The 2022 SEDOS AUTUMN SEMINAR is coming soon. The theme is “Revisiting the Charisms in Today’s Context”. Date: 28 October 2022.
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Creation as God’s Love Story
In his letter for this year’s Season of Creation, the theme of which is ‘Listen to the voice of creation’ Pope Francis says that as we listen, we can hear in the voice of creation a discordant note: a sweet song in praise of the Creator; and, an anguished plea, lamenting our mistreatment of this our common home. She weeps and implores us to put an end to our abuses and to her destruction. Fr. Claude Mostowik MSC writes.
Jules Chevalier and the Integrity of Creation
Warren Perrotto, MSC, writes his reflections on the Integrity of creation from the perspective of our founder Jules Chevalier MSC. The link between the call to love and the contemplative capacity to see the inter-relationship between ourselves and all creation is fundamental to Chevalier’s charism.
Natural mysticism by Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton expert Kick Bras wrote a book about the natural mysticism of Merton. How has that changed his own view on climate, sustainability and nature? In the notebooks of the famous American Trappist monk Thomas Merton (1915-1968) we discover a natural mysticism and an ecological ethics. These are not only reflected in the books Merton wrote, but also in his diaries published twenty years after his death. In lyrical terms, the monk describes how he experiences nature and what it means for his contemplative life.
Project Instruction for Sustainable Management
We understand the importance of pastoral and social projects in assisting the apostolates of the Congregation and the Church in general. As a global agency for training priests and religious in the field of Project Management, PRISMA (Project Instruction for Sustainable Management) is aware of the need for constant capacity building in this area.
Festival of the Spirituality of the Heart: in Sacred Scriptures
The first presentation of the Festival of the Spirituality of the Heart explores the biblical basis of the Spirituality of the Heart. These first two presentations are offered by Fr. John Peter, MSC, of the MSC Indian Union. He investigates the heart in Sacred Scriptures, then explores the operations of the heart of God, the heart of humanity and the heart of creation in Sacred Scriptures. He concludes with questions and challenges to the Spirituality of the Heart in our contemporary times.
‘New trends in mission, the emerging Future’
‘New trends in mission, the emerging Future’ is the new book release from SEDOS. It is a compilation of presentations given during the Mission Symposium of 2021. An excellent gathering of contemporary thought on mission.
Master in Bioethics and Training
This is the novelty of the proposal of the Master in Bioethics and Training and the fruitfulness of the collaboration between our two Institutes. The decades-long experience, very rich and pioneering in Italy of the Institute of Bioethics at the Catholic University, in contact with the most burning issues of medicine and in international dialogue, meets with the contribution of the Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute.
Making Room for Courage
7 to 11 September 2022 at the Convent of San Cerbone in LUCCA and ONLINE. In collaboration with Economy of Francesco we are preparing for the meeting of September 25 in Assisi with His Holiness Pope Francis
Pope reflects on state of the world
Pope Francis, in an interview to the Argentine state news agency Telam, reflected on the world situation today, the conflict in Ukraine, which he said was a time to rethink the concept of a just war, the post coronavirus situation, the importance of youth, role of the United Nations, the environment and his pontificate. Telam provided an English translation that Vatican News published on July.