Living a Mystically-Driven Life: Thérèse of Lisieux and Ruth Burrows
M-F; Jan. 6-17 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM
TS 7383-36 | DSE8316
It is perhaps more than a happy coincidence that the contemporary Carmelite nun Ruth Burrows was born in the year that St. Thérèse of Lisieux was beatified, 1923. Through very different personalities, these women both vividly demonstrate that empty-handedness is the way to fullness in the Christian life. They are exemplars of what it means to be taken into the heart of the Trinity through, with and in Jesus in the midst of our inescapable spiritual inadequacies. This course provides the opportunity to contemplate the life and writings of each of these women.
Professors
Fr. Ron Rolheiser, OMI, is a Roman Catholic priest and member of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. He is a theologian, professor, award-winning author, and serves as president of the Oblate School of Theology. He holds Bachelor’s degrees from the University of Ottawa and Newman Theological College Edmonton and Master’s degrees from the University of San Francisco and University of Louvain, Belgium along with a PhD/STD from the University of Louvain. Apart from his academic knowledge in systematic theology and philosophy, he has become a popular speaker in contemporary spirituality and religion and the secular world. He writes a weekly column that is carried in over 70 newspapers around the world.
Dr. Michelle Jones has a Doctorate in Theology and a Licentiate in Spiritual Theology from the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum) in Rome, and a Master of Theology from the University of Notre Dame, Australia. Michelle has previously worked as a lecturer at Notre Dame, and as the Director of the Centre for Faith Enrichment – the adult faith formation agency of the Archdiocese of Perth. She is a consecrated woman and lives a contemplative life of prayer in rural WA in affiliation with the Carmelite Monastery of Quidenham (UK).
Registration
This course is available for Enrichment either Online or Face-to-Face.
- Online: $605
- Face-to-Face: $385
To register for this course as an Enrichment Student, please download, fill out and submit the Enrichment Registration Form to registrar@ost.edu.
Registrar
For admissions and tuition information regarding any program, please contact the Registrar at (210) 341-1366 EXT 212 or registrar@ost.edu