Participants: Laity, deacons, priests and bishops are welcome. This is for a group of 3 - 5 participants.
Register no later than 6/5/19. If less than three register we'll cancel. If more than five register we'll keep a wait-list and contact you if someone drops out. If the registrations exceed 8 we'll consider offering the program a second time.
Date: Saturday June 15, 2019
Times: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm Please be on time. You'll need time to find a parking space.
The Program: We'll reflect on Evelyn Underhill's understanding of our three duties - adoration, awe and service - and explore how that applies in our own lives.How our service is transformed by awe and adoration. Rabbi Heschel understood Psalm 111:10 to say, “the awe of God is the beginning of wisdom." This is wisdom grounded in being overwhelmed, confused, enchanted, afraid, fully alive, and living within a grand mystery. Adoration is giving ourselves to the joy of being in the Presence of God. Wisdom and joy making us new and purifying our service.
How have we each experienced these things? How has it changed us? How might we open ourselves to awe and adoration?
Elements of the Program:
- Morning Prayer
- A way of thinking about it – a model, theory
- Experiential learning – reflection and learning from your experience
- A spiritual practice or two to use
- How you see yourself making use of what you’ve learned
- A short time on how this applies to a parish church
- A booklet, book, or packet to take away
Registration: Send an email to Robert Gallagher, OA with your name, email address, phone number, and a bit about yourself. You must register by June 5, 2019.
Materials fee: $15.00 payable at the beginning of the workshop. This goes toward the cost of materials used in the program. You can give us a check made out to the “Order of the Ascension” or cash (we’ll give you a receipt and send it onto the Order).
Location: 220 W. Olympic Place, Apt 202, Seattle, WA 98119. This is Fr. Robert’s home.
Coffee & Tea: Tea and instant Starbucks coffee will be available. If you want “real” coffee, Café Ladro is located at the corner of N. Queen Anne and Roy St., a few blocks from our location.
Coaches: Michelle Heyne, OA, Presiding Sister of the Order; Robert Gallagher, OA. For more on the leaders
The Order of the Ascension: A dispersed Benedictine community of the Episcopal Church, founded in 1983.