Join us Monday, March 13, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. in the Titus Room for an illuminating presentation from our friend Deacon Lex Ferrauiola! Copies of Deacon Lex’s books will be available and light refreshments will be served.
Have you ever experienced a coincidence that was so meaningful to you that it couldn’t just be an accident? If you have, then you’ve experienced ‘synchronicity’.
The word ‘synchronicity’ was defined by C. G. Jung as the experience of meaningful coincidences; coincidences that are not mere accidents or good fortune but, as Jung believed, signs created by an integrated and purposeful universe to touch the lives of individuals and lead them to integration and wholeness.
Author Lex Ferrauiola explores this Jungian concept in relation to the theology of the Holy Spirit. His thesis is that synchronicity is the work of the Holy Spirit tapping us on the shoulder and pointing the way to wholeness and holiness.
Deacon Lex is a husband, father and grandfather. Ordained as a permanent deacon for the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey in 1992, he has been serving Our Lady of Mount Carmel parish in Tenafly as a pastoral minister and spiritual director for over 24 years. He has published three books on Catholic spirituality: Just to Follow My Friend: Experiencing God’s Presence in Everyday Life, Synchronicity as the Work of the Holy Spirit, and The Gospel of You, The Gospel of Me: Making Christ Present in Everyday Life. Deacon Lex also publishes a blog of spiritual reflections at www.deaconlex.blogspot.com and at twitter.com/deaconlex with readers in over 42 countries. He holds a master’s degree in pastoral ministry from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota and is on the faculty of the Haden Institute for Spiritual Direction at the Mount Carmel Spiritual Centre in Niagara Falls, Ontario.