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Maryknoll Mission Institute Program, ‘Living Into Death – Dying into Life’
May 22-27, 2016
Maryknoll Mission Institute, Maryknoll, New York 10545-0311
This program deals with what was once called the “Last Things” (in Latin: De Novissimis), that is, the realities occurring at the end of life, namely, death and dying, and those occurring in the afterlife, namely, judgment, purgatory, hell, heaven, the resurrection, and the consummation of the world. In theology, the treatment of these Last Things is called “eschatology”—a term derived from the Greek: eschata and logos, meaning discourse on the last things. There is a basic methodological question about whether and how we know these last realities, and how to talk about them. Obviously, we do know something about dying as a physical act, thanks to modern medicine. Of this we can therefore speak with empirical certainty. But of the meaning of death and above all, of what occurs after death, we do not have factual information. As a consequence, our language about them cannot be that of a scientific report but borders on poetry, and what we say about them is liable to the charge of projection and mythmaking.
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Maryknoll, NY – Sister Cecile Therese Burton, an educator and social worker in Hawaii died after a long illness on February 17, 2016 at Maryknoll Sisters Home Care, NY. She was 91 years old.
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