“Everyday Spirituality from the Masters”

Led by Fr. Kevin Joyce Ph.D., Pastor,

 

These monthly seminars will present practical teachings from great Catholic spiritual masters in order to provide nourishment, inspiration, and helpful tools for the spiritual journey.  Participants may attend occasionally or regularly.  People should bring Bibles to each session, and an additional text is recommended: Ursula King, Christian Mystics: Their Lives and Legacies throughout the Ages (Paulist Pres, 2001).

 

2010 Schedule:  

One Sunday per month in St. Lucy Parish Activities Center

 

4:00 PM Presentation

5:15 PM Personal prayer and meditation

6:00 PM Mass in the church (regular Sunday Mass)

 

January 10, St. Ignatius of Loyola and the Spiritual Exercises (16th Century)  Ignatius of Loyola..

• Discernment of spirits

 

February 14, St. Teresa of Avila & St. John of the Cross (16th Century)

• The 7 Dwelling Places
• The dark nights of the senses and the spirit

 

March 14,  The 12-Step Programs

• The 12-steps for connecting with God and recovery from unhealthy habits

 

May 2, Modern Spiritual Guides:  Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, Mother Teresa

 

St. Lucy Spiritual Life Seminars

Recommended Reading

 

Joyce, Kevin, Ignatius of Loyola.. Accompaniment to “Spirituality for Busy People” Seminar.

 

Oliver Davies (trans.), Celtic Spirituality (New York: Paulist Press, 1999)

 

Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1981)

 

Thomas DuBay, Fire Within: St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, and the Gospel--on Prayer
 

Friends in Recovery, The Twelve Steps for Christians (Curtis,WA: RPI Publishing, Inc., 1994), ISBN 0-941405-57-5

 

Mary Margaret Funk, Tools Matter for Practicing the Spiritual Life (Continuum, 2001)

 

Thomas Keating, Open Mind, Open Heart: the Contemplative Dimension of the Gospel (New York: Amity House, 1986)

 

Ursula King, Christian Mystics: Their Lives and Legacies throughout the Ages (Mahwah, New Jersey: Hidden Spring / Paulist Press, 2001)

 

Martin Laird, Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation (Oxford University Press, 2006)

 

Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain: An Autobiography of Faith (Harcourt Brace & Company, 1999), and The Wisdom of the Desert (New Directions, 1970)

 

A Monk of the Eastern Church, (Lev Gillet), The Jesus Prayer (Crestwood, NY:  St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1987)

 

Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming (New York: Doubleday, 1992), ISBN 0-385-47307-9

 

Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Way of the Heart: Desert Spirituality and Contemporary Ministry (New York: The Seabury Press, 1981), ISBN 0-8164-0479-8

 

St. John of the Cross, The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross (Washington, D.C.: ICS Publications, 1991), ISBN 0-935216-15-4

 

St. Teresa of Avila, The Interior Castle in Vol. Two of The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, translated by Otilio Rodriguez & Kieran Kavanaugh (Washington, D.C.: ICS Publications, 1980)