Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:15 AM–2:30 PM
Listening, Hearing, and Living: Giving Up--A Way to New Beginnings and Hope with Ron Conner
Ronald Conner
In the Christian tradition, the Lenten season reveals the pull our appetites, possessions, and habits can exert upon our lives. Is there more to Lenten practice than just “to chocolate or not to chocolate?” Can the intention of “giving up” open us to a way of balance and reconciliation? Can fasting be more profound than determined abstinence? Can we “give up” clutter, appetite, distraction on our way to new beginnings and hope?
Join the Rev. Dr. Ron Conner, Benedictine scholar in liturgical theology and priest associate with Christ Church Georgetown as we explore Benedict’s approach to the practice of “giving up.” This vital exploration, rooted in the traditions of fasting and abstinence, offers a life way that grounds our spiritual lives, our relationships, and our livelihoods in God. Learn how the profoundly simple act of “giving up” can impact our own lives, our families, our relationships, and our work as we seek lives of balance that foster reconciliation in the world.
About the Listening, Hearing, and Living series
These sessions invite us to engage the evergreen way of balance in a learning and experiential dialogue with scholars, leaders, and active contemplatives steeped in the Benedictine tradition. Join us as we explore how to more intentionally bring balance and reconciliation into our daily lives.
Through lectures and conversations with Benedictine leaders we deepen our understanding of the core practices of prayer, study, recreation, work, and hospitality and provide real world settings. Each interactive session offers time for prayer, reflection, and shared community. All are welcome to attend any of the sessions held in Perry Auditorium.
Here we set our intention to listen for the ancient monastic rhythms that model balanced, harmonious living. We still ourselves in prayer, silence, and reflection to hear deep wisdom for our lives— our families, our relationships, our work. With the support and encouragement of shared communities of intention we begin again to live lives that embrace balance and foster renewal and reconciliation.
Order of the Day
We listen, we hear, we live.
10–10:15 am
Gather in Perry Auditorium, 7th Floor Tower
10:15–10:45 am
Welcoming, Prayer, and Setting of Intention
10:45–11:45 pm
The Practice of Giving Up, with Ron Conner
Noon–12:30 pm
Eucharist in the Great Choir
12:30–1 pm
Reflections with Ron Conner
1 pm
Release with Blessing
To more richly experience the fellowship and hospitality along the Benedictine way, plan to stay for an optional brown bag meal from 1:15 to 2:30 pm. Bring a lunch to share or you can pick one up in the Cathedral Store.
1:15–2:30 pm
Hospitality (optional)
Shared Meal: Brown bag lunch and facilitated conversation with others and Ron Conner
To more richly experience the fellowship and hospitality along the Benedictine way, plan to stay for an optional brown bag meal from 1:15 to 2:30 pm. Bring a lunch to share or you pick one up in the Cathedral Store.
About the Rev. Dr. Ronald Conner
