International Symposium on Fr. Brisson’s Ministry and Spirituality

held in conjunction with his beatification and sponsored by the International Commission for Salesian Studies (ICSS)

24-25 September 2012,
Motherhouse of the Oblate Sisters of St. Francis de Sales, Troyes, France

 

Monday, 24 September

9:30 a.m.

Mass of Thanksgiving at the chapel of the Visitation Monastery of Troyes

Afterwards: Lunch - In the Cite Aviat of the Oblate Sisters.

2:30 – 5:00 p.m.

Welcome:  Mother General Françoise-Bernadette Beuzelin, O.S.F.S.

Keynote Adress:  “Fr. Brisson in Context: The 19th-Century Salesian Pentecost”
Wendy M. Wright, Ph.D.
Professor of Theology and John C. Kenefick Chair in the Humanities
Creighton University, Omaha, Ne.

“Fr. Brisson and the Foundation and Salesian-Oblate Charism of the Oblate Sisters”
Sr. Ann Elizabeth Eder, O.S.F.S.
President, Board of Trustees
Mount Aviat Academy, Childs, MD

 

Tuesday, 25 September
9:00 a.m. -12:00 Noon

Mass in the crypt of the Motherhouse of the Oblate Sisters

“Fr. Brisson and the Foundation and Salesian-Oblate Charism of the De Sales Oblates”
 Fr. Joseph F. Chorpenning, O.S.F.S., S.T.L., Ph.D.
 Chairman, International Commission for Salesian Studies
 Editorial Director, Saint Joseph’s University Press, Philadelphia, Pa.

“Fr. Brisson’s Cause:  Its History and Development”
Sr. Madeleine-Thérèse Dechambre, O.S.F.S.
Postulator for Fr. Brisson’s cause

Concluding Remarks:  Fr. Aldino Kiesel, O.S.F.S.
Superior General of the De Sales Oblates