Location: Due to the forecast of a winter snowstorm, this event is now online only. All participants will now join the retreat via Zoom. Registered participants will have received an email with full details including Zoom information. For any questions, please reach out to Chère MacLean at chere.maclean@utoronto.ca
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Cost:
Online - $20 plus HST
In collaboration with the Archdiocese of Toronto’s St. Monica Institute and the Toronto Catholic Teachers’ Guild, we are pleased to offer this Lenten retreat day for Catholic educators: Catholic teachers, administrators, homeschoolers, and all friends of Catholic education.
Teaching is a vocation that brings with it tremendous challenges. The Salesians of Don Bosco often pointed out that teachers of youth need not practice acts of mortification – teaching young people is mortification enough! Amusing as that is, what teacher would doubt it?
The community of Catholic education encompasses many roles, but at the heart of it all is that "moment of teaching”. Its challenges are not the challenges of teachers alone, but necessarily become challenges for the community of Catholic educators more broadly - be they administrators, home-schoolers, or resource and support staff.
Much of the stress in teaching is rooted in the attitudes that teachers and administrators bring to the classroom or school. This retreat will offer a chance to reflect on some fundamentals of the spirituality of that core vocation of education - the Catholic teacher - in the hope of renewing the vocation of Catholic education and making teaching itself more meaningful and manageable.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Deacon Doug McManaman was born in Toronto and grew up in Montreal. He studied philosophy at the University of St. Jerome’s College (Waterloo) and theology at the University of Montreal. He is a permanent deacon of the Archdiocese of Toronto and ministers to those with mental illness. He is also one of a small team of Deacons who teach Marriage Preparation for the Archdiocese.
Deacon Doug taught Religion, Philosophy and the Theory of Knowledge for 32 years in Southern Ontario and currently lectures at Niagara University (Vaughan campus). He is the chaplain of the Toronto Chapter of the Catholic Teachers Guild.
