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Pennsylvania Since 1893
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CIRCLE OF ST. BEDE

CIRCLE OF ST. BEDE (formerly CCC, or Coffee, Croissants and Christianity) invites faculty, post-docs, graduate students, professionals and other interested early risers to join us. We seek to promote the integration of faith with our academic lives and to foster a sense of Catholic community in the campus setting.  We meet for coffee and socializing following the 7:30 a.m. mass. Presentations begin promptly at 8:10 a.m. and finish at 8:50 a.m. in the lower level of the Penn Newman Center. Typically the group discusses a reading on the topic distributed a week before. Contact Dr. Peter Dodson: dodsonp@mail.vet.upenn.edu.

 

September/October 2009

Tues, Sept. 15 .  “Introduction” by Susannah Heschel. Pp. vii -- xxix“ in Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity, Essays by Abraham Joshua Heschel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York. Discussion led by Tom Connolly, musicologist extraordinaire, retired but not retiring, and still extraordinary!

Tuesday Sept. 22. “The Bible and ecology.”  By Daniel G. Deffenbaugh and David L. Dungan. Pp. 314 – 323. In: W.R. Farmer, ed. 1998. The International Bible Commentary. Liturgical Press, Collegeville, MN. Discussion led by Tom Finnegan, physicist.

Tuesday Sept. 29. Paraliturgy.

Tuesday Oct. 6 “Christology and Evolution” pp. 7 -13 (Introduction) and pp. 76 – 95. In Christianity and Evolution – Reflections on Science and Religion by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. Harvest Books, Harcourt, New York. 1971. Discussion led by Peter Dodson.

Tuesday Oct. 13  Emily Jaumard.

 

 

A note on parking. The parish of St. Agatha-St. James kindly permits limited use of the rectory parking lot for those attending morning mass and/or Circle of St. Bede. This is a privilege that must be used with respect. The slots available on a first-come basis face the Newman Center and are situated towards the upper end of the lot. The slots at the lower end (on the far side of the gate to the Newman lot) are rented and must in no circumstances be used. On-street meter parking is available on the north (left) side of Chestnut St. or on 38th St. The south side of Chestnut directly in front of the Newman Center is a tow zone!




morning scripture study
 

“The study of the Bible is the soul of theology” - Pope Leo XIII

Scripture Study gathers at 8:00 am Wednesday mornings in the lower level of the Penn Newman Center.  During Fall semester 2009 we are reading the Old Testament books of Ezra and Nehemiah. All are invited (not just faculty and staff) and new members are warmly welcomed. Contact Charlotte Ethier at ethiercc@aol.com.

           Quoting Dianne Bergant in Introduction to the Bible:
The Bible has been defined as a collection of religious traditions that are revered as sacred because they are inspired by God.   ...   Without denying the unique role played by certain individual members of  the community, the present study has suggested that it was really the community itself that gave birth to sacred traditions.  If this is the case, and if these traditions are indeed inspired by God, then it is within the community, and not merely in select members of that community, that inspiration is operative.   ...  The Bible represents one point in the long process of divine inspiration.  It was preceded by the inspired growth and development of religious traditions, and it frequently has been followed by the inspired reinterpretation of those traditions.

Believing that the words of the Bible were inspired by God, we try to understand:
1.  Why and for whom a particular book was written.
2.  What the words meant to the people at the time the book was written.
3.  How those words speak to us today. 

            We begin each session with Psalm 95 and the following prayer:
Dear Lord and Father,
            May pondering the Scriptures challenge us to repent, make us seek wholeness, prepare us for the tasks You have in store for us, and impel us to share the treasures of the Scriptures with others.
            We ask for Your love and grace as we pray ... Our Father ... Amen.



Fall 2009

Sept. 16 Ezra ch. 1 - 3

Sept. 23 ch. 4 - 6

Sept. 30 ch. 7 - 8

Oct. 7 ch. 9 - 10

Oct. 14 Nehemiah ch. 1:1 - 3:22

Oct. 21 ch. 3:33 - 6:14

Oct. 28 ch. 6:15 - 8:12

Nov. 4 ch. 8:13 - 9:37

Nov. 11 ch. 10:1 - 12:26

Nov. 18 ch. 12:27 - 13:31

 

  
     
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