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Events: Women's Flourishing
Consecration of Bishop-elect Helen Kennedy: January 22
In October, the Venerable Helen Kennedy was elected as
thirteenth Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Qu’Appelle. Bishop-Elect
Kennedy is to be ordained to the episcopate at St. Paul’s Cathedral,
Regina on Saturday, January 22, 2022, with the Most Rev. Greg
Kerr-Wilson, Archbishop of Calgary and Metropolitan of Rupert’s Land,
presiding.
The service may be viewed online at 2 p.m. on January 22 at https://www.facebook.com/StPaulsAnglicanCathedralRegina
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Celebrating Brigit of Kildare
In this one-hour sacred journey, meet Brigit of Kildare as a wisdom figure and mentor for our time.
Featuring
video clips with Dolores Whelan in Faughart, and Sr. Mary Minehan
in Kildare, reflections, music and prayers.
Retreat Facilitator: Dr. Bridget Mary Meehan February 1, 2022 – noon EST in Zoom and Facebook Live Register for free at: https://pcseminary.teachable.com/p/pcs-705-celebrating-st-brigid-of-kildare
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PCS Forum on Pastoral Care, Chaplaincy, Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE), and more!
FREE
Thursday, January 27th, 2022, 1:00pm EST (session will be recorded for those unable to attend)
Join us in Zoom at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84965259983?pwd=VFl1cWhjV2UvMGl1cWFyR05mU2xKQT09
Meeting ID: 849 6525 9983
Passcode: 868236
For dial-in and audio only: +1 929 205 6099 US (New York)
Deconstructing Male Supremacism and Misogyny: The Work of One Mary's Pence Grantee to Ensure Justice for Women |
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Kat Enyeart, pictured in the upper right, was one of the facilitators who presented at the IRMS Summer Institute for Organizers on Contesting Supremacism in
August 2021. The virtual event united 24 grassroots organizers actively
working to deconstruct male supremacism in their communities. |
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Understanding
and combating male supremacist ideals and culture is the focus of the
Institute for Research on Male Supremacism (IRMS). Founded in 2019,
IRMS is committed to supporting researchers exposing and deconstructing
common male supremacist narratives and empowering grassroots social
justice organizers to effectively push back against those narratives
with an intersectional awareness – recognizing the relationships
between male supremacism and systems of racism, xenophobia, and
transphobia.
IRMS
hosts webinars and training events for organizers and researchers, and
provides in-depth research and analysis to support media, activists and
researchers challenging misogyny, and transmisogyny in pursuit of
gender justice. IRMS founders and experts are primarily women scholars
who represent a variety of academic backgrounds, including
sociologists, anthropologists, legal scholars, and political scientists
conducting research and publishing in academic and mainstream outlets.
Recognizing the rich diversity of skills and knowledge, the IRMS mentee
program pairs these experts with mentees to foster coalition building
and coordination between emerging and established researchers. |
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Join us for our Illuminating Conversations series.
Our
Illuminating Conversations series will continue into the new year!
Reserve your place to attend our January and February online
discussions. |
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Mary's
Pence board member Barbara Battista, SP, will facilitate our Thursday,
January 13th discussion of Joan Chittister's, OSB, collection of essays From the Writings of Joan Chittister: On Women.
Barbara,
an advocate for peace, human rights, and women's rights within the
Church and society, commonly works on issues found at the intersection
of racism, and migrant and climate justice. Most recently Barbara has
been recognized for her work advocating against the death penalty.
To learn more and to RSVP for the Illuminating Conversations gathering for Thursday, January 13th, click here. |
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For the month of February, we will discuss Alicia Garza's book The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart.
Co-founder
of the Black Lives Matter movement, Garza details the history and
importance of the BLM movement in a book that is part memoir, part
activist guidebook. Readers will come away with a deeper understanding
and appreciation for the behind the scenes work that goes into building
and organizing a movement.
To learn more and to RSVP for the Illuminating Conversations gathering for Thursday, February 10h, click here. |
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Get Your Free 2022 Mary's Pence Calendar
We
still have some 35th anniversary 2022 calendars available. If you
didn't receive a calendar for this year or would like an extra one, we
will be happy to send one to you. (They make great gifts!)
The
calendar highlights the work of the Mary's Pence Grants, the ESPERA
Program, and the names of women throughout history who have inspired
our work for charity, justice and solidarity.
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WAYS TO SUPPORT MARY'S PENCE |
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Looking to Start a New Year's Resolution? Become a Compañera!
In the coming new year, Mary's Pence will celebrate 35 years of funding women and changing lives.
In honor of this organizational milestone, we are asking people to make an additional $35 donation—above
and beyond what you normally contribute each year. Or consider becoming
a Compañera and contribute $35 per month on a recurring basis. |
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It's the first month of a new year! Our 2022 Calendar of Women features Mary's Pence grantee Refugee Community Partnership (RCP). Based in Carrboro, North Carolina, RCP cultivates community in a variety of ways to welcome refugees and immigrants.
In addition to learning about RCP,
read the short biographies of the women that we've listed for each day
of the year on our calendar. They are the inspiring examples of women
throughout history who have contributed in significant ways to equality
and justice in our world. |
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Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. All things are changing. God alone is changeless. Patience attains the goal. One who has God lacks nothing. God alone fills all our needs. ~St. Teresa of Avila |
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I've
been waiting to hear from you, my dear People of God! Please tell
me what's on your mind and in your heart about Church. Please
tell me what helps you ... what turns you away ... anything that you
need me to hear. This will help me very much.
Sincerely,
Pope Francis
Elders Teaching Series
Traditional knowledge, worldview, and language
Join ii’ taa’poh’to’p, UCalgary’s Indigenous Strategy, to hear
traditional knowledge, worldview, and language, and approaches to
healing with respect to cultural wellbeing, intergenerational trauma,
and Indigenous ways of knowing, doing, connecting, and being. This
series will welcome Elders living in the Treaty 7 region of southern
Alberta and will be hosted by Elissa Twoyoungmen, UCalgary’s Indigenous
Cultural Education and Protocol Specialist.
The next upcoming Elder Teaching Series will take place on January
27th, 2022 via Zoom with Dr. Betty Bastien. Here is the link to
register: https://go.ucalgary.ca/2022-01-27-Bastien_LPRegistration.html
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Women's Ordination Conference
Vocation Awareness conversation with Cardinal Cartone, (The Cardboard Cardinal), Check it out here.
Recently,
conversation focused on the perspectives of female survivors of
clerical abuse in the Catholic Church and how such a perspective can
help to heal the wounds of abuse in the Church, faith communities,
and other institutions.
Watch the event video
Watch a panel discussion with male survivors
Learn more about global safeguarding
A video of this presentation is now available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGwwN0zC7Y8
January 11 , 2022 at 8pm ETDr. Beth Allison Barr states
that the reason we think women cannot be in authority is simply
because we've taken five or six verses from the New Testament and we
have used those verses and read the entire Bible through them, through
that lens. And these are mostly the Pauline verses: women be silent,
women submit to your husbands, etc. If we step away from those verses
and actually put them in the context of what Paul was doing — and then
put that in the context of the entire Bible — what we see is that while
patriarchy exists in the Bible, that God is actually always fighting
against patriarchy, that he's always raising women out of it. He's
always giving women authority in surprising ways, both in the Old
Testament and in the New Testament. And that if we look at the
historical context of what Paul is actually doing in the New Testament,
there are serious problems with reading Paul as telling women that they
have to be silent and under the authority of men for all times. In her new book, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth,
historian Beth Allison Barr traces cultural sources of patriarchy that
have all but erased women's historical importance as leaders of the
faith. Barr
is a Southern Baptist and a pastor's wife. In an interview with NPR,
she described the day she realized that "what we found in the Bible
about what women were supposed to do did not match with what my church
was saying women were supposed to do." Eventually, she and her husband
left that congregation — no longer able to tolerate the contradictions,
she said.
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Sr.
Miriam Therese Winter joins FutureChurch and the Women's Ordination
Conference to recall the ministry and life of Ludmila Javorová, a woman
who was ordained a Roman Catholic priest by Bishop Felix Davidek to
serve in the underground church there when the church was under threat
by the Communist regime from 1948 through 1989.
Learn about her life, ministry, and why she is important as the world follows Francis to Slovakia:
This event was recorded; watch the video here: https://youtu.be/X44gIYt-8IU
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Women Erased Series
FutureChurch's Women Erased Series offers
online presentations that uncover the many ways women's leadership,
witness, and ministries have been erased from our Church's Scriptures
and Lectionary, historical record and memory, and communities.
These
sessions, featuring leading scholars of Biblical studies, Church
History, Ecclesiology, Canon Law, and Sacraments, as well as faith
leaders will not only name and explore the history, but also put forth
resources for correcting the record and telling the true story of
women's central role in shaping and spreading Christianity from its
beginnings to today.
Please
join us as we learn from one another and prepare ourselves for taking
action to build a Church where the gifts and ministries of women and
all Cathoics are valued and restored.
Upcoming Sessions and Video recordings of past sessions
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