Holy Family Parish in Concord, Massachusetts, will be hosting scholar and Providence College professor Aurelie Hagstrom on Thursday, November 8 at Monument Hall in Concord Center at 7:30 PM. Professor Hagstrom is a speaker in a year long program of special adult Faith Formation sessions under the rubric Vatican II Revisited. In this year when we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, Aurelie will explore the principal document of the Council dealing with the Church, Lumen Gentium. She has entitled her talk Pay, Pray and Obey? The Vocation, Mission and Spirituality of the Laity According to Vatican II.
Aurelie A. Hagstrom is an associate professor of Theology at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island, where she serves as Chair of the Department. Her S.T. D. in Dogmatic Theology is from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome, Italy. She taught Theology for eleven years at the University of St. Francis in Joliet, Illinois, where she served as Chair of the Theology department. Her publications include The Vocation and Mission of the Laity (1994) and the article on the “theology of the laity” in the New Catholic Encyclopedia. Dr. Hagstrom serves as a theological consultant for the United States Catholic Bishops’ Committee on the Laity. She has lectured in the U.S. and Europe on the theology of the laity. Currently her work is focused on the reality of ecclesial lay ministry in the Church. She has recently led seminars on the U.S. Catholic Bishops’ document, “Co-Workers in the Vineyard: A Resource for Guiding the Development of Lay Ecclesial Ministry”. Her latest book is The Emerging Laity: Vocation, Mission, and Spirituality (Paulist Press: 2010).
We are extremely proud and happy that Professor Hagstrom will be coming to Concord as part of Holy Family Parish’s Adult Faith Formation program. The presentation will be held at Monument Hall, 62 Monument Square in Concord Center at 7:30 PM. A donation of $5 – 10 is deeply appreciated.
