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Center for Ministry & Spirituality
Carol Pisani
2 Convent Road
Annunciation Center, Third Floor
Morristown, NJ 07960-6989
Phone: (973) 290-4491
cjpisani@cse.edu
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M - F, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
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CSE Spirituality Convocation: Transforming Our Lives
Since 1991 the Center for Theological and Spiritual Development at the College of Saint Elizabeth has gathered communities from far and wide to explore spirituality in its many layers with the finest of theologians and pastoral practitioners from the United States and beyond, at its annual Spirituality Convocation.
Deeply committed to formation, education, and skills development, particularly in multicultural arenas, we welcome and celebrate all people in varying stages of their life journey.
Honoring our past, celebrating our present, with hope toward a future yet unknown, we gather as community to grow together so as to become the fullness of God's dream for a better world.
Artwork:
Heart Flowers Surrounding the Earth Globe
by Susan Cohen Thompson Courtesy of www.MinistryOfTheArts.org
Join us at this year's spirituality convocation, April 21, 2012
The cold days of winter engulf us as this Convocation brochure goes to press. Darkness abounds in the seeming absence of life, the world filled with images of tragedy and chaos. Yet the words from the Book of Revelation continue to call us to mindfulness – to open our eyes in prophetic witness in the here and now: “The one who sat on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” (Revelation 21:5).
What do we see when we look at the world? Do we choose despair as we face these images? Or do we proclaim joy and hope as we behold signs of new life in the midst of seeming chaos? The disciples of Jesus faced this choice after his death - in the "upper room", the risen Jesus turned their world upside down - opening their minds to new understanding of the vision of God and telling them: "You are witnesses of these things." (Luke 24:48)
On April 21, 2012, you are invited to gather for the annual Spirituality Convocation at the College of Saint Elizabeth, sponsored by the Center for Ministry and Spirituality. We are challenged as the disciples were in that upper room. To what shall we give witness at this time in our individual and collective lives? Let us be open to what God is doing in our midst right now. Let us prepare to witness together – nourished by the power of the Spirit at work in one another, in prayer and Eucharist, and in the gifted theologians, educators, authors, and practitioners with whom we will gather in Annunciation Center.
We look forward to seeing you in April. THINK SPRING!
There has been a change in one of the workshops for this year’s Convocation. The workshop “Ecological Spirituality in the 21st Century” given by Sister Diane Collesano, S.C. will be given by Cynthia Reville Peabody, M.Div..
Eco-theology – The New Story
God saw all of Creation “and behold it was very good". We, as a people, have lost sight of God’s gift of "very good" and become unnecessarily distracted by "the fall" and sin. Eco-theology offers us a new “universe story” that returns us to the wholeness of the "very good" and offers us a way to live cooperatively and joyfully in Creation.
Cynthia Reville Peabody, M.Div., is Associate Director of The Center for the Study of Science and Religion at the Earth Institute, Columbia University and an Adjunct Professor of Science and Religion at Union Theological Seminary. She holds a Masters of Divinity from Union
Theological Seminary and a Masters of Library Service from Columbia University. She has spent years writing and advocating on issues of homelessness and hunger, the ethics of sustainability, community activism, and has published in nationally circulating journals.