CREATION RETREAT DAYS

Renew your connection with Creation!
Let the New Universe Story lead you into wonder, awe, reverence, prayer, worship

God…set before your eyes the things that he had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that? – St Augustine (4th century)

Any error about creation also leads to an error about God – St Thomas Aquinas

What is prayer? How do I learn to pray? Are there certain ways of praying that suit different personalities? Is centring prayer for everyone? How does one pray with the Scriptures?

 Are these some of your questions? If so, or if you would just like to spend time at prayer once a month or whenever you can, then you might want to continue reading:

Time? Beginning with Tea at 10:30 and ending at 15:30. Tea and coffee provided, bring own packed lunch.

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OTHER LECTURES

Catholic Bible College supports the work of other educational institutions by providing lecturers for specific courses and events.
During the first semester of 2011 we are engaged in the following:

• ‘Introduction to the Old Testament’ to first year students of the Johannesburg diocesan diaconate programme offered by the Jesuit Institute of South Africa: Ms Bernadette Chellew and Rev John Maneschg mccj
• ‘Pauline Literature’ to fourth year students at St John Vianney Seminary in Pretoria: Rev John Maneschg mccj
• ‘Language of Resistance: prophetic and apocalyptic literature’ to third year BTh students at St Augustine College of South Africa: Rev John Maneschg mccj
• ‘Text and Context’, a course that concentrates on the Deuteronomistic History, to second year BTh students at St Augustine College: Brother Kevin McDonnell cfc

In addition the following occasional lectures have been given in recent times:

• ‘Place, Pilgrimage and Promise: the Bible in a time of global environmental crisis’ at the annual conference of the Catholic Theological Society of South Africa in September 2010 (Brother Kevin McDonnell cfc).
• ‘The Jewish Roots of the Matthean Our Father’ and ‘An Overall View of the Gospel of Matthew’ at an on-going formation workshop for Johannesburg clergy in February 2011 (Ms Bernadette Chellew).
• ‘Lost in Translation’, a lecture dealing with some of the problems facing Bible translators (and readers) at the seminar day 'Four Hundred Years of the Bible in English' in March 2011 (Brother Kevin McDonnell cfc).
• ‘“Lord, Do You Not Care?” Looking at Women in the Bible’ at the Gauteng Religious Education Conference ‘Lighting the Way’ in May 2011 (Ms Bernadette Chellew).

Topics to discuss

Planet Earth: our beautiful, wonderful, blue planet

Planet Earth: how did it get like this?

The Human Family:out of Africa