Nau Mai Haere Mai!
The Dominican Sisters Aotearoa New Zealand are pleased to share events planned for March 2017.
We choose to be part of a turning towards life, a future we will not see but for which we sow seeds. 17th General Chapter Call
We are delighted to introduce Margaret Galiardi OP & Sharon Zayac OP from USA.
With huge passion and commitment to human and eco justice they will be facilitating a number of workshops and retreats throughout New Zealand in March 2017. Margaret has lectured nationally on ecological theology and spirituality, the “New Story and the Christian Story,” and the work of Thomas Berry. In addition, she has created numerous original retreats, workshops and lectures in response to expressed needs.
Margaret served as Theological Curriculum Coordinator for the lay leadership training program of the Diocese of Rockville Center, and lived in community with undocumented persons at the Oscar Romero Inn. She is a trained Spiritual Director and served as the Executive Director of the Spiritual Life Center in West Hartford, Ct.
Margaret spent the 2009-2010 year in silence and solitude, living with Trappist Sister-Monks in their monastery on the Lost Coast of Northern California in the Redwood Forest.
Margaret has published two books and holds a number of positions in relation mediation and advocacy. . .
Sharon Zayac is a Dominican Sister of Springfield, Illinois.
Sharon is the Director of Jubilee Farm, her congregation’s 111-acre center for ecology and spirituality, which lies just west of Springfield, IL. Her book Earth Spirituality: In the Catholic and Dominican Traditions, published in 2003 by Sor Juana Press, was the first in the series Dominican Women on Earth.
Look for events in these regions and places!
Turning Towards Life: Renewing ourselves as we work for a Sustainable Planet
Auckland:
Where? Mary MacKillop Hall, Mission Bay
When? Friday 3rd March 7- 9pm
Saturday 4th March 9-5pm
Wellington or Christchurch?
Seeds of hope: renewing ourselves
in a world of chaos
Oamaru:
Where?
When? Friday 17th March
Saturday 18th March
Turning Towards Life: Renewing ourselves as we work for a Sustainable Planet
Dunedin:
Where? Burns Lodge at Holy Cross Centre
When? 7-9pm Friday 24th March
9-5pm Saturday 25th March
Invercargill:
Where?
When? 20th – 22nd March
Arrowtown:
Where?
When? 26th March
27th March
We are in the midst of a cosmic shift in understanding who we are as persons, as people of faith, as a human species.
What is this newly emerging consciousness?
What does it teach us about who we are, how we are related to the whole, and how we image Holy Mystery?
Using The Cosmic Story as our context, we find inspiration and hope as we explore and reflect upon its deeper meaning.
Sharon Zayac OP
In the spiritual life incapacity or unwillingness to be influenced by incoming data of any sort is the harbinger of death.
It is the rocky soil in which the seed can develop no roots. It is the hardened heart of Meribah.
It is the refusal to open the door which allows The Guest to come in and dine with us.
It manifests itself in petrified God images, a fixation on the trivial, and a literalizing of metaphors which leaves us confined in what is way too small.
We end up carrying the weight of the world on our shoulders because we are at war with the truth of what is.
Margaret Galiardi -Hearts Open to Receive.
Come along! Bring your friends!
We walk in hope,
We walk in truth,
We walk together.
Chapter Call
