Gordon Lathrop

THE REFORMING GOSPELS: ANOTHER LOOK AT EUCHARISTIC ORIGINS
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 7, 2009
COSGROVE CENTER 9:30 AM– 3:00 PM

Few theologians today combine such outstanding scholarship with the pastoral sensitivity and insight that Gordon Lathrop has displayed during his distinguished career. He is Professor of Liturgy Emeritus at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia and for the past three years been Visiting Professor of Liturgical Studies at Yale Divinity School. He received a doctorate in theology from Katholieke Universitiet, Nijmegan (Netherlands).

Dr. Lathrop has served as a pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America for 36 years in both Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. He is the author of Holy Things: A Liturgical Theology, Holy People: A Liturgical Ecclesiology, Holy Ground: A Liturgical Cosmology and Central Things: Worship in Word and Sacrament. He has lectured widely in the United States and abroad and is the associate editor of and a frequent contributor to the journal Worship. He was the tenth president of the North American Academy of Liturgy.

Dr. Lathrop has consistently shown a passion for opening the borders which separate Christians, in order to encourage an honest and fruitful conversation concerning the centrality of our common baptism as a source of both liturgical and ecclesiological common ground. In his day-long seminar at St. Peter’s, Dr. Lathrop will pose the following questions: What are the Gospels For? What did they have to say to the ancient Christian assemblies and what do they have to say to us today? How are they documents of reform? What happens when they are read? What insight can we gain from the diverse local Eucharistic meal practices of the primitive church? This workshop will address these and other questions
with lecture and communal discussion.

Art and Theology II
Monday Evenings: - February 8-15-22
Rev. Robert J. Marrone
7:15 - 9:00 PM Cosgrove Center

We are most pleased to welcome back Paul Philibert to guide us in our parish day of reflection. A member of the Dominican Community, Paul is a prolific lecturer, author and preacher. He was the Visiting Professor in the Chair of Pastoral Theology at The University of Fribourg from 2004-2007, and has taught at The Aquinas Institute, Notre Dame University and the Catholic University of America. He is the author of numerous books and over sixty-five articles and book chapters. His most recent work is The Priesthood of the Faithful: Key to a Living Church.

He holds a Doctorate from the Catholic University of America. Paul will consider the following themes: thanksgiving, providence and trust, especially as they relate to the priestly character of all the baptized and their mission to proclaim God’s kingdom. In his words: “This retreat
occurs at a crossroads moment in the lives of the Saint Peter community.
It is a memorable time for thanksgiving, for grieving and for hoping together. For two decades St. Peter Parish has represented the coming together (synchronicity) of deep spiritual hungers, religious beauty, a community of faith that really shares, responsible stewardship of the church’s spiritual and material goods, prophetic leadership, powerful preaching, and a gracious liturgy that embodies all the elements in prayer, song, and self-giving .”

Paul Philibert
Celebrating the Spirit’s Holy Work
Parish Day of reflection
Saturday March 13, 2010
River’s Edge Conference Center
9:30 AM – 3 PM

We are most pleased to welcome back Paul Philibert to guide us in our parish day of reflection. A member of the Dominican Community, Paul is a prolific lecturer, author and preacher. He was the Visiting Professor in the Chair of Pastoral Theology at The University of Fribourg from 2004-2007, and has taught at The Aquinas Institute, Notre Dame University and the Catholic University of America. He is the author of numerous books and over sixty-five articles and book chapters. His most recent work is The Priesthood of the Faithful: Key to a Living Church.

He holds a Doctorate from the Catholic University of America. Paul will consider the following themes: thanksgiving, providence and trust, especially as they relate to the priestly character of all the baptized and their mission to proclaim God’s kingdom. In his words: “This retreat
occurs at a crossroads moment in the lives of the Saint Peter community.
It is a memorable time for thanksgiving, for grieving and for hoping together. For two decades St. Peter Parish has represented the coming together (synchronicity) of deep spiritual hungers, religious beauty, a community of faith that really shares, responsible stewardship of the church’s spiritual and material goods, prophetic leadership, powerful preaching, and a gracious liturgy that embodies all the elements in prayer, song, and self-giving .”