Tools for Life, Monastic and WorldlySaturday February 1, 2020
9:30 a.m. Check in; 10:00 a.m. Symposium; Lunch to follow.
Location: The Washington National Cathedral, Perry Auditorium
3101 Wisconsin Ave., NW; Washington, DC 20016
Speaker: Fr. Eric Hollas, O.S.B., Saint John's Abbey
Fr. Eric Hollas, a monk at St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota whose monastic life began fifty years ago, serves as deputy to the President for Advancement at Saint John's University. Trained in medieval studies at Yale, Fr. Eric has had a distinguished career as an educator, administrator, and chaplain, spearheading the commissioning of calligrapher Donald Jackson to create the breathtaking St. John's Bible, an illuminated Bible for the 21st century that has been exhibited at the Library of Congress and around the country.
A traveler through time and territory, Fr. Eric is an astute and reverent observer of life, seeing human aspirations and foibles through the lens of the 1500-year-old Benedictine Rule. His weekly blog, A Monk's Chronicle (https://monkschronicle.wordpress.com), offers a mix of scholarly, spiritual and practical insights - - appropriate to any disciple of Benedict, the saintly humanist who understood so deeply the pitfalls and possibilities of human communities. Here are a few Fr. Eric gems:
"What if by choosing to book passage on the ship of the self-absorbed, we actually miss the better boat - - the boat that sails to a full and loving life?"
"Opportunism looks for the encounter with God at every turn."
"It might be helpful to think of our gifts and talents as a challenge grant from God."
"We approach the altar of the Lord to confess our sins. So, if by chance this afternoon you are coming to confess someone else's sins, please don't."
9:30 a.m. Check in; 10:00 a.m. Symposium; Lunch to follow.
Location: The Washington National Cathedral, Perry Auditorium
3101 Wisconsin Ave., NW; Washington, DC 20016
Speaker: Fr. Eric Hollas, O.S.B., Saint John's Abbey
Fr. Eric Hollas, a monk at St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota whose monastic life began fifty years ago, serves as deputy to the President for Advancement at Saint John's University. Trained in medieval studies at Yale, Fr. Eric has had a distinguished career as an educator, administrator, and chaplain, spearheading the commissioning of calligrapher Donald Jackson to create the breathtaking St. John's Bible, an illuminated Bible for the 21st century that has been exhibited at the Library of Congress and around the country.
A traveler through time and territory, Fr. Eric is an astute and reverent observer of life, seeing human aspirations and foibles through the lens of the 1500-year-old Benedictine Rule. His weekly blog, A Monk's Chronicle (https://monkschronicle.wordpress.com), offers a mix of scholarly, spiritual and practical insights - - appropriate to any disciple of Benedict, the saintly humanist who understood so deeply the pitfalls and possibilities of human communities. Here are a few Fr. Eric gems:
"What if by choosing to book passage on the ship of the self-absorbed, we actually miss the better boat - - the boat that sails to a full and loving life?"
"Opportunism looks for the encounter with God at every turn."
"It might be helpful to think of our gifts and talents as a challenge grant from God."
"We approach the altar of the Lord to confess our sins. So, if by chance this afternoon you are coming to confess someone else's sins, please don't."
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