St. Bernard's School of Theology and Ministry cordially invites you to join us either in-person or virtually for our Annual Academic Convocation to officially welcome the start of our 2024 - 2025 academic year!
This year's Convocation will feature Professor Siobhan Maloney Latar, S.T.D., on the topic of "The Word Become Flesh: The Incarnational Vocation of Theology":
We are living in an age that has evacuated the world of meaning and reduced it to a dead, flat, material “datum”; a world in which the real is taken more and more to consist of the possible, where man’s relationship with reality becomes one of pure domination, and creativity becomes re-defined as man’s capacity to make “ex nihilo”, with no reference to something outside of him already carrying an inherent meaning within it. What is the task of Theology in such a context? How can our work as theologians seek to heal the divide between faith and life, the Church and the world, the head and the heart, the material and the spiritual? The Catholic Poet, Paul Claudel, insisted that the imagination is key to such a reconciliation, and to the defense of religiosity in the modern age. As we begin a new school year, we will reflect together on the role of the imagination in theology, and in our recovery of a true relationship with reality.
We invite current students, alumni, our Board of Trustees, community members and their families for any and all parts of this celebration of faith and our new academic year!
When: Saturday, August 24th, 9:00am - 2:00pm EDT
Where: St. Bernard's Campus: 120 French Road, Rochester, NY 14618, and online via Zoom
Bishop of Rochester (in-person only)
Available in-person and online; a Zoom meeting link will be emailed to those who register virtually
(New and current students only). Available in-person and online; a Zoom meeting link will be emailed to those who register virtually
Siobhan Latar studied Humanities and Catholic Culture at Franciscan University and received her Masters in Theological Studies and Doctoral Licentiate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies in Marriage and Family in Washington, D.C. Her dissertation was on the Scottish writer and theologian, George MacDonald, and her license thesis was entitled, "Light from an Invisible Lamp: the Sacramental Vocation of the Artist according to J. R. R. Tolkien." Her work and interests include philosophy, Church history, the intersection of art, literature and theology, and the sanctity of work and the lay vocation.
St. Bernard's Rochester Campus, 120 French Rd., Rochester, NY
A Zoom meeting link will be emailed to you prior to the event
