March 9, 2021
8:00 pm to 8:30 pm EST
Lenten Meditation Circle
with Natalie Terry
This program will be conducted via Zoom.
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Meeting ID: 990 4539 9571
Passcode: Lent
Registration is not required.
When we quiet the chatter in our heads through music or meditation or recitation or song, the boundaries begin to disappear. The bowl breaks. For a moment we taste the truth, sweet as nectar—we are part of one another. Joy rushes in. Long after the moment passes, we can choose to remember the truth of our interconnectedness, that we belong to one another. We can choose to “see no stranger.”
- Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger: A Memoir & Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
As we begin our pilgrimage through the Lenten season, gather with us on Tuesday evenings for shared silence accompanied by readings from Valarie Kaur’s See No Stranger: A Memoir & Manifesto of Revolutionary Love. As we live into being, as Valarie says, in “a world in transition,” we’ll gather to learn and create sacred space, knowing that our communal spiritual practice is part of the foundation of how we are able to be people of wisdom, loving kindness and revolutionary love.
Insight – Tend the Wound: Loving Opponents
8:00pm:
Gathering & Reading from See No Stranger: A Memoir & Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valarie Kaur
8:10pm:
15-minute Silent Meditation
8:25pm:
Blessing
Natalie Terry currently serves as the Assistant Executive Director of VMESC. She is a minister, preacher and educator with an ever-evolving call to accompany people and communities in their spiritual journeys. After graduating from John Carroll University with a BA in Religious Studies, Natalie served as a Humility of Mary Volunteer at Villa Maria where she inherited a love for the land and HM community. Her ministerial formation continued in California, where she received a Master of Divinity (M.Div.) from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley. In her ministry journey, Natalie has served as the director of an Ignatian spirituality center, as a faith-based community organizer and as a high school campus minister and philosophy teacher.
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Future Dates:
March 16 Insight – Tend the Wound: Loving Opponents
March 23 Insight – Breathe and Push: Loving Others
March 30 Insight – Breathe and Push: Loving Others
April 6 Insight – Joy
Participation in all sessions is not required
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