St. John of God
San Francisco, CA
Father Tom Bonacci, C.P., Interfaith Peace Project
Four Part Series
THE INTERFAITH JESUS
In a day and age when so many powerful political “leaders” are inviting
us to fear and hostility regarding the “strangers” in our midst, we turn to
Jesus to discern his fundamental attitude of heart regarding the people
powerful people fear and dismiss as less than human. Instead of seeing ourselves as first, we are
called, as disciples of Jesus, to exalt the lowly and honor the “stranger”
among us. Our four-week series explores
the Interfaith Heart of Jesus to help cope with this dangerous tendency to see
others as less than ourselves.
Four Thursdays Evenings
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
February 23, 2017
The God of All Peoples
We will survey the “religion of Jesus” attempting to discover from his
understanding and experience of Judaism his understanding of the human person,
the World, and God.
March 16, 2017
Did I not Set Free Your Enemies?
We continue to explore the “religion of Jesus” from the perspectives of
his early life as best as we can discern any historical reality from the New
Testament sources. Even if the New
Testament stories were developed or embellished, we might ask why and what do
they tell us about the New Testament understanding of Jesus and his openness to
people of diverse and varied faiths.
April 27, 2017
Who Touched Me?
Mark Chapter Five has often been called a “Gospel within a
Gospel.” We will explore the journeys of
Jesus portrayed in this rather marvelous text discerning the interfaith heart
and soul of Jesus and the subsequent Jesus Movement.
June 1, 2017
Seeing the Way Jesus Died
We conclude our series by returning to the foot of the Cross in Mark
15: 22-39. In the aftermath of the death
of Jesus, we encounter a most remarkable event concerning the Roman Centurion
who presided over the execution of Jesus.
We will explore the generous self-donation of Jesus as a model for what
it means to be a person and disciple of interfaith love, respect and understanding.