Seventh Annual Bridgefolk Gathering

Holiness the Way:

Saints and the Spirituality that Sustains

Saint John’s Abbey, July 24-27, 2008

All sessions in Petters Pavilion
unless otherwise specified

Thursday, July 24

Arrival and registration during the day

5:30 pm Welcome and opening prayer service

6:15 Picnic supper

7:45 “Saints Who Made Peace”

- Gerald Schlabach: “Ana B & Cathy” on what is a saint

- Marlene Kropf: Francis and Clare

- Ivan Kauffman: Keynote Address – Peace and sanctity in Mennonite and Catholic traditions

- Discussion

9:00 Evening Social

Friday, July 25

7:00 am Morning prayer

7:45 Breakfast

Session 1 (9:00 – 11:45)

9:00 “Saints Who Weren’t Perfect”

- Michael Hovey: Franz Jägerstätter

- Margie Pfeil: John H. Yoder

- Discussion

10:00 Break

10:30 - Video: The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It

- Discussion

12 noon Midday Prayer

12:15 pm Lunch

Session 2 (1:45 – 3:45)

1:45 “Saints Who Stayed”

- Mary Lehman Yoder: Personal narrative

- Joetta Schlabach: Ministry in the Upper Peninsula

- Lois Kauffman: Non-Resistance and Persecution: World War I.

- Fr. William Skudlarek, OSB: Martyrs who endured

- Response

3:45 Afternoon free time

5:00 Mass in the Abbey Church

5:45 Dinner

7:00 Evening Prayer

Session 3 (7:45 – 8:45)

7:45 Hymn Sing

9:00 Evening Social

Saturday, July 26

7:00 am Morning Prayer

7:45 Breakfast

Session 4 (9:00 – 11:45)

9:00 “Who's Holy and How? Theological Perspectives on Mary”

- Mary Schertz: The biblical view of Mary

- Kevin Mongrain: Canonization and doctrinal teaching about Mary in the Roman Catholic tradition

10:30 Break

11:00 “What About Mary? Marian Devotion”

- Abbot John Klassen, OSB: Devotional practices that sustain

- Rhoda Glick: A personal experience of Mary

- Reflection

12:15 pm Lunch in the Student Dining Room

Session 5 (1:30 – 3:45)

1:30 Discernment Session: What have we heard?

4:00 Afternoon free time

5:30 Mass with Collegeville Parish

6:30 Dinner

Session 6 (7:45 – 8:45)

7:45 Free Evening

9:00 Ice cream social

Sunday, July 27

7:00 am Morning Prayer

7:45 Breakfast

Session 7 (9:00 – 10:30)

9:00 Sunday Worship: “The Sanctifier Ain’t Us”

11:00 Agape and Foot Washing