Spring 2009 Events

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Friday, January 30, 2009

Veritas et Vinum

Jim Keenan, SJ, BC Theology Department

Fulton Honors Library, 4:00 - 5:30 pm


Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Agape Latte

TBA

Hillside Cafe, 8:30 - 10:00 pm


Thursday, February 12, 2009

A More Evangelical Catholicism?

Mark Massa, SJ, Gasson Visiting Professor, BC; Richard Lennan and Hosffman Ospino, BC

129 Lake Street, 024, STM, 5:30 - 7:00 pm


Saturday, February 14, 2009

Christian Spiritual Practices: Drawing from the Storeroom Both the Old and the New

Colleen Griffith, STM

Heights Room, Corcoran Commons, 9:00 am - 2:00 pm


Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Spiritual Practices and the Sacramental Worldview of Latino/a Catholicism

Nancy Pineda-Madrid, STM

129 Lake Street, 024, STM, 7:00 - 9:00 pm


Monday, February 23, 2009

Monastic Spiritual Practices Living in the 21st Century

Abbot Christopher Jamison, OSB, Abbot of Worth; Sussex, England

Gasson 100, 7:00 - 9:00 pm


Thursday, February 26, 2009

"As Though You Were In Prison With Them" (Hebrews 13:3):

Learning About Prayer By Being With the Poor

William Reiser, SJ, Holy Cross College

Devlin Hall 101, 4:30 - 6:00 pm


Friday, February 27, 2009

Veritas et Vinum

Gail Kineke, Chair of BC Geology & Geophysics Department

Fulton Honors Library, 4:00 - 5:30 pm


Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Old Gold: Reclaiming Some Traditional Spiritual Practices

Tom Groome, STM

Heights Room, 7:00 - 9:00 pm


Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Agape Latte

Tomeu Esdelrich Barcelo, BC Philosophy Department and

Maria Rocio Calvo Vilches, BC Graduate School of Social Work

Hillside Cafe, 8:30 - 10:00 pm


Thursday, March 12, 2009

Adoration of the Eucharist Today

John Baldovin, SJ, STM

Gasson Hall 100, 5:30 - 7:30 pm


Tuesday, March 17, 2009

A Garden of Grace: Spiritual Practices for Family Life

Kathy Hendricks, author and spiritual director

129 Lake Street, Room 024, 9:00 am - 1:00 pm


Friday, March 20, 2009

Veritas et Vinum

Richard Clifford, SJ, Dean of STM

Fulton Honors Library, 4:00 - 5:30 pm


Tuesday, March 24, 2009

The Jesus Prayer: A Pathway to Contemplation in the Eastern Christian Tradition

Khaled Anatolios, STM

Gasson Hall 100, 5:30 - 7:00 pm


Thursday, March 26, 2009

Discernment and Life Choices

Clare Walsh, MHSH, Jesuit Collaborative

129 Lake Street, Room 024, STM, 12:00 - 2:00 pm


Thursday, March 26, 2009

Ups, Downs, and Reinventions: American Catholics and the Practice of the Sacraments

James O'Toole, BC History Department

Gasson 305, 4:30 - 6:00 pm


Monday, March 30, 2009

Spiritual Practices & Psychological Health

John McDargh, BC Theology Department

Heights Room, Corcoran Commons, 5:30 - 7:00 pm


Thursday, April 2, 2009

Comforting Jesus Christ in Combating Hunger, Sickness and Poverty

Ken Hackett, Catholic Relief Services

Fulton Hall 511, 7:00 - 9:00 pm


Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Agape Latte

Karen Kennedy, Director, BC Urban Catholic Teacher Corps

Hillside Cafe, 8:30 - 10:00 pm


Tuesday, April 14, 2009

What Can Happen on an Ignatian Retreat?

James Carr, SJ, Gonzaga Retreat House; Ann Fowler; Gail O'Donnell, RSCJ;

Richard Stanley, SJ, Gonzaga Retreat House

Heights Room, Corcoran Commons, 7:00 - 9:00 pm


Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Women in the Church: North and South

Maria Rosario Saavedra, Maria Clara Bingimer, Jill Ker Conway, Lisa Sowle Cahill

Shea Room, Conte Forum, 4:30 - 6:30 pm


Thursday, April 16, 2009

Prophetic Witness: Women's Strategies for the Church

Colleen Griffith, STM

129 Lake Street, 024, STM, 5:00 - 6:00 pm


Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Two Centuries of Faith: The Influence of Catholicism on Boston, 1808-2008

Thomas O'Connor, BC University Historian

Gasson 100, 4:30 - 6:00 pm


Thursday, April 23, 2009

Scenes from a Parish

Original film by Jim Rutenbeck

McGuinn 121, 6:00 - 8:30 pm


Saturday, April 25, 2009

Encountering Christ in Prayer

Ignacio Larranaga, OFM, Founder of "Talleres De Oracion Y Vida," Chile

129 Lake Street, 024, STM, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm


Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Living Faith Together: Spiritual Practices in Marriage

Tim Muldoon, Suzanne Muldoon, Cynthia Dobrzynski, Daniel Leahy

Heights Room, Corcoran Commons, 7:00 - 9:00 pm


Thursday, April 30, 2009

Meeting Jesus Christ in the Search for Peace

Padraig O'Malley, UMass Boston

Heights Room, Corcoran Commons, 7:00 - 9:00 pm


Tuesday, May 5, 2009

The Future as (Catholic) History: American Catholicism in Historical Perspective

David O'Brien, Holy Cross College

Gasson 100, 7:00 - 9:00 pm


Saturday, May 9, 2009

Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality

Richard Rohr, OFM, author, founder of Center for Action and Contemplation

Heights Room, Corcoran Commons, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm