The Eucharist: Intellectual Retreat Days
We hope you have been enjoying our series of Intellectual Retreat Days during this season of National Eucharistic Revival. These retreat days are taught by leading scripture scholars and theologians aimed at fostering greater understanding, reverence, and awe before the Eucharist. Open to all who desire to deepen their communion with Christ through the ongoing formation of the intellect (recommended ages 16+).
Don’t miss our fourth and final retreat day on April 29, 8:30a.m.—2:30p.m. Registration is now open. All are invited.
PRESENTERS:
Rev. Gladstone Stevens, P.S.S.
St. Mary’s Seminary and University
“Cor ad Cor Loquitor: St. John Henry Newman’s Theology of the Eucharist”
Msgr. Paul McPartlan
The Catholic University of America
“The Eucharist and Ecology: Connecting Communion with Creation Care”
LOCATION:
St. John the Evangelist Church
689 Ritchie Hwy.
Severna Park, Md. 21146
COST & SCHEDULE:
$40 per retreat day. Lunch provided.
The day includes Daily Mass, a morning and afternoon talk, group theological discussion, adoration, and lunch. The day will begin in the church for Daily Mass and, after Mass, it will continue in the Gathering Space Meeting Room.
All registered participants will receive a packet of suggested texts to read in the weeks leading up to each day of Intellectual Retreats. These readings, selected by the presenters, are intended to facilitate active engagement with the content of each presentation and the group theological discussion to follow.
For more information, please contact Rev. Evan Ponton, Associate Pastor, at eponton@stjohnsp.org.
“God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more to give, than the Eucharist.”
