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Caring for the Caregiver

Zoom

Many must serve as caregivers - for elderly parents or relatives, for grandchildren, for partners and friends.  Because of the spiritual and emotional demands of caregiving, burnout is an ever-present hazard. Our sessions will explore how we can engage in self-care, set boundaries, re-envision our role and renew our lives. (N.B. One need not be […]

Zoom Webinar: Preparing for the Moral Life: Vulnerability, Recognition and Conscience (Lectures at St. Ignatius)

Church 980 Park Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Click here to register for the webinar. Speaker: Rev. James F. Keenan, S.J. This talk suggests that longstanding “conscience formation programs” are not all that successful unless they help us first to cultivate the capacities to be vulnerable to one another and to recognize the other, often overlooked. My thesis is that, until there’s vulnerability […]

Virtual: LME Day of Reflection

Online

For the first 2022 LME event, we will welcome Helen Young, Emmy award-winning journalist. She will highlight her documentary, “The Nuns, the Priests, and the Bombs”, which follows the work of Sister Megan Rice who was a parishioner 80 years ago. Sadly, Sister Megan passed away last October, but remembering her legacy echoes our parish's […]

Lecture | The Birth of American Catholic Theology

Church 980 Park Avenue, New York, NY, United States

In the Main Church & Livestreamed   PRESENTER Rev. Roger Haight, S.J. Pioneering Catholic theologian, former President of the Catholic Theological Society of America, and Visiting Professor at the Union Theological Seminary in New York City   The talk will set the background of pre-Vatican II Catholic theology and then describe how this theology developed […]

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Course | The Passion Narratives – A Spirituality of Suffering and Struggle

Zoom

Four Thursdays, Beginning March 10th 7 PM on Zoom    Jesus teaches us through his Passion that the way we encounter suffering can become a gift to those we love, to the world. Our meetings will include a careful reading and interpretation of selected texts of the Passion stories and an exploration of how, like Jesus, […]

Tuesday Night Book Group: Saturday Field Trip

Join the Tuesday Night Book Group to hear a one-hour talk on mystic and Doctor of the Church St. John of the Cross. After the noon talk, there will be an optional 1-3 PM guided meditation to allow St. John of the Cross’s writings to take us deeper into both the interior life and the mystery of the Triune […]