Thomas Merton’s Bridges to Contemplative Living
January 6, 2025 – February 24, 2025
Join a journey of spiritual transformation with Monk Thomas Merton. Over eight sessions we will learn how to use our own life experiences and contemplative living as the primary tools for spiritual growth guided by Merton and other spiritual masters.
Witnesses to Unity
January 25, 2025
Cosponsored with the Liberty Ministerial Alliance More than ever, we need to emulate individuals whose lives bear witness to the unity that God wants for God’s family. Today we will hear three stories about individuals who have stepped up and made genuine efforts to understand “the other.”
Becoming Pilgrims of Hope in an Age of Fear
January 29, 2025
Join the Precious Blood Spirituality Institute for a conversation with noted author and theologian Dan Horan about fear and alternatives to living lives of faith today.
A Place at the Table
February 2, 2025
Are you or someone you know feeling disconnected? Precious Blood Renewal Center and Precious Blood Spirituality Institute invite you to help create a space for community and conversation.
Jesus: The Way, the Truth, and the Life
October 1, 2024 – December 3, 2024
Jesus: The Way, the Truth, and the Life is a 10-week scripture study program using texts and videos to explore Jesus’ life by examining all four gospels at once. What emerges is a composite sketch of who Jesus is, what he taught and how he wants us to live.
Does your faith inform your vote?
October 5, 2024
Fr. Mark Miller, CPPS, will help us examine the most pressing issues of the upcoming election, through the lens of Catholic Social Teaching. The workshop focuses on issues, not political parties or candidates.
The Stories of Black and Biracial Women: A Necessary Celebration
September 14, 2024
Sponsored by Clay Countians for Inclusion. Black and biracial women will bear witness through personal testimony of the barriers they have broken through and how they conquered hidden agendas designed to keep them from thriving. Story Tables are a platform for people to shape the narrative of their own history.
Bread-making Retreat
September 8, 2024
A hands-on, heart-in community retreat for bakers of all ages, with or without breadmaking experience. A great activity for parents or grandparents and children, teens or couples. Inspired by Acts 2:42.
Depolarizing Ourselves: The first steps toward civil engagement
September 15, 2024
Depolarizing Ourselves is a 90-minute workshop designed to help lessen the effects of polarization when you encounter them in your conversations. We can have healthy disagreements over issues or philosophy. Mutual respect, not agreement, is an essential key to a healthy discussion. Cosponsored with Precious Blood Spirituality Institute and Precious Blood Companions.
This Isn’t Your Grandmother’s Church. Will It Be Your Grandkids’?
August 7, 2024
Fr. James Smith, C.PP.S., will present his research on recent shifts in American Catholicism, particularly regional shifts in Catholic parishes. After his presentation, Jennifer Green, a pastoral associate at Visitation Parish in Kansas City, will respond to the presentation.