Dallas Benedictine Experience Retreat
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - Sunday, June 28, 2009
Location: The Catholic Conference Center, Dallas, TX
Call: 214-339-8483
Email: dallasbenedictine@yahoo.com
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Event Description: The 12th annual ecumenical Dallas Benedictine Experience Retreat will take place at The Catholic Conference Center in Dallas from Wednesday, June 24, to Sunday, June 28, 2009. This retreat is presented by The Friends of St. Benedict, Washington, D.C., and endorsed by The Benedictine Community of the Holy Savior, which meets at St. Matthew’s Episcopal Cathedral. Participants will live at the conference center for five days, forming a temporary monastic community to experience the balanced way of life of the Rule of St. Benedict as it divides each day into private and group prayer, study, work, and leisure. Four Benedictine Offices (Lauds, Sext, Vespers, and Compline) will be sung each day in Gregorian chant. There will also be two classes each day on Benedictine spirituality.
Brother Abraham Newsom, O.S.B., a Texas native, is an Episcopalian monk at St. Gregory’s Abbey in Three Rivers, Michigan, which he joined in 1992. He was the co-editor of Singing God's Praises: The First Sixty Years, a history of St. Gregory's Abbey, and has had articles published in various media, including Veil and Cowl: Writings from the World of Monks and Nuns and St. Gregory's own Abbey Letter. He has led various Benedictine quiet days, retreats, and classes in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, the Midwest, and New England.
The Very Rev. Robert Hale, O.S.B.Cam, is a Roman Catholic Camaldolese Benedictine monk. He was superior for twelve years of New Camaldoli Hermitage (monastery) in Big Sur, California, where he became a monk in 1959. Father Robert has a Ph.D. in Theology from Fordham University (New York City). He has taught theology at Sant’Anselmo University in Rome (Italy) and at The Jesuit School of Theology of The Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California. He is the author of Canterbury and Rome: Sister Churches (Paulist Press, 1982), Christ and the Universe (a book on Teilhard de Chardin; Franciscan Herald press, 1973), and Love on the Mountain: The Chronicle Journal of a Camaldolese Monk (Source Books, 1999).
Both Father Robert and Brother Abraham will give presentations on Benedictine values and their applications to life today. They will also offer spiritual direction for those who wish it. This interdenominational retreat is open to anyone interested in learning Benedictine spirituality.
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