A webinar with Rev. Patrick Kennedy

in the Shining a Light into the Darkness Zoom Series

Our spiritual evolution does not take place separate from what is happening in the world. What used to take place in the hidden places of mystery schooling in the world is now a factor within history: The school of our becoming is life itself. In this presentation we will pick up the key elements that Rudolf Steiner names in his lecture from July 30th of 1918 and with them see better into the nature of what is happening in our time. What is revealed places us within powerful cultural streams of the present time – “Americanism, Bolshevism and Jesuitism” – and reveals the profound challenge we are called to face in establishing the truly a human – and a truly human culture – within this context. It is a societal level expression of what is revealed as a mystery image at the opening of the ancient gospel texts: the temptation of Jesus in the desert.

When

Sunday, November 20 at 3:00 PM EST/Monday November 21 at 6.00am AEDT

Background Reading

Problems of the Time, 30 July 1918, Berlin

Registration

Register here!

Recordings of the webinars are not guaranteed. All efforts will be made to do so but please do not count on it. If you are unable to join the live webinar, please do not register but rather check back in a few weeks after the webinar. Successful recordings will be listed for sale here.

Proceeds will benefit the Seminary of the Christian Community in North America

About Rev. Patrick Kennedy

In April of 2006, Patrick Kennedy was consecrated into the priesthood in Chicago, Illinois. Prior to attending the seminary in Stuttgart, Germany, Patrick studied and worked in the field of early childhood education and received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz in cultural anthropology. He has worked as a priest in the congregations in Devon, Pennsylvania and the Greater Washington, D.C., area. Then, in Chestnut Ridge, New York, he took up the roles of both seminary director and resident priest in the local congregation. In July 2019, Patrick, his family, and the entire seminary moved to the Toronto area.

This series is hosted by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Branch
of the Anthroposophical Society in America

^{Image credit: Temptations of Christ, 12th-century mosaic in St Mark’s Basilica, Venice}