Christian Education
Winter-Spring 2010
Adult Education begins again after the Christmas recess on Sunday, January 17, 2010, at 10:00 AM.
All adult-education classes meet in the Arch Room on the second floor of the Mission House, 133 W. 46th Street. Access to the Mission House and the Arch Room is easiest via the Sextons’ Lodge, which is on the left-hand side of the narthex (vestibule) of the church, as one enters the church from 46th Street. Please ask a sexton or an usher for directions.
There will be no adult-education classes on Palm Sunday (March 28), Easter Day (April 4), or the Second Sunday of Easter (April 11)
Studies in Liturgics & Church History
The Church Fathers and
the Feast of the Epiphany:
Saint Gregory of Nazianzus’s Oration 38 on
The Theophany of Christ
Sunday, January 17 & 24, 10:00 AM
Led by Father Jay Smith, curate
Studies in Sacred Scripture
The Wednesday Evening Bible Study Class: Ecclesiastes & Job
Beginning Wednesday, January 20,
6:30 PM
Led by Sister Deborah Francis, C.S.J.B. &
Sister Laura Katharine, C.S.J.B.
The class meets on Wednesdays, between 6:30 and 7:30 PM, following Evening Prayer (or between 7:00 and 8:00 PM on Holy Days, following the Evening Mass).
Saint Paul’s Letter to the Romans
Sunday, January 31, and February 7 & 14, 10:00 AM
Led by Mr. T. Remington Slone, seminarian
The Book of the Prophet Isaiah
Sundays in Lent: February 21 & 28,
and March 7, 14, & 21, 10:00 AM
Led by Father Peter R. Powell, Jr.
Father Powell has taught several adult-education classes at Saint Mary’s and we are very pleased that he has agreed to teach once again this semester. Father Powell is a graduate of North Carolina State University and Princeton Theological Seminary. He received the Doctor of Ministry degree from the School of Theology of the University of the South in 1997. He has studied at the College of Preachers, Saint George’s College in Jerusalem, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Between 1988 and 2009, he was the Executive Director of the Interfaith Housing Association in Westport, Connecticut, working on issues of poverty and homelessness. He is a priest of the Diocese of Connecticut. He and his wife, Barbara, are good friends of Saint Mary’s and often worship with us on Sundays.
Studies in the History of Christian Art
God and Nature in Nineteenth-Century
American Romantic Landscape Painting
Sunday, April 25, 10:00 AM
Led by Prof. Dennis Raverty, Ph.D.
This lecture examines how painters of the Hudson River School were influenced by contemporaneous understandings of the relationship between God, Mankind & Nature–the American wilderness they painted was viewed by them romantically as a new, sublime, Garden of Eden.
Dr. Raverty is an art historian with a specialization in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century art. He published his first book with Fairleigh-Dickinson University Press on the history of American art criticism in 2005 and his articles and essays have appeared in Art in America, Art Journal, Prospects, and Art Criticism, as well as in other scholarly journals. He has recently contributed entries for the forthcoming Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, to be published later this year by Oxford University Press. An award-winning teacher and an engaging speaker, he is on the faculty at New Jersey City University (formerly New Jersey State College). Last fall, Dr. Raverty taught a popular series for Saint Mary's entitled, "Icons: A Very Brief Introduction." We are pleased to welcome him back to the parish.
