March 3, 2014
Dear Friends,
Here we stand at the brink of the season of Lent. In my less serious moments I have often spoken of the season as the time of year when we Christians take seriously who and what we are actually called to be all 365 days of the year, and not only through the 40 days of the season.
At Mercer School we have planned gatherings and assembled resources with the intention of helping us to live a Lent both worthwhile and transformative - for both individuals and communities. Monday, March 3 at 3pm we are sending far and wide an email detailing Lenten events. If you do not receive our emails, please email us at merceroffice@dioceseli.org with the subject line: Send me Mercer emails. We will put you on the list (if the gremlins of technology allow it!).
Beginning on Ash Wednesday we will have on the Mercer School website (www.mercerschool.org) a link to a plethora of resources on and offline for the lenten season. This is meant to be interactive; that is, if you have a resource you would like us to share, email at the same Mercer office address with the subject line; Another resource for Lent. We will post it.
Beginning after Ash Wednesday, we will be having an online shared book reading for the season on our Facebook page, Conversations @ Mercer. Our reading will be in tandem with our lenten series on the spirituality of the 12 steps which will begin at Saint Luke and Saint Matthew in Brooklyn on March 12. Registration is through the Mercer website. Click on the "Coming Events/Register" button and then navigate to click on the event title on our calendar for March 12th. The book is Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the 12 Steps by Richard Rohr (Franciscan Media, 2011).
And do not forget, the Mercer Institute of Spirituality will be born this coming Saturday, March 8. Here are the details below. Be present for something new and inspiring as this Lent begins . . .
Mercer: we're your school.
Blessings,
Dear Friends,
Here we stand at the brink of the season of Lent. In my less serious moments I have often spoken of the season as the time of year when we Christians take seriously who and what we are actually called to be all 365 days of the year, and not only through the 40 days of the season.
At Mercer School we have planned gatherings and assembled resources with the intention of helping us to live a Lent both worthwhile and transformative - for both individuals and communities. Monday, March 3 at 3pm we are sending far and wide an email detailing Lenten events. If you do not receive our emails, please email us at merceroffice@dioceseli.org with the subject line: Send me Mercer emails. We will put you on the list (if the gremlins of technology allow it!).
Beginning on Ash Wednesday we will have on the Mercer School website (www.mercerschool.org) a link to a plethora of resources on and offline for the lenten season. This is meant to be interactive; that is, if you have a resource you would like us to share, email at the same Mercer office address with the subject line; Another resource for Lent. We will post it.
Beginning after Ash Wednesday, we will be having an online shared book reading for the season on our Facebook page, Conversations @ Mercer. Our reading will be in tandem with our lenten series on the spirituality of the 12 steps which will begin at Saint Luke and Saint Matthew in Brooklyn on March 12. Registration is through the Mercer website. Click on the "Coming Events/Register" button and then navigate to click on the event title on our calendar for March 12th. The book is Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the 12 Steps by Richard Rohr (Franciscan Media, 2011).
And do not forget, the Mercer Institute of Spirituality will be born this coming Saturday, March 8. Here are the details below. Be present for something new and inspiring as this Lent begins . . .
Focusing and Spirituality, presented by Dr. John McDargh of Boston College's Theology Faculty
Saturday, March 8, 2-7 pm
The Mercer School
The Mercer School
The work of
philosopher and therapist Eugene Gendlin has taken hold in both the
therapeutic and ecumenical spiritual direction communities. Gendlin and
his colleagues teach the skill of paying close attention to the
"knowing that is deeper than saying" and the body's "felt sense" of
reality at any given moment.
This workshop introduces participants to this way of attending to their own embodied experience.
$20 includes the cost of dinner. Please register online or by calling the Mercer School at 516.248.4800, ext 140.
Mercer: we're your school.
John McGinty+
Canon for Formation
Diocese of Long Island
PS. If you are on Twitter, so are we @MercerTheology. Throughout Lent we will be sharing a daily word intended to help us keep focused on the matter at hand: living in Christ together. Pax!
PS. If you are on Twitter, so are we @MercerTheology. Throughout Lent we will be sharing a daily word intended to help us keep focused on the matter at hand: living in Christ together. Pax!
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