Mark Seven Bible Institute
To register online, please click here: REGISTRATION 2010.
Program Date: Wednesday, June 9 – Saturday, June 19, 2010
Program Fee: $495.00
Geared for Deaf Adults, 18 years old and upward.
Mark Seven Bible Institute
Study Week/Retreat 2010
Responding to the call of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) and, more recently, the 12th Ordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops (2008), the Mark Seven Bible Institute aims to provide a deeper encounter with Christ in the Bible for Deaf Catholics. Established by the V. Revd. Thomas Coughlin, Br. Adam Zawadzki, and Matthew Hysell in 2006, each summer at Camp Mark Seven, MSBI hosts a study week/retreat on a major aspect of Biblical literature, beginning with the Gospel According to John (2006), the Gospel According to Mark (2007), the Gospel According to Matthew (2008) and, in honour of the Pauline Year, Luke-Acts (2009).
Since Pope +Benedict XVI has declared 19 June 2009-19 June 2010 to be the “Year of the Priest“, MSBI will again host a study week/retreat on 9-19 June 2010 on the Letter to the Hebrews. We will learn about the Catholic Church’s doctrine of Holy Orders, the meaning of Christ’s priesthood, and the “royal priesthood” of all the baptized. Each day will feature three workshops, two celebrations of the sacred liturgy, shared meals, and nightly events. During the week we will visit two pilgrimage shrines, shop in Old Forge and Eagle Bay, and enjoy the beauty of the Adirondack Mountains and Fourth lake.
All people who are Deaf or fluent in ASL are welcome! Please contact Brother Adam Zawadzki or Matthew Hysell for more information, or go here to register.
For more information on the Mark Seven Bible Institute, please visit our website at www.Mark7BibleInstitute.org
Sample Schedule:
7:30 Lectio Divina (Meditative Reading of Scripture)
8:00 Breakfast
9:00 Workshop I
9:45 break
10:00 Workshop II
10:45 break
11:00 Workshop III
11:45 break
11:55 Angelus in the Chapel
12:00 Lunch, followed by siesta or recreation
3:00 Workshop IV
3:45 break
4:00 Group Discussion/Activity
5:00 Holy Eucharist
5:30 Supper
7:00 Film
10:00 Office of Compline (Night Prayer)
Featured Staff
V. Revd. Thomas J. Coughlin, O.P.Miss. is the founder and Supreme Moderator of the Dominican Missionaries for the Deaf Apostolate and co-founder with Matthew G. Hysell of the Mark Seven Bible Institute. Fr. Coughlin will serve as our chaplain and spiritual director as well as our liturgical presider. The first Deaf priest in the United States, Fr. Coughlin earned his B.A. in English Literature at Gallaudet College in 1974 and his M.A. in Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America in 1977. He currently resides in San Antonio, Texas, at the Motherhouse of the Congregation, where he has also been appointed to of the Catholic Deaf community at San Francisco di Paola Parish by the Metropolitan Archbishop of San Antonio, His Grace the Most Reverend +José Gomez, S.T.D.
Brother Adam Zawadzki, O.P.Miss. is a student-brother with the Dominican Missionaries for the Deaf Apostolate. Brother Adam received his A.A. in American Sign Language at Vinceness University in 2001 and is currently working toward his B.A. in Religious Studies at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas, after which he will begin studies toward his M.Div. at the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, in preparation for ordination to the transitional diaconate and priesthood. Brother Adam has been working with the MSBI since its inception in 2006. In 2007, he was the primary speaker, presenting the Gospel According to Mark.
Matthew G. Hysell, M.A., M. Th is the co-founder of Mark Seven Bible Institute and has directed the programme since its inception in 2006. Matthew, a native of Michigan, received his B.A. in philosophy from the City University of New York, Hunter College, in New York City in 2002 and recently completed his M.A. in systematic and philosophical theology at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, California. Matthew is currently serving his pastoral internship in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, where he completed his M.Th. (Master of Theology) degree at Newman Theological College. Matthew has worked full-time in pastoral ministry since 1999, first under the direction of Fr. Coughlin until 2002, and again from 2005—2007. Now he serves at St. Mark’s Catholic Community of the Deaf as Pastoral Support and St Theresa’s Catholic Parish in Mill Woods, the largest parish in Western Canada.
