Beginning November 11, 2024, all sessions are from 6:30 to 8 p.m. CST on ZOOM

This series integrates theology, spirituality, and psychology to address important aspects of trauma healing and pastoral care. The ministry of presence involves facilitating the repairing of one’s relationships with God, self, and others. Since the spiritual journey begins with self-awareness, this series invites participants to reflect upon one’s personal experience of healing as well as what it means to companion others

November 11: Session 1: Understanding Your Past with Compassion: Facilitate Healing from Childhood and Intergenerational Trauma
November 18: Session 2: Remember (the Truth) of Who You Are: How Christian Anthropology and an Identity in Christ Break the Lies of Shame
November 25: Session 3: From Beliefs to Knowing: Exploring One's Image of God and Connecting to the God who Loves
December 2: Session 4: How to Say Goodbye: Bringing Closure to Relationships that Ended and Attending to Unfinished Business

Cost: $150

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Beginning January 16, 2025, all sessions are from 6:30-8 p.m.

This mini-course explores the apostolate of Lay Dominicans and and its accompanying spirituality. It does so by placing this vocation within the broader context of the vocation of the laity in the World and the spirituality of the Dominican Order. We will draw heavily on the teaching of St. Catherine of Siena and Yves Congar.

January 16: Session 1: The Dominican Mission in General: Preaching and the Salvation of Souls
January 23: Session 2: In the Spirit of the Evangelical Counsels: St. Catherine of Siena on Lay Spirituality
January 30: Session 3:  Offer a Living Sacrifice: Lay Participation in the Church's Priestly Office
February 6: Session 4: Go and Announce the Gospel of the Lord: Lay Participation in the Church’s Prophetic Office
February 13:  Session 5: Shepherding the World to Christ: Lay Participation in the Church’s Kingly Office
February 20: Session 6: Getting Practical: Determining Apostolic Priorities

Cost: $150
 

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Beginning April 8, 2025, all sessions are at 6:30 p.m.

This mini-course explores six periods in Christian history that each embody distinct ways that the Church is expressed through its sacred buildings and the art which adorns them.  Attention will be especially given to the ways that liturgy is “housed” in each of these paradigms.

April 8: Session 1: Sacred Architecture and Art in the Early Church 
April 15: Session 2: Basilica, Martyria, and Baptistry in the Post-Constantinian Church
April 22: Session 3: Romanesque and Gothic Cathedrals in the Late Middle Ages
April 29: Session 4: Renaissance, Baroque, and Reformation Humanism Housing the Church
May 6: Session 5: Evangelization in Built-Form: Dominican Cities in the New World
May 13: Session 6: Built of Living Stones: Modernity, Reaction and Vatican II Environment and Art
 

Cost: $150
 

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Beginning June 10, 2025, all sessions are at 6:30 - 8 p.m.

This mini-course explores how the church understands evangelization and postmodern conversion. Parish pastoral teams will be introduced to the concepts needed to align their communities around the mission of evangelization.

June 10: Session 1: What is Evangelization?
June 17: Session 2: Conversion and Accompaniment
June 24: Session 3: Who Evangelizes? Theology of the Laity and Ordained
July 1: Session 4: Aligning Parishes for Evangelization
 

Cost: $150
 

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