NOTE: This includes tuition only. Travel and lodging are not included. Tuition includes 2 days of sessions and the Monday evening feast. Tea, coffee, and biscuits will be available.
Lodging recommendations will be emailed after registering.
Tuition is non-refundable.
NOTE: This includes tuition only. Travel and lodging are not included. Tuition includes 2 days of sessions and the Monday evening feast. Tea, coffee, and biscuits will be available.
Lodging recommendations will be sent via email once registered.
Tuition is non-refundable.
NOTE: This includes tuition only. Travel and lodging are not included. Tuition includes 2 days of sessions and the Monday evening feast. Tea, coffee, and biscuits will be available.
Lodging recommendations will be sent via email once registered.
Tuition is non-refundable.
“You can hear the recipe being written for contemporary Western life: singular, independent, low conformity, compromised association with ancestry, the advent of the lonely crowd, the interiorization of social structure until it becomes personal identity, the primacy of personal feelings and ego strengths, overreliance on social acceptance, the personalization of what constitutes ‘true.’
All in all, a terrifying, staggering, overwhelming, irredeemable, irrefutable ethnocide.” –Stephen Jenkinson, from Matrimony: Ritual, Culture and the Heart’s Work
The UK has been kind to my work from the beginning. My ancestry is there. It’s fitting and fulfilling that I bring my new work on matrimony and culture making to Oxford. And Kimberly Johnson knew the book early on, and I’m very glad to be opening it up aloud with her first.
Maybe you’ve found yourself in that situation~ make-shifting a ceremony. With no active rites of passage, we arrive at the altars of birth, death, sex, and matrimony with a pile-up. The unspoken grievances and resentments stack up at the thresholds. The ineptness and emptiness radiate.
The liminal moments will always be places for potential alchemy, but with little practice and minimal ritual, it’s more likely that we are lost or empty-handed. Or maybe you have plugged into someone else’s traditions for rites of passages, and it works for a while, but you’ve begun to consider what the ways of your people might have been and how those have been so hard to grasp.
As dire world and planetary circumstances intensify and the way people treat one another is increasingly lacking in grace or etiquette or respect of any kind, the hunger for ceremony and anything sacred is palpable.
If there was ever a time to gather around, the time is now.
The Oxford University Catholic Chaplaincy
Friday – Saturday
September 15th – 16th, 2025
This two-day gathering includes:
Monday night’s feast is included for all participants. No opt-outs. We’ll gather around full tables, eat well, and continue the conversation with food at the center.
Tea, coffee and an array of biscuits will be available throughout the sessions.
Please plan to arrive in Oxford by Monday mid-day. Full schedule and timing will be provided upon registration.
The Oxford University Catholic Chaplaincy
Friday – Saturday
September 15th – 16th, 2025
This two-day gathering includes:
Monday night’s feast is included for all participants. No opt-outs. We’ll gather around full tables, eat well, and continue the conversation with food at the center.
Tea, coffee and an array of biscuits will be available throughout the sessions.
Please plan to arrive in Oxford by Monday mid-day. Full schedule and timing will be provided upon registration.