Saint James Sanctuary
5:30 – 8:30 PM

Contemplative Citizenship goes into a summer mode on Wednesday evenings starting in July and running through August 13th. We will discuss art, history, and church and state politics by reflecting on T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral, the great play of political and theological drama about the murder of Archbishop Thomas à Beckett by the Knights of King Henry II in 1170.

A staged reading of the play will be performed at Saint James on Tuesday, August 19th.

5:30 – 6:30 PM: Dramaturgy facilitated by Lenwood Sloan and Father David Peck
6:30 – 8:30 PM: Public reading and civic dialogue

August 6: The Four Knights and the assassination: at Saint James
August 13: The Trial and Defense: at Saint James

Tuesday, August 19: Staged reading at Saint James

For more information, click here to email Mother Stacey Carpenter.