While summer months usually bring to mind sunny weather and vacations, I want to encourage you to think about boosting your effectiveness in the New Evangelization during these next few months. In between your downtime and getaways, why not fit a little Theology of the Body education into your schedule?
Please write down the following dates on your calendar:
Head and Heart Integration Course, August 3-8, 2014, north of Atlanta, Georgia
Sponsored by Regnum Christi, this event is for LC priests, RC consecrated and lay members of the movement who want to get a better understanding of this enlightening catechesis from our late pope.
“After the recent canonization of St. John Paul the Great, we hope to help others experience the beauty of this profound and timely teaching,” said Charlene Alexander, one of the event speakers. “As RC members, we also hope to learn more about the healing that needs to take place in each person and in the culture we aspire to evangelize.”
Other speakers will be Fr. Martin Connor LC, Tom McCabe and Suzy Grybas.
The event takes places at the beautiful Carmel Retreat Center in Hoschton, north of Atlanta.
Click here for a flyer about the event. To register go to https://rcatlanta.org/services/retreats/theology-of-the-body.html
Theology of the Body Congress, July 9-11, 2014, Philadelphia, PA
For those who have a good understanding of John Paul II’s Theology of the Body (TOB), you can significantly augment that knowledge at the 2014 International Theology of the Body Congress. Sponsored by the Theology of the Body Institute (read a letter about the Congress from the Institute’s episcopal vicar, Bishop Charles Chaput) this event boasts an impressive and intriguing list of topics to dig deeper into this amazing catechesis.
• Bringing TOB to the Spanish Speaking World
• Masculinity in the Priesthood
• Ending the Battle of the Sexes
• Authentic Femininity
• TOB and Pornography – “When Beauty is Broken”
• TOB for Youth and Young Adults
• TOB and Natural Family Planning
• TOB and Same-Sex Attraction
• The “Rule of Four” for the Divorced
• TOB and the Technological Age
• Starting at TOB Club on Campus
• TOB and the Synods of the Family
The keynote address, “The Importance of the Human Body,” will be given by Bishop Jean Laffitte, secretary of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Family.
Click here for the entire list of other speakers. For more information about the event, go to:
https://www.facebook.com/TOBCongress
