Thursday 14 October – Sunday 17 October 2010
Theme: Francis of Assisi and Teilhard de Chardin: a great love for Life, for Nature, for Man and for the Spirit of God.
Participation Fee for Meetings € 35 per person, to be paid to the Teilhard de Chardin Italian Association – Corso Svizzera 29 – Turin - Italy
Accommodation: at Pro Civitate Christiana needs to be booked directly from attendees to ospitalità@cittadella.org telephone number: 075/813231
COSTS
FB: € 65 for single room and € 55 for double/triple room;
HB: € 55 for single room and € 45 for double/triple room;
Hotel room, including small breakfast: € 40 for single room and € 30 for double room
Meals are served based on fixed menus, natural water included; wine and drinks excluded
For details of programme (in Italian) click on link below: www.unipg.it/difilile/Etruscan/Insieme_costr_la_terra_Assisi14_17ottob2010.pdf
[Programme - translation]
FRIDAY 15 October - 9.00 am
1. Greetings from Annamaria Tassone, President of the Teilhard Association of Italy.
2. A welcome to the conference “Building the World”: why Assisi 2010? - by Remo Vescia, President of the European Teilhard Centre (CET).
3. Greetings from His Excellency the Bishop of Assisi.
4. Teilhard's eschatology speaks to us of our own hopes, and those of humanity – by His Excellency the Bishop of Mondovi (Italy).
5. St. Francis today – by Father Orlando Todisco ofm (Italy)
FRIDAY 15 October – 3.00 pm
Evolution and the Future
1. From the big-bang to the emergence of life – Thierry Magnin (France)
2. Evolution as a natural process and as a rational process - Gianluigi Nicola (Italy)
3. Consciousness as the driving force of the biosphere – Father Henry Madelin (France)
4. From the biosphere to the noosphere and byond – Silvana Procacci (Italy)
SATURDAY 16 October – 9.00 am
Man and the World
1. Francis and Teilhard: The meeting of mysticism and ecology –
Annamaria TassoneBernardi,
2. Re-evaluation of the works of St. Paul and Teilhard de Chardin -
Luciano Benono Mazzoni, Vice-President of Italian Teilhard Association.
3. Universialism and Liberty – Canon Alan Nugent (Great Britain)
4. The echo of Teilhard in the ethical sphere of a pluralistic society -
Michel Renaud, Vice-President of the Portuguese Association
SATURDAY afternoon – 3.00 pm
The Spiritualisation of the Universe according to Teilhard
1. The material and the spiritual, or the fabric of the Universe -
Father Gustave Martelet (France)
2. The spirituality of consciousness – Mons.Carlo Molari (Italy)
3. Teilhard, prophet of the third millenium – Mons.Andre Dupleix (France)
Conclusion of the conference– Remo Vescia, with the special participation of Francois Cheng.
SUNDAY 17 October
Morning: Mass in the Basilica of St. Francis
Afternoon: A tour of Assisi and its surroundings.
The two evenings will be enlivened by a concert of medieval music and films on Franciscan themes.
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28th International Teilhard Conference
Venue: All Saints Pastoral Centre, London Colney, Nr St. Albans
Friday 24th June to Sunday 26th June 2011
Details to be announced