Hosted by Bob Colaresi & Jack Moller

Throughout history and today Scapegoating has been a great social and personal evil. Rather than deal with our own weaknesses and negativity, we find it easier to transfer our guilt onto some other group, person or thing by singling that other out unmerited negative treatment. We seem to need another person or group to be against to form our identity or group. 

Richard Rohr's perspective on scapegoating is a call to self-awareness, repentance and commitment to love and forgiveness as an antidote to the violence and division that plagues our hearts and society. 

Scapegoating is a recurring and dangerous pattern in human history - and we are all caught in it - Scapegoating or being Scapegoated. From ancient rituals to modern politics, we find someone to blame, cast them out and feel momentarily cleansed. But the poison remains, and at times we might have been the person being scapegoated! 

Jack Moller and Bob Colaresi will lead us on a Saturday morning reflection on this prevalent Scapegoating that is a curse today socially and personally, to look at ways to break this vicious cycle. This isn't a lecture. It's a time for men who are willing to be honest, vulnerable, and open to transformation. As Illuman brothers, we are called not to perfection but to presence-and this work is sacred ground. 

Come ready to wrestle with hard truths. And to find, perhaps, a deeper kind of freedom.

Pre-registration is important: 630-969-4141 or retreats@carmelitespiritualcenter.org.

Free will offering.