4 Week Lenten Series: Holy Visionaries for Today
Lenten Series: Holy Visionaries For Today
Thursdays , February 27th – March 19th 6:30pm-8pm
$15 per Session or $55 for all
February 27th – Anne Buening (Pastoral Minister)
DOROTHY DAY
Join us for the first program of the Lenten Series. Dorothy Day was an American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert. Day initially lived a bohemian lifestyle before gaining public attention as a social activist after her conversion. She was a political radical, perhaps the best known radical in American Catholic Church history. Come and experience her story!
March 5th - Christy Wesselman (Retreat Facilitator & Spiritual Director)
CATHERINE DE HOUCK DOHERTY
Catherine de Hueck Doherty was a Russian-Canadian Catholic social worker and founder of the Madonna House Apostolate and prolific writer. She was a pioneer among North American Catholics in implementing the Church’s social justice teachings and encouraging contemplation! Come learn about “poustinias!”
March 12th - Anne Buening (Pastoral Minister)
SR. MADELEVA WOLFF
Sister M. Madeleva Wolff, C.S.C. was a teacher, essayist, poet, and college administrator. Through her creative ability and innovative practices she made major contributions to Catholic education in her lifetime. Her most significant legacy, the Graduate School of Theology at St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana, allowed the laity and religious women to study theology. Come and be inspired by her life!
March 19th – Christy Wesselman (Retreat Facilitator & Spiritual Director)
MIRABAI STARR
- Mirabai Starr is a writer, teacher, and bereavement counselor who seeks to honor all the world’s faith traditions and contemplation. Mirabai’s first book, a translation of St. John of the Cross’ Dark Night of the Soul was released the same day her youngest daughter was killed in a car accident. This experience and the connection between loss and longing for God is the ground of her spiritual life!
You may register here for all four evenings for $55, or you may register for individual programs for $15 each.
Questions? Email us at: center@oldenburgosf.com or call: 812-933-6437.
