Theology of the Body and the New Evangelization Course (Online)

October 31 – November 11, 2022

Taught by Christopher West

Christopher West, Th.D.

Christopher West, Th.D., serves as President and Senior Lecturer for the Theology of the Body Institute near Philadelphia. His global lecturing, best-selling books and multiple audio and video programs have made him one of the world’s most recognized teachers of St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. His work has been featured in The New York Times, on ABC News, MSNBC, Fox News, and countless Catholic and Evangelical media outlets.

Theology of the Body and the New Evangelization Course (Online)

October 31 – November 11, 2022

Taught by Christopher West

Christopher West, Th.D.

Christopher West, Th.D., serves as President and Senior Lecturer for the Theology of the Body Institute near Philadelphia. His global lecturing, best-selling books and multiple audio and video programs have made him one of the world’s most recognized teachers of St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. His work has been featured in The New York Times, on ABC News, MSNBC, Fox News, and countless Catholic and Evangelical media outlets.

“Glorious things are said of you, O city of God” (Ps 87:3).

“One thing I ask, this alone I seek,” says the psalmist, “to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and contemplate his temple” (Ps 27:4).

These Scriptures, and countless others, are fulfilled in the flesh and blood of Mary, which became God’s city, God’s dwelling place. But for far too many Catholics, Mary remains an abstraction, a blue plaster statue, a disincarnate hyper-pious “ideal” far removed from the realities of daily life and the visceral desires of the human heart. Who is Mary, really? “Who is this who comes forth like the dawn, beautiful as the moon, pure as the blazing sun, fearsome as celestial visions?” (Song of Songs 6:10).

Through the lens of St. John Paul II’s TOB and with the help of the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the insights of countless saints and mystics throughout the ages, this course seeks to answer that question in such a way as to show what the most influential woman in all of human history means to us here and now, today, in our own personal lives, with all our questions, struggles, and longings. It will demonstrate how all the Marian doctrines of the Church and the call of true devotion to the Mother of God have one and only one goal: to lead us to deeper union with the Word who was made flesh in her womb.

Instructor:

Christopher West, ThD, serves as President and Senior Lecturer for the Theology of the Body Institute near Philadelphia. His global lecturing, best-selling books and multiple audio and video programs have made him one of the world’s most recognized teachers of St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. His work has been featured in The New York Times, on ABC News, MSNBC, Fox News, and countless Catholic and Evangelical media outlets.

“Glorious things are said of you, O city of God” (Ps 87:3).

“One thing I ask, this alone I seek,” says the psalmist, “to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and contemplate his temple” (Ps 27:4).

These Scriptures, and countless others, are fulfilled in the flesh and blood of Mary, which became God’s city, God’s dwelling place. But for far too many Catholics, Mary remains an abstraction, a blue plaster statue, a disincarnate hyper-pious “ideal” far removed from the realities of daily life and the visceral desires of the human heart. Who is Mary, really? “Who is this who comes forth like the dawn, beautiful as the moon, pure as the blazing sun, fearsome as celestial visions?” (Song of Songs 6:10).

Through the lens of St. John Paul II’s TOB and with the help of the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the insights of countless saints and mystics throughout the ages, this course seeks to answer that question in such a way as to show what the most influential woman in all of human history means to us here and now, today, in our own personal lives, with all our questions, struggles, and longings. It will demonstrate how all the Marian doctrines of the Church and the call of true devotion to the Mother of God have one and only one goal: to lead us to deeper union with the Word who was made flesh in her womb.

Instructor:

Christopher West, ThD, serves as President and Senior Lecturer for the Theology of the Body Institute near Philadelphia. His global lecturing, best-selling books and multiple audio and video programs have made him one of the world’s most recognized teachers of St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. His work has been featured in The New York Times, on ABC News, MSNBC, Fox News, and countless Catholic and Evangelical media outlets.

January 1-6, 2023

Black Rock Retreat Center
Quarryville, PA

Taught by Christopher West

*Prerequisites: Theology of the Body I: Head & Heart Immersion Course

Registration open

Course Description:

This course examines the implications of John Paul II’s Theology of the Body for the “new evangelization.”  It will first outline a plan for ecclesial and cultural renewal based on John Paul II’s Apostolic Letter Novo Millennio Inuente and then study the four pillars of the Catechism of the Catholic Church through the lens of John Paul II’s spousal theology.  In the process, this course will demonstrate in practical terms how the TOB is not only a teaching on marriage and sexual love, but has implications for all of theology and provides a compelling way to present the Gospel message itself to the modern world.

Pre-requisite: TOB I: Head & Heart Immersion; TOB2 no longer a pre-requisite

All our week-long retreats include:

• Five days of learning & interactive lecture (30 hours of master’s level instruction)
• Fantastic workbook so you can focus on receiving vs. note-taking
• Daily Mass, adoration, and confession
• Accommodations & delicious meals
• Time for relaxation and networking
• Gorgeous grounds to soak in God’s natural beauty
• Optional round trip shuttle from Philadelphia International Airport

Instructor:

Christopher West, Th.D., serves as President and Senior Lecturer for the Theology of the Body Institute near Philadelphia. His global lecturing, best-selling books and multiple audio and video programs have made him one of the world’s most recognized teachers of St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. His work has been featured in The New York Times, on ABC News, MSNBC, Fox News, and countless Catholic and Evangelical media outlets.

Registration Cost:

– $1,295 Early Registration Fee before November 30, 2022

— Price includes room, meals, workbook, and course.

– $1,395 Registration Fee after November 30, 2022

– $100 Optional Airport Shuttle from Philadelphia International Airport

Registration will be open soon!

Registration Cost:

– $1,295 Early Registration Fee before December 30, 2022

— Price includes room, meals, workbook, and course.

– $1,395 Registration Fee after December 30, 2022

– $100 Optional Airport Shuttle from Philadelphia International Airport

Registration will be open soon!

Registration Cost:

– $1,295 Early Registration Fee before December 30, 2022

— Price includes room, meals, workbook, and course.

– $1,395 Registration Fee after December 30, 2022

– $100 Optional Airport Shuttle from Philadelphia International Airport

May 28 – June 2, 2023

Schoenstatt Retreat Center

Waukesha, WI

​​​​​​​Taught by Christopher West

Registration will be open soon!

This course introduces students to the key themes of the 129 Wednesday audience addresses that comprise John Paul II’s Theology of the Body.  Particular attention will be paid to the imago Dei, fall and redemption, Christian ethics and ethos, freedom and person, gender and vocation.  Students will be encouraged to journey from “head to heart” in applying the theological concepts they learn to their own lives and relationships.

All our week-long retreats include:

• Five days of learning & interactive lecture (30 hours of master’s level instruction)
• Fantastic workbook so you can focus on receiving vs. note-taking
• Daily Mass, adoration, and confession
• Accommodations & delicious meals
• Time for relaxation and networking
• Gorgeous grounds to soak in God’s natural beauty
• Optional round trip shuttle from Philadelphia International Airport

Instructors:

Christopher West, Th.D., serves as President and Senior Lecturer for the Theology of the Body Institute near Philadelphia. His global lecturing, best-selling books and multiple audio and video programs have made him one of the world’s most recognized teachers of St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. His work has been featured in The New York Times, on ABC News, MSNBC, Fox News, and countless Catholic and Evangelical media outlets.

Bill Donaghy is an instructor, international speaker, and curriculum specialist for the Theology of the Body Institute Certification Program. Bill worked for nearly a decade teaching theology at Malvern Preparatory School as well as Immaculata University, while giving talks, retreats, and conferences for the Theology of the Body Institute. He has worked in the fields of mission and evangelization since 1999 and has given talks and retreats to bishops, priests, deacons, consecrated men and women, and the lay faithful throughout the United States, as well as Canada, Mexico, Chile, Australia, and Papua New Guinea. He and his wife, Rebecca, live just outside of Philadelphia, PA with their four children.

Registration Cost:

– $1,295 Early Registration Fee before March 28, 2023

— Price includes room, meals, workbook, and course.

– $1,395 Registration Fee after March 28, 2023

– $100 Optional Airport Shuttle from Philadelphia International Airport

May 28 – June 2, 2023

Schoenstatt Retreat Center

Waukesha, WI

​​​​​​​Taught by Christopher West

Registration will be open soon!

This course introduces students to the key themes of the 129 Wednesday audience addresses that comprise John Paul II’s Theology of the Body.  Particular attention will be paid to the imago Dei, fall and redemption, Christian ethics and ethos, freedom and person, gender and vocation.  Students will be encouraged to journey from “head to heart” in applying the theological concepts they learn to their own lives and relationships.

All our week-long retreats include:

• Five days of learning & interactive lecture (30 hours of master’s level instruction)
• Fantastic workbook so you can focus on receiving vs. note-taking
• Daily Mass, adoration, and confession
• Accommodations & delicious meals
• Time for relaxation and networking
• Gorgeous grounds to soak in God’s natural beauty
• Optional round trip shuttle from Philadelphia International Airport

Instructors:

Christopher West, Th.D., serves as President and Senior Lecturer for the Theology of the Body Institute near Philadelphia. His global lecturing, best-selling books and multiple audio and video programs have made him one of the world’s most recognized teachers of St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. His work has been featured in The New York Times, on ABC News, MSNBC, Fox News, and countless Catholic and Evangelical media outlets.

Bill Donaghy is an instructor, international speaker, and curriculum specialist for the Theology of the Body Institute Certification Program. Bill worked for nearly a decade teaching theology at Malvern Preparatory School as well as Immaculata University, while giving talks, retreats, and conferences for the Theology of the Body Institute. He has worked in the fields of mission and evangelization since 1999 and has given talks and retreats to bishops, priests, deacons, consecrated men and women, and the lay faithful throughout the United States, as well as Canada, Mexico, Chile, Australia, and Papua New Guinea. He and his wife, Rebecca, live just outside of Philadelphia, PA with their four children.

Registration Cost:

– $1,295 Early Registration Fee before March 28, 2023

— Price includes room, meals, workbook, and course.

– $1,395 Registration Fee after March 28, 2023

– $100 Optional Airport Shuttle from Philadelphia International Airport

REGISTRATION TO OPEN SOON

“Glorious things are said of you, O city of God” (Ps 87:3).

“One thing I ask, this alone I seek,” says the psalmist, “to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and contemplate his temple” (Ps 27:4).

These Scriptures, and countless others, are fulfilled in the flesh and blood of Mary, which became God’s city, God’s dwelling place. But for far too many Catholics, Mary remains an abstraction, a blue plaster statue, a disincarnate hyper-pious “ideal” far removed from the realities of daily life and the visceral desires of the human heart. Who is Mary, really? “Who is this who comes forth like the dawn, beautiful as the moon, pure as the blazing sun, fearsome as celestial visions?” (Song of Songs 6:10).

Through the lens of St. John Paul II’s TOB and with the help of the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the insights of countless saints and mystics throughout the ages, this course seeks to answer that question in such a way as to show what the most influential woman in all of human history means to us here and now, today, in our own personal lives, with all our questions, struggles, and longings. It will demonstrate how all the Marian doctrines of the Church and the call of true devotion to the Mother of God have one and only one goal: to lead us to deeper union with the Word who was made flesh in her womb.

Instructor:

Christopher West, ThD, serves as President and Senior Lecturer for the Theology of the Body Institute near Philadelphia. His global lecturing, best-selling books and multiple audio and video programs have made him one of the world’s most recognized teachers of St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. His work has been featured in The New York Times, on ABC News, MSNBC, Fox News, and countless Catholic and Evangelical media outlets.

Registration Cost:

– $1,295 Early Registration Fee before April 18, 2023

— Price includes room, meals, workbook, and course.

– $1,395 Registration Fee after April 30, 2023

– $100 Optional Airport Shuttle from Philadelphia International Airport

July 9-14, 2023

Black Rock Retreat Center

Quarryville, PA

​​​​​​​Taught by Christopher West

Registration will be open soon!

This course introduces students to the key themes of the 129 Wednesday audience addresses that comprise John Paul II’s Theology of the Body.  Particular attention will be paid to the imago Dei, fall and redemption, Christian ethics and ethos, freedom and person, gender and vocation.  Students will be encouraged to journey from “head to heart” in applying the theological concepts they learn to their own lives and relationships.

All our week-long retreats include:

• Five days of learning & interactive lecture (30 hours of master’s level instruction)
• Fantastic workbook so you can focus on receiving vs. note-taking
• Daily Mass, adoration, and confession
• Accommodations & delicious meals
• Time for relaxation and networking
• Gorgeous grounds to soak in God’s natural beauty
• Optional round trip shuttle from Philadelphia International Airport

Instructor:

Christopher West, Th.D., serves as President and Senior Lecturer for the Theology of the Body Institute near Philadelphia. His global lecturing, best-selling books and multiple audio and video programs have made him one of the world’s most recognized teachers of St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. His work has been featured in The New York Times, on ABC News, MSNBC, Fox News, and countless Catholic and Evangelical media outlets.

Registration Cost:

– $1,295 Early Registration Fee before May 31, 2023

— Price includes room, meals, workbook, and course.

– $1,395 Registration Fee after May 31, 2023

– $100 Optional Airport Shuttle from Philadelphia International Airport

July 30 – August 4, 2023

Black Rock Retreat Center

Quarryville, PA

​​​​​​​Taught by Fr. Boniface Hicks, OSB

Registration will be open soon!

Instructor:

Fr. Boniface Hicks, OSB, Fr. Boniface Hicks, OSB, is a Benedictine monk of St. Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. He has provided spiritual direction for many men and women, including married couples, seminarians, consecrated religious, and priests, even while completing his Ph.D in computer science at Penn State University. He became the programming manager and an on-air contributor for We Are One Body Catholic Radio in 2010 and has recorded thousands of radio programs on theology and the spiritual life. He has extensive experience as a retreat master for laity, consecrated religious, and priests. He became the Director of Spiritual Formation for St. Vincent Seminary in 2016.

Registration Cost:

– $1,295 Early Registration Fee before May 30, 2023

— Price includes room, meals, workbook, and course.

– $1,395 Registration Fee after May 30, 2023

– $100 Optional Airport Shuttle from Philadelphia International Airport

July 30 – August 4, 2023

Black Rock Retreat Center

Quarryville, PA

​​​​​​​Taught by Fr. Boniface Hicks, OSB

Registration will be open soon!

Instructor:

Fr. Boniface Hicks, OSB, Fr. Boniface Hicks, OSB, is a Benedictine monk of St. Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. He has provided spiritual direction for many men and women, including married couples, seminarians, consecrated religious, and priests, even while completing his Ph.D in computer science at Penn State University. He became the programming manager and an on-air contributor for We Are One Body Catholic Radio in 2010 and has recorded thousands of radio programs on theology and the spiritual life. He has extensive experience as a retreat master for laity, consecrated religious, and priests. He became the Director of Spiritual Formation for St. Vincent Seminary in 2016.

Registration Cost:

– $1,295 Early Registration Fee before May 30, 2023

— Price includes room, meals, workbook, and course.

– $1,395 Registration Fee after May 30, 2023

– $100 Optional Airport Shuttle from Philadelphia International Airport

November 5-10, 2023
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​​​​​​​Black Rock Retreat Center

​​​​​​​Quarryville, PA

​​​​​​​Taught by Bill Donaghy

Registration will be open soon!

Course Description:

Bill Donaghy is an instructor, international speaker, and curriculum specialist for the Theology of the Body Institute Certification Program. Bill worked for nearly a decade teaching theology at Malvern Preparatory School as well as Immaculata University, while giving talks, retreats, and conferences for the Theology of the Body Institute. He has worked in the fields of mission and evangelization since 1999 and has given talks and retreats to bishops, priests, deacons, consecrated men and women, and the lay faithful throughout the United States, as well as Canada, Mexico, Chile, Australia, and Papua New Guinea. He and his wife, Rebecca, live just outside of Philadelphia, PA with their four children.

Registration Cost:

– $1,295 Early Registration Fee before August 5, 2023

— Price includes room, meals, workbook, and course.

– $1,395 Registration Fee after August 5, 2023

– $100 Optional Airport Shuttle from Philadelphia International Airport