Virtual Program

A simple time of quiet presence to the merciful heart of God within us and within our broken/blessed world.

Embrace the role of the Wise Fool in the life of the chaplain.  Join this community of chaplains as we reclaim our status as professional humans and reconnect with our sense of being Beloved. 

Join this community of chaplains as we reclaim our status as professional humans and reconnect with our sense of being Beloved.  Session 2: Celebrating this liminal role through story-telling and wisdom-gathering

Join Colette Lafia as she introduces us to Mechthild of Magdeburg within the world of the Beguines and helps us explore her passionate vision of relationship with God, marked by longing, intimacy, vulnerability, and love. Then, through poetry, contemplative reading, and spiritual journaling, we’ll listen for what her words might awaken within us today.

Join this community of chaplains as we reclaim our status as professional humans and reconnect with our sense of being Beloved.  Session 3: Owning and leaning into the role to strengthen our practice and improve the care seeker’s experience

This evening of reflection will offer spiritual support for a turning from destruction to the protection and restoration of the vast biodiversity of our natural home. To power ecological justice, we will root ourselves in God through prayer, discussion, art and reflection on Laudato Sì and the writings of Elizabeth Johnson. We will mourn and we will also be uplifted, inspired as we see biodiversity through God’s eyes.

Mary lived in disturbing and oppressive times such as we face today.  Her timeless words in the MAGNIFICAT, spoken to her cousin Elizabeth in the moments of the Visitation, still inspire us with hope, joy and the heartfelt determination to truly live our Christian faith - and conquer all fear and anxiety with love.  Brother Mickey will share his ART and STORIES to help us locate within ourselves the life-giving source of all hope:  Jesus.