Day of Prayer - Susan Stabile
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Thursday, February 15, 2024, 9:00 AM - 3:00 PMWe live in a world in which divisions along political, economic, racial and social lines are rampant. A world that operates according to a system of values at variance to the Gospel values taught by Jesus Christ.
The Beatitudes create a picture of right relationship with God and with each other. Although they are sometimes treated as sweet platitudes, they are intended as ways we orient and live our lives. And they are meant to be lived, not by those who strike us as extraordinary, but by each of us.
This day of prayer will invite us to reflect on what the Beatitudes say to us today – both individually and collectively. We will both consider the ways in which the values of the world tempt us toward division and away from the values of Christ, and what it would mean to our world to live more fully in the Beatitudes – both as preached by Christ and as we might reframe them today.
Susan Stabile is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the University of St. Thomas School of Law and an adjunct Instructor in Theology at St. Catherine’s University, where she co-directs a Lilly Grant secured by that university to bring contemplative practices to congregations and parishes. An experienced spiritual director and retreat director trained in the Ignatian tradition, Susan offers retreats and other programs of spiritual formation in parishes, retreat houses and other venues around the country. She also teaches in the Sacred Ground program for the training of spiritual directors. Susan previously served as Director of the University of St. Thomas’s Office for Spirituality, and is the author of numerous publications, including Growing in Love and Wisdom (Oxford University Press 2013). She also authors a blog, Creo en Dios! (http://susanjoan.wordpress.com), on which she posts spiritual reflections and podcasts.We live in a world in which divisions along political, economic, racial and social lines are rampant. A world that operates according to a system of values at variance to the Gospel values taught by Jesus Christ.
