"The U.S. Religious Landscape: Continuities and Some Change"

Lecture tonight (Tuesday, Oct 23rd) by Dr. Clifford Grammich, who will speak on what the United States looks like religiously and the impact for understanding ourselves as a nation.  This lecture is co-sponsored by the departments of History, Political Science, and Theology.  Please come!

"The U.S. Religious Landscape: Continuities and Some Change"

Dr. Clifford Grammich

October 23, 2012

7:00 pm

Common Room of Saint Mary's Hall (3rd floor)

Welcome to the "Year of Faith"!

For your reading pleasure, and keeping up on Church news:

• Some of you working in catechetical roles in local parishes may be especially interested in this, so...a list of resources!
• It's no accident that this Year of Faith was announced at the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council; news on how that event was commemorated in Vatican City here.
• ...AND at the same time there was a synod of bishops focusing on "The New Evangelization" held in Rome.  See all the connections? 

(And welcome back from break as well, especially to the SOUL participants!)

Spiritual resources on ... facebook

One of the aspects of this Spirituality for the Vineyard program is to encourage your attention to spiritual formation.  There is a lot going on at Campus Ministry, in St. Thomas More Chapel, in the TEC program....but if you are spending a fair (cough cough cough) amount of time on facebook, why not like a few programs that may remind you to attend to God, prayer, discernment, etc.?  This list is by no means exhaustive, but click, like, explore, and pray...see if it helps you strike that balance we all need.

There are lots of online sources but we're focusing on the ubiquitous facebook today.

1. Sacred Space (daily prayer, lectio divina style, through the Irish Jesuits.  Their website is well-used worldwide and very impressive)
2. Ignitum Today declares itself "the social network of the JPII and B16 generations."  You can judge if they speak for you, but they have an impressive group of young people writing on everything Catholic (including some spirituality issues, lots of living the faith in the world today issues).
3. Devotional materials?  Magnificat, Give Us This Day, and The Word Among Us on fb.
4. Discerning?  Imagine Sisters.
5. Still discerning?  Catholics on Call.
6. For pity's sake, like our program (Spirituality for the Vineyard) on fb! 

Feel free to add your favorites by emailing me (swindley....).

Finally, little to nothing on the spiritual formation angle, but fun:

Brought to you by Catholics Memes--some hits, some misses, but a few home runs for sure.

Road trip this weekend? Vatican II: Teaching and Understanding the Council after 50 years

Vatican II:
Teaching and Understanding the Council After 50 Years

September 20-22, 2012
University of St. Thomas, St. Paul Minnesota

Registration for the conference is closed but all keynote speaker's talks are free and open to the public

Thursday, September 20, 2012 -  7:30 PM
Anderson Student Center Woulfe Alumni Hall North
Rev. John O’Malley, S.J., Ph.D.
Vatican II:  Its Aims and Trajectories

Friday, September 21, 2012 – 7:30 PM
O’Shaughnessy Education Center Auditorium
Rev. Jan Michael Joncas, S.L.D., S.L.L.
Sacrosanctum Concilium and its
Reception: A Key to the Interpretation
of the Second Vatican Council

Saturday, September 22, 2012 – 9:00 AM
Anderson Student Center Woulfe Alumni Hall North
Sr. Maureen Sullivan, O.P., Ph.D.
Memory and Reform: Vatican II Today –
Fifty Years Later

Saturday, September 22, 2012 – 10:45 AM
Anderson Student Center Woulfe Alumni Hall North
Sr. Katarina Schuth, O.S.F., Ph.D.
Teaching Vatican II in Theological Schools: 
Implications for Pastoral Ministry

Please join us in the celebration of mass with Archbishop Flynn, Friday, September 21 at 5:00 PM in St. Thomas Aquinas Chapel.

More here.

College 101...by a recent grad

Look what I found on the NET Ministries blog!  How to make healthy choices in college by Eric Duffy, SMU PYM grad '10. Eric is a youth minister at St. Thomas Becket Catholic Community in Eagan, MN.

What is Ignatian Spirituality anyway?

Those of you who are discerning next steps in life may have heard of Ignatian spirituality. St. Ignatius of Loyola is commonly seen as the having paved the theology of discernment through prayer, and there is a video series on Ignatian Spirituality being created by the Irish Jesuits. The first one is below, and others are at the link at the bottom of the post. This is a painless and interesting way to learn about an approach to spirituality many people have found life-changing. Enjoy!



More at: 
http://www.ignatianspirituality.com/what-is-ignatian-spirituality/the-ignatian-way/

Vineyard Colloquium cancelled for Sept 17th

Our apologies: Sr. Arlene Flaherty had to cancel, but we do plan to have her on campus later in the year.