'The Green Thread: Reclaiming Our Spiritual Authority' Book Launch (in-person)

Note: Sister Karen will read an excerpt from her book at 7 p.m.
Copies of her book are available to purchase at the FSC’s Sophia Bookstore.

Karen Lueck, FSPA, has spent her life trying to recognize and affirm the goodness within herself and others through her ministries as teacher, pastoral counselor, spiritual director and leader of her religious community: Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration. Now she is speaking out of her newly recognized spiritual authority to confront institutions that try to keep people subservient, and urging others to do the same. Her new book, “The Green Thread: Reclaiming Our Spiritual Authority,” is a work of creative nonfiction using her own story and the story of her ancestors, the Old Saxons, to claim the ways in which they were traumatized by church and imperial authorities through the centuries, and the ways in which they have claimed their resilience. It chronicles a journey from pain and silence to claiming spiritual authority in order to speak out and help heal the world.

From Sister Karen:
“After reading the words of the Dalai Lama in 2009 – “The world will be saved by the Western woman,” I felt deeply the call to act. This was especially true in light of the more recent urging by Black and Indigenous people to white Western women to explore their own trauma before trying to accompany others on their search for freedom. As a therapist and counselor, I had already begun the work of healing myself from shame, which I chronicle, but I knew the call was not just about me. It involved getting in touch with my ancestors to see who they were before and after the trauma and how they have influenced me. I use many examples from my own life to illustrate how this trauma was passed down and still persists to this day.”

FREE.

Registration requested: https://fsc.retreatportal.com/calendar/event?programcode=25SVD09905

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