Discerning and Re-Imagining the Church through the lenses of Matthew’s Gospel
Presented by Fr. Thomas Rosica, CSB
1 hour + 30 minutes Q&A
There is no cost for this webinar.
A Recording will be sent to registered participants 48 hours after the event
We live in a period in which the Church faces numerous difficulties and challenges to her identity. In this session, the Jesuits of Canada and Fr. Tom Rosica, CSB, will share how the Gospel of Matthew can help us discern and take the wide-angle view of salvation history. This, in turn, could give us perspective on our own lives and the courage to re-imagine the Church for our own time.
Matthew wrote his account of Jesus for a Jewish Christian community that had totally identified itself with the Jewish origins of Christianity. Matthew’s community experienced the end of one period of salvation history and the beginning of a new one. The Jewish Christian community found itself having to find a way to work with interested Gentile converts who had no experience of Judaism. Matthew’s Gospel helped the Jewish Christian community forge a new self-understanding. Our times are no different than Matthew’s. Following liturgical year A, we will catch glimpses of this stark reality in Matthew’s Gospel stories. Matthew had great courage, the gift to go to the margins, as Pope Francis calls us, and re-imagine the church of Jesus Christ.
Thomas Rosica, CSB, is a member of the Congregation of St. Basil (Basilian Fathers), a biblical scholar, lecturer, author, and retreat director. A graduate of St John Fisher College (Rochester), Regis College (Toronto), the Pontifical Biblical Institute (Rome), he also studied at the Ecole Biblique et Archéologique Française (Jerusalem) and has lectured in Canada, the USA, Ireland, Israel, Jordan, and India. He was formerly Pastor and Executive Director of the Newman Centre Catholic Mission at the University of Toronto, National Director and CEO of World Youth Day 2002 in Canada and the founding CEO of the Salt and Light Catholic Media Foundation in Canada.
For more information contact Patricia O’Reilly @ poreilly@jesuits.org
