All are invited to join us for the Ash Wednesday liturgy.

Rev. Donald Senior, C.P., President, Catholic Theological Union, cordially invites you to attend a Sunday afternoon experience.

October 30, 2011

3:00 pm Lecture – Exploring the Farside: Biblical Visions of the Afterlife

Rev. Donald Senior, C.P.
President and Professor of New Testament Studies
Presenter

4:00 pm Sunday Eucharist

Rev. Dave Komatz, O.Praem.
Presider

Reception to follow

About the Lecture:

All are invited to celebrate the opening of the 2011-2012 CTU academic year with the Mass of the Holy Spirit. Following the liturgy, light refreshments will be served in the atrium.

Please join us as we address the nature and future of the Church as “missionary”, exploring theological, social trends and other factors that have most influenced the Church’s missionary institutions and activities over the past century.  Lend your perspective as we strive to grasp the direct and indirect ways these trends impact those around the world, many of them desperately poor and vulnerable, who have welcomed missionaries into their communities and their lives.  Help us as we seek a better understanding of the ways in which mission is expected to shape the Church’s witness of the Go

Join us on Sunday, June 12, at 3:00 p.m. for “Creation: An Exposé of Wonder,” a lecture by Dawn Nothwehr, O.S.F., Professor of Catholic Theological Ethics.  The presentation will be followed by Sunday Eucharist and a reception.

Using St. Francis of Assisi—Patron Saint of Ecology—as guide, Nothwehr will address questions such as, “What does ecology have to do with Pentecost?”, “Why is Benedict XVI known as ‘The Green Pope?’”, and “How can Catholic Social Teaching and Catholic Environmental ethics help us find our way in an environmentally threatened world?”

What does the Lord Require of Us?

This year Earth Day falls on Good Friday. During our Penitential Service, we will examine our consciences about how we may have contributed to the suffering of God’s Creation. We will reflect upon our answer today to Jesus’ question, “Who is your neighbor?” We have an opportunity to repent of our environmental sins, ones we have been considering during the course of reading our weekly Lent 4.5 pamphlets. We will praise God’s abundant mercy.