Let Your Heartbreak Be Your Guide: Lessons in Engaged Contemplation, by Fr. Adam Bucko
Dates: Sundays, July 12 through August 30
Time: 12:15 to 1:00pm, following the worship service
Location: Parish Hall
St. Ann’s summer book club is back! Join us to read Let Your Heartbreak Be Your Guide: Lessons in Engaged Contemplation, by Fr. Adam Bucko: Episcopal priest, contemplative, and activist. Copies are available for $20 from Orbis Books, or request a free copy from Rev. Brendan Nee (bnee@stannholytrinity.org).
All are welcome, whether or not you have participated in previous weeks. We encourage reading each assigned section in advance to enrich our conversation; see the reading schedule below.
A moving collection of reflections, stories and practices from the life and experiences of Father Adam Bucko—interreligious pioneer, new monastic leader, priest, spiritual director, and activist. They are designed for every person trying to live at the intersection of contemplation and justice. — Orbis Books
READING SCHEDULE
Please note: These are very short chapters. Each assigned section is only 10 to 20 pages.
PART I: LISTENING TO LIFE
JULY 12
- Introduction: Lost and Found [Download PDF]
- Chapter 1, “To Be Human Is to Revolt against Injustice”
- Chapter 2, “Prayer Is Like Talking to an Empty Chair”
JULY 19
- Chapter 3, “Don’t Try to Be Mother Teresa or Saint Francis”
- Chapter 4, “Searching for Answers in the Mountains of New Mexico”
- Chapter 5, “Let Your Heartbreak Be Your Guide”
JULY 26
- Chapter 6, “Remember Your Death and You Will Be All Right”
- Chapter 7, “Going into the Desert of Our Hearts”
PART II: TOUCHING WHAT FRIGHTENS US
AUGUST 2
- Chapter 8, “Sermon at Tanisha’s Funeral”
- Chapter 9, “Our Global Dark Night”
- Chapter 10, “Love in Times of Hate”
AUGUST 9
- Chapter 11, “Another Good Friday?”
- Chapter 12, “Learning to Follow God in a Refugee Camp”
- Chapter 13, “Horrors of the Pre- and Postpandemic Normal”
PART III: INTERRUPTING SILENCE
AUGUST 16
- Chapter 14, ” ‘I Refuse to Go to a Homophobic Heaven’ “
- Chapter 15, “Praying with the Street Church of Radical Forgiveness”
- Chapter 16, “Field Hospitals for Those Wounded by Life”
AUGUST 23
- Chapter 17, “When One Homeless Kid Found His Calling”
- Chapter 18, “Claiming Our Irrelevance So God Can Be Relevant”
AUGUST 30
- Chapter 19, “It Is Time to Fast and Pray for the Future”
- Afterword: On Being a Contemplative in the World