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Annual Event & Retreat 2025

May 30 @ 3:00 pm - June 1 @ 12:00 pm

May 30-June 1, 2025
Daylesford Abbey
Paoli, PA 19301
Zoom option available

“Eco-apocalypse and the Unfinished Universe: Teilhard’s Evolutionary Hope”

Sr. Kathleen Duffy and the American Teilhard Association invite you to join us for the weekend of May 30 to June 1, 2025 at the Spirituality & Retreat Center at Daylesford Abbey in Paoli, PA for the ATA Annual Event 2025. This year’s featured speaker is Dr. Catherine Keller, Professor of Constructive Theology at The Theological School of Drew University. Her topic, “Eco-apocalypse and the Unfinished Universe: Teilhard’s Evolutionary Hope,” will help us view our ecological crisis through Teilhard’s eyes.

As the current political economy drives the planetary ecology into rapid deterioration, hopelessness may paralyze needed action. Apocalypse looms. The Teilhardian vision may read as a deluded myth of progress. Or to the contrary, might its omega offer not an optimism of progress but a hope of transformation? Might it motivate not closure good or bad, but healing dis/closure of our still possible terrestrial future?
Bio:
Catherine Keller is Professor of Constructive Theology at The Theological School of Drew University. She teaches and writes in the intersections of ecological, process, feminist, political, and pluralist theologies. She has authored 13 books, the most recent being No Matter What: Crisis and the Spirit of Planetary Possibility; and Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy and Other Last Chances. Also she has led, and co-edited several volumes of, the Drew Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquium, most recently Assembling Futures: Economy, Ecology, Democracy and Religion.

If you are unable to come for the weekend, we encourage you to join us for Catherine Keller’s lecture that will be available on Zoom on Saturday, May 31 from noon to 2:00 pm ET

For those gathered in-person at the Abbey, the weekend will be dedicated to enjoying one another’s company, group discussion, contemplation, prayer, socials, and meals.

Click here to register.

ATA 2025 Tentative Retreat Schedule (subject to change)

Friday, May 30
3:00pm: Check In begins
4:30pm: Refreshments available
5:30pm: Dinner
6:30pm: Opening Address from ATA President, Sr. Kathleen Duffy, SSJ
7:00pm: Small Group Discussion I
8:00pm: Social

Saturday, May 31
7:30am-9:30am: Breakfast available
9:15am: Centering Prayer
10:00am: Small Group Discussion II
11:00am: Lunch
12:00pm: Catherine Keller Lecture
2:00pm: Refreshments
2:30pm: Small Group Discussion III
3:30pm: Free time
5:00pm: Appetizers
5:30pm: Dinner
6:30pm: Mass on the World
7:30pm: Social

Sunday, June 1
7:30-9:30am: Breakfast available
9:00am: Final Group Sharing and Closing Remarks
10:30am: Abbey Sunday Liturgy
12:00pm: Check Out

Details

Start:
May 30 @ 3:00 pm
End:
June 1 @ 12:00 pm