Cenacle Sisters Retreat Center, Ronkonkoma, Long received numerous awards. Blessed Among Women and ecology. His recent books include: Science and Island, offering retreats and teaching spirituality. (Crossroads, 2007) and All Saints: Daily Reflections Faith: A New Introduction (Paulist Press, 2013) and 2016 Programs He holds a doctorate in spirituality from Duquesne on Saints, Prophets and Witnesses for our Time Making Sense of Evolution: Darwin, God, and the University. He has authored The Misfit: Haunting (Crossroads, 1997), are the basis for this program. Drama of Life (Westminster John Knox Press, 2010). the Human-Unveiling the Divine (Orbis, 1997). Dorothy Day had a great influence on Robert’s life. He lectures internationally on issues related to science He worked as editor of the Catholic Worker and edit- and religion. Maryknoll ed the published diaries and letters of Dorothy Day. AWAKENING THE HEART, MENDING THE WORLD: Mission Merton’s Path to Mercy EMBODYING THE OPTION FOR THE POOR Peoples of all faiths and cultures are welcome. June 26 – July 1, 2016 July 17-22, 2016 We invite you to join us for one or more programs. Institute ercy, always in everything mercy.” Pope his program leads participants in exploring the “MFrancis has called for this year to be a Jubi- Tessential theological insights of preferential lee of Mercy. Beginning with an exploration of the option for the poor by understanding the context out epiphanies of mercy that Merton experienced, this of which the phrase arose and by addressing current Cost of 5-day Programs at Maryknoll, NY program will explore the essential themes of his spiri- contexts in which we engage in mission, spiritual tuality - contemplation, compassion and unity - so we development and evangelization. Option for the poor Registration/Deposit $ 50.00 may nurture what Merton describes as “a Climate of is an incarnate principle of divine love, at the inter- Tuition $200.00 Mercy” in our communities and in the world. section of the horizontal mandate for love of neigh- Room/Board (per night) $ 55.00 bor and the vertical reality of God’s love made flesh. Resource Person: Christine M. Bochen, PhD., holds her doctorate from Catholic University of America Resource Person: Maria Teresa Davila, PhD., holds Registration/Deposit is not refundable. and is currently professor of Religious Studies at a doctorate of Philosophy from Boston College and Only one registration fee is required per year. Nazareth College, Syracuse, NY. She is a founding is currently Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics member and past president of The International at Andover Newton Theological School, Boston, MA. Further information, Application Forms, On-line Thomas Merton Society. Christine has edited many Her main interests are the intersections of class iden- Registration are available on volumes of Thomas Merton’s letters and journals. tity formation and Christian ethics in the U.S. context. our Website: The book which she co-edited, Thomas Merton: A She is currently conducting a study to examine the Life in Letters (Ave Maria Press, 2010) is one of the relationship between different understandings of dis- maryknollsisters.org/maryknoll-mission-institute-2/ basis for this program. cipleship and activism-public witness-faith in action. SAINTS, PROPHETS AND WITNESSES RELIGION AND THE COSMIC STORY: THE MARYKNOLL MISSION INSTITUTE is FOR OUR TIME A Look Inside an educational ministry sponsored by the Maryknoll July 10-15, 2016 July 24-29, 2016 Sisters Congregation which provides continuing y using the lives and witness of contemporary cience has made it clear over the past two cen- education and renewal programs for missioners and Bfigures as an open window to the gospel of our Sturies that the universe is a story still unfolding. others engaged in cross-cultural ministries. times, this program will challenge us to think more The new scientific cosmic story brings with it a whole creatively about being faithful and active in our own new framework for understanding our species’ age- Maryknoll Mission Institute historical context. Sharing the stories of women and less religious quest. In this program we shall explore Maryknoll Sisters P.O. Box 311 men whose lives and message speak to the spiritu- what religious faith means in the unprecedented PROGRAMS IN CALIFORNIA Maryknoll, New York 10545-0311 al needs of our day, participants will imbibe their setting of science’s relatively recent discovery of an creativity, courage and imagination in the face of unfinished universe. This will be done in conversa- LIVING GOD’S DREAM Tel. (914) 941-7575 modern challenges. Participants will deepen their tion with both Christian Theology and contemporary e-mail: [email protected] appreciation that the call to Holiness is a call for each scientific naturalism. Monrovia, CA, September 25-30, 2016 one of us in our daily lives. website: Resource Person: John F. Haught, PhD., is Distin- Los Altos, CA, October 3-6, 2016 maryknollsisters.org/maryknoll-mission-institute-2/ Resource Person: Robert Ellsberg, MA., has a guished Research Professor, Theology Department, Master’s Degree in Theology from Harvard Divin- Georgetown University. His area of specialization Resource Person: Margaret Silf, MA ity School. He is Publisher and Editor in Chief is systematic theology, with a particular interest in (Limited accommodations are available.) Online Registration Available of Orbis Books. He has written many books and issues pertaining to science, cosmology, evolution EXPLORING EVOLUTIONARY guished Chair in Global Understanding for the Uni- SPIRITUALITY versity of Virginia’s Semester at Sea. Currently she is May 8-13, 2016 involved in issues dealing with climate displacement. lluminated by emerging spiritual insights, this pro- LIVING INTO DEATH—DYING INTO LIFE Igram is designed to help participants prepare for the May 22-27, 2016 Feast of Pentecost which falls on May 15, 2016. The Gospel of John presents to us a rich array of concepts hat happens to a person when she or he dies? Is that are aligned with the interconnecting components Wthere something that can be called Eternal Life? of an integral spiritual path. In view of the call to These are some of the basic issues we will investi- participate consciously in the mission to build the gate together during this program, spelling out the future, we will seek ways to inspire healing action in practical implications of the Last Things of our living the world in response to the needs of today which will on this Earth. Using World Religions as a backdrop, seed the hopes of tomorrow. Dr. Phan will lead us into inquiries such as: death as a peak of human freedom, reincarnation, the Paschal Resource Person: Ann Braudis, MM, PhD., as a Mystery, the end of the world and the virtue of hope. missioner in the Philippines, Ann founded the Cen- ter for Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation. She Resource Person: Peter C. Phan, S.T.D., PhD., D.D., obtained her doctorate in Applied Cosmic Anthro- is a Vietnamese-American Catholic theologian. Cur- pology from the Asian Social Institute, Manila, Philip- rently he is the holder of the Ignacio Ellacuría Chair pines. As a representative to the United Nations, she of Catholic Social Thought at Georgetown Univer- Ecological participants surround an ancient rock at Maryknoll was co-chair of the NGO Committee on Sustainable sity. He has authored fourteen books, edited twenty Development and received the International Council books and written over 300 essays. His more recent of Women Award for Outstanding Achievement for books include Christianities in Asia (Wiley, 2011) and social work. He has a doctorate in Psychology Board of the American Teilhard Association and Edi- Sustainability. and Cambridge Companion to the Trinity (Cam- from Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, tor of “Teilhard’s Studies”. Kathleen has her doctor- bridge University Press, 2011). His fields of expertise Philadelphia. His main area of expertise is resiliency, ate in Physics from Drexel University and presently include eschatology, missiology and interreligious self-care and prevention of secondary stress. He has is Professor of Physics at Chestnut Hill College, PA. CARING FOR CREATION dialogue. published over 50 books, his latest, Perspectives: the Her books Teilhard’s Mysticism (Orbis, 2014) and IN A CHANGING CLIMATE Calm within the Storm (Oxford University Press, Rediscovering Teilhard’s Fire (St. Joseph’s Univer- May 15-20, 2016 2014) and Bounce: Leading a Resilient Life (Oxford sity, 2010) are the basis for this program. STRENGTHENING YOUR INNER LIFE University Press, 2010) are the basis for this program. s caregivers of creation, we need to heed the call IN CHALLENGING TIMES to build a culture that will face and address our A June 5-10, 2016 MERCY WITHIN MERCY, WITHIN MERCY: ecological crisis—a culture that will, in the words of TEILHARD’S MYSTICISM: God’s Love Awaits our Response Pope Francis’ Encyclical Laudato Si’, “hear the cry r. Wicks, is an expert in the prevention of second- Spiraling Into the Cosmic Christ June 19-24, 2016 of the earth and the poor”. Examining economic pol- ary stress and offering insights into how we can D June 12-17, 2016 icy and environmental sustainability as interwoven, live in peace and in turn offer our warmth to others e often think that our dark side, our sins and we will consider how we can move from a philosophy without losing our own inner fire in the process. n an early essay, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Wshadows, are not “pleasing” to God. We use of “more” to one of “enough” where all of creation One of the greatest gifts we can share with others is Idescribes the natural root and stages of his spiritu- our own standard to measure and define what gains lives in harmony. a sense of our own peace.