Foundations in Spirituality for Everyday Living | 5-Part Series

ON-DEMAND WEBINAR | 5-Part Series
Foundations in Spirituality for Everyday Living
with Sandra M. Schneiders, IHM, STD

What is spirituality and how is it connected to our daily life, God, beauty, work, relationships, religion, science, social justice and the current realities we face locally and globally? How can we nurture our spirituality and share with others?

Renowned theologian Dr. Sandra Schneiders, IHM, STD, will bring her scholarship, experience and pastoral heart to break open these questions in a way that is accessible, grounding and inspiring.

Bring your own questions about spirituality, and they will become part of the conversation throughout the series.

Sandra Schneiders, IHM, STD, is professor emerita of New Testament and Christian Spirituality at Santa Clara University. As the author of nearly 100 academic articles, more than a dozen books and more than 70 chapters in edited monographs, she is a senior scholar in fields ranging from Johannine literature to feminist biblical interpretation and the theory of spirituality as academic discipline. She continues to offer presentations across the globe and is at work on another book. She is also a spiritual director and retreat leader.

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When both our light and our darkness are integrated then our inner and outer lives are integrated. Losing ourselves and then finding ourselves again is the pattern of our journey through life.

Margaret Brennan, IHM, at St. Paul’s Retreat Center (May 11, 2009)

The experience of God and ways of knowing the holy are the same as our mode of knowing all other things. And that mode is sensuality.

Margaret Brennan, IHM, in Compass: A Jesuit Journal (Sept/Oct 1994, p. 18)

Spirituality is the capacity to live deeply in the concrete, creative order of things even as we stretch through and beyond them.

Margaret Brennan, IHM, in Compass: A Jesuit Journal (Sept/Oct 1994, p. 19)

Prayer is … the challenge to find Jesus, to respond to him, to rejoice in his goodness, and mercy, and tender love … in the encounters of every day and in the challenging, often ambiguous signs of our times.

Margaret Brennan, IHM, in New Catholic World (Jan/Feb 1977, p. 21)

To resist evil and violence both within and outside us is to acknowledge ourselves as purposeful agents of salvation, and of responsibility, to ourselves and others, capable of moral discernment, courage, creativity and solidarity.

Margaret Brennan, IHM, in What Was There For Me Once: A Memoir (2009, p. 79)

Spirituality is what our faith looks like in everyday life. Spirituality is about getting to the bottom of our restlessness. It is here that God comes. It is here where God is.

Margaret Brennan, IHM (Presentation at the Summer Pastoral Theological Institute at St. John Center for Youth and Family in Plymouth, Mich., on Aug. 12, 1999)

Prayer for me, then, has been an entering into my own heart and experience and finding its meaning in the experience of Jesus and of his Mother who is the perfect Christian and faith-filled believer.

Margaret Brennan, IHM, in New Catholic World (Jan/Feb 1977, p. 21)

I grew into a great love of the Church as the Mystical Body of Christ and of the liturgy, through which the life of the Church is most deeply expressed.

Margaret Brennan, IHM, in What Was There For Me Once: A Memoir (2009, p. 45)

You never come to the bottom, do you? How do you come to the bottom of coming to know God? God is so big that you just come to know different things about God all the time. As you learn more about the world you learn more about God.

Margaret Brennan, IHM, in a voice recording on September 15, 2015

Foundations in Spirituality for Everyday Living | 5-Part Series

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