Rediscovering God in Our Human Story

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Sunday, March 28th, 2010
Friday 7pm to Sunday noon

In reclaiming the great story of the cosmos and of planet earth, we have come to realize that our conventional human story has become grossly distorted by separating ourselves from the bigger story and, in recent millennia, setting ourselves over it. We construe our human narrative largely in terms of two thousand years and trace many central notions of what it means to be human to the Greek culture of twenty-five hundred years ago. We abort humanity from the womb to which it integrally belongs. Little wonder that we behave in such dysfunctional and destructive ways.

This is an exploratory workshop involving input, dialogue and small -group process, based on Diarmuid's recent book, Ancestral Grace (Orbis 2008). How do we revision our human story to make it more congruent with the New Cosmic Story? And how do we revision our Christian faith so that we can integrate these enlarged horizons into our dialy lives? These are the questions we will explore during the weekend.

Diarmuid O'Murchu, a member of the Sacred Heart Missionary Order, and a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin Ireland, is a social psychologist whose entire working life has been in social ministry. In that capacity he has worked as a couple's counsellor, in bereavement work, AIDS-HIV counselling and laterally with homeless people and refugees. As a workshop leader and group facilitator he has worked in Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, The Philippines, Thailand, India, Peru and in several African countries, facilitating programmes on Adult Faith Development.

Suggested donation
Live-in weekend $350.00
Commuter $250.00


Registration deadline: March 19, 2010