Christian Education

Adult Education

course offerings
SPRING 2008

For Earth Day: A [Serious] Theology of the Environment

       Meets Wednesday, April 22 at 5:30 PM in the Vestry Room
       Led by Fr. John

Earth Day is Tuesday, April 22nd, and on that evening Fr. John will be leading a special session of our Serious Theology class on the topic of a Christian theology of the Environment.  The class will begin at 5:30 PM in the Vestry Room, and the reading is taken from a book by Presbyterian minister Richard Austin entitled Hope for the Land: Nature in the Bible.  Advance copies of this brief reading are available in the Pumpelly Room and from the parish office. 

 

Contemplative Prayer & Lectio Divina

       Meets Thursdays at 5:30 PM in the Vestry Room        
       Led by Fr. Hartt

In our world, busy-ness is a near form of insanity. Contemplative prayer is holy resuscitation; the honoring of our soul which needs communion with God. Be assured that centering prayer is not "way out." It is the very essence of Christian prayer.

St. Paul says "we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words." All of us hunger for such deep, sighing prayer. Contemplative or "centering" prayer seeks to meet our holy yearning.