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Moment of Beauty With The Saint John’s Bible: Fulfillment of Creation

As the academic year draws to a close, enjoy this final installment from The Saint John’s Bible, Fulfillment of Creation, from Romans 8. Bits of computer code, football plays, galaxies viewed through the Hubble Telescope and calligraphy are among the images artist Thomas Ingmire uses to communicate the idea that humanity participates in the ongoing work of creation with the Divine. Music for this 2-minute oasis is provided by Tyler Lawrence ’24, and PFA faculty member Susan McDaniel. See you in September with weekly glimpses into this great UP treasure.

Moment of Beauty with The Saint John’s Bible: Loaves and Fishes

This week, enjoy Donald Jackson’s lustrous illumination of ABUNDANCE so profound that the images spill over onto two pages, telling the story of the Multiplication of Loaves and Fishes. The music in this 2-minute pause is provided by Tyler Lawrence ’24, and Susan McDaniel, Performing and Fine Arts. Allow yourself to sit, breathe and BE.

Moment of Beauty with The Saint John’s Bible: Elisha and the Six Miracles

This week, spend 2 minutes beholding Elisha and the Six Miracles (story in 2 Kings 4-6). Donald Jackson and Aidan Hart’s lustrous illumination. Music is provided by Tyler Lawrence ’24 and Susan McDaniel, Department of Music. These weekly moments of beauty provide an oasis in which you need only breathe, behold and BE.

Weekly Moment of Beauty With “The Saint John’s Bible”: Life in Community

Here is a glimpse of illuminator Aidan Hart’s rendering of early Christian community described in the Book of Acts. At first glance, it looks like a typical icon, but if you look more closely as this 2-minute video allows you to do, Hart’s image of who belongs at the divine table goes way beyond the usual suspects. The music is provided by Rebekah Hanson, of the UP music faculty.

For more information contact Karen Eifler, Garaventa Center, at eifler@up.edu.

“The Resurrection” from The Saint John’s Bible

This week we offer you a seasonal glimpse into The Saint John’s Bible’s “The Resurrection” illumination as a chance for Visio Divina. In this 15-minute experience of “sacred seeing,” you’ll be guided to sit, breathe and BE as you are taken through a scripture passage and Donald Jackson’s image of Mary of Magdala greeting the Risen Christ.

Visio Divina With The Saint John’s Bible: The Crucifixion

As the Church enters its Holy Week, you’re invited to take some time—about 15 minutes—wherever you are, to enter imaginatively into the illumination of The Crucifixion from The Saint John’s Bible and hear the story of Jesus’s path to the death that would set the world free. This is Visio Divina—sacred seeing—an ancient form of contemplative prayer that requires only your presence. Allow yourself some quiet space to relax into gentle music, sacred words and lustrous image in this guided video experience.

The Saint John’s Bible: Time With Suffering Servant

As Lent draws to a close and Easter nears, the weekly glimpses into The Saint John’s Bible will be longer than usual—about 15 minutes each—and will offer viewers a chance to engage in Visio Divina (“sacred seeing”), a venerable form of guided contemplative prayer that requires only your quiet presence. This week, behold the image and hear the text of Isaiah’s Suffering Servant.

Laudato Sí and a Global Family, March 30

All are invited to join the Garaventa Center online on Tuesday, March 30 at 5 p.m. as they host Christie Klimas, DePaul University environmental scientist, for a live Zoom webinar that is free and open to the public. Klimas will focus on the Amazon rainforest to illustrate how our individual and collective actions impact our global economy and ecology. Through her research, Klimas works toward ecologically sustainable resource management that recognizes the role of citizen stakeholders. Access the webinar on March 30 at this link.

For more info: up.edu/garaventa/events or garaventa@up.edu.

A Catholic Look at the Crises of Neoliberal Economics, March 23

If you find something horrifying about politicians suggesting that people just get out and shop and dine during the pandemic—even if it means their grandparents might die from COVID-19 and that is just the regrettable cost of reviving the economy—you have just faced a crisis of neoliberal economics. Want to know more? Join the webinar “A Catholic Look at the Crises of Neoliberal Economics” hosted by the Garaventa Center at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, March 23. Theologian Matt Eggemeier of the College of the Holy Cross will use the lens of Catholic Social Teaching to unpack social problems such as racism and ecological disaster ushered in by neoliberal economics. His talk is free and open to all, and will be available at this Zoom link: https://uportland.zoom.us/j/97310481492. 

For more info, please go to up.edu/garaventa/events or contact garaventa@up.edu.