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Thriving Where You’re Planted: Benedictine Spirituality in a Rootless Time
In the last decade, authors like Rod Dreher and Patrick Henry have portrayed The Rule of Benedict as an antidote for the ills of our society. These authors often single out the virtue of stability: the choice to identify and remain with one community. In today’s extremely mobile culture, Benedict shows the wisdom of putting down roots. This presentation will examine how stability can be a gift for contemporary American Christians. We will examine what Benedict taught about stability as well as how one particular community—the Trappist martyrs of Tibhirine, Algeria—help us to understand stability as an antidote to fear and division today.
March 20, presentation from 6:30-9:00 pm at Pax Christi Catholic Church, Eden Prairie. Free event. Registration is required: www.theologyday.com, 320-363-3560 or theologyday@csbsju.edu.