Fraser Centre of Practical Theology

Past Event - 2021-2022 Abrahamic Talks Series
2022-02-24 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Toronto) | Ontario
The Fraser Centre for Practical Theology at Regis College, in collaboration with the Christian-Jewish Dialogue of Toronto and the Intercultural Dialogue Institute, invites everyone to join us on February 24, 2022 (7:00-8:30p.m.), over Zoom, for this year’s first Abrahamic Talk Series.
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In this edition of the Abrahamic Talks Series, CJDT aims to explore how Abrahamic religions can advance the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action. In this talk, we explore the legacy of residential schools and ways Abrahamic faith communities can begin the process of reconciliation in Canada. As Abrahamic religions unpack the history and legacy of residential schools, how can we confront the role of faith in that system, and what responsibility do we have to mitigate future conflict?

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Join us in dialogue as we explore ways for faith leaders and youth to begin the process of reconciliation.

Past Event - 2022 Fourth Annual Scarboro Mission's Lecture!
2022-02-10 19:30 - 21:00 | Ontario
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“God Is Interreligious”
Honouring the Legacy of Ovey Mohammed, S.J.
Presented by Professor John D. Dadosky with respondent, Professor Abrahim H. Khan.

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"Christian Spirituality of Mission in the Age of Migration"
2021-12-02 19:00 - 20:00 | Ontario
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INDEFINITELY POSTPONED - "Decolonizing the Jesuits" (Fr. Bisson, SJ)
2021-10-13 19:00 - 21:00 | Zoom
Dearest Fraser Community,
We regret to inform you that the Fraser Centre for Practical Theology (Regis College) event scheduled for October 13, 2021, entitled, “Decolonizing the Jesuits: A Theological Reflection and a Reflection on Theology” has been indefinitely postponed. We will be looking for another opportunity to re-schedule this event in the coming year.
Please feel free to read of other updates and events at the Fraser Centre at https://frasercentre.ca

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"Vulnerability, Recognition and Conscience: Making the Connections"
2021-04-28 14:00 - 16:00 | Ontario
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“Vulnerability, Recognition and Conscience: Making the Connections”

Professor James F. Keenan explores what it means to form conscience in our polarised political and ecclesial climates. The discussion launches from an inherited historical understanding of conscience as something one merely has and does, a position that—based on recent ethical insights—fails to account for what precedes the having and doing, thus contributing to what Professor Keenan has coined the “politics of overlooking.”
Keenan’s insight is not the outcome of an abstract argument. The context for his insight that something precedes conscience occurs with what he terms the “politics of overlooking.” In such a political climate today, Keenan observes some students of ethics and citizens of conscience selectively choose who merits recognition and, by lack of recognition afforded, who is subsequently alienated and marginalized. For him, this selectivity of neighbour requires an alternative and updated formation of conscience.
Keenan suggests that we must move beyond an understanding of conscience as faculty and act only to consider that which supports and forms the future act of conscience. To achieve this, Keenan suggests three important moves: acknowledgment of the legitimacy of our vulnerable selves; development of the habit of recognizing the one who is overlooked in our political, ecclesial and social communities; and the development of the necessary work of conscience further as it emerges from the disposition of vulnerability and the subsequent practice of recognition.
In elucidating his proposal for conscience formation, Keenan draws upon the universal biblical stories of vulnerability and recognition, recent contributions by Judith Butler and Jessica Benjamin, as well as a collection of ethical interlocutors. Keenan’s innovative presentation of conscience formation is an interpersonal and institutional opportunity to transcend an understanding and application of conscience as only just a human act. Instead, what Keenan achieves is a presentation of conscience formation that acknowledges and prioritizes our personal and collective vulnerable selves as dispositional and generative in nurturing an encounter of mutual recognition that culminates in a transformed experience of inter-relationality.

Guest Speaker:
James Keenan, S.J., S.T.D
– Boston College
– Vice Provost for Global Engagement
– Canisius Professor; Director of The Jesuit Institute

Respondents:

Sturla Johan Stålsett, ThD.
– Vitenskapelig Høyskole: Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society
– Diaconal Studies, Religion and Society

Hilda Koster, PhD.
– St. Michael’s College
– Associate Professor of Eco-theology

Gerard J. Ryan, S.J., S.T.L, D.Phil.
– Regis College
– Director, Basic Degree Programs
– Assistant Professor, Political Theology

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"From Congo to Canada" with Dr. Pamela Couture & Dr. Esther Acolatse
2021-03-25 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom
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“From Congo To Canada:
Practical Theology and the Representation of Communities“

Guest Speaker:
Dr. Pamela Couture

– Jane and Geoffrey Martin Chair in Church and Community, Emmanuel College
– Director, Toronto School of Theology
Professor Couture’s recent book We Are Not All Victims: Local Peacebuilding in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Lit Verlag, 2016) focused on the peacemaking and reconciliation practices of rural United Methodists Congolese, as they worked to rebuild their society following the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo from 1997 to 2001. It also demonstrated her long-standing interest of using creative non-fiction in practical theology. Since being at Emmanuel College, she also co-edited a volume of essays produced by the International Academy of Practical Theology when it met in Toronto in 2013 and a volume of writings of emerging theologians, participants in the Global Theological Ecumenical Institute 2018, sponsored by the World Council of Churches, on evangelism and mission. Since that publication, her (delete: current) work has been focused on student vulnerability and the pedagogical practices of classrooms (delete s) teaching in interreligious spiritual care. As Director of the Toronto School of Theology, she is exploring the representation of communities in practical theology and narrative practices of leadership. With Bernd Schroeder of Goettingen University, she is co-editor of the International Journal of Practical Theology.
She is ordained as an elder by the United Methodist Church, holds annual conference membership in Northern Illinois Annual Conference, and is a voluntary ecumenical associate at St. Luke’s Anglican Church in Burlington, Ontario. Her sermons are posted on their website, stlukesburlington.blogspot.com.

Respondent:

Dr. Esther Acolatse
– Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology and Intercultural Studies
– Director of Graduate Degree Studies, Knox College
As Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology and Intercultural Studies at Knox College, Esther teaches at the intersection of psychology and Christian thought in aid of human flourishing, with interests in the gendered body, cultural anthropological dimensions of medicine, health, and healing, and their implications for suffering, death, dying, and care at the end of life.
Her ongoing research explores methodological issues in the practice of theology of the Christian life, and the relevance of these themes in the global expression of Christianity, particularly African and Western dimensions in dialogue. Her current research focuses on issues around care and counseling with migrant families and implications for intra/interfaith dialogue and spiritual care for re-missioning the global church.

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2021 Third Annual Scarboro Missions Lecture in Interreligious Dialogue
2021-02-11 19:30 - 21:00 | Ontario
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“Interreligious Dialogue on Ecology:
Pope Francis and Asian Religions on the Protection of the Environment”

This lecture will first summarize Pope Francis’s teaching on the care for the Earth, our common home, as expressed in Laudato Si’ and Querida Amazonia. Next it will explore how the papal teaching can find support in Asian religions, especially Daoism and Buddhism. It will conclude with reflections on how this interreligious dialogue can be a source of inspiration for our common work for ecojustice.

Professor Peter Phan

The Ignacio Ellacuria , S.J. Chair of Catholic Social Thought

Department of Theology

Georgetown University

Washington D.C.

Respondent:

Michelle Voss Roberts

Principal and Professor of Theology
Emmanuel College of Victoria University at the University of Toronto

Henry Shiu
Assistant Professor of the Shi Wu De
Professorship in Chinese Buddhist Studies
Emmanuel College of Victoria University at the University of Toronto

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Abrahamic Communities Respond to Racism in COVID 19: Injustice Within
2020-10-22 19:00 - 20:00 | Ontario
In this edition of the Abrahamic Talks Series, CJDT aims to explore the topic of systemic racism through a multi-faith lens.

About this Event

Deeply aware of the inequality faced by BIPOC individuals within our own communities, we are committed to confronting the challenge of systemic racism through educational programs, roundtable discussions, and other advocacy initiatives. The Abrahamic Talks Series is the first step in this long process of institutional self-examination and renewal, and we hope that our members will join us in this initiative. Featuring Guest Speakers include: Professor Jonathan Hamilton, Ms. Akilah Allen, and Imam Yasin Dwyer.
If you are interested or would simply like to hear three amazing speakers share their insights and learnings, please join us for the first 2020-21 Abahamic Talks Series, “Abrahamic Communities Respond to Racism during COVID 19: The Injustice Within.”

Zoom meeting link is available upon registration through this link: Abrahamic Talk Series: Racism During Covid 19

La Théologie Pratique Comme Pratique Théologique (Actes 10-11)
2020-03-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Regis College, 100 Wellesley St W, Toronto, ON, M5S 2Z5, Canada
A French presentation with English Power Point bullets and summary, followed by bilingual discussion to be given by Dr. Robert Mager, Visiting Fellow of the Fraser Centre for Practical Theology
Qu’entend-on par « théologie pratique »? La théologie peut-elle être « pratique »? Quel lien établit-elle avec des pratiques concrètes? Cet exposé articulera sa compréhension de la théologie pratique autour des trois balises que sont l’expérience, la conversion et l’interprétation. Elle prendra appui sur une lecture du texte d’Actes 10-11.
What is “practical theology”? Can theology be “practical”? How does it involve “practices”? This presentation offers an understanding of practical theology based on three landmarks: experience, conversion, and interpretation. A reading of Acts 10-11 will accompany this view of a very active and crucial theological field.
Robert Mager a enseigné la christologie et la théologie fondamentale à l’Université du Québec (Trois-Rivières, 1994-2004), ainsi que la théologie pratique à l’Université Laval (Québec, 2004-2015). Il a été membre du Conseil, secrétaire et vice-président de l’International Academy of Practical Theology (2011-2017). Le professeur Mager est l’auteur de nombreux articles sur les fondements de la théologie pratique et sur les rapports entre religion et modernité au Québec. Son séjour à Regis College est consacré à la rédaction d’un modèle pour la théologie pratique.
Robert Mager has taught Christology and Fundamental Theology at Université du Québec (Trois-Rivières, 1994-2004), and Practical Theology at Université Laval (Quebec City, 2004-2015). He has served as Officer, Secretary and Vice-president of the International Academy of Practical Theology (2011-2017). Professor Mager has authored many articles on the fundamentals of practical theology and on religion in modern Quebec. During his stay at Regis College, he is working on a model-proposal for practical theology as a discipline.
Image: Laurent Pêcheux: St. Peter Baptizing Cornelius (Acts 10: 44-48),” Metropolitan Museum of Art

Abrahamic Talk Series
2020-02-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Regis College, 100 Wellesley St W, Toronto, ON, M5S 2Z5, Canada
INTERFAITH DIALOGUE TODAY: Is Cooperation Across Religious Traditions a Luxury for Community Building?
Panelists:
Debra Landsberg (Jewish)
Valeria Vergani (Christian)
Betul Veral (Muslim)

Content:

The panelists will discuss multiple ways in which faith and interfaith reflection, dialogue, and cooperation can help a society to develop a sense of community in the midst of highly individualizing contexts.
– What are the tools for community-building at our disposal in cultural traditions as robust as Judaism, Islam, and Christianity?
– What should be our starting point as people of faith in responding to the isolating effects of an individualistic secularism?
– What have been our personal experiences of successful community-building within/across religious groups?

2020 Annual Scarboro Missions Lecture in Interreligious Dialogue
2020-02-13 19:00 - 21:30 | Regis College, 100 Wellesley St W, Toronto, ON, M5S 2Z5, Canada
“Faith in the Commons: Becoming Neighbours includes the Personal and the Political”
Lecture—7:00 pm // Reception—8:30 pm (Please RSVP through the Regis Website.)
One of the most exciting developments in political theology is the renewed awareness that “the neighbour” creates a new space “in-between” the personal and the political. Professor Leddy will illustrate and explore how becoming neighbours summons new forms of spirituality and politics and provides common ground for interfaith and cross- cultural relationships.
Presented by Dr. Mary Jo Leddy, Romero House Founder and Regis College Professor
Respondents: Shahid Akhtar and Dr. Barbara Landau, Co-Chairs, Canadian Association of Jews and Muslims
Moderator: Dr. Michael Stoeber, Scarboro Missions Chair in Interreligious Dialogue, Regis College
The 8:30 pm reception following the Lecture will also include the reception for the Art Exhibit, “Neighbourhood Earth,” which is on display all of February 2020, at Regis College at the University of Toronto. Please register through the Regis Website.
The programming offered by the “Msgr. John Mary Fraser Centre of Practical Theology” (or the “Scarboro Missions Chair of Inter-religious Dialogue”) was made possible through the Scarboro Missions Legacy. Scarboro Missions is a Society of Apostolic Life of Canadian Catholics, priests and laity, motivated by the Spirit and dedicated to the person, teaching, and mission of Jesus Christ as expressed in his words: “I have come that they may have life and have it to the full.” (John 10:10).

Fraser Centre Interreligious Visual Art Exhibit
2020-02-02 - 2020-02-29 | Regis College, 100 Wellesley St W, Toronto, ON, M5S 2Z5, Canada
Fraser Centre Interreligious Visual Art Exhibit:
“Neighbourhood Earth”
February 2—February 29, 2020
Exhibit Reception: Thursday, February 13, 2020, 8:30pm-9:30 pm. (Please RSVP through the Regis Website.)
The art exhibit asks: What is a neighbour?  Who is my neighbour?  What is a neighbourhood?  What are the borders of our neighbourhoods?  Who defines them?  Who is inside, who is outside?  How do personal or political relations become “neighbourly”?  Who is overseeing our neighbourhood watch?  Who determines the scales of our neighbourhoods—local, regional, national, cultural, religious, spiritual, ecological?  Is not a central tragedy of our times the perception of our differences as disproportionately more important than our similarities?
Participating artists:  Linda Chen, Blake Debassige, Heather Gentleman, Hayyan Helal, David Holt, Tai Kim, Emmaus O’Herlihy O.S.B., Aparna Rangnekar, Michael Stoeber.
Co-curated with Katharine Lochnan, the exhibit is in conjunction with the 2020 Scarboro Missions Lecture in Interreligious Dialogue by Dr. Mary Jo Leddy: “Faith in the Commons: Becoming Neighbours includes the Personal and the Political,” Thursday, February 13, 7:00 pm. The 8:30 pm reception following the 2020 Lecture will also include the reception for the Fraser Centre Interreligious Visual Art Exhibit.

Creation and Ecological Issues in Modern Orthodox Theology
2019-11-21 14:00 - 15:30 | Regis College, 100 Wellesley St W, Toronto, ON, M5S 2Z5, Canada
A lecture by Dr. Tamara Grdzelidze, D.Phil, Ph.D. (Oxford)
Dr. Tamara Grdzelidze is the Aileen Driscoll Research Fellow in Ecumenical Theology (Faculty of Theology at the University of St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto) and former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia to the Holy See. She served for many years as Program Executive on the Faith and Order Secretariat, World Council of Churches (Switzerland), and has published numerous work in Orthodox theology, ecumenism and Maximus the Confessor.

Abrahamic Lecture Series (Postponed to a later date.)
2019-10-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Regis College, 100 Wellesley St W, Toronto, ON, M5S 2Z5, Canada
Faith and Community: How Can Interfaith Dialogue Build Bridges Between the Individual and the Collective?
This event is in collaboration with the Christian-Jewish Dialogue of Toronto (CJDT)
A moderated discussion on issues of concern for faith communities and their members, featuring speakers of the three Abrahamic traditions

The Msgr. John Mary Fraser Centre for Practical Theology, in collaboration with the Christian-Jewish Dialogue of Toronto, presents the third annual Abrahamic Talks Series. This event is an opportunity for members of various religious traditions, as well as other members of the local community, to dialogue around the ways in which faith communities can respond to pressing issues. Topics such as social and environmental justice, truth and reconciliation, and multiculturalism will be central to our conversations.

Through a moderated discussion amongst a group of community leaders, academics, and practitioners from different faith backgrounds, the series aims to facilitate and promote further cooperation between members of diverse religious communities.

In this edition of the Abrahamic Series, we will explore the rapidly changing interaction between individuals and their communities in a secularized world. The series will create a space for deep dialogue about the tools that inter-religious initiatives can offer to the complex, multi-layered challenges that continue to arise globally as radically diverse individuals encounter each other in today’s multicultural communities.

Fraser Lecture: Early Jesuit Engagement with the Qur’an: Questions, Answers, and a Few Puzzles
2019-05-30 16:30 - 18:00 | Regis College, 100 Wellesley St W, Toronto, ON, M5S 2Z5, Canada
On February 11 at 4:30 p.m., the Msgr. John Mary Fraser Centre for Practical Theology will host a public lecture in the Regis College St. Joseph Chapel. Guest-speaker Dr. Paul Shore will deliver a lecture “Early Jesuit Engagement with the Qur’an: Questions, Answers, and a Few Puzzles.”

Among the representatives of seventeenth-century Catholicism to engage with the Qur’an were four Jesuits: Stephanus Arator (1541-1612), Peter Pázmány (1570-1637), Ignazio Lomellini (c. 1565-1645), and Michael Nau (1633-1683). Arator and Pázmány relied on translations and transliterations of the text of the Qur’an to construct their arguments, which were driven as much by deep divisions within the Christian world as they were by knowledge of Islam, and which were shaped by anxiety over the spread of Unitarianism in Eastern Europe. Lomellini completed the first Latin translation of the Qur’an to include the entire Arabic text, although he never traveled to an Arabic-speaking region. The commentaries he wrote suggest that his intended audience was Christian, but his manuscript languished for centuries, ignored by scholars. Nau spent many years in the Levant, working in Aleppo and Damascus, and wrote in Arabic, as well as rendering translations into Latin of passage of the Qur’an. As a representative of the “Golden Age” of Jesuit travel literature, Nau introduced European audiences to some of the mores of Levantine Muslim cultures. Taken together, the lives of men illustrate the diversity and complexity of Jesuit engagement with the Qur’an during the first century of the Society of Jesus.

Paul Shore has held teaching and research posts at Saint Louis University, Harvard Divinity School, Oxford University, the University of Wrocław, the University of Edinburgh, Trinity College Dublin, and Charles University Prague, and in 2013 was the Alan Richardson Fellow in Theology and Religion at the University of Durham. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada and during autumn of 2018 was Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University. Shore’s publications include The Eagle and the Cross: Jesuits in Late Baroque Prague and Narratives of Adversity: Jesuits on the Eastern Peripheries of the Habsburg Realms (1640-1773), and a volume of poetry, Encounters, Estrangements, Connections. Environment Matters, written with Lynn Whidden, is forthcoming from Peter Lang. Shore lives in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada where he is a deacon at St Matthew’s Anglican Cathedral.

Scarboro Missions Lecture in Inter-religious Dialogue & Official Opening of the Msgr. John Mary Fraser Centre for Practical Theology
2019-05-24 17:30 - 21:00 | Regis College, 100 Wellesley St W, Toronto, ON, M5S 2Z5, Canada
On Wednesday, February 13, the Msgr. John Mary Fraser Centre for Practical Theology invites you to attend the Official Opening of the Msgr. John Mary Fraser Centre for Practical Theology at 5:30 pm followed by the Scarboro Missions Lecture in Inter-religious Dialogue at 7:30 pm.
The lecture is entitled “Lakota and Christian Interreligious Dialogue: Questions Surrounding the Life, Teachings, and Influence of Nick Black Elk,” presented by Dr. Michael Stoeber, Scarboro Missions Chair in Interreligious Dialogue, Regis College. The Respondents will be Jonathan Hamilton-Diabo, Director of Indigenous Initiatives, University of Toronto, and Dr. John Dadosky, Regis College. The Moderator for the lecture will be Dr. Pamela Couture, Jane and Geoffrey Martin Chair in Church and Community, Emmanuel College.
Description: The story about the influential Lakota healer and holy man—Black Elk Speaks (1932)—has become widely popular and an authoritative guide for North American indigenous spirituality. However, given Nick Black Elk’s conversion to Roman Catholicism some twenty-five years prior to its publication, and his work as a Roman Catholic catechist, controversy surrounds this book. This lecture will explore various related questions: How does Nick Black Elk’s Roman Catholicism colour the dynamics of the indigenous spirituality in the book? How much does the narrator of the story, John Niehardt, positively influence or distort the dynamics of the spirituality? How might this account of indigenous spirituality have actually influenced 20th century developments in Roman Catholic spirituality? These questions have been further complicated by the recent initiation of the cause for the sainthood of Nick Black Elk in the Roman Catholic Church. How might this process towards canonization function to continue the Roman Catholic Church’s role in colonialism? How might it actually work to support the indigenous spirituality that Black Elk articulated so influentially?
The evening’s schedule is as follows:
5:30: Opening Remarks
5:45: Website Launch
6:15: Reception
7:30: Lecture

Abrahamic Talks Series: Charity without Justice Is Not Charity–Justice without Charity Is Not Just
2019-04-19 | Regis College, 100 Wellesley St W, Toronto, ON, M5S 2Z5, Canada
The Msgr. John Mary Fraser Centre for Practical Theology at Regis College, in collaboration with the Christian-Jewish Dialogue of Toronto, presents the “Abrahamic Talks Series.” The series is an opportunity for members of diverse religious traditions, as well as members of the local community, to discuss how faith communities can respond to contemporary social issues and concerns. Through this initiative, we aim to facilitate and promote further cooperation between religious communities and their members.
Join us on Wednesday, April 3, from 7 to 9 p.m. at Regis College, for “Charity without Justice Is Not Charity–Justice without Charity Is Not Just,” the next edition of the Abrahamic Talks Series. This time, our discussion will surround the diverse Abrahamic understandings of the concepts of “justice” and “charity,” and we will be under the leadership of three wonderful panelists: Cari Kozierok (Ve’ahavta), Mohammad Abdul Wadud (ICNA Canada), and Kevin Moore (Regent Park Community Ministry, United Church of Canada). Please fill out the registration link below.

Serpents and Dragons: Mary and Her Enemies in Mexican and Indian Art
2019-04-16 | Regis College, 100 Wellesley St W, Toronto, ON, M5S 2Z5, Canada
Please join the Msgr. John Mary Fraser Centre on Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 4 p.m. in Classroom A of Regis College (100 Wellesley St. W.) as Dr. Patrizia Granziera presents a lecture entitled “Serpents and Dragons: Mary and Her Enemies in Mexican and Indian Art.”
Patrizia Granziera is Professor of Art History at the University of Morelos, Cuernavaca, Mexico. She has a Ph.D. in Art History from University of Warwick. Her research focuses on the iconography of gardens and landscapes and on the image and symbolism of the divine feminine. Along with many published articles, she co-authored Image of the Divine Feminine in Mexico: Aztec Goddesses and Christian Madonnas (Ashgate 2012). In her presentation, “Serpents and Dragons: Mary and Her Enemies in Mexican and Indian Art,” Dr. Granziera will explore how Marian images in colonial Mexico and India represented the idea of the divine feminine and how European missionaries responded to the popularity of the goddesses in these newly conquered lands.
This event, sponsored by the Msrgr. John Mary Fraser Centre, is offered with the support of the TST Comparative Theology Group, Regis College, Trinity College, and Emmanuel College. Please be sure to register.
