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Date posted:   Apr 10, 2024

Mapping Your Inner Landscape

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Fee: $60 | Five Weeks
This course compares growth in our spiritual life to an interior journey. Guided by a book from Dolores Leckey, we investigate how we might stay on the inner road while embracing life in the 21st Century.

Join us as we discuss aspects of inner exploration: change as a dynamic of our lives; the quest for balance and solitude in a noisy demanding world; and the power of gratitude in motivating our spiritual growth. In select video segments presented by Colleen Griffith, we examine compassion, solitude, and silence in the life of Thomas Merton; handling multiple commitments as interpreted through the life of St. Elizabeth Seton; and the Spirit working in our lives through the example of St. Jane de Chantal. Fr. Greg Boyle, S.J. provides a reflection on receiving the other.

Topics

  • Week 1: Introduction to the Course
  • Week 2: Change and Contemplation
  • Week 3: Simplicity of Life and Balance
  • Week 4: Solitude and Friendship
  • Week 5: Gratitude and the Work of the Spirit

Additional Materials Needed:

All materials are provided within the course.

Content Scholars:

Dolores Leckey (text) is a senior fellow emerita at the Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University, and former executive director of the Secretariat for Family, Laity, Women, and Youth at the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. 

Dr. Colleen M. Griffith (video) is professor of the practice of theology and faculty director of spirituality studies, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry.

Fr. Gregory Boyle, S.J. (video) is Founder of Homeboy Industries, Los Angeles, CA and author of Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion, Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship, ²¹²Ô»åÌýThe Whole Language: The Power of Extravagant Tenderness