, Prosecutors, and Judges facilitated by Michelle Johnson, Megan Manion, Sarah Schmidt. All three are Benjamin B. Ferencz Fellows in Human Rights and Law. The International Criminal Court is the world’s first permanent court established to prosecute individual perpetrators for crimes against humanity, genocide, war crimes, and aggression. This special program highlights women in all of these roles but most especially in their significance in shaping international criminal law. WHEN: Thursday, February COST: Free, RSVP
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I Came to Testify: The Bosnia Rape Camp Trials film about the Foca rape camp trials and discussion led by Dr. Ellen Kennedy, Executive Director of World Without Genocide, on landmark jurisprudence to prosecute the crime of rape, the women who prosecuted the Foca perpetrators, and the extremely courageous women who came forward, at great risk to themselves and their loved ones, to testify against the men who brutalized them. WHEN: Friday, February COST: Free, RSVP
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HEDGEROW INITIATIVE
The Hedgerow Initiative offers sustained, systematic programming in feminist theological education, spiritual integration, and leadership for a just and holy world. In a particular way, the Initiative highlights the scholarship of women who since the 1950s have worked to reclaim women’s presence and significance in scripture, church, history, theology and culture. The Initiative takes its name from the hedgerow schools in Ireland that kept alive the language, faith, culture and community of the people during the time of the British penal codes. A hedgerow is a biosphere and a haven.
CONSCIOUS LIVING AND EATING: BRIDGING SPIRITUALITY, EARTH ETHICS AND PRACTICE
As one concrete outcome for the course, each participant will contribute to and receive a class portfolio of sustainable practices and resources.
What I (and we) eat matters. How far are cauliflowers trucked or shipped? What toxins linger in our carrots? Why do the tomatoes we grow in our own gardens taste so much better than those in the stores in winter? What do those who pick our tomatoes and cucumbers get paid? What does milk really cost if factory farms factor in the release of methane in the air and manure runoff in the groundwater? How will more fish and fewer steaks on our plate change the world? How will getting my hands dirty in the garden affect my grip on life, my stake in repairing our planet home? What changes in my personal lifestyle and that of my family can I make? Who will benefit? What practices will put me more in touch with the divine and anchor me more deeply in the whole Earth family?
Required Texts: Bread, Body, Spirit: Finding the Sacred in Food, edited by Alice Peck; Diet for a Hot Planet, Anna Blythe Lappé (Both available from www.goodgroundpress.com (800) 232-5533 or at Wisdom Ways); Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home, Pope Francis’ Encyclical Letter (available online). Supplemental articles provided will highlight authors such as Vandana Shiva, Wendell Berry, Joanna Macy, Thomas Berry, and Mary Evelyn Tucker.
Come engage these questions, share your stories, and network with others seeking to align their values and action. Three local organizations committed to social and ecological justice and putting spiritual, ethical principles into practice will collaborate with us: •A ppetite for Change is more than a restaurant; it “uses food as a tool for building health, wealth and social change in North Minneapolis.”
Hedgerow Instructors: Cathy Steffens, MA, MEd; Joan Pauly Schneider, MA, MDiv; Jennifer Tacheny, MA.; Jeff Johnson, PhD, Philosophy and teaches Environmental Ethics
Mondays, February 8 to April 25, 6:30 to 8:30 pm at Carondelet Center (unless otherwise listed as “field trip” evening) COST: $240.00 for the twelve-week series WHEN:
Series options: Choose one series for $75.00. Series 1: February 15, 22, 29, includes field trip to Appetite for Change Series 2: March 7, 14, 21, includes field trip to Gandhi Mahal Series 3: March 28, April 4, 11, includes field trip to HOPE Community
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RED ROADS AND BLUE HIGHWAYS: AN AMERICAN JOURNEY IN SONGS AND WORDS Join Kent Nerburn and Larry Long for an evening of songs, stories and music that express how their time with First Nations peoples has changed their hearts and transformed their lives. Larry Long, a long-time friend of Pete Seeger, has been called America’s troubadour. Kent Nerburn has been praised as one of the few non-Native authors who can respectfully bridge the gap between Native American and non-Native cultures. From Lakota Sun Dances to forgotten Native battlefields, from sitting with native youth at the feet of tribal elders to composing songs with Anishinaabe children on the shores of Lake Mille Lacs, the experiences of the two men weave together to create an unexpected synergy and chemistry—while shining a light on the humanity behind our cultural differences. The evening promises to be an event to remember. Presenters: American singer-songwriter Larry Long—called “a true American Troubadour” by the late Studs Terkel—has made his life work the celebration of everyday heroes. Larry’s ballads celebrate community and history makers, including struggling Midwest farmers, embattled workers, and veterans. Says Pete Seeger, “Larry Long is doing what more singers and songwriters should be doing: using music to help people learn to work together, and bring a world of peace.” Kent Nerburn is the highly acclaimed author and editor of fourteen books on spiritual values and Native American themes. He is best known for Letters to My Son; Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder and The Wolf
at Twilight: An Indian Elder’s Journey through a Land of Ghosts and Shadows, both winners of the Minnesota Book Award; and most recently, The Girl who Sang to the Buffalo, also a Minnesota Book Award nominee. Friday, February 19, 7:00 to 8:30 pm. Book and CD sales and book signing following event. COST: $15.00 WHEN:
HOME: PROBING METAPHORS OF HOME Few words carry more layers of meaning: home, at home, home place, welcome home, go home, no home, home sick, home away from home, nobody home. Home can mean country; relate to one’s body; imply the experience of inclusion or not; a dream, place of memories. In these experiential sessions we’ll probe and unpack metaphors of home. Prompted by local writers and artists, we’ll discern and share what we discover. Listening to one another’s voices, we’ll stretch our understanding and enrich our grasp of home. Ted Bowman, local poet, editor, and educator will plan and facilitate each of the experiential sessions. April 13: Exploring Home as Place through Poetry and Collage Deborah Keenan, poet, mentor to many writers, and collage artist begins our series by exploring home as a place. April 20: At Home with the Ambiguity of Home Ed Bok Lee, drawing on his and other’s experiences of home away from home, immigration, and a multi-lingual and multi-cultural life, will invite us to embrace the ambiguities of home.
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New and Emerging Ideas and Understandings April 27: Reinventing Our Understandings of Home Using poetry, memoir and music as prompts, we’ll explore the many metaphors of home and share them with one another.
FINDING HOME IN AN INTERFAITH COMMUNITY
Presenters: Deborah Keenan is author of ten collections of poetry, most recently so she had the world, created for Red Bird Chapbooks with painter Susan Solomon. Also author of the book of writing ideas, From Tiger to Prayer, she is a professor in the MFA program at Hamline University, and lives in beautiful, mysterious St. Paul.
What are strategies for facilitating interfaith dialogue in order to foster understanding and acceptance, respect and peace? How can we create space for communities to gather and talk, share and learn, and grow beyond individual differences?
Ed Bok Lee attended kindergarten in Seoul, South Korea, grew up in North Dakota and Minnesota, and studied Russian and Central Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkley, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, and the University of Minnesota. He holds an MFA from Brown University. Lee is the author of Whorled, winner of an American Book Award and a Minnesota Book Award, and Real Karaoke People, winner of a PEN/Open Book Award, and an Asian American Literary Award (Members’ Choice). Poet, editor and grief educator Ted Bowman, adjunct professor in Social Work at the Universities of St. Catherine and St. Thomas, is co-editor of The Wind Blows, The Ice Breaks, a volume of poems by Minnesota poets addressing themes of loss and renewal. WHEN: COST:
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Wednesdays, April 13, 20, 27, 6:30 to 8:30 pm $75 for the series; $30 per session
Connecting with others through interfaith dialogue is a powerful experience that can have a positive impact on a diverse community. Come learn strategies and practices for shaping and delivering high-quality interfaith dialogue programming with intention and impact. Take home specific recommendations that faith organizations can use to provide intentional and impactful interfaith dialogue programming in their own communities. Following the session, you are invited to view and reflect on facilitator Kate Gray’s artwork, on display in the Wisdom Ways Gallery (see page 27). Kate Gray served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Morocco and is a Peace Corps’ Paul D. Coverdell Fellow in St. Catherine University’s M.A. in Organizational Leadership program, where she is focusing on interfaith dialogue. WHEN: COST:
Thursday, May 5, 6:30 to 8:30 pm RSVP, no cost
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MEDITATION
CHRISTIAN MEDITATION: A WAY OF CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER “ Contemplation is to see and to hear from the heart.” *B EDE GRIFFITHS
Meditation is a form of contemplative prayer in which we move beyond words, thoughts, and images. We open ourselves to God’s mysterious and silent presence within us and it becomes more and more the reality of our lives. From this place of prayer we engage in our work in the world. This spring, Wisdom Ways offers ways to gather in silence. We invite you to this way of contemplative prayer.
CHRISTIAN MEDITATION DURING LENT Lent is a time of preparation. Through prayer and fasting, we ready ourselves to enter into the celebration of the central Christian mystery of Jesus’ death and resurrection. Wisdom Ways offers varied ways to move toward the transforming experience of this sacred event. Ash Wednesday Ritual The ancient ritual of being marked with ashes that begins the season of Lent calls us back to ourselves, to our roots in Earth and in the stardust from which the universe expanded. The ashes are a sign of our will to live anew, mending torn relationships, healing damaged commitments, and embracing Holy Mystery in our lives. In the quiet of Ash Wednesday evening, we will gather to bless and receive our Lenten ashes and enter into a communal time of contemplative prayer.
“ We have to go beyond the outer appearances of the senses and beyond the concepts of the mind, and open ourselves to the reality of Christ within, the Christ of the resurrection.”
“ Prayer is the loving attentiveness to the mystery within us.”
*B EDE GRIFFITHS * JOHN MAIN WHEN: Wednesday, February 10, 7:00 to 8:00 COST: Our Lady of Presentation Chapel
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During these times of prayer, we will sit in silent meditation with others. Meditating together is a way of deepening and supporting our personal practice. The weekly sessions include a short reading and one 25-minute meditation. Come as often as you are able. WHEN: Tuesdays, January 5 to June 7, 7:00 to 7:40 pm COST: Registration is not required and sessions are free
TUESDAY MEDITATIONS Tuesday Meditations The weekly Lenten meditation sessions include a short reading and one 25-minute meditation. WHEN:
Tuesday, February 16, 23, March 1, 8, 15 and 22 Noontide, 12:00 to 12:40 pm Evenings, 7:00 to 7:40 pm
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Saturday Morning Meditations These Lenten meditation sessions include a short reading, two 25-minute sitting meditations, and walking meditation. Come for one or all Saturdays. Five Saturday mornings, February 13, February 20, March 5, March 12, and March 19, 9:00 am to 10:15 am COST: Registration is not required and sessions are free WHEN:
DAY OF CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER A Lenten day of contemplative prayer provides a more extended and focused time to deepen our existing practice of meditation. On this day, a pattern of sitting and walking meditations, teachings, mindful movements, and chanting offer an experience of prayer and silence. Please plan to attend the entire day. WHEN: Saturday, February 27, COST: $40.00, includes lunch
9:00 am to 3:15 pm
HOLY SATURDAY MEDITATION Enter into the emptiness of Holy Saturday. This time of prayer includes a short reading, two 25-minute sitting meditations, and walking meditation. WHEN: Saturday, March 26, 9:00 am to 10:15 am COST: Registration is not required and the session
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“ Light the divine fire within yourself.” * A MMA SYNCLETICA
“ If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.” *T .S. ELIOT
TEACHING CHRISTIAN MEDITATION: A RESOURCE FOR SCHOOLS AND CONGREGATIONS For centuries, meditation has been a spiritual practice in all major religions. Today there is a renewed interest in this practice both as a form of prayer and as a benefit to the body, mind and emotions of the meditator. Adults, youth, and children need a place of stillness in their lives and find it in this form of contemplative prayer. Deborah Chernick, Susan Oeffling, CSJ, and Cathy Steffens, CSJ, are available as resource persons to schools, congregations, or other groups interested in learning more about or teaching Christian meditation to children, youth, or adults. With your group, they will explore twentieth-century Benedictine monk John Main’s teaching on meditation as a way of contemplative prayer and its power to compel us beyond our place of prayer to compassionate action in the world. They will also offer concrete suggestions about how to introduce meditation to others. Please contact Wisdom Ways for further information, 651-696-2788.
Facilitators: Susan Oeffling, CSJ, spiritual director has master’s degrees in theology and counseling and spiritual direction training from the Center for Spiritual Guidance. Deborah Chernick studies the history of Christian contemplative prayer and serves on the board of the Trust for the Meditation Process. Both facilitators have practiced meditation for many years.
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MEN’S SPIRITUALITY Exploring Men’s Personal Journeys of Spiritual Growth To preserve a sacred space for men to explore their spirituality together, we ask that only men register for the sessions. Coordinator: Terry Shaughnessy is a longtime spiritual director trained in Ignatian Spirituality through the Masters in Christian Spirituality Program at Creighton University. For Contemplative Outreach of Colorado and other venues, he conducts retreats and workshops and teaches Centering Prayer. His primary passion is offering spiritual direction, “the ministry of compassionate presence” and supporting many men from a variety of backgrounds in their inner lives. To learn more about spiritual direction, contact Terry at 651-328-7675.
CENTERING PRAYER CIRCLE To foster community among participants, the Wisdom Ways Men’s Spirituality Series holds a monthly contemplative prayer circle. Each meeting begins with 20 minutes of contemplative prayer practice using the method of Centering Prayer. Opportunity for group sharing is included, as well as occasional video teachings by Centering Prayer teacher and Trappist monk Thomas Keating. This ancient practice of Christian meditation is related to the classic tradition of contemplation and is easily accessible. Facilitators: Louie Doering, a group leader for Centering Prayer groups at St. Stanislaus Parish in St. Paul, and Terry Shaughnessy, Wisdom Ways Men’s Spirituality Coordinator. Wednesdays, January 20, 6:00-7:30 pm; February 24, March 23, April 27, May 25, June 22, 5:30 to 7:00 pm COST: Donation. RSVP to 651-696-2788 or info@wisdomwayscenter.org WHEN:
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WRITING THE SACRED JOURNEY: THE ART AND PRACTICE OF SPIRITUAL MEMOIR Introductory Workshop Spiritual memoir is the practice of listening deeply to our life experiences through the creation of artful, true stories. We come more alive when we accept how our experiences have formed us and when we form something of what we’ve experienced. By writing memories with intention, we can find holiness in the details, patterns that unify our sense of self, and deep personal healing. By crafting our stories to engage the inner life of readers, we can participate in transforming our world. Join Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew for an introduction to the art and spiritual practice of writing memoir. What is memoir, and how is it different from autobiography? What makes memoir spiritual? How can the practice of writing memoir, whether for an audience or no audience, support spiritual growth? We will start with the basics, using writing exercises, readings from master writers, and conversation. We will also discuss how to sustain the practice with writing partners or small groups in hopes of launching ongoing support for new writers. WHEN: Saturday, COST: $35.00
February 6, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
MONTHLY WRITING SESSIONS: THIRD FRIDAYS Monthly drop-in sessions led by Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew focus on different aspects of writing spiritual memoir: themes that commonly arise, craft techniques, challenges and joys of the writing process, and practices for opening our work to the spirit’s movement. Sessions include writing exercises, examples from leading and emerging writers, lecture, and small group conversation. To support individual writers and writing groups in the ever-deepening practice of writing spiritual memoir, time is included for participant questions. 24
January 22: The Wisdom of Childhood Our spiritual journeys find their source and direction in our youngest years, when our first experiences indelibly marked us. How can we explore early memories with compassion, curiosity, and humility? February 26: Epiphany We’ll look at how the conversion narrative has traditionally shaped spiritual memoir and how contemporary memoirists use it today. Working with the literary term “epiphany,” we’ll explore the spiritual dimensions of transformation. March 25: The Blessed Body Our bodies are a trustworthy source of wisdom and memory. Together we’ll write from our bodies and attend to sensory description as an effective literary technique. How can we better embody the spirit in our stories? April 22: Describing the Indescribable So much of the spiritual life is indescribable! How can we possibly write about it? We’ll look at literary examples of enlightenment, emptiness, pain, ecstasy, and unconsciousness, and use literary tools to wrap language around the ineffable. May 27: Perspective and Insight All memoir is a dialogue between past and present, between the “character” you were then and the “narrator” you are today. We’ll practice using the reflective voice in memoir as a way to invite perspective and insight. Facilitator: Writing instructor and spiritual director Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew is the author of the novel, Hannah, Delivered; Writing the Sacred Journey: The Art and Practice of Spiritual Memoir; and many other books, essays, and short memoirs. Her work most often explores intersections between spiritual growth and the creative process. Learn more at www. elizabethjarrettandrew.com. Fridays, January 22, February 26, March 25, April 22, May 27, 1:30 to 3:30 pm COST: $100.00 for the series of five or $25.00 per session Introductory workshop is not a prerequisite for the monthly writing sessions. WHEN:
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SPIRITUAL MEMOIR INCUBATOR WRITING GROUPS Writing, Richard Lischer says, is solitary work that should never be done alone. In these facilitated writing groups, participants will write and share short spiritual memoirs with the purpose of deepening our connection to the Source, learning the literary craft, and building a writing community. Rather than critiquing work, together we’ll “dream our stories onward” by mirroring back what we see, asking openended questions, and searching for each piece’s heartbeat. Participants are expected to share their work with the group, print shared manuscripts, read and comment on others’ writing between meetings, and attend all four sessions. Everyone will receive Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew’s written feedback on up to six pages. Limited to 8-10 people each. Group 1: B eginners. Participants should have a basic introduction to spiritual memoir. Mondays, March 7, 21, and April 4, 18, 6:30 to 8:30 pm Group 2: B eginners. Participants should have a basic introduction to spiritual memoir. Tuesdays, February 9, 23, March 8, 22, 1:30 to 3:30 pm Group 3: P racticed writers. Participants should have an established writing practice and/or have taken two or more classes in craft. Thursdays, February 11, 25, and March 10, 24, 1:30 to 3:30 pm COST: $75.00 for four sessions WHEN:
Facilitator: Read about Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew on page 24. Facilitators-in-training: Liz Olds was raised in Virginia and has traveled the country in a search for her right path both spiritual and physical. Now living in Minneapolis, she writes her way through joys and challenges, developing her relationship with God, friends, and two cats. Elizabeth Fletcher holds an MFA in Writing from Hamline University and is working on a memoir that follows her search for a spiritual home by way of Guatemala. Her writing has appeared in The Literary Bohemian, Sea Stories and Confrontation. Born in Texas and raised in Minnesota, Vanessa Ramos is an artist dedicated to inspiring and empowering others to explore, create, and share their stories.
BREATHING INTO THE WHOLE OF LIFE: MEDITATIONS ON BODY AND EARTH “ The Christian is one who is connected through the heart to the whole of life, attuned to the deeper intelligence of nature, and called forth irresistibly by the Spirit to express creatively his or her gifts in the evolution of self and the world.” * ILIA DELIO, FROM THE UNBEARABLE WHOLENESS OF BEING
Being outdoors somewhere beautiful fills the soul. It can be difficult to carry that sustenance through our daily, mostly indoor lives. These earth meditations will deepen our communion with the natural world, so we can more readily fill up on nature even inside. Attuning to the deep time within nature can open your heart to connection with the whole of life. Your profound connection with the earth and your body, and through them the Divine, unlocks the essential wellspring of love energy that creates healing and justice. Each month we will use our bodies and the simple acts of breathing, drinking, eating, and lighting a candle as gateways to connecting with and praying through air, water, earth and fire. Come learn an approach to fostering a deep sense of connectedness to yourself, to others, and to the cosmos as you sit to every meal, breathe at a stop light, or wash your hands. Air It can be so hard to breathe deeply or catch our breath, especially in our busy lives. Yet each breath is an opportunity to experience the closeness of God. We will use meditation focused on the breath to connect with the air, with all who share the air, and with spirit. Come explore how you can pray through breath. Water Water, the source of life, can guide us to discovering our inner reservoirs. Meditations based on the acts of drinking and washing will bring us into deeper connection with water, the watershed, and the water cycle. Come explore how you can pray through water.
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Embody EMBODY
Spiritual Practices for Everyday Living
SPIRITUAL PRACTICES
Earth Earth connects us when we might otherwise be floating or swirling in our thoughts. Grounding ourselves as part of the clay and ashes of the earth brings us into deep communion. Through meditations based on eating and growing food we will deepen our relationship with earth. Come explore how you can pray through earth. Fire The world needs your inner lamp to be burning brightly! Our individual sparks can be too easily extinguished if they are not connected to the light of the Divine. A candle flame will be our entry point into meditations on the sun, the big bang, and the light of love within all things. Come explore how you can pray through fire. Facilitator: Emily Jarrett Hughes is an artist-healer helping people live vital, meaningful lives through group classes and individual sessions based in the creative and meditative movement practices of qigong and dance. Thursdays, February 25, March 24, April 21, May 26, 10:00 to 11:30 am COST: $80.00 for four sessions; $25.00 per session WHEN:
WALKING IN HARMONY: A LABYRINTH JOURNEY Second Fridays, January - June In the midst of daily challenges and conflicts within our greater communities, cultivating a spirit of harmony and peace is a gift for yourself and the world.
Facilitators: Marilyn Larson has been making labyrinths since 1996. She creates labyrinths for personal and public spaces in a variety of media, most recently the labyrinth for the Spiritual Center at Hennepin County Medical Center. MJ McGregor, PhD, Advanced Veriditas Certified Facilitator, introduces and facilitates labyrinth walks nationally and in Chartres Cathedral, France. MJ leads pilgrimages in Chartres, where she is a seasonal resident, and most recently co-guided a walking pilgrimage from Paris to Chartres Cathedral. Fridays, February 12, March 11, April 8, May 13, June 10, 9:30 to 11:30 am COST: Free. RSVP to 651-696-2788 or info@wisdomwayscenter.org WHEN:
LABYRINTH DEDICATION ON THE VIGIL OF PENTECOST In 1997, Wisdom Ways Center for Spirituality mowed an outdoor labyrinth in the lawn of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, the first in the Twin Cities community. Wisdom Ways has introduced the labyrinth to thousands through the many labyrinth conferences, programs and events we have sponsored since then. A new permanent labyrinth has been installed on the CSJ grounds south of Carondelet Center. Come join the dedication ceremony on Saturday, May 14 at 2:00 pm. Watch for details at www.wisdomwayscenter.org.
You are invited to walk the labyrinth indoors or outdoors at Carondelet Center, whether this is your first walk or you are developing a spiritual practice. After a brief opening reflection, you are welcome to walk as often as you wish. There will be space for writing and artistic play as well as time for quiet prayer and meditation.
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EMBODY
WINTER-SPRING 2016
MARKING THE DAYS IN LIFE-CHANGING TIMES We often mark and remember the dates of significant events in our lives – a change in home, work, or relationship; an illness or change in ability; the loss of a loved one; a new vocation. But these and other turning points usually occur within a larger constellation of dates. Come reflect on a major life change using guided writing and basic bookmaking. During this three-part series, you will create a prim stav for a life event, marking the significant days of its passage in a design inspired by calendar sticks used centuries ago in Norway. No experience needed. Supplies, tools and guidance will be provided.
Book artist and writer Georgia A. Greeley’s most recent fine press book Echoes uses a Norwegian prim stav as the cover image. She teaches at Minnesota Center for Book Arts, The Loft Literary Center, and Hamline University. Georgia believes that combining writing and art in creative ways exponentially increases the depth of insight, intensity of learning, and possibility of joy in one’s life. See www. georgiaagreeley-artichoke press.com for details. WHEN: Tuesdays, May 3, 10 and 17, 1:00 COST: $ 115.00, includes materials
to 3:30 pm
Presenters: Karen Hering first created a personal prim stav during a cancer diagnosis and treatment. The author of Writing to Wake the Soul: Opening the Sacred Conversation Within, serves as consulting literary minister at Unity Church-Unitarian in St. Paul, where she engages writing as a spiritual practice and a tool for healing and social action, offering retreats and workshops in congregations, retreat centers, and conferences. Visit www.karenhering.com for details.
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ART EXHIBITS
NINE GATES
THRESHOLDS OF A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY The Nine Gates scrolls, created by Minneapolis brush artist Bob Schmitt, now have a permanent home at Wisdom Ways. Thanks to a generous donation by former family court judge Sue Cochrane, the scrolls will be available to churches, organizations and groups to use for spiritual search and reflection. For the Nine Gates scrolls, Bob Schmitt chose spiritual gates or thresholds that resonated most with his own experience: longing, abandonment, rage, emptiness, compassion, unbridled joy, oneness and delusion. In this blend of ancient materials and forms, Bob transforms the aesthetic of the traditional Chinese scrolls into digital internal landscapes. Sue Cochrane practiced family law, including 18 years on the family court bench in the busiest district in our state. After 10 cancer-free years, Sue’s cancer returned. After a life of setting goals, she now practices letting go of goals. Sue is the author of the blog www.themovementofhealing.com. WHEN: January 4 to 29 RECEPTION: Tuesday, January
19, 6:30 to 8:00 pm. A brief presentation at 7:00 pm will acknowledge this generous gift to Wisdom Ways.
WHEN: February 1 to 29 RECEPTION: February 4, 7:00
to 8:30 pm. See page16 for details. This exhibit and program is co-sponsored by the Justice Commission of the Sisters of St. Joseph.
BRUSHED BACK TO LIFE:
HEALING FROM ILLNESS THROUGH INTUITIVE PAINTING AND POEMS This 34 painting, 31 poem exhibit shares Ron Duffy’s feelings and experiences living with chronic illness. Starting with confusion, anger, frustration, and isolation, he moves toward hopefulness, joy and making peace with the situation, seeing his experience with fresh eyes – more acceptance and less judgment. These abstract paintings and poems sparked in Ron a renewed zest for living that had been dulled by illness. After a long career that included creating and producing the Inner Journey Radio Program, Ron Duffy retired due to complexities of long-term illness. Painting and writing poems continues to be gentle, healing activities, central to his life. WHEN: March 3 to April 29 RECEPTION: Tuesday, March 15,
EXPLORING EXPOSURE In these prints, Kate Gray interprets her experience living in Morocco, translating her thoughts and ideas about culture, religion, femininity, and a sense of home and community into designs that are meant to ask questions, not answer them.
GREEN CARD VOICES EXHIBIT
IMMIGRANTS TELLING THEIR LIFE STORIES
Green Card Voices’ mission is to share various stories of our nation’s 40 million immigrants and put a human face to the current immigration debate and to introduce immigrants as neighbors. Come get to know 56 individuals in this interactive exhibit. Through photos and videos, you’ll hear about their journeys and encounter the incredible breadth of the immigrant population. 28
6:30 to 8:00 pm, Free.
A creator of prints of all kinds—intalgio, lithography, woodcut, and screen—Kate Gray works as an afterschool program coordinator in the Saint Paul Public Schools. She also practices yoga, bikes, cooks, and enjoys live music. WHEN: May 2 to June 30 PROGRAM AND RECEPTION:
Tuesday, May 5, 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Free, RSVP. See page 20 for more information.
All programs are held at Carondelet Center, 1890 Randolph Ave., St. Paul, unless otherwise noted.
ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
SISTERS OF ST. JOSEPH SPIRITUALITY MINISTRIES
CELESTE’S DREAM YOUNG ADULT SPIRITUALITY Nourish Spirit * Inspire Social Action * Experience Community Participate in the mission and spirituality of the Sisters of the St. Joseph and Consociate community. Young adults (20-35 years old) and others are welcome. Rooted in the Catholic, Christian faith, we welcome people from all spiritual traditions. For more program information visit www.csjstpaul.org/celeste Community Garden Weekly gardening Tuesdays 6:00 to 8:00 pm February through October • Learn organic growing methods and enjoy healthy heirloom produce • Participate in a local food system and build community with Earth and other gardeners and share the harvest Tuesday, February 2 – Garden Planning and Imbolc Ritual with soup dinner Tuesday, March 22 – Planting Seedlings in Holy Week Tuesday, April 19 – Seedling Transplanting You are welcome to join us for harvest, cultivation, food processing and potluck gatherings. Visiting Women’s Religious Communities – Saturday, February 20 Visit four different religious communities to meet, learn, share meals, and pray with Catholic Sisters. We will visit local communities of Franciscan Poor Clares, School Sisters of Notre Dame, Sisters of St. Joseph and Visitation Sisters. Contact 651-696-2873 or email celeste@csjstpaul.org.
Open the Door III: Prayer and Discernment Retreat, Listening with Compassion in the Year of Mercy Experience a variety of prayer forms from the Catholic tradition and take time to discern next steps (work, relationships, religious life, vocation, creativity). WHEN:
January 29, 5:30 pm dinner and opening session and January 30, 8:00 am, breakfast; 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. Contact 651-696-2873 or email celeste@csjstpaul.org.
CSJ Earth Day –Work the Land, Celebrate Earth and Community Saturday, April 30, 9:30 am to 12 pm Prepare garden beds new and old, turn compost, and begin planting. For more information, visit www.csjstpaul.org/celeste.
CSJ MEMBERSHIP AND ASSOCIATION The CSJ Way: Community, Spirituality, and Justice – a half-day retreat! Spend a Saturday morning with the Sisters of St. Joseph and Consociates learning about the many ways to become involved with this energetic, contemporary community of spirituality and justice. The morning will include prayer and stories focusing on the CSJ mission and spirituality. Learn about how you can engage as program participant, volunteer, friend, Consociate, Sister and/or other ways of associating. Healthy, nourishing snacks will be provided. Join this movement! WHEN:
Saturday, April 16, 8:30 am gather; 9:00 am to 12:00 pm at Carondelet Center CONTACT: J oan Pauly Schneider at 651-690-7063, jpaulyschneider@csjstpaul.org, or Jill Underdahl, CSJ, at 651-696-2873, junderdahl@csjstpaul.org
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ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
JUSTICE COMMISSION
The Justice Commission of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet and Consociates, St. Paul Province, acts for justice and equality for all by always moving toward profound love of God and neighbor without distinction. We join with other groups in addressing issues influencing human dignity and Earth. 11th Day Prayer for Peace Created in 2001 and offered on the 11th of each month, 11th Day Prayer for Peace provides the opportunity for those gathered to pray for peace in situations throughout the world where it is needed. Themes include a variety of issues such as anti-human trafficking, dismantling racism, ecojustice, immigration reform, life from womb to tomb and more. WHEN: 11th day of each month, 6:30 to 7:15 pm WHERE: Our Lady of Presentation Chapel (CSJ Chapel),
1890 Randolph Ave., St. Paul
Breaking the Impasse VII with Sister Simone Campbell, Director, NETWORK, A Catholic Social Justice Lobby. For more information, call 651-690-7054 or visit www.csjstpaul. org or www.csjstpaul.org/justice_basic.aspx WHEN:
February 23, 2016, 7:00 to 9:00 pm
SECOND SUNDAY
Second Sunday is a community circle in which women and men and families gather to reflect together on the Sunday scriptures. Second Sunday began among the Sisters of St. Joseph in three community houses. We reflect on the Sunday gospel and nourish one another’s lives with this sharing. We share bread and wine and lift up the prayers of all gathered and concerns for the world. Following, we drink coffee and enjoy treats. All are welcome and invited to come when you can. The group is a new blessing each month. WHEN: Second Sunday of each month, 10:00 am WHERE: Carondelet Center, 1890 Randolph Ave., St. CONTACT: Therese Sherlock, CSJ, 651-690-7011
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SPIRITUAL DIRECTION
Spiritual Direction is the practice of being with people as they attempt to deepen their relationship with the divine. In spiritual direction, space is created for one to learn and grow in their spirituality. The person seeking direction shares stories of his or her encounters of the divine, or how he or she is experiencing spiritual issues.
RITUALS TO HONOR OUR COMMON HOME
Spiritual direction nurtures a deeper relationship with the spiritual aspect of being human. It is not counseling, psychotherapy or financial planning. If you seek spiritual direction, the following CSJ Spiritual Directors are available to support you on your journey.
January 27: Candlemas / St. Brigid’s Day—Beauty of Light
Elizabeth Kerwin, CSJ Mary Lamski, CSJ Susan Oeffling, CSJ Cathy Steffens, CSJ Jill Underdahl, CSJ
Pope Francis advocates “Care for our Common Home.” As the wheel of the year turns, come celebrate the beauty of our Common Home with ritual, readings, music, silence, and prayer. (Begun by Roseann Giguere, CSJ, and Joyce Eckes) March 16:
Spring Equinox—Beauty of Hope
April 27:
Beltane—Beauty of Life
June 15:
Summer Solstice—Beauty of Grace
July 27:
Lammas—Beauty of Gathering
ather at 5:30 pm; ritual from 6:00 to 7:00 pm. G Events are free. WHERE: Carondelet Center, 1890 Randolph Ave., St. Paul CONTACT: Mary Lou Flandrick at 612-724-6008 WHEN:
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Group Spiritual Guidance Information sessions: Thursday, February 11, 10:30 am to12:00 pm or 7:00 to 8:30 pm. Weekly group gatherings day or evening for five weeks during Lent. Cost $100.00. For more information contact Cathy Steffens, CSJ, 651-696-2760 or csteffens@csjstpaul.org or Kathy Berken, 563-581-8488 or kathyberken@gmail.com
All programs are held at Carondelet Center, 1890 Randolph Ave., St. Paul, unless otherwise noted.
WINTER-SPRING 2016
EVENTS IN THE WIDER COMMUNITY
EVENTS IN THE WIDER COMMUNITY CELTIC/NORDIC SERVICES SUNDAY EVENINGS AT PILGRIM LUTHERAN CHURCH “Mystery, After All, Is God’s Other Name” CELTIC CONTEMPLATIVE COMMUNION a Celtic Journey into the Mysteries
NORDIC CONTEMPLATIVE EVENING PRAYER
January 10
Suffer Me Not To Be Separated
January 24
February 14
Two Lovers, God and the Soul
February 28 The Beginning of Wisdom
March 13
Bury Me to Seed Me
April 10
And Everything Comes to One
the rich and haunting music of the Scandinavian peoples Once a Stranger
Guests: Cloudberries Women’s Choir
April 24
There’s a Thread You Follow
Guests: Twin Cities Hardingfelelag
All Sunday evening services are at 6:51 pm at Pilgrim Lutheran Church, 1935 St. Clair Ave., St. Paul. For more information, go to www.pilgrimstpaul.org, or call 651-699-6886
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WISDOM WAYS RESOURCES
LIBRARY Wisdom Ways’ collection of 2500 books, audio, videotapes and CD/DVDs on spirituality-related themes is located in the west parlor of Carondelet Center. Browse our labyrinth section of inspiring images and background on the labyrinth, grief and loss, spirituality and more.
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Randolph Ave.
All programs are held at Carondelet Center, 1890 Randolph Ave., St. Paul, unless otherwise noted.
Admin Center
Carondelet Center
Fairview
Our labyrinth facilitators are available to bring presentations and portable labyrinths to your site or to guide you in the use of your own labyrinth. Contact us at 651-696-2788 to make arrangements or visit www.wisdomwayscenter.org
DIRECTIONS TO CARONDELET CENTER Carondelet Center is located at 1890 Randolph Avenue, St. Paul, between Cleveland and Fairview Avenues. From I-94, take the Snelling or Cretin/Vandalia exit south to Randolph Avenue. Travel west from Snelling or east from Cretin. From I-35E, take the Randolph exit west past Fairview to 1890 Randolph. Turn in at either of the two driveways marked by the brown and teal signs marked CSJ, Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. Free parking is available.
Cleveland
LABYRINTH RESOURCES TO RENT One mission of Wisdom Ways is to share resources in everexpanding circles. Wisdom Ways has over 70 multiple-sized labyrinths and ritual items for rent. Canvas labyrinths are available to rent for church or community events, retreat days, civic gatherings, weddings, celebrations and personal use. Additional ritual and creative resources are also available, including the Nine Gates scrolls featured on page 27. To see selection, visit www.wisdomwayscenter.org or call 651-6962788 to make arrangements.
WINTER/SPRING 2016 CALENDAR
WINTER-SPRING 2016
JANUARY Date 1/19
FEBRUARY continued
Program
Page
Date
Program
Page
Nine Gates: Thresholds of a Spiritual Journey Art Reception
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2/23
Spiritual Memoir Incubator Writing Group Two
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1/20 1/22
Men’s Centering Prayer Circle
23
2/24
Men’s Centering Prayer Circle
23
Writing the Sacred Journey: The Art and Practice of Spiritual Memoir: Monthly Writing Sessions: The Wisdom of Childhood 24
2/24
The Rape Capital of the World: Standing up for Women in Congo
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2/25
Breathing Into the Whole of Life: Meditations on Body and Earth
25
1/26
Women of Faith in the Gospel of Luke and Acts
2/25
Spiritual Memoir Incubator Writing Group Three
25
2/25
The International Criminal Court: Women as Victims, Perpetrators, Prosecutors, and Judges
17
2/26 2/26
Writing the Sacred Journey: The Art And Practice of Spiritual Memoir: Monthly Writing Sessions: Epiphany
24
I Came To Testify: The Bosnia Rape Camp Trials film
17
2/27
Day of Contemplative Prayer
22
2/29
Hedgerow Initiative: Conscious Living And Eating: Bridging Spirituality, Earth Ethics and Practice
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16
FEBRUARY Date
Program
Page
2/2
Women of Faith in the Gospel of Luke and Acts
16
2/4
Green Card Voices Program
16, 28
2/6
Writing the Sacred Journey: The Art and Practice of Spiritual Memoir: Saturday Introductory Workshop 24
2/8
Hedgerow Initiative: Conscious Living And Eating: Bridging Spirituality, Earth Ethics and Practice
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2/9
Women of Faith in the Gospel of Luke and Acts
16
2/9
Spiritual Memoir Incubator Writing Group Two
2/10
MARCH Date
Program
Page
25
3/1
Tuesday Meditations During Lent
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Ash Wednesday Ritual
21
3/5
Saturday Morning Meditations
22
2/11
Spiritual Memoir Incubator Writing Group Three
25
2/12
Walking in Harmony: A Labyrinth Journey
3/7
Hedgerow Initiative: Conscious Living And Eating: Bridging Spirituality, Earth Ethics and Practice
18
26
3/7
Spiritual Memoir Incubator Group One
25
2/13
Saturday Morning Meditations
22
3/8
Tuesday Meditations During Lent
21
2/15
Hedgerow Initiative: Conscious Living And Eating: Bridging Spirituality, Earth Ethics and Practice
3/8
Spiritual Memoir Incubator Group Two
25
18
3/10
Spiritual Memoir Incubator Group Three 25
2/16
Women of Faith in the Gospel of Luke and Acts
16
3/11
Walking In Harmony: A Labyrinth Journey
26
2/16
Tuesday Meditations During Lent
21
3/12
Saturday Morning Meditations
22
2/19
Red Roads and Blue Highways: An American Journey in Songs and Words
19
3/14
Hedgerow Initiative: Conscious Living And Eating: Bridging Spirituality, Earth Ethics and Practice
18
2/20
Saturday Morning Meditations
22
3/15
Tuesday Meditations During Lent
21
2/22
Hedgerow Initiative: Conscious Living And Eating: Bridging Spirituality, Earth Ethics and Practice
3/15
Brushed Back to Life: Art Reception
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18
2/23
Tuesday Meditations During Lent
21
3/18
An Evening of Poetry and Reflection with Naomi Shihab Nye
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MARCH continued
APRIL continued
Date
Program
Page
3/19
A Morning for Writers: Craft Talk and Process with Naomi Shihab Nye
4
3/19
Saturday Morning Meditations
22
3/21
Hedgerow Initiative: Conscious Living And Eating: Bridging Spirituality, Earth Ethics and Practice
18
3/21
Spiritual Memoir Incubator Group One
25
3/22
Tuesday Meditations During Lent
21
3/22
Spiritual Memoir Incubator Writing Group Two
25
3/23
Men’s Centering Prayer Circle
23
3/24
Spiritual Memoir Incubator Writing Group Three
25
3/24
Breathing Into the Whole of Life: Meditations on Body and Earth
25
3/25
Writing the Sacred Journey: The Art and Practice of Spiritual Memoir: Monthly Writing Sessions: The Blessed Body
24
3/26
Holy Saturday Meditation
22
3/28
Hedgerow Initiative: Conscious Living And Eating: Bridging Spirituality, Earth Ethics and Practice
18
3/31
Dreams: Stories Delivered in the Night
5
APRIL Date
Program
4/1 4/2 4/4 4/4 4/8 4/11 4/13 4/18 4/18
Coming Home to Self: The Journey of a Lifetime Retreat Spiritual Memoir Incubator Writing Group One Hedgerow Initiative: Conscious Living And Eating: Bridging Spirituality, Earth Ethics and Practice Walking In Harmony: A Labyrinth Journey Hedgerow Initiative: Conscious Living And Eating: Bridging Spirituality, Earth Ethics and Practice Probing Metaphors of Home: Exploring Home as Place through Poetry and Collage Spiritual Memoir Incubator Writing Group One Hedgerow Initiative: Conscious Living And Eating: Bridging Spirituality, Earth Ethics and Practice
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Date
Program
4/20 4/21 4/21 4/22 4/25 4/27 4/27
Probing Metaphors of Home: Home with the Ambiguity of Home Breathing into the Whole of Life: Meditations on Body and Earth Home: An Evening With Kevin Kling Writing the Sacred Journey: The Art and Practice of Spiritual Memoir: Monthly Writing Sessions: Describing the Indescribable Hedgerow Initiative: Conscious Living And Eating: Bridging Spirituality, Earth Ethics and Practice Men’s Centering Prayer Circle Probing Metaphors of Home: Reinventing Our Understanding of Home
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25 6
24 18 23 19
Date
Program
Page
5/3 5/5 5/10 5/13 5/14 5/17 5/25 5/26 5/27
Marking the Days in Life-Changing Times Finding Home in an Interfaith Community Marking the Days in Life-Changing Times Walking In Harmony: A Labyrinth Journey Labyrinth Dedication on the Vigil of Pentecost Marking the Days in Life-Changing Times Men’s Centering Prayer Circle Breathing into the Whole of Life: Meditations on Body and Earth Writing the Sacred Journey: The Art and Practice of Spiritual Memoir: Monthly Writing Sessions: Perspective and Insight
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JUNE Date
Program
Exploring Home Project Reception 8 Walking in Harmony: A Labyrinth Journey 26 Boundless Compassion Retreat with Joyce Rupp 6
6/2 6/10 6/19 6/20 6/21 6/22 6/23 6/22
Men’s Centering Prayer Circle
WEEKLY TUESDAY OFFERINGS: 18
19
MAY
25 18 26
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Tuesday Evening Christian Meditation: Times of Prayer Tuesdays, January 5 to June 7, 7:00 pm to 7:40 pm
All programs are held at Carondelet Center, 1890 Randolph Ave., St. Paul, unless otherwise noted.
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INDEX AND REGISTRATION
WINTER-SPRING 2016
PRESENTERS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER - WINTER-SPRING 2016 Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Ted Bowman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Carol Burling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Deborah Chernick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Tea Rozman-Clark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Sue Cochrane. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Louie Doering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Ron Duffy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Elizabeth Fletcher. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Kim Vu Friesen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Dennis Galvin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Kate Gray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20, 28 Georgia A. Greeley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Karen Hering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Emily Jarrett Hughes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Jeff Johnson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Michelle Johnson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Ibé Kaba. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Mike Kabeya Kazadi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Deborah Keenan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Ellen Kennedy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Kevin Kling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Marilyn Larson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Ed Bok Lee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Larry Long. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Megan Manion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 MJ McGregor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Joan Mitchell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Edwige Mubonzi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Majra Muci´c . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Kent Nerburn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Naomi Shihab Nye. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Susan Oeffling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22, 30 Liz Olds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Vanessa Ramos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Joyce Rupp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Sarah Schmidt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Bob Schmitt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Joan Pauly Schneider. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Terry Shaughnessy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Cruz Eli Lara Silva. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Cathy Steffens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18, 30 Jennifer Tachney. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
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