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October 2021
The Faber Sessions #6, Part II: A Present Mirror in Music Past
TFS of Fall 2021 invite us to attend to and to “read” a musical literature published, and greatly cherished, some sixty years ago. The point of looking there is for the sake of gaining a redeeming, discerning insight into the cultural and social turbulence of our today. We may find in that particular literature “a mirror” in which more clearly to recognize ourselves, where we stand before God and one another. “Yesterday / all my troubles seemed so far away…
Find out more »A Pilgrim’s Retreat: The Binding and Unbinding
The world is a complicated place, easily able to distract and to confuse us. And we each are well able to add to its complexities when we have forgotten from where - that is, from Whom - we are, and towards what - that is, towards Whom - we are. Remember the fierce clarity of Jesus about this very thing even as He was about to enter the darkest, most confusing time of His earthly life. See John 13: 3 Jesus…
Find out more »Women, Arise! Fall Retreat with Tara Ludwig as a Speaker
Women’s Fall Retreat Presented by: Women, Arise! Ministry – a ministry for women, by women. “Courage, daughter.” (Matt. 9:22) The Healing of the Woman with a Flow of Blood (Mark 5:22-34), 2017. Artist: Julia Stankova Has your strength left you? Draw near to Christ. Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021 via Zoom 10am – 1pm Presenters: Tara Ludwig (Faber Institute) & Ana Guizado Register online at www.sipdx.org Questions? Contact Beth Schaller…
Find out more »The Night School for Deeper Learning (Series IX, Session II) with St. Bonaventure
One of the greatest of the medieval theologians, Saint Bonaventure was the Minister General of the Franciscan Order during a time when the so recently founded Order (St. Francis of Assisi died in October 1226) was tearing itself apart. He was the steady, brilliant, and discerning leader who organized and healed them. At the University of Paris (1235-1257 CE), he studied, rising quickly to prominence as a thinker of wide and deep theological understanding, eventually becoming in 1254 the head…
Find out more »November 2021
The Faber Sessions #6, Part III: A Present Mirror in Music Past
TFS of Fall 2021 invite us to attend to and to “read” a musical literature published, and greatly cherished, some sixty years ago. The point of looking there is for the sake of gaining a redeeming, discerning insight into the cultural and social turbulence of our today. We may find in that particular literature “a mirror” in which more clearly to recognize ourselves, where we stand before God and one another. “Yesterday / all my troubles seemed so far away…
Find out more »The Night School for Deeper Learning (Series IX, Session III) with Meister Eckhart
Johannes Eckhart entered the Dominican Order at the age of 15, when the influence of the brilliant and saintly St. Thomas Aquinas, OP (died in March 1274 CE) was comprehensively felt throughout the Order and in Europe. Eventually he became a Master of Theology at the University of Paris. But his main interest was to create a Christian philosophy that could best describe the soul’s ascent to God, into Unity with the divine Source of all things. One great scholar…
Find out more »December 2021
The Faber Sessions #6, Part IV: A Present Mirror in Music Past
TFS of Fall 2021 invite us to attend to and to “read” a musical literature published, and greatly cherished, some sixty years ago. The point of looking there is for the sake of gaining a redeeming, discerning insight into the cultural and social turbulence of our today. We may find in that particular literature “a mirror” in which more clearly to recognize ourselves, where we stand before God and one another. “Yesterday / all my troubles seemed so far away…
Find out more »The Night School for Deeper Learning (Series IX, Session IV) with Pope Francis I
A description of our Guest is given at the end of the book that we will read - Let us Dream: The Path to a Better Future (2020). It reads: “Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on December 17, 1936, the son of Italian immigrants. He was ordained a priest in the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1969, named Provincial in 1973, and rector of the Colegio Máximo in Buenos Aires in 1980. He was consecrated bishop…
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