Summer Stretch: A Poetry Workshop

Meetings on ZOOM

Mondays 6:00 – 8:00 PM
July 10-August 7

Instructor: Sr. Fran McManus, RSM

This five-week workshop will provide practice in using tools of the poetic trade.  Rhyme and meter, figurative language, point of view and line length will be among course topics. We will consider recent trends in narrative poetry, but writers will not be restricted to that genre.   We will also discuss ways to generate and revise poems. Beginning with the second class, students will have the opportunity to present their work to the class.  Beginners and long-term practitioners are welcome, but enrolment is limited in order for each student to have the opportunity to present their work for a class response.

Enrollment is limited to 15 students.

Fee: $50.00 

(financial assistance is available, please email Joseph Nuzzi at [email protected] for information)

A Certain Slant: Faith-Informed Fiction   

Meetings on ZOOM

Thursdays 12:30-1:30 PM
June 29^th -July 27^th

Instructor: Fran McManus, RSM

In this five-week course we will examine how faith is portrayed as practice and shaping influence of the characters of three short novels.  The first class will introduce the three authors and provide an overview of the Catholic imagination in literature.  We will discuss the works in chronological order, devoting two sessions to The Diary of a Country Priest.

Required texts:

Mr. Blue (1928) by Myles Connelly, the biography of a modern fictional character who like St. Francis of Assisi commits himself to Lady Poverty.

The Diary of a Country Priest (1932) by George Bernanos, the story of a young French priest working to understand and serve his congregation.

The Ninth Hour (2017) by Alice McDermott focuses on the work of group of nursing nuns and the individuals they serve in Brooklyn.

Fee:  $50.00

(financial assistance is available, please email Joseph Nuzzi at [email protected] for information)

THIS IS A FREE COURSE

(FREE WILL DONATIONS ARE OPTIONAL)

CATHOLICISM 101: “What Happens at Mass?”

We go to Mass Sunday after Sunday, but do we really know what’s going on? Why does the priest wash his hands? How do they choose the readings? Why do we keep getting up and down? What happened to the bells?

This summer, take some time to learn more about our supreme act of worship: The Mass.

During this five-week course we will study the parts of the Mass and the spirituality behind them.  We will also reflect on how our prayers and rituals illuminate our Catholic understanding of creation, the incarnation, the bible, discipleship, and salvation.

This class is open to everyone: Catholics and others who would like to learn more about Catholicism.

The course is designed to be a combination of lecture and discussion.

Wednesdays June 14, 2023 – July 19, 2023 (No Class July 5^th)
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM or 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM (evening class available on Zoom also)
San Damiano Hall (129 W. 31^st Street, NYC)
Instructor:  Joseph Nuzzi

Text: Driscoll, Jeremy What Happens at Mass (Archdiocese of Chicago:  Liturgy Training Publications, Chicago: 2005) available at:  www.ltp.org

Fee: This Adult Education Summer course is offered free of charge.
A free will offering is requested. (Normal course fee is approx. $10 per week of the class)

MUSICAL MYSTAGOGY: EXPLORING THE MUSIC OF EASTER

Break open the beautiful rites and music of Holy Week and the Easter season in this course. The course will explore how music accompanies the actions, and how the stories of our faith are told through the music that is sung celebrating the passion, death and resurrection of the Lord.

Participants will examine the breadth of the sacred treasury of music: classical, contemporary, and ancient works.

Instructor: William Mulligan, M.Mus.
Sundays, April 16 – May 14, 2023
3:00 – 4:00 PM;
Classroom 1B

Fee: $50.00