Please plan on attending these upcoming ecumenical and interreligious events.

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Spring Ecumenical Contacts Workshop, Saturday, March 20th.

We will be visiting the Shrine to the Venerable Nun Martyrs Olympia and Laurentia here in Saskatoon. Sr. Theodosia (Sisters of St. Joseph), will lead us as we reflect together on the cost of discipleship in our time. We will begin at 9 a.m. and finish at noon. The Shrine is located at 215 Avenue M South (across the street from St. George’s Cathedral). There is ample parking either on the street, or in the Cathedral parking lot. There is no cost. Everyone is most welcome to attend.

Ecumenical Prayer Service for the ordination of Msgr. Donald Bolen

Monsignor Donald Bolen will be ordained the seventh bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon on the Feast of the Annunciation, Thursday, March 25. This service is by invitation only to ensure that representatives of every parish are able to attend.

Another celebration dear to Msgr. Bolen's heart will be the Ecumenical Prayer Service held the evening before the ordination, an event which is open to all. The Ecumenical Prayer Service will be held 7 p.m., Wednesday, March 24 at St. Paul's Cathedral (Spadina Crescent and 22 Street, Saskatoon). Bishop-elect Bolen's background in ecumenical studies and dialogue includes several years of work with the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity in Rome.

The Ecumenical Prayer Service is open to the public. A number of ecumenical guests have been invited and will have reserved seating. The event is expected to be well-attended, so please arrive early to ensure a seat.

Rooted in Christ - Global Leaders in Ecumenism share their Hopes and Visions

To celebrate the ordination of the new Roman Catholic bishop of Saskatoon, Donald Bolen, you are invited to an informal discussion:
Rooted in Christ - Global Leaders in Ecumenism share their Hopes and Visions.

Thursday, March 25th, 1-3pm St. Andrew’s College, main lounge (1121 College Drive, Saskatoon on the U of S campus).

Panelists include:
• The Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Wainwright (Duke University) co-chair of the Methodist-Roman Catholic international dialogue;
• Bishop Brian Farrell (The Holy See) Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity;
• Bishop Denis Drainville (Anglican Diocese of Quebec) co-chair of the Anglican-Roman Catholic dialogue in Canada;
• Dr. Catherine E. Clifford, professor at the Université St. Paul in Ottawa
• and several other ecumenical leaders.

For info, contact Nick Jesson (jesson@ecumenism.net, 652-1595) or Sandra Beardsall (966-8968). Please note: there is no parking available at St. Andrew’s College.

Ecumenical Retreat, April 12-15 with Fr. Tom Ryan

Fr. Tom Ryan CSPThe theme will be "Teach us to Number Our Days". This retreat will help participants face their mortality in the light of our hope in Christ. Through talks, journaling, small and large group work, Fr. Tom Ryan will show that acceptance of this life’s limits, rather than being morbid, can release us to live more fully.

Fr. Thomas Ryan CSP is director of the Paulist Office for Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations in Washington, DC. A former director of the Canadian Centre for Ecumenism in Montreal, Fr. Tom has extensive ecumenical experience in Canada and overseas. He is the author of numerous books, including A Survival Guide for Ecumenically-minded Christians, Tales of an Ecumenical Pilgrim, and Interreligious Prayer: A Christian Guide. Fr. Tom is also a well regarded retreat leader.

*Remember to Live*! Awareness and acceptance that we will not enjoy life on this earth forever can bring a clarity and richness to the limited, precious moments of life, and foster a special care for relationships and priorities. This retreat provides opportunities through presentations on ageing, illness, death, the afterlife -- all with an eye towards bringing us to look more clearly at the life that is ours to live now. How do you want to use the time and resources you have; what are the values you want to keep front and centre? We will use a variety of methods to work with these themes such as journaling and guided meditations to awaken us on a deeper level to the gift of life that is ours to live now.

The retreat will be held at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Spadina Crescent & 20th Street E., Saskatoon.
The retreat will be starting at 3:30 p.m. on Monday, April 12th, ending with lunch Thursday, April 15th. There will be daytime sessions only, and an optional activity on Monday evening.
Cost: $95 per person. Bring a bag lunch. Soup, coffee & tea will be provided.
We are asking for billets to enable out-of-town folks to come.

Returning to Spirit workshop Part II - April 19-23, 2010

This workshop deals with the pain arising from the Residential Schools legacy. It is also for anyone who wants to move beyond his or her own existing limits and constraints, committed to personal growth and willing to explore new possibilities for the future.

More specifically this is for First Nations and Church/non-aboriginal people who:
• were once involved with the schools and are seeking healing;
• those who have family who may have had positive or negative experiences in the schools;
• those in leadership, dealing with the complexity of issues arising from the schools;
• those striving to foster greater understanding, healing and reconciliation between those affected by the schools and the Church.

Monday to Friday, April 19-23, 2010, Queen's House Retreat & Renewal Center, 601 Taylor St. West, Saskatoon, SK S7M 0C9 Contact: Lucie Leduc, phone (306) 242-1916. To register, please fill out and send the Registration Form along with your deposit to above address c/o Lucie Leduc or by fax to (306) 653-5941 before March 15th, 2010.

PARTICIPATION: Commitment to full participation in every session is a pre-requisite; You will be asked to use your personal life experiences to explore your relationship to the issues of Residential Schools and more. Sessions go from 9 am to 5 pm Monday to Thursday and from 9 am to 3 pm Friday. There are evening assignments.

The Returning to Spirit training program is unique and cutting edge in its approach to healing and reconciliation. It is a three-part training program that involves both First Nations and Religious communities. This program explores the process of creating possibilities for individuals and groups to consciously create a future based on letting-go, empowerment, trust, collaboration and moving forward. It has nothing to do with religion, politics or legal matters. It is focused strictly on facilitating a process for individuals to move ahead in life, creating a future based in empowerment rather than creating a future which is based on creating more of the past.

Individuals take a profound look at how residential school events have played out in their lives. The program explores what it takes to break new ground, to shift from thinking and behaviours that have developed from the past, plague the present, and are destined for the future The “Returning to Spirit” Program is based on returning people to the spirit of who they are rather than reliving their painful experience of residential school.

World Religions Summit 2010: Interfaith Leaders in the G8 Nations

In 2010 the leaders of some of the world's most powerful countries - the G8 - will meet in Canada. Each year these leaders meet to make commitments to alleviate poverty, hunger, HIV/AIDS, malaria, illiteracy, child mortality and poor maternal heather as well as improve environmental sustainability and global partnerships for development. The G8 countries' compliance with their own commitments averages 47%.

Since 2005, global faith leaders have met in tandem with G8 meetings to issue a statement calling on the G8 to fulfil their commitments to the world's most poor and vulnerable, and to ensure concrete, discernible, life giving and life sustaining progress in the lives of all people and of our plant.

Fall Ecumenical Contacts Workshop, Saturday October 16th.

Professor Sandra Beardsall will be presenting “An Ecumenical Pilgrimage through Christian History”. Place TBA. Everyone is welcome to attend.

International Ecumenical Peace Convocation

The culmination of the WCC Decade to Overcome Violence will be an International Ecumenical Peace Convocation on May 4-11, 2011 in Kingston, Jamaica. Work on an Ecumenical Declaration on Just Peace will culminate in its adoption there. The declaration will not be a consensus document but, as a public affirmation of witness that is theological and spiritual in character, it will affirm what can be said together, identify topics for further discussion, recommend examples, and initiate practical services for committed groups. The convocation, expected to have some two thousand participants, will include representatives of other faiths. Planners will search with these representatives for ministries that struggle against the current trend to turn political conflict into religious confrontation. A timeline of preparatory processes has already been outlined, suggestions for participation have been posted, and related events will be listed as information is available. Geiko Muller-Fahrenholz, who is working on convocation preparations for the WCC, has visited the U.S. in March to garner ideas and dialogue about the state of the ecumenical peace movement. Themes for the conference have been identified as: peace at heart, peace at home, peace in the virtual world, peace on earth is peace with the earth, peace in the market place, and make peace not war.

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