Communio Circle of the Diocese of Hamilton

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.