A Sydney public lecture by renowned author and commentator, Sister Joan Chittister, scheduled for July is already sold out.
Sr Joan will address the topic, Choice between Impossibles: Ancient Answers to Current Questions. The lecture is one event in a series of events over 12 months celebrating 150 years since the foundation of Australia's first 'home-grown' religious congregation, the Sisters of the Good Samaritan.
Explaining why Sr Joan had been asked to deliver the lecture, Good Samaritan Sister Patty Fawkner said, "Our congregation is a Benedictine congregation, and like Joan Chittister, [we] take our inspiration from the Rule of Benedict. Joan is a great friend of the Good Sams, and though she resisted other requests, she was pleased to agree to the public lecture. She's a marvellous speaker."
Sr Joan, a member of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie (Pennsylvania) is a prolific writer and highly sought after international speaker on topics of justice, peace, human rights, women's issues, and contemporary spirituality in the Church and in society.
She currently serves as the co-chair of the Global Peace Initiative of Women, a partner organisation of the United Nations, facilitating a worldwide network of women peace builders, especially in the Middle East.
She also is executive director of Benetvision, a resource and research centre for contemporary spirituality, and she is a regular columnist for the National Catholic Reporter.
The lecture will be held at Mount St Benedict College Pennant Hills, Sydney, on Thursday July 19.
Other Good Samaritan sesquicentenary celebrations include the visit of the Seiwa College Choir (from a Good Samaritan school in Japan) to Sydney and Melbourne from August 20, and the launch of "Mater Dei Story" at St Scholastica's College Glebe Point, Sydney, on September 23.
For more details about the sesquicentenary events click here.
DOWNLOAD: "Remember the Vision; Embracing the Dream" - Joan Chittister's keynote address at the Assembly of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (Atlanta Georgia, August 19, 2006).
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