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One Heart, One Hope
Indigenous Wisdom and the Future of Humanity - John Main Seminar 2020
With Alex Zatyrka
Given that most of our communication and exploration is - for the moment – online,
what better time to take part in an online seminar?
Alex Zatyrka SJ is the keynote speaker at the 2020 John Main Seminar: “One Heart, One Hope – Indigenous Wisdom and the Future of Humanity.” The supporting speakers included Tau Huirama and Vanessa Eldridge (New Zealand), Ana María Llamazares (Argentina), Puleng Matsaneng (South Africa), Ron Berezan and Ivan Rosypskye (Canada), Hilario Chi Canul (Mexico) and Laurence Freeman OSB (Bonnevaux).
Alex Zatyrka delivers two profound talks on indigenous culture, enriched by his pastoral missionary experience in Bolivia and Mexico. He explores the ‘theological attitude’ present in every culture which is our heart’s interior communication with God in the experience of transcendence.
Other speakers, including indigenous from three continents, witness powerfully to many of the ways in which their cultures speak directly and transmit wisdom to all of humanity today. These themes include respect and reverence for the Earth, the indispensable value of community and the need to acknowledge the wounds inflicted by colonialism which call for healing and reconciliation.
Listen to the first session of this seminar from Alex Zatyrka
What you will discover on this Seminar:
Day One
Indigenous Wisdom
Day one includes talk one, “Indigenous Wisdom,” by Alex Zatyrka. The talk is followed by a dialogue session with Laurence Freeman.
Day Two
Care of Mother Earth/Liturgy/Healing
Day two includes talk 2, “Care of Mother Earth,” by Hilario Chi Canul, talk 3, “Liturgy,” by Puleng Matsaneng, talk 4A, “Healing,” by Tau Huirama, and talk 4B, “Healing,” by Vanessa Eldridge. All talks are followed by a dialogue session with Laurence Freeman.
Day Three
Reconciliation/Indigenous Wisdom
Day three includes talk 5, “Reconciliation,” by Ron Berezan and Ivan Rosypskye, and talk 6, “Indigenous Wisdom,” by Alex Zatyrka. All talks are followed by a dialogue session with Laurence Freeman.
Day Four
Building Bridges
Day four includes talk 7, “Building Bridges,” by Ana María Liamazares, a Panel and Conclusions session, and Contemplative Eucharist. The talk is followed by a dialogue session with Laurence Freeman.
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One Heart, One Hope
Indigenous Wisdom and the Future of Humanity - John Main Seminar 2020
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About Alex Zatyrka
Father Alex Zatyrka is a Doctor of Theology, University of Innsbruck, Austria. Master of Science with a specialty in Agricultural Economics, University of Cornell, United States. Degree in Theology from the Maximum School of Christ the King, with studies in Philosophy and Social Sciences from the Free Institute of Philosophy and Sciences, A. C. Agronomist Administrator by the Institute of Technology and Higher Studies of Monterrey (ITESM). Full-time lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Humanities (DFiH) of the Western Institute of Technology and Higher Studies (ITESO) since September 2014.
From 2011 to 2013, he was an associate professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. From 2005 to 2011 he served as a full-time professor and as director of the Department of Religious Sciences of the Ibero-American University, Mexico City campus (UIA). From 2004 to 2011 he was the head of the Maximum School of Christ the King. Since 2005 he has been executive secretary of the Theology Commission of the Conference of Latin American Provincials (CPAL) of the Company of Jesus. Vice President of the Conference of Catholic Theological Institutions (COCTI/CICT) from 2008 to present.
