It Is What It Is: We Are Who We Are – Monte Oliveto RetreatOngoing
This mystical truth is proven when we discover that silence allows us to be who we are and God to be who God is. ...
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October 2024
Consecrated Ground: Realising Earth’s Goodness
In this talk, Sarah explores themes of place and displacement, pilgrimage and belonging, wondering how we learn to relate to earth so as to stand on holy ground. ...
Edith Stein
Edith Stein (1891-1942) was born in a Jewish family but abandoned her faith as an adolescent. After studying philosophy, she converted to Catholicism in 1922 and eventually became a Carmelite nun. The author of both spiritual and philosophical works, her conversion did not save her from Nazi persecution and she died at Auschwitz in 1942. She was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1998. ...
The Unfinished God in a Techno-Driven World
Technology is our fastest evolver today and it is radically changing our world. In centuries past, religion dominated culture because it stabilized society and advocated norms of unity. Has technology come to replace religion in our own time? ...
November 2024
Forum pour une Terre en Crise 6: Semer les graines d’une écologie contemplative
English below - simultaneous translation will be available for this ...
Teenage Mystics: Educating Our Saviours To Be
Children and young people often have moral clarity, creativity, courage and energy. Older people like us easily become hidebound by habits and beliefs that make necessary adaptations to our lives look quite impossible: a condition of paralysis from which we need the young to rescue us – before the end of days swallows us up. ...
The Marriage of Wisdom and Prophesy
Each tradition has its unique blend between the prophetic and the wisdom. ...
Etty Hillesum
The Dutch Jew, Etty (Edith) Hillesum (1914-1942), is an unlikely mystic. After a rather aimless youth, the pressure of the Nazi persecution of the Jews in Holland during 1940-42 moved Etty to a life of love and service for all humans, both the persecuted and even the persecutors. Her realization of the universal love of God, as reflected in her Diaries, is a remarkable witness to new forms of mysticism in the modern world. ...
December 2024
The Mystical Language of Music: Dylan, Son or Daughter of the Sea
In this talk we will visit the role of music in key periods in social history, and illuminate how often arts, music, poetry, pottery, painting and sculpture rise to the challenge of healing the incoherence of society. ...
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