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Saturday, November 07, 2009

Water and Its Spiritual Significance - New Fons Vitae Title - Nov 2009


Water and Its Spiritual Significance

Editors, Gray Henry-Blakemore and Elena Lloyd-Sidle

Produced in honor of Louisville’s Festival of Faiths, November 5-14, 2009, organized by the Center for Interfaith Relations. This volume contains essays regarding the sacred and sustaining nature of water. Among the selections will be found, the following:

Essays
  • Titus Burckhardt, “The Symbolism of Water”
  • Thomas Merton, “Selections on Rain, Baptism, Tears, et.al.” compiled by Jonathan Montaldo
  • Martin Lings, “The Quranic Symbolism of Water” and “The Spiritual Significance of Tears and Laughter,”
  • Hamza Yusuf Hanson, “Words for Water”
  • Wendell Berry, “Selections” 
  • Coleman Barks, an essay and some Rumi Poems
  • Graehme Castleman, “On the Symbolism of Baptism”
  • Alexander Price “The Centrality of Water in the Hopi Tradition”,
  • Ananda K. Coomeraswamy, “The Flood in the Hindu Tradition” and “The Sea”,
  • Timothy Scott, “The Symbolism of Water and the Crossing of the Waters” from the book The Symbolism of the Ark.
  • Mark Hogg (Edge Outreach), On Water and Social Justice (no title yet)
  • Shantia Yarahmadian, “On the Etymology of the Word ‘Water’ in Many of World’s Languages” 
Poetry
  • Wendell Berry, “The Book of Camp Branch”
  • Coleman Barks, personal poetry on water
  • Hamza Yusuf Hanson, “Walk on Water”
  • Lisa Starr (Poet Laureate, RI), “Sandpipers, Again”, “For Mary Kane”, “Three Months Old, Scotch Beach”, “Searching for Poems by Kayak”, and “I Question the Seven Sacred Directions and They Answer”

1) Water and Its Spiritual Significance
2) Symbolism of the Ark - Universal Symbolism of the Receptacle of Divine Immanence 
3) Death & Transformation-  a conversation with Huston Smith (New DVD release)

Festival of Faiths Schedule


All events at the Henry Clay Building unless noted.

Festival of Faiths Schedule

Wednesday, October 7
6:00 pm Sacred Water: Spiritual Gardens with Dr. Delin Lai
The Crane House

Friday October, 16
12:00 pm The Burmese Water Festival with Dr. Patrick Pranke
at The Undercroft of the Cathedral of the Assumption

Sunday, October 19
12:00 pm 31st Annual Hunger Walk and Run
at Waterfront Park Festival Plaza

Sunday, November 1
2:00 pm Sacred Water: Sustaining Life Art Show
various locations

Monday, November 2
6:00 pm A Seder for the Earth
at The Temple on Hwy 42

Wednesday, November 4
6:00 pm Interfaith Prayer Service and Reception
at The Cathedral of the Assumption

Thursday, November 5
6:00 pm Night of a Thousand Stars
An inaugural celebration featuring live music, organic
and local foods, local art, native Kentucky flora, and
Festival exhibits. Cocktail attire and admission includes
appetizers, dinner and more.

Friday, November 6
12:00 pm Water: Sacred to All?
2:00 pm Healthy Farms, Healthy Water: panel and discussion
5:00 pm Festival of Faiths joins the First Friday Gallery Hop

Saturday, November 7
9 - 11:30 am Water Summit
12:00 pm How Anyone Can Protect Our Waterways, hosted
by EDGE OUTREACH and Kentucky Water Watch
2:00 pm Mountaintop Removal Road Show w/ Dave Cooper
3:15 pm Requiem for the Mountains chanted by Hunter Hensley
3:30 pm Get That Coal Out of My Water panel led by Peter Byck

Sunday, November 8
12:00 pm Healing Journeys over Water w/ Tori Murden McClure
1:30 pm Community Water Blessing with members of the
International Council of Indigenous Grandmothers
Waterfront Park
3:00 pm Film Premiere and Discussion: For the Next
7 Generations: the Grandmothers Speak
at The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts
for tickets click here
7:00 pm Evening Reception with the Visiting Indigenous
Grandmothers
at LPTS, Gardencourt Estate

Monday, November 9
9:00 am Water Summit Council between local leaders
and the visiting Indigenous Grandmothers
12:00 pm A Mighty Stream: LPTS Annual Luncheon with
Christiana Z. Peppard and Tyler Wigg-Stevenson.
2:30 pm Connecting the Spiritual and Material Worlds with
Sobonfu Somé
Due to circumstances beyond our control the
3:00 pm Panel Discussion on Water, Faith, and Healing,
hosted by Kiran Bhatraju of Kindred Health Care has been canceled.
5:30 pm Walking on Water: The Wisdom of Jesus from
Traditional Arabic Sources w/ Shaykh Hamza Yusuf

Tuesday, November 10
9:30 am EDGE OUTREACH Open House
at 1500 Arlington Ave.
12:00 pm You Want Water? Your Motion is Denied! Now Call
Your First Witness … Panel discussion hosted by
Jefferson County Attorney Mike O’Connell
4:00 pm Sacred Waters: The Significance of Water and Associated Rituals in the Great Faith Traditions - an Interfaith Panel led by Gustav Niebuhr

6:00 pm The Hidden Messages in Water with Masaru Emoto

Wednesday, November 11
10:00 am The Role and Significance of Water in the Garden
with Emma Clark
at Yew Dell Gardens
12:00 pm Rumi and the Sacraments of Friendship
Poetry Reading and Discussion with Coleman Barks
and Lisa Starr
2:00 pm Our Water is Sacred, with Medicine Man
and Sun Dance chief James Trosper
2:00 pm Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream
with Father Joseph Mitchell
6:00 pm Children of Abraham Service & Dinner
Temple Shalom

Thursday, November 12
7:30 am Interfaith Prayer Breakfast with Special Guest
Dr. Harold Attridge, Dean of Yale Divinity School
Topic: Pools of Water in a Barren Land, The Bible’s
Ecological Challenge
Returning to the Source: A Mountain Water Initiative on
Creation Care Best Practices
Eastern Kentucky region and Berea College campus.
By invitation. For further information call 502-895-6741

Friday, November 13
12:00 pm Ancient Gods and Sacred Waters with John Hale
Undercroft of The Cathedral of the Assumption
Returning to the Source: A Mountain Water Initiative on
Creation Care Best Practices
Eastern Kentucky region and Berea College campus.
By invitation. For further information call 502-895-6741

Monday, November 16
7:00 pm Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money,
Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters
with author Dr. Timothy J. Keller
Calvin Presbyterian Church

"Exhibits, lectures, music, film, art, and more
exploring the connection between the role of water
in our many faiths and how those roles inspire us to act in the world."


For the full Festival brochure - Click Here
For a Schedule at a Glance downloadable pdf file click here

FESTIVAL OF FAITHS - Nov. 4-13, 2009 Louisville, KY


Fons Vitae and the Center for Interfaith Relations presents:
FESTIVAL OF FAITHS
Nov. 4-13, 2009 Louisville, KY

Download catalog here
More information go here

Fons Vitae films- Excerpts from "Death & Transformation" DVD, a conversation with Huston Smith



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Fons Vitae - Brother Paul Quenon & Monkswear



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Fons Vitae films - Excerpts from "Beads of Faith" DVD



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