[Sundaycommunity] Fwd: Gather for FutureChurch's Synod Sessions During Lent! Six Wednesdays! Invite friends and family as we pray and listen carefully to each other! On Pentecost, we will send your discernment to the Vatican Synod Office and our Bishops!

[Catherine Walther]

In case you want to know more about Vatican 11 and the Synod you might want
to listen to these Wednesday lectures by Sister Maureen Sullivan, put on by
Future Church. Catherine

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From: FutureChurch <debrose at futurechurch.org>
Date: Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 12:30 PM
Subject: Gather for FutureChurch's Synod Sessions During Lent! Six
Wednesdays! Invite friends and family as we pray and listen carefully to
each other! On Pentecost, we will send your discernment to the Vatican
Synod Office and our Bishops!
To: <catherine.walther at gmail.com>


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*INVITE YOUR FRIENDS, FAMILY, COLLEAGUES!*


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*SIX WEDNESDAYS IN LENT *
*TWO SESSIONS EACH WEDNESDAY FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE*

*MARCH 2        *(12pm EST or 7pm EST)         The Eucharist & Parish
Closings
*MARCH 9        *(12pm EST or 7pm EST)         The Future of Priesthood
*MARCH 16      * (12pm EST or 7pm EST)         Women as Co-Equals
*MARCH 23     * (12pm EST or 7pm EST)         Lay Leadership
*MARCH 30      *(12pm EST or 7pm EST)         Racial Justice
*APRIL 6           *(12pm EST or 7pm EST)         Faith & Political Life

*FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE SESSIONS ARE HELD AT 12:00pm EST & 7:00pm EST.  *

*EACH WEDNESDAY, CHOOSE THE TIME THAT IS BEST FOR YOU!*

The 2023 Synod of Bishops in Rome may be one of the most important events
in the life of the Church since Vatican II.

Pope Francis has asked bishops and church leaders to gather the "sense of
the faithful" on a wide variety of important issues.  And he has made
provisions for the many Catholics who are excluded and who may not be heard
because their bishops are not engaging in the process in a meaningful way.

This is a very important and a prime opportunity to walk together and
help shape the future of the church.

The first phase of this process began at the local level in October 2021
and will continue until August 2022. The input that is gathered in this
first phase will be sent to the Synod of Bishops in Rome so that they can
develop a working document for their international gathering of bishops in
October 2023.

FutureChurch will join this effort.  We will be holding discernment
sessions, carefully gathering your faith-filled insights on the issues you
care about most, and putting together a report with your input to send to
Rome as they prepare the initial working document.

We will:

1.  Hold our discernment sessions on Wednesdays during Lent/

2.  Compile your ideas on a number of topic into one report during the time
between Easter and Pentecost.

3.  Send our report with your discernment to the Synod office in Rome, to
the U.S. bishops and the USCCB, and to the Apostolic nuncio on
Pentecost, as a contribution to the worldwide synod, and as a symbol of
our active witness to the Spirit of Pentecost in our Church today.

Please plan on joining us for these important discernment sessions.  Your
voice is critical as we shape the future church together.

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LEARN ABOUT THE SYNOD AND VATICAN II
 YOU CAN STILL JOIN!


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You can still join! Four Wednesdays in February at 7pm EST Fertile Ground:
Vatican II, the Synod, and the Future of the Church
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February 2, 2022 at 7pm EST
February 9, 2022 at 7pm EST
February 16, 2022 at 7pm EST
February 23, 2022 at 7pm EST

Join FutureChurch and Sr. Maureen Sullivan, OP for this four-part series
exploring Vatican II, the Synod, and the Future of the Catholic Church.

Sr. Maureen joins us again for another engaging four-week series exploring
Vatican II documents as the foundation for the 2023 Synod. Without doubt,
the upcoming Synod is the most important gathering in the recent history of
the church and the most promising since the 1962 -1965 Second Vatican
Council.

Vatican II produced a charter for the Church to move from the rigid,
hierarchical model espoused by Pius IX at Vatican I (1869-70) to the
collegial, "communio" model that emerged under John XXIII. Pope Francis has
invested enormous energy in moving the church back on course with his
emphasis on Vatican II. The 2023 Synod is the culmination of his efforts
offering the promise of an authentically synodal church where women, and
men, both lay and ordained, led by the Spirit, guide and shape the
direction of the church.

Participants will explore a number of Vatican II documents and come to
understand how Vatican II serves as the foundation for the upcoming 2023
Synod on Communion, Participation, and Mission.

As we get more familiar with the documents of Second Vatican Council and
engage in the synod process, we make the Vatican II Church a greater
reality today.
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February 15, 2022 at 8pm ET Women Witnesses for Racial Justice Series
Presentation: Professor Diane Batts Morrow on "Making a Way Out of No Way"
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Professor Diane Batts Morrow will offer a presentation on the
accomplishments and trials of Black Women Religious in honor of Black
History Month. She has written extensively about the Oblate Sisters who
challenged prevailing social, political, and cultural attitudes and managed
to create an educational system under Jim Crow.

Organized in the slave-holding city of Baltimore, Maryland in 1828, the
Oblate Sisters of Providence dedicated themselves as “a Religious society
of Coloured Women . . . [who] renounce the world to consecrate themselves
to God, and to the Christian education of young girls of color.”

Early in the sisterhood’s existence Oblate co-foundress Mother Mary
Elizabeth Lange had explicitly articulated their consciousness of their
exceptionalism as “persons of color and religious at the same time” who
nevertheless sought “the respect which is due to the state we have embraced
and the holy habit which we have the honor to wear” in a racist society.
>From their inception the sisterhood’s race and their education ministry had
constituted two seminal components of their charism, self-identity, and
self-concept.

In this presentation, Dr. Morrow examines how this pioneering sisterhood
exercised agency on its own behalf as it strove to advance its own
educational opportunities as well as those of its pupils by expanding its
support networks within ecclesial constituencies. It further demonstrates
how these efforts required the sisterhood to re-examine—if not re-frame—its
own understandings of the intersectionality of its existence as “persons of
color and religious at the same time” in Jim Crow.

Join us for this informative and liberating presentation.

*Biography*: Diane Batts Morrow is Associate Professor Emerita of History
and African American Studies at the University of Georgia. She taught
courses which focused on the African American experience in United States
history. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Swarthmore College with a B. A.
in History, earned her M.S. in Social Science Education from the University
of Tennessee, Knoxville, and her Ph.D. in History from the University of
Georgia. Her first book, Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time:
The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1828-1860, which the University of North
Carolina Press published in 2002, won that year’s Letitia Woods Brown
Memorial Book Prize from the Association of Black Women Historians. In 2004
the Conference on the History of Women Religious honored this work with its
Distinguished Book Award. Morrow is currently working on a second volume
which continues the story of this first Roman Catholic black
sisterhood—which celebrated its 190th anniversary in 2019—into the middle
of the twentieth century.
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TalkUP TUESDAY SERIES


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February 22, 2022 at 12 noon EST TalkUP Tuesday! The Catholic Residential
School System in Canada and the Damage to Indigenous Peoples
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Join Dr. D.W. Lafferty as he shares his insights about the abuse
perpetrated against indigenous peoples in Canada by the Catholic Church's
residential schools.

The legacy of Canada’s residential school system for Indigenous peoples --
a system of education remained in operation for over a century (from
approximately 1876 to the final school closure in 1996) -- left generations
broken by the experience. The Truth and Reconciliation Report of 2015
convincingly argues that the residential school system was an integral part
of a larger government initiative that amounted to an attempt at “cultural
genocide
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in that its goal was the eradication of Indigenous cultures. The Catholic
Church was responsible for the operation of the majority of the schools,
with a large number, including some of the most notorious, run specifically
by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate.

Those who do not live in Canada may not appreciate how deeply the issue of
Catholic involvement in the residential school system for Indigenous
children has affected popular opinion regarding the Church. A national
conversation about the residential schools—one fraught with pain, shame,
anger, and in some cases denial—has been going on since the early 1990s,
but it became central and inescapable in 2015, with the publication of the
final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. The
report was accompanied by 94 calls to action, of which number 58 is
arguably the best known:

*We call upon the Pope to issue an apology to Survivors, their families,
and communities for the Roman Catholic Church’s role in the spiritual,
cultural, emotional, physical, and sexual abuse of First Nations, Inuit,
and Métis children in Catholic-run residential schools. We call for that
apology to be similar to the 2010 apology issued to Irish victims of abuse
and to occur within one year of the issuing of this Report and to be
delivered by the Pope in Canada.*

Dr. D.W. Lafferty has written extensively on this controversy and will
discuss the general history, the response of the Catholic Church, and the
mood of Canadians today.

Please join us as we learn together!


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WOMEN ERASED SERIES


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April 5 & April 26, 2022 at 8:00pm EST Women Erased: Women Religious and
Resistance in the United States
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Most Catholics know the importance of religious sisters in their
communities and in their lives. Older Catholics were often taught by
religious women while younger Catholics may know religious women because of
their ministry and leadership in their parishes and their work in the
community. Still, many Catholics are limited in their understanding of the
scope and magnitude of the pioneering efforts of Catholic women religious
in the United States. The stereotype of the obedient Catholic nun who
unquestioningly submits to clerical male authority still lurks in the
Catholic imagination.

Professor Margaret Susan Thompson is an expert in the history of Catholic
women religious in the United States. Her decades long research spans the
origins of women's religious life, the often-treacherous foundings of the
first North American communities, the lives of pioneer nuns, ethnic and
assimilation issues, tensions with clergy, Vatican II and its impacts,
current circumstances, and much more. In this two-part presentation she
will show us how the history of the Catholic Church in the United States
was indelibly shaped by the contributions of sisters - by their work in the
parochial school system, their founding and administration of hundreds of
hospitals, and untold numbers of charitable organizations. These ministries
have transformed the lives of millions of Catholics and the social and
humanitarian character of the nation itself. Sisters also have long been
advocates for social justice, and unlike most priests, have always provided
services not only for Catholics but for the entire population.

As laypeople, like most Catholics, sisters have experienced the impact of
"engendered power" applied to them by generations of priests and prelates.
This presentation will reveal the perhaps surprising history of their
resistance and suggest ways we can all learn from their experience as we
work collaboratively to build a future church that is more egalitarian and
supportive for all believers.

Biography:

Margaret S. Thompson is Associate Professor of History and Political
Science at Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public
Affairs. She is also the Senior Research Associate at the Campbell Public
Affairs Institute.

Prof. Thompson was trained as a political historian, with a focus on the
nineteenth-century United States and, particularly, the Congress. Her first
book, *The “Spider Web”: Congress and Lobbying in the Age of Grant*
(Cornell University Press), reflects both her scholarly and hands-on
experience, the latter as American Political Science Association
Congressional Fellow. Recently, Professor Thompson’s work has focused on
the history of American Catholic nuns. She has written and lectured
extensively on the subject, and has an 18-lecture audio series available
through NowYouKnowMedia.com. Her research is from an explicitly feminist
perspective, emphasizing the agency and social significance of sisters to
American religious and secular history. As a result of this research, she
has had the privilege of speaking internationally as well as across the
U.S., and has served as a consultant to numerous documentarians and
religious communities. Her forthcoming book, *The Yoke of Grace: American
Nuns and Social Change, 1809-1917*, is under contract with Oxford
University Press.
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*May you walk in joy as love calls us on.*
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