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Having a person of Oriental interests lead sessions on an Anglican poet in a space of the Church of Rome, sounds like a feat inspiring an awesome silence for the participants, which is, of course, the aim, and I'm not being facetious. Peter M. Ken Armstrong <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Too bad, Saturday was the deadline for booking a spot at the retreat. >Not that I could have gone, but if I could have I'd have been sorely >tempted. What an interesting and curious project. One of the retreat >leaders apparently aims to include interfaith dialogue in his sessions, >so that should speak to the Rome/Anglo question, along with whatever >other faiths show up. And Four Quartets read by Eliot and discussed >contemplatively -- I'd go see that just to find out what it is. I'm >guessing it's not a critical discussion. If such a thing is possible, I >don't think it would be perfunctory, not if it meets the goals set out >in the brochure for that session -- combining theory and practice to >reach the silence. When did you last read a critical work that aimed to >take you to that destination? Just an honest attempt should offer an >experience of a different order. I hope some lister, poster or lurker, >gets to take advantage of it. > >Ken A > >On 9/3/2012 5:34 PM, David Boyd wrote: >> Interesting forthcoming event, but the Eliot content looks a little >> perfunctory to me.......and, would he ever have gone on retreat to a >> Roman Catholic (as opposed to AngloCatholic) institution - during the >> 1930s, he undertook regular retreats at Kelham, but this was an >> Anglican monastery. >> http://www.christianmeditation.org.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19102012LS29flyer.pdf >