Part IV of this series will take a pause on The Chronicles of Narnia and shift to a special reading of Christmas Carols.

This Session is led by Rick Ganz who will “read”, and find the lessons within, the great carols of the Advent-Christmas season.

Edith Stein (1891-1942) was born a Jew, separated herself from Judaism at the age of 13, claiming, as an honest agnostic will insist, “I am sure that their God is not God. I have still not met God.” She pursued a life of Philosophy, gaining a reputation as one of the most powerful and original Philosophers in the German world. But it was when she read, from cover to cover throughout one long night, the autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila, that she exclaimed what she had experienced that night: “This is the truth!” She became baptized as a Catholic and eventually entered the Carmelite Order. Eventually she was hunted down by the Nazi Gestapo and transported to Auschwitz where she died.

The Faber Sessions #10 Part 3 on Prince Caspian from the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, presented by Rick Ganz.

Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ (1881-1955) was a Frenchman, Jesuit priest, geologist and paleontologist, and above all a mystic. At the center of his mysticism was a vision of how God is intensely alive and motivated with majestic purpose to bring all created things (not just human beings) into conscious unity. His stunningly beautiful vision of the unstoppable glory of God was given him during the four years that he served as a stretcher-bearer to soldiers fighting in the trenches of World War I.

The “shape” of this Retreat will be structured around four Talks by Rick Ganz concerning the discernment of spirits. Such Talks are not a “class”; they are a specific way of speaking to you, appealing to the deepest parts of you, so that you are helped to become more open to God. The Talks matter only if they open you in this way; only if the Holy Spirit becomes alive and active in you because of the Talks and the silence and the sharing with other retreatants.

The “shape” of this Retreat will be structured around four Talks by Rick Ganz concerning the discernment of spirits. Such Talks are not a “class”; they are a specific way of speaking to you, appealing to the deepest parts of you, so that you are helped to become more open to God. The Talks matter only if they open you in this way; only if the Holy Spirit becomes alive and active in you because of the Talks and the silence and the sharing with other retreatants.

The “shape” of this Retreat will be structured around four Talks by Rick Ganz concerning the discernment of spirits. Such Talks are not a “class”; they are a specific way of speaking to you, appealing to the deepest parts of you, so that you are helped to become more open to God. The Talks matter only if they open you in this way; only if the Holy Spirit becomes alive and active in you because of the Talks and the silence and the sharing with other retreatants.

The “shape” of this Retreat will be structured around four Talks by Rick Ganz concerning the discernment of spirits. Such Talks are not a “class”; they are a specific way of speaking to you, appealing to the deepest parts of you, so that you are helped to become more open to God. The Talks matter only if they open you in this way; only if the Holy Spirit becomes alive and active in you because of the Talks and the silence and the sharing with other retreatants.

The “shape” of this Retreat will be structured around four Talks by Rick Ganz concerning the discernment of spirits. Such Talks are not a “class”; they are a specific way of speaking to you, appealing to the deepest parts of you, so that you are helped to become more open to God. The Talks matter only if they open you in this way; only if the Holy Spirit becomes alive and active in you because of the Talks and the silence and the sharing with other retreatants.

The Faber Sessions #10 Part 2 on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe from the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, presented by Rick Ganz.

“Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London during the war because of the air-raids. They were sent to the house of an old Professor who lived in the heart of the country, ten miles from the nearest railway station and two miles from the nearest post office.”