Saturday, January 8, 2011 10:15 AM–1 PM
Listening, Hearing, and Living Series: The Practice of Hospitality with Tim Carrington
Tim Carrington
What might our welcome of the guest, the stranger, and the unexpected moment have to teach us in this bright, New Year ahead? What does it look like to live lives of hospitality in a sometimes inhospitable world? How might the wisdom of Benedictine hospitality equip us to more fully honor ourselves, our family, our workmates, our neighbors, and all we meet along our life journey?
Begin this brand new year with refreshed intention and practical wisdom alongside a community of encouragement. Tim Carrington—journalist, development specialist, and active contemplative—guides our discovery of the profoundly simple ways that the wisdom and practice of monastic hospitality can foster radical balance in our lives and reconciling transformation in our world.
Whatever your tradition, faith perspective, or life stage you will be welcome!
About the Listening, Hearing, and Living series
These once-a-month, Saturday sessions set apart time and space to listen for the ancient yet evergreen rhythms embodied in the monastic way of Saint Benedict— a gentle model for practical, balanced, harmonious living. In this “monastery beyond walls” we still ourselves to hear deep spiritual wisdom for our lives— our families, our work, and our relationships. We gather with the support and encouragement of others of like intention to live lives that embrace balance and foster reconciliation and renewal throughout our world.
We listen, we hear, we live.
In a dynamic learning dialogue woven from the wisdom and practice of scholars, leaders, and active contemplatives steeped in the Benedictine tradition, we enrich our experience of community, wisdom, and transformation. Sessions can be experienced independently or as part of a complete series each year. Whatever your tradition, faith perspective, or life stage—if you seek the way of balance and reconciliation you are welcome.
Order of the Day
10 am Gather for registration with light refreshments in Perry Auditorium, 7th floor
10:15–10:45 am
Welcome, Centering, and Setting of Intention
10:45 am–12:45 pm
Presentation and learning with guest speaker
12:40–12:55 pm
Reflections with guest speaker
12:55 pm
Blessing
1:15–2:15 pm (optional lunch gathering)
Hospitality
Shared Meal: Brown bag lunch and facilitated conversation with guest speaker
To more richly experience the fellowship and hospitality along the Benedictine way, you are invited to stay for an optional brown bag meal from 1:15 to 2:15 pm. Bring a lunch to share or pick one up in the Cathedral Store. There is always plenty to go around!
About Tim Carrington
Tim Carrington is a journalist and development specialist. From 1980 through 1995, he covered finance, defense, and international economics for the Wall Street Journal, working in New York, London, and Washington. From 1995, he has worked at the World Bank, launching a training program in economics journalism for reporters and editors in Africa and the former Soviet Union, and subsequently serving as senior communications officer for the Africa region. He currently works as a consultant, focusing mainly on fragile states and countries recovering from conflict.
He is author of The Year They Sold Wall Street, published by Houghton Mifflin, and also worked at McGraw Hill Publications. His writing on development issues has appeared in World Paper, Enterprise Africa, and the 2003 book The Right to Tell: The Role of Mass Media in Economic Development. Tim holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Virginia. He is chairman of the Friends of St. Benedict, and lives with his wife, Merrill, in Washington. Their two grown sons live in Brooklyn, New York.