About Prairiewoods
Prairiewoods
Prairiewoods Franciscan Spirituality Center is an
ecospirituality retreat and conference center in
the Franciscan tradition. It is located on 70 acres
of woods and prairie on the outskirts of Cedar
Rapids, Iowa. Prairiewoods offers a variety of
programs and retreats, as well as conference space
to rent. Please join us for an enriching experience
in this relaxing, nurturing environment!
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Teilhard’s Mysticism
Retreat:
Spiraling into the
Cosmic Christ
Prairiewoods is sponsored by
the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration.
with Kathleen Duffy, SSJ
120 East Boyson Road
Hiawatha, Iowa 52233
319-395-6700
[email protected]
www.prairiewoods.org
9–2016
Friday, Sept. 16, 6:30 p.m.,
to Sunday, Sept. 18, 1 p.m.
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In this weekend retreat, we will have
input, prayer, song, film, contemplative
activities and sharing to follow Teilhard as
he travels ever more deeply from circle to
circle into the arms of the Cosmic Christ.
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SJ, an eco-spiritual pioneer and
Jesuit paleontologist, was cited
in Pope Francis’ groundbreaking ecoencyclical, Laudato Si’. In an early essay,
Teilhard provided a road map into the
intensely mystical environment in which
he lived and moved. He described the
stages of his mystical growth in terms of
five concentric circles. These circles, which
could be more properly imaged as the
loops of a spiral that he continually
revisited throughout his life,
provided him with a sacred path
into an ever deepening reality,
a reality that is informed as
much by the science of his
time as it is by his religious
tradition. These circles help us trace
Teilhard’s growth and development as
he plunged ever more deeply into the
heart of matter and into the heart of
God, where he found the radiance of a
loving, cosmic
Kathleen Duffy, SSJ, Ph.D.,
is a professor of physics at Chestnut
Hill College, where she directs the
Interdisciplinary Honors Program and
the Institute for Religion and Science. She
is editor of Teilhard Studies and serves
on the Advisory Boards of the American
Teilhard Association and Cosmos and
Creation. Sister Kathy has published
several book chapters and articles on
these topics,
Fee: $230 includes
an edited
sessions, lodging and all
volume of
meals
essays entitled
Commuter Fee: $180
Rediscovering
includes sessions, Saturday
Teilhard’s Fire
lunch and dinner, and
(St. Joseph’s
Sunday lunch
University
Press, 2010)
To register, please
and Teilhard’s
contact Prairiewoods at
Mysticism: Seeing
www.Prairiewoods.org
or
the Inner Face of
319-395-6700.
Evolution (Orbis
Books, 2014).
“We are constantly forgetting that the supernatural is a ferment, a
soul, and not a complete and finished organism. Its role is to transform
‘nature’; but it cannot do so apart from the matter which nature
provides it with.”
—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ, The Divine Milieu