Workshop 2011: Woman in the Church and in the World

Summer Seminar Schedule

June 30 – July 1, 2011

Thursday, June 30

Woman in the Church

8:00 Coffee and Rolls, Lower Level Conference Room, Ireland Library

8:30 Opening Session: Lower Level Conference Room, Ireland Library

• Session Leaders: Deborah Savage, Mary Lemmons
• Introductions and Opening Remarks
  • Our aims and context: The Problems Confronting Women and the Key to the Solution
  • Some Foundations:
    • Two essential principles of the Church: the Apostolic-Petrine and Marian Principles
    • The Complementary Role of Men and Women in the Church and in the World
    • The Feminine Genius
• Mary as Mother and Model
• Texts for this Session:
  • John Paul II, Letter to Women, 1995; Centesimus Annus, 1991, #53-62
  • Benedict XVI: Homily on the 40th Anniversary of the Close of the Second Vatican Council: On the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, December 2005
  • John Paul II, Christifideles laici, 1988, 49 - 52; Mulieris Dignitatem, 1988, #4-6, 10, 17-21
  • Louis Bouyer, Woman in the Church, 1976, Chapter 2, “God and Woman”

10:15 Break

10:30 Session Two: Mary and the Church, the Priesthood, and the Eucharist

• Session Leader: Fr. Christopher Beaudet
• Texts for this Session:
  • John Paul II, Redemptoris Mater, 1987
  • Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Mary, the Church at the Source, 1997, Chapter 3
  • John Paul II, Mulieris Dignitatem, 1988, Chapter 7, # 23-30

12:00 Lunch

1:00 Session Three: The Marian Dimension of the Church

• Session Leader: Dr. Stephen Hipp
• Texts:
  • Juan Luis Bastero, Mary, Mother of the Redeemer,2006, Chapter Two, Section 6, pp. 54-62; Chapter 12
  • Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Mary, the Church at the Source, 1997, Chapters 1, 2

2:30 Break

2:45 Session Four: The Family as Domestic Church and Cultural Cornerstone

• Session Leader: Mary Lemmons
• Texts:
  • John Paul II, Letter to Families, 1994, #2, #6-9; #13-14, 17-20
    • Evangelium Vitae, 1995, 87-105
    • Familiaris Consortio, 1981, Chapter Three
    • Christifideles laici, 1988, 40-44

4:15 Break

4:30 Closing Remarks: A Look Ahead to Day Two: Deborah Savage

The Mission of the Laity and the Church’s Social Vision

• Texts:
  • John Paul II, Christifideles laici, 1988, 14-20
  • John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae, 1995, 99

5:15 Wine and Cheese Reception

6:30 Close

Friday, July 1

Woman in the World

8:00 Holy Mass, St. Mary’s Chapel, SPSSOD

• Coffee and rolls will be available in the Ireland Library, Lower Level Conference Room immediately following the Mass

9:00 Session Six: Contemplation in Action:

• Part One, Women, Human Work, and Economic Life
  • Session Leader, Jeanne Buckeye
  • Text: Compendium of Catholic Social Thought, 2005 Chapter 6, pp. 120 – 131; Chapter 7

10:30 Break

10:45 Session Seven: Contemplation in Action: Part Two: Women and the Political Community

• Session Leader: Teresa Collett
• Text: Compendium of Catholic Social Thought, 2005, Chapter 8

12:15 General Discussion: Implications for Action

1:00 Closing Prayer