Prayer and Our Christian Tradition
Saturday, May 7, 2016
Location: Cardinal Rigali Center
How to Register:
Online: http://archstl.org/rsvp-May7
Email: consecratedlife@archstl.org
Phone: 314-792-7250
Cost: $20 for the day
BIO: David Vincent Meconi, S.J., D.Phil. (Oxon.) is Associate Professor of Historical Theology, as well as the Director of the Edmund Campion Center for Catholic Studies at Saint Louis University; he is also the editor of Homiletic and Pastoral Review.
Fr. Meconi has published the Annotated Confessions of Saint Augustine (Ignatius Press, 2012),The One Christ: St. Augustine’s Theology of Deification (Catholic University of America Press, 2013), co-edited (along with Eleonore Stump) the Cambridge Companion to Augustine (2014), and most recently, The Enemy Within: Augustine on Sin and Self-Sabotage (Bloomsbury Press, 2016).
Fr. Meconi is a former Fellow of the Augustinian Institute at Villanova University; he serves on the boards of the St. Benedict Forum at Hope College in Holland, MI, as well as on the ecclesiastical board of Boston College’s School of Theology and Ministry.
- 8:30 am – Mass at the Cardinal Rigali Center
- 9:00 to 9:30 am – Registration
- 9:30 to 10:30 am – Conference #1 Praying with the Desert Fathers and Mothers
- 10:30 to 10:45 am – Break
- 10:45 to 11:45 am – Conference #2 Praying with Saint Augustine of Hippo
- 11:45 to 12:00 noon – Break
- 12:00 to 12:30 pm – Lunch
- 12:30 to 1:00 pm – Round Table Sharing