Struggling to Sustain Hope

This event is being offered both online via Zoom and in-person at St. Albert Catholic Parish (7 St Vital Ave, St. Albert). Please register by November 15.

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^$30.00

Ron Rolheiser Public Lecture

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Struggling to Sustain Hope in a Time of Practical Despair

We live in a time of widespread practical despair in that so many people feel powerless in the face of forces that seemingly have hatred triumphing over love, division over community, cruelty over civility, chaos over order, selfishness over altruism, and godlessness over God. How do we ground ourselves in hope when hope seems like a naivete? What is hope? How do we ground ourselves within it? And how do we sustain ourselves over the long haul?

FACILITATOR

Ron Rolheiser, OMI, is a Roman Catholic priest and member of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. He is a theologian, professor, and award-winning author, and served as president of the Oblate School of Theology. He holds Bachelor’s degrees from the University of Ottawa and Newman Theological College Edmonton and Master’s degrees from the University of San Francisco and the University of Louvain, Belgium along with a PhD/STD from the University of Louvain. Apart from his academic knowledge in systematic theology and philosophy, he has become a popular author and speaker in contemporary spirituality religion, and the secular world. He writes a weekly column that is carried in over 70 newspapers around the world.