Date | Time | Activity | Theme | Presenters |
Sunday 17th August | 5:00pm | Orientation | Welcome to Ecce Homo | Sisters Maureen and Rita |
7:00pm | Opening dinner | Welcome and introductions | Opening welcome: Rabbi Dr Alon Goshen-Gottstein on “Why Prayer” |
Monday 18th August | 9:00am | Opening panel | What is Prayer?
| Fr Gregory Collins, Professor Haviva Pedaya, Professor Mohammed Dajani Daoudi
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10:30am | Morning tea |
11:00am | Text study – small groups | Reflections on the meaning of ‘prayer’ –studying sources from each of the traditions | Teachers (afternoon panellists) guide students |
12:30pm | Plenary session - discussion | Feedback from morning sessions | |
1:00pm | Lunch |
2:30pm | Panel | What is Prayer? What prayer means to me. Personal perspectives from religious personalities. | Sr Maureena Fritz; Sheikh Ghassan Manasra; Rabbi Daniel Goldfarb
Muslim perspective - Sheikh Ghassan Manasra;
Jewish perspective – Rabbi Daniel Goldfarb – the Conservative Yeshiva
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4:00pm | Afternoon tea |
4:30pm | Bibliodrama | Stepping inside the prayers of others | Yael Unterman |
7:00pm | Dinner |
8:30pm | Visit to kotel for experience of Jewish prayer | | |
Tuesday 19th August | 9:00am | Text study – small groups (guided by questions) | Sources from each of the traditions on ‘Why We Pray’ | |
10:30am | Morning tea |
11:00am | Panel | Teachers reflect on the sources studied | Professor Haviva Pedaya, Sheikh Ghassan Manasra, Aaart Brons |
12:30pm | Discussion | Feedback from morning’s session | |
1:00pm | Lunch | | |
2:30pm | Bibliodrama | Stepping inside the prayers of others | Yael Unterman |
5:00pm | Lecture | The power of prayer | Rabbi Dr Alon Goshen-Gottstein |
6:00pm | Visit to Dormition Abbey and prayers (Vespers) | | |
7:30pm | Dinner |
8:30pm | Guided stroll around Jerusalem | | |
Wednesday 20th August | 9:00-10:00am; 10:20-11:20; 11:40-12:40 | Master class – sources from our traditions | Teachers guide students through regular, obligatory prayers from their traditions | Peta Jones Pellach, Fr Eamon Kelly, Sheikh Ghassan Manasra |
12:40pm | Lunch |
2:15pm | Lecture and source study | Personal spiritual/mystical prayer. | Dr Paul Fenton |
4:00pm | Afternoon Tea |
4:30pm | Discussion Groups | How I pray – blending obligatory prayer with personal prayer | Peta Jones Pellach; Aaart Brons; Sheikh Ghassan Manasra |
5:30pm | Visit to Wasatia
Followed by visit to mosque
| Diverse expressions of religious commitment | Professor Mohammed Dajani Daoudi |
7:00pm | Dinner
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| Cultural event (optional) | | |
Thursday 21st August | 9:00am | Panel | When We Pray – prayer as a marker of time, through the day, the week and the year | Moderator – Alon Goshen-Gottstein; Fr Gregory Collins, Professor Haviva Pedaya, Sheikh Ghassan Manasra |
10:30am | Morning tea |
11:00am | Text study | Prayers from different traditions for different moments in time. | |
12:30pm | Plenary discussion | Feedback from text study | |
1:00pm | Lunch |
2:30pm | Bibliodrama | Stepping inside the prayers of others | Yael Unterman |
5:00pm | Lecture and discussion | The place of prayer in interfaith dialogue | Dr Yehuda Stolov |
6:30pm | Dinner |
7:30pm | Workshop | Obstacles to joint prayer and how they might be overcome | Led by Alon Goshen-Gottstein |
Friday 22nd August | 9:00am | Text study with guiding questions | Jerusalem in prayer | |
10:00am | Morning tea |
10:30am | Discussion | Feedback on texts | |
11:15am | Presentation | A new vision for Jerusalem | Alon Goshen-Gottstein |
12:30pm | Lunch |
2:00 – 4:00pm | Concluding plenary | Participants and faculty reflect on the process. Orientation to Shabbat in Jerusalem. | |
| Optional Friday night prayers and dinner in Jewish homes | | |
Location: Ecce Homo, Via Dolorosa 41, Jerusalem, Israel