Inter-Religious Activities

Interfaith/Intercultural concert:
Sunday August 24:  Concert “A Patchwork of Cultures” The Sephardic - Latino Connection

PAST EVENTS

An Interfaith Dialogue Series 2008

St. Bernardine of Siena Catholic Church and Temple Aliyah presented “An Interfaith Dialogue Series” again this year.  Each evening the dialogue developped from listening to a story related to a different faith tradition.  Catholicism was the focus for the January 14 session held at St. Bernardine Parish Center, Judaism for January 28 at Temple Aliyah, and Taoism for February 4 at Temple Aliyah. 

As the last session concluded, Rabbi Vogel and I were at the microphone wrapping it up when he began to talk about his recent trip. He, and a group of religious leaders from Los Angeles including one of our auxiliary bishops, Bishop Edward Clark, had gone to Jerusalem and Rome. He was excited to tell us that when he attended the Papal audience, to his surprise, he was shown to a seat in the front row. When the audience was over the Pope came down to meet people and he was one of those who had the privilege of shaking his hand. At that point the rabbi took from his pocket a gift he had brought back for me. It was a rosary blessed by the Pope. He held it up so all could see it, turned to me and said “this may be a first, a rabbi giving a priest a rosary!”

Pulpit Exchange 2007
September 30 at the 10am Mass, Rabbi Vogel started the dialogue on the notion of "Covenant".
Read the letter from Fr. McNamara

October 19 at the 8:15pm Shabbat service, Fr. McNamara will continue on the same theme.
Read the letter from Rabbi Vogel.

Rabbi Rachel Bovitz and Fr. Dan Fox gave presentations on "God and the Problem of Evil" as part of our Interreligious Dialogue series in February 2007 with Temple Aliyah

Flyer of Past Events

A Blessing to One Another - Pope John Paul II and the Jewish People.
Learn more from the papal documents and articles from the Vatican website on Catholic-Jewish dialogue and prayer and commentary on Nostra Aetate, the Vatican II Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions. Read also the Reflections by Cardinal Walter Kasper on Nostra Aetate.

Links

Ecumenical and Interreligous Affairs - Archdiocese of Los Angeles 
Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs (USCCB)

More than "Good Neighbors": Two Faiths, One Community:  upcoming cooperative events with Temple Aliyah, Conservative Synagogue next door to St. Bernardine in 2006.