“To me the presence of the Sacred – the one I call God – permeates and sustains the Earth and all its creatures as well as the entire cosmos. It is a presence of love and compassion, a personal presence, a life-giving Spirit presence.”
You are invited to a weekend of dialogue and journey. Explore worldviews, cosmological time, mysticism, drumming, storytelling, and beauty. An Earth Day celebration that will focus on Earth healing!
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Loyola House began its life as a Retreat House known as the Guelph Centre of Spirituality more than 40 years ago. Over the past few years, Loyola House has also opened its doors to conferences, retreats, special events, banquets and meetings for the profit and non-profit sectors. Hundreds of organizations find its tranquil setting, its beauty and its facilities to be a unique location for such events, quite unlike the more traditional hotels and conference centres.
Stations of the Cosmos at Loyola House
Priscilla Solomon CSJ (BA, MA, Hon Doctor of Letters), is a Sister of St. Joseph of the Sault Ste. Marie Congregation. She is Ojibway which is part of the Anishinabek Nation. She is one of the ten living children of Elders Eva and Art Solomon.
Although Priscilla has a solid educational and professional background, and much life experience, she believes very strongly that integration of personal gifts and qualities, as well as limitations, is one of the essential tasks of life. As an Ojibway Christian woman and a vowed religious she seeks this integration in many ways.
She has spent years learning from elders and teachers about her heritage as an Aboriginal woman. Her own parents taught her both the Aboriginal and Christian values by which she seeks to live. She witnessed in them a commitment to justice especially for those who are oppressed, including her own people.
Her work in justice ministry shows a variety of foci and interests. She has learned that the Aboriginal teaching that all life is connected is lived out in the Christian teaching that we are all children of God who live in a world that is precious to God. Both of these teachings challenge her to work for justice in all its forms: social, economic, ecological and spiritual.
Priscilla is currently working at St. Joseph’s Motherhouse in North Bay in the Justice Office of her Congregation. She is a member of various committees and groups working on ecological justice; human trafficking; Indigenous rights, right relations, healing and reconciliation; and the elimination of poverty.
In June, 2011 Priscilla received an honorary Doctor of Letters from Nipissing University for her involvement in Justice Work.