First Thursdays: Kosmic Vespers
Kosmic Vespers
Thursday, March 5 at 4 pm EDT.
Special Guest: Sister Kathleen Deignan
Join us in Engaged Contemplation with our special guest Sister Kathleen Deignan. She is Emerita Professor of Religious Studies and Founder of the Deignan Institute for Earth and Spirit at Iona University. She is a contemplative teacher and spiritual companion, a composer of sacred song and Earth guardian.
Sister Kathleen will be joining us to share her wit, beauty and deep knowledge. She is responsible for the Books of Hours for Thomas Merton, Teilhard de Chardin and Thomas Berry.
Awe Is Not in the Distance. It’s a Remembrance.
Kosmic Vespers is a space of reverent inquiry—a coming-together where we bow before the vast unfolding of the Universe…. as we remember: the bowing body is stardust, gathered into breath and bone. And this vastness isn’t something we look at from afar, but something that pulses through our daily lives—
To be in awe of the Universe is to feel its immensity.
To be of it is to remember we are made of its very unfolding.
Living Awe: A Practice of Entanglement
Kosmic Vespers invites us to ask: How do we bring the sacred back into the ordinary?
How do we live as if everything is miracle— not in abstraction, but in the compost, the coffee cup, the quiet act of repair?
How do we carry cosmic awe into daily entanglement—in our justice=making, our grief, our becoming?
Kosmic Vespers is a practice of metabolizing this way of knowing. Not transcendence, but a return to relational presence.
Awe, not as escape—but as remembrance.
Wonder, not as spectacle—but as intimate knowledge.
You, not as spectator—but as stardust, constellated and co-weaving.
