RETREAT OPPORTUNITY: Our Place at the Table
What place do LGBT Catholics possess at the tables of our spiritual communities? How can LGBT people, and their family, friends, and pastoral ministers more fully live out the call to be bread for one another?
These questions will be at the heart of an upcoming New Ways Ministry weekend retreat, entitled “Our Place at the Table.” The retreat will be held September 19-21, 2014, at the Franciscan Spiritual Center in Aston, Pennsylvania, near the Philadelphia airport.
Jamie Manson will facilitate the weekend as participants explore their own connections to Catholic identity with an eye to the ways in which our sacramental imaginations help us to see God at work in the world, especially in the lives of LGBT people. She will offer several presentations based around Margaret Farley’s book Just Love, interspersed with small group discussions and prayer.
Manson is a nationally renowned speaker, retreat leader, and media commentator on issues related to LGBT Catholics, young adult Catholics, and the future of the church. She studied with Farley at Yale Divinity School, where Manson earned her Master of Divinity. She is an award-winning writer for the National Catholic Reporter, especially for her weekly column “Grace on the Margins,” and has directed faith formation and social justice ministry efforts in New York City parishes.
Jamie Manson
Regular readers of Bondings 2.0 will be familiar with Manson’s perspectives, as we often summarize and comment on her columns on this blog. For all the posts in which her work has been mentioned, click here.
New Ways Ministry invites LGBT Catholics, the parents of LGBT children, pastoral ministers, and all who are interested to honor the struggles, affirm the holiness, and explore the church’s unfolding future when it comes to LGBT Catholics.
The cost is $205. For more information or to register, visit the New Ways Ministry website at https://www.newwaysministry.org/retreats.html or call (301) 277-5674 or send an email to [email protected]..
–Bob Shine, New Ways Ministry
A message to your European visitors: “Any similar retreat in Europe?”
Thanks.
Not that I am aware of. You might check the website of the European Forum of LGBT Christians, and see what their member groups are offering in terms of retreat programs. If you are in Italy, let me know, and I can put you in touch with several Italian LGBT Christian groups.