Jesuit Alumni in Arizona
Some 2,000 of us, the Jesuit Alumni in Arizona, are graduates of 28 Jesuit universities and 47 Jesuit high schools in the United States now living in Arizona. We meet periodically to celebrate our Jesuit backgrounds, to stimulate and encourage one another to be thinking Christians, vocal citizens of our Church, our city, our state, and our nation, to have life and have it more abundantly.
The JAAZ 2011/2012 Speaker Season continues!!
Mar. 24, 2012: Fr. Matthew Fox Matthew Fox is a former Dominican priest who was cashiered out of his order by Cardinal Ratzinger. His own Dominicans found nothing heretical in his writings, which are grounded in his learning (he holds a doctorate in the History and Theology of Spirituality from the Institut Catholique de Paris) and his immersion in the Church’s own mystical traditions that come to us from Hildegard of Bingen, Meister Eckhart and Thomas Aquinas (a Dominican). In his Institute in Culture and Creation Spirituality, which operated for seven years at Mundelein College in Chicago, and then for another twelve years at Holy Names College in Oakland, he interfaced with modern scientists who were themselves mystics. The ICCS was too much for the Vatican’s chief heresy hunter, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who spent twelve years maneuvering to shut the program down, then silenced him for one year in 1988 and ultimately forced him to step down as director of ICCS. Three years later he expelled Fox from the Order, resulting in the termination of the program at Holy Names College. Fox was then welcomed into the Anglican communion by Bishop William Swing of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern California, where he has been a priest since 1993. Asked recently why so many are leaving the Church, Fox said, “Well, that's a sign that the whole thing needs shaking up. The Catholic problem is corruption at the top, and the Protestant problem is apathy. This allows the fundamentalists to hijack the name of Jesus. Too many people are falling asleep in the pews. They need to dance instead… a way to make worship relevant for the young and also to wake up the older ones to think and to meditate. It really works. The Eucharist is beautiful, but it needs to be put into a new setting. You don't need prayers read to you—they need to come from your heart. And this is what happens when you dance.” Father Fox is the author of 28 books which have sold more than 1.5 million copies in 42 languages. His bestselling works in the U.S. include: Original Blessing; A Spirituality Named Compassion; The Coming of the Cosmic Christ; and Prayer: A Radical Response to Life, and his latest, The Pope’s War, some of which will be on sale at our event on March 24. ; Apr. 14, 2012: Margaret Starbird For details, Click here To purchase tickets, click here Note: all events start at 6:00PM and are held at Shadow Rock United Church of Christ: 12861 N. 8th Ave. , Phoenix, AZ 85029 |