June Retreat 2025 – Hearing and Making Music in Francis’ Song of the Creatures – Part 1 (Via Zoom)

Part 1: Can you hear Creation Sing?

Thursday, June 12, 6:30 pm through Sunday, June 15, Noon

$100 | via Zoom

Part I: Can you hear Creation Sing? In Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato Sí (in its own 10th anniversary) envisions a creation intended to delight. We’ll reflect on how the Pope feared we might muddle and distort its song and, maybe, help its song be heard.

We celebrate 800 Years of Francis’s Canticle of the Creatures, the Creatures’ Canticle. Each element sounds praise for being what it’s created to be. The sun shines, the moon and stars light the night’s sky, water flows and cleanses, and the songs go on including those unforgettable human tunes of forgiveness, bearing adversity and welcoming Sister Death.

John Petrikovic, OFM Cap., is a Capuchin Franciscan friar priest in the Ministry of Preaching, offering workshops on Franciscan topics, mission formation for Franciscan Health Systems, retreats to Religious Men and Women in the English-speaking world and parish missions throughout the United States. He also is a senior staff presenter for the Franciscan Pilgrimages Program providing Franciscan study and prayer experiences in Assisi and Rome, Italy. As a musician, John has animated Liturgies for both National and International gatherings of Friars and Sisters.

Presenters will be in person at Assisi Heights, hosting two conferences per day (livestreamed via Zoom), at 9:00 am & 3:00 pm,

Presenter will host two events per day (9:00 am and 3:00 pm) with Liturgy at 11:00 am.

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