Lent 2024: The Passion of Our Lady by Charles Peguy (In Person)

February 20, 6:30-8:00pm

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Location: Assisi Heights (1001 14th Street NW, Rochester, MN 55901) Click here for map.

Join us this Lenten Season by participating in the sentiments of a Mother in this poem – “Mother Mary” to be exact. This poem is very touching. Imagine a mother watching her son carrying a crude cross through the streets with a jeering crowd and seeing him crucified. She was heartbroken. And imagine what mothers on our streets today experience: being broken, living in pain, in Ukraine, Gaza, Israel, and Palestine. Pray with us in the style of Taizé.

Charles Peguy (1873-1914) was born into a French peasant family. His life had a rollercoaster pattern of relationships; including being raised as a devout Catholic. He became a Socialist, had an agnostic system of beliefs and, in 1908, re-converted to Catholicism, although he remained a non-practicing Roman Catholic. He was a profound thinker, a noted poet and essayist whose style was simple, repetitive and biblical in nature, always focusing on the theology of hope. He died in during WWI. He is considered a Christian mystic.

Welcome to this in person program at Assisi Heights! Please refrain from attending if experiencing any symptoms of COVID-19 or other illness or have been exposed to any persons infected with COVID-19. Please park in the lot in front of Assisi Heights and enter through the main entrance.