Saturday, September 9th
9:30 am to 12:30 pm|
Third Street Center, 520 S. Third Street, Carbondale
Fr. Terry Ryan
Join Fr. Terry Ryan for a morning of presentation and meditation.
There is a belief in God that often fails to change us in any transformative way. It is the belief in a creed, a series of statements about God. Many people know about God. This is on the level of ideas. There is a deeper, more intimate way of knowing God, beyond thoughts and ideas.
Through deep meditation, or contemplation, we may be gifted with a direct experience of God as Love. Religion can convey us to the door, and even open it, but only this deep prayer can take us through to Union with the Divine that carries us beyond our limited view of the world around us.
By Donation. $10 Suggested
Fr. Ryan was ordained a Paulist priest in 1977. Before that he had worked in corporate business with an MBA from Columbia Graduate School. He began teaching about meditation and then the mystics in 1978. The focus was interspiritual to include Eastern and Western persons and traditions. Fr. Terry worked in campus ministry in Boulder and Knoxville, TN, as well as a big city downtown parish in San Francisco. Presently, he spends summers at St. Benedict Monastery in Snowmass, and lives in Boulder and San Francisco other months of the year.