Preaching and Hearing the Just Word: Days of Reflections for Advent, Lent, and Easter

While the world hungers and longs for justice for so many who experience oppression and discrimination, the Bible is rife with both profound and practical insights about fostering a just and fair world? How might the Sunday readings throughout the liturgical seasons of Advent, Lent and Easter provide fresh perspective on the human pursuit for justice? Through these three Saturday sessions (1 to 4pm) participants will be invited to hear the Scriptures in innovative and imaginative ways while they seek to "preach justice" in both word and deed. An optional 4pm liturgy follows each of these three-hour sessions.

Advent Day of Reflection

Opening Our Eyes and Ears to the Advent of God’s Reign: Good News for Bent-Over People: What do we see, and what do we hear when we encounter people on what Pope Francis calls “the peripheries”? People who, in a myriad of ways, are “bent-over”? How can we open our eyes and ears to encounter God’s new coming in the Other, and to welcome this Advent so as to advance the reign of God?

About the Presenter: Kathleen McManus, OP is a Dominican Sister of Blauvelt. Holding an MA in Pastoral Studies with a concentration in Preaching from the Aquinas Institute of Theology, and a PhD in Systematic Theology from the University of St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto, Kathleen served as Associate Professor of Theology and Director of the M.A. in Pastoral Ministry Program at the University of Portland. Her most recent publication is Suffering and The Vulnerable Rule of God: A Feminist Epistemology.