Courting the Particular: A Community of Practice
Tue, Mar 15
|Zoom
This series combines regular spiritual practices throughout Lent with four online gatherings, engaging one another and ideas from the book Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred by Victoria Loorz.
Time & Location
Mar 15, 2022, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM EDT
Zoom
About the event
“In a climate where winter lasts six months, we always search assiduously for signs of spring, but never more eagerly than after we decided to make syrup.” – Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
“People exploit what they have merely concluded to be of value, but they defend what they love. To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.” – Wendell Berry
The Lenten season coincides with the cusp of winter and spring. In and around Maine (and other places, too) this is a time of sugaring, and of lengthening days. With these seasonal markers in mind, we approach Lent with this question:
How might we sweeten and deepen our relationship with the particular places which ground and inspire our devotion to the world?
We invite you to join us this Lent as we engage that question through:
Simple daily practices designed to…