Fierce and Tender Wisdom: Exploring Wild Mercy

Presented by Rosalyn Collier & Patricia Daniels

"Wild Mercy" by Mirabai Starr
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a journal

art supplies for reflection exercises (optional)

Join us for an 8-week online journey inspired by Mirabai Starr’s Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics. This transformative course invites you to explore the timeless teachings of women mystics from diverse spiritual traditions, discovering how their wisdom can illuminate your path today.

Through reflective reading, contemplative dialogue, and creative exercises, participants will engage deeply with themes of mercy, connection, and spiritual transformation. Each session integrates prayer, silence, small-group sharing, and collective reflection, creating a nurturing space for personal growth and community building.

Whether you are seeking tools for self-compassion, new avenues for prayer, or ways to cultivate a contemplative life in service to others, this course offers a profound opportunity to integrate the mystics’ wisdom into your everyday life.

Experience the fierce and tender wisdom of the women mystics and connect with a like-minded community on this journey of the heart.

Rosalyn Falcon Collier is co-founder of the San Antonio peaceCENTER, 1995 to the present and founder and member of the Women on Pilgrimage Retreat at St Anthony de Padua from 1997 to 2020. A native San Antonian, she is a graduate of the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation in Washington, DC, (1990) and has led local meditation groups in Catholic parishes. Through OST, Rosalyn co-facilitated the Called Back to the Well Spiritual Renewal Program, has been a co-facilitator for the People of Pilgrimage Contemplative Retreats and has been an elder circle leader in the Forest Dweller Program for four years. For 15 years, she has facilitated continuing education classes in person and online at Oblate School of Theology. She was named a San Antonio Peace Laureate in 2023. She is a spiritual director and mediator. She and Jim have been married 58 years. They have two children, seven grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren!

Pat Daniels has been an Elder Circle Leader for the Forest Dwellers program at the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas, for the past six years. She was previously the Director of Adult Education at both St. Louis Catholic Church and St. Thomas More Catholic Church in Austin, Texas. For St. Catherine of Sienna Catholic Church in Kalamazoo, Michigan, she taught the “Bridges to Contemplative Living with Thomas Merton” based Jonathan Montaldo’s editing of the works of Thomas Merton. She has collaborated in and participated as a leader in retreats and workshops in Michigan, Texas, and Florida. Pat received her MFA in Acting from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and has been a professional actress and director for forty years. She has taught acting for Western Michigan University and the University of Texas at Austin. Pat believes her work in the theatre and as an adult religious education leader reinforce her goals for building community, understanding the human condition, and celebrating life and a personal and loving relationship with God.

Complimentary tickets are available for this event. Please contact the Continuing Education Program Coordinator for the Promo Code at (210) 341-1366 x 206 or email Veronica Montalvo at [email protected].

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