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Panal Talks from The Benedictine Vision for The New Evangelization

Posted on June 30, 2012 by exec_admin

Here are the panel talks “The Benedictine Vision for The New Evangelization” event held on June 16th, 2012 at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Guelph:

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The Benedictine Vision for The New Evangelization

Posted on May 10, 2012 by exec_admin

The Love of Learning and the Desire for God By Jean Leclercq
In 2008, Pope Benedict XVI spoke to an audience of leaders from the world of culture in Paris, France about the fact that Western civilization has roots that extend into the Benedictine renewal of the Middle Ages. Citing Jean Leclercq’s 1961 book “The Love of Learning and the Desire for God”, Benedict pointed out that it was the monastic communities who preserved the ancient Greco-Roman classics, founded the Western musical tradition through the chants for the Divine Office, and created a new Christian culture in the process. Yet such communities understood all these expressions of their common life to be subsidiary to their core identity: being rooted in the desire for God. Benedict has suggested that it is by returning to the example of these Benedictine monks that we can discover a new monasticism, the creative Christian response to a new Dark Ages, the basis for a new evangelization.

8:30am Mass
9:00 Welcome
9:15 Introduction: Dr. Norm Klassen (St. Jerome’s University)
9:30 The Formation of Monastic Culture
         Dr. Keith Cassidy (Our Lady Seat of Wisdom Academy)
10:30 The Sources of Monastic Culture
        Fr. Peter Nguyen, S.J. (Regis College, University of Toronto)
11:30 The Fruits of Monastic Culture
         Ania Krysciak (Wilfrid Laurier/University of Guelph)

WHEN: 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM, Saturday, June 16th, 2012
WHERE: St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, 45 Victoria Road N., Guelph
FURTHER INFORMATION: Dcn. Charles Fernandes (519-923-0454)
or Fr. Mark Morley (mmorley@communiohamiltondiocese.org)

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Revelation and the Beautiful

Posted on April 28, 2012 by exec_admin

Our next monthly meeting will be held on Friday, May11th from 3:00pm to 4:30pm at Notre Dame Hall (St. Louis Church, 53 Allen Street East, Waterloo). We will discuss Hans Urs von Balthasar’s essay “Revelation and the Beautiful,” which can be found in either Word and Revelation: Essays in Theology I (Herder and Herder, 1964) or Explorations in Theology I: The Word Made Flesh (Ignatius Press, 1989).

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Pope Benedict XVI’s Address to Artists

Posted on March 23, 2012 by exec_admin

Our next monthly meeting will be held on Friday, April 13th from 3:00pm to 4:30pm at Notre Dame Hall (St. Louis Church, 53 Allen Street East, Waterloo). We will discuss Pope Benedict XVI’s Address to Artists. It can be downloaded from ZENIT. (Scroll to the bottom of the page for Printer-friendly and PDF buttons.) We chose to discuss Benedict’s address as part of our planning to host a Courtyard of the Gentiles event for the Diocese during the Year of Faith. Hope you can join us. Your input would be much appreciated.
Addendum: Dn. Charles Fernandes has asked that we also read Dr. Rowan Williams’ Grace, Necessity and Imagination: Catholic Philosophy and the Twentieth Century Artist – Lecture 4: God and the Artist which can be downloaded from The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Web site.

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Learning to Live the Theological Virtues in Christ’s Passion, Ascension, and Pentecost

Posted on February 13, 2012 by exec_admin

Our next monthly meeting will be held on Friday, March 9th from 3:00pm to 4:30pm at Notre Dame Hall (St. Louis Church, 53 Allen Street East, Waterloo). We will discuss Jean-Pierre Batut’s “Learning to Live the Theological Virtues in Christ’s Passion, Ascension, and Pentecost” from the Spring 2011 issue of Communio. It can be downloaded here from the Communio Web site.

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The Infallibility of the Church: A Marian Mystery

Posted on January 21, 2012 by exec_admin

Our next monthly meeting will be held on Friday, February 10th from 3:00pm to 4:30pm at Notre Dame Hall (St. Louis Church, 53 Allen Street East, Waterloo). We will discuss Roch Kereszty’s “The Infallibility of the Church: A Marian Mystery” from the Fall 2011 issue of Communio. It can be downloaded from the Communio Web site here.

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Sacred Signs

Posted on December 19, 2011 by exec_admin

Our next monthly meeting will be held on Friday, January 13th from 3:00pm to 4:30pm at Notre Dame Hall (St. Louis Church, 53 Allen Street East, Waterloo). We will discuss Romano Guardini’s little book entitled Sacred Signs. It can be downloaded here from our Web site. For those not familiar with Guardini’s work, Deacon Charles Fernandes compiled some background information that can be downloaded here.

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Homo faber and/or Homo adorans

Posted on November 29, 2011 by exec_admin

Our next monthly meeting will be held on Friday, December 9th from 3:00pm to 4:30pm at Notre Dame Hall (St. Louis Church, 53 Allen Street East, Waterloo). We will discuss Michael Hanby’s “Homo faber and/or Homo adorans: On the Place of Human Making in a Sacramental Cosmos” from the Summer 2011 issue of Communio. It can be downloaded here from the Communio Web site.

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On the Need for a Philosophy of the Christian Spirit

Posted on November 29, 2011 by exec_admin

We had a meeting on Friday, November 11th from 3:00pm to 4:30pm at Notre Dame Hall (St. Louis Church, 53 Allen Street East, Waterloo). We discussed Maurice Blondel’s “On the Need for a Philosophy of the Christian Spirit” from the Spring 2011 issue of Communio. Although the e-mail notice went out, I forgot to post the announcement.

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