Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen: Noticing the Need for Lamenting in a Life of Faith

Boreta Singleton

March 23, 2025

Date and Time Details: Sunday, March 23, 2025, 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Location: Cranaleith Spiritual Center

Address: 13475 Proctor Road, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Contact: programs@cranaleith.org

Everyone is welcome: Request scholarship.

  • $43.00 – Program Price includes lunch

“Laments are cries of anguish and outrage; …utterances of profound protest and righteous indignation over injustice…Lamenting allows us to greet the arrival of the new as a gift, not as a threat….Lament frees the imagination for legacy and gift.”  Bryan Massingale

 

In this program, we will consider the place of lament through the lens of how we see Scripture, the practices of our ancestors in faith and African American Spirituals.

About the Facilitator

Boreta Singleton

Sr. Boreta Singleton, RSM, a Sister of Mercy of the Americas, is a native of Philadelphia, PA.  She has been a teacher and school administrator in Philadelphia Catholic schools and in Jesuit sponsored schools in New York and Jersey City, NJ. She served as the Director of the Office for Black Catholics for the Archdiocese […]

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