About this Event

Please join us for our yearly Interfaith & Ecumenism Retreat at the John Paul II Pastoral Centre on Saturday, November 30, 2024.

This year our theme is Journeying Together as Pilgrims of Hope. We will come together to hear members of the Sikh, Muslim, and inter-faith communities dialogue together, and then hear a presentation by Catholic Dr. Nicholas Olkovich on ecumenism and the synodal way of life.

Registration is free; morning refreshments and a light lunch will be provided after Mass.

Full Schedule

Session 1 – Interfaith Dialogue

• Dr. Kala Singh, Canadian Sikh Study & Teaching Society
• Tanweer Ebrahim, Foundation for a Path Forward
• Amar Zaidi, Guildford Islamic Centre
• Moderated by Dr. Adrienne Castellon
  
  

Session 2 – Learning to be Church: Ecumenism, Synodality and Ecclesial Renewal

• Dr. Nicholas Olkovich, St. Mark’s College
  
  

Session 3 – Reflection and Perspective-taking

• Mass
  
  

Session 4 – 2025 celebrations

• WPCU, Jubilee, 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea

Registration deadline: Wednesday, November 27

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