Lent is rapidly approaching, and with it comes Lenten resolutions. If you find yourself indecisive about what you want to give up this year, why not consider taking something on instead?
The SJV Lay Division is offering several online courses during the Lenten season, ranging in price from $100 to free. Lent is a great time to intentionally learn something new, and these courses are sure to enlighten you in the realms of literature, history and the season of Lent itself. See below for descriptions of the upcoming courses, as well as links to register!
Petrarch’s Scattered Poems: Loving God, Loving Woman
6-week online class with Dr. Seth Fabian
Dates: 2/13, 2/20, 2/27, 3/5, 3/12, 3/19
Time: 6:30-8:30pm (MST)
Online via Zoom (video recordings provided)
Cost: $100
Click here to register
Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) is considered the father of humanism and the literary creator of the Renaissance. His greatest work, “The Scattered Poems” (Rime sparse), is a collection of 366 poems, written independently of each other over his entire adult life. Petrarch arranged them in a sequence that tells a story: a young man devoutly loving God while hopelessly longing for the enigmatic Laura, the beautiful young woman he sees in church on Good Friday, April 6, 1327. The collection tells the tale of his inner torment trying to keep God at the center of his life while unable to abandon thoughts and hopes of earthly fulfillment.
Lent with the Director
Friday online lecture series with Daniel Campbell
Date: 2/16
Time: 9:30am-1:30pm (MST)
Online via Zoom (video recordings provided)
Cost: $30
Click here to register
The season of Lent is famously the most serious of all times in the Church’s liturgical year. The message of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving constantly rings aloud in preparation for the Passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. But how do we actually live this out? What prayers should we be saying, why the need for fasting, and what is almsgiving? And why is Lent such a serious time anyways? It is with great pleasure that we offer our annual “Lent with the Director” series, wherein you can spend time with our Director learning about and contemplating this wonderful season…
What does Lent mean?
What is the history of Lent?
What is the spirit with which we ought to live during Lent?
What are its customs and practices?
What Scripture stories do we hear proclaimed in the Lenten liturgies?
Join our Director, Daniel Campbell, for this online lecture series looking into the meaning and source of the Lenten season…DON’T MISS OUT!!
The Origin of Civil Power
Free online lecture with Daniel Campbell
Date: 2/29
Time: 6:30-8:30pm (MST)
Online via Zoom (video recording provided)
Cost: FREE
Click here to register
Kings, Queens, Prime Ministers, Presidents, Senators, Governors, Mayors…where do temporal rulers get their authority from and how are they to exercise it? Join Daniel Campbell for this fascinating look into the origin of civil power, using Jesus’ words to Pontius Pilate for the foundation: “You would have no power over me unless it had been given you from above” (John 19:11). Also learn about the speaker’s new Audio Course launching on March 1 — The Law of God: The Love of a Father!
