Mary Margaret Funk

Sr. Mary Margaret Funk, OSB

Our Lady of Grace Monastery

1402 Southern Avenue

Beech Grove, IN 46107-1160

(317) 787-3287

(317) 780-2398 (fax)

(317) 730-7436 (cell)

email: nunmegfunk@gmail.com

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Mary Margaret Funk

Archives:

University of Notre Dame Archives

Notre Dame Indiana 46556

Education:

MA Catholic University (1973) Religion and Religious Education

MS Indiana University (1979) Adult Education

Post Graduate Studies: CUA 1982-83

Graduate of Epiphany Certification Program of Formative Spirituality (2002)

Certificates: Selection Research Incorporated Interview Perceiver (teacher, admin. Religious)

Experience:

1961: Member of Our Lady of Grace Benedictine Monastery, Beech Grove, Indiana

1965-1969: Elementary school teacher, St. Barnabas Catholic School, Indianapolis

1969-1983: Administrator, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis in catechetics

1983-1984: Postgraduate studies Catholic University, DC

1984: Bolivia

1984-1985: Administrator Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville in catechetics

1985-1993: Prioress, Our Lady of Grace Monastery, Beech Grove, Indiana

1988 Development Education for Religious Communities sponsored by Lilly Endowment

1994-2004: Executive Director, Monastic Interreligious Dialogue (MID) Board

1995-2001: Lalitha Krishnan. Personal mentoring in Hindu scriptures, rituals and gurus. Three pilgrimages to India. She moved to Beech Grove with Margaret Laulor to assist with MID.

2003-2007: Director, School Of Lectio Divina at Benedict Inn, Beech Grove, Indiana

2005-7: Consultant for Kylemore Abbey, Connemara IRELAND

2007-2008: Prioress Administrator Kylemore Abbey, Connemara IRELAND

2008-2011: Consultant for Glencairn Abbey, IRELAND

2008-2015 Writer and teacher of The Matter Series

2010-2013 School of Lectio with St. Joseph Monastery Tulsa OK Benedictines

2010-2014 School of Lectio with St. Paul Monastery St. Paul MN Benedictines

2010-2014 School of Discernment St. Paul Monastery St. Paul MN Benedictines

2009-2016 teach Matter Series at Abby of Gethsemani Novitiate

2009-present: Consultant to Sister Joyce Weller, DC Los Angeles CA

2010-15 Retreats: for Mepkin Abbey, SC,

*Novice Guardians of UK gathered at Noddfa Wales,

*Anglican Sisters of the Incarnation in Oxford England,

*Cistercian monks Mt.St. Bernard's England,

* Junior Course Cistercians St. Joseph Roscrae Ireland,

*Junior Course Cistercians Mt. Melleray, Ireland,

*Oblates Beech Grove,

*Oblates Rock Island,

*Daughters of Charity Evansville Indiana,

*Day of Discernment for St. Joseph Benedictines Tulsa,

*Day of Discernment St. Paul MN,

*Contemplative Nuns Gathering Dalgan, Ireland,

*Muslim Catholic Dialogue St. Cloud University MN.

*Contemplative Outreach: Snowmass, Denver, Indianapolis

*Jane Owen Legacy Lecture New Harmony Indiana "Friendship"

*Retreat Stanbrook Abbey UK

*Retreat Daughters of Charity Evansville

*Retreat Benedictine Monks of Morristown NJ

*School of Lectio St. Paul MN (2005-2015)

*Public lecture: Ceaseless Prayer St. Paul MN

*Pittsburg Contemplative Outreach

*Women Touched By Grace: Thoughts Matter

*St. Benedict's Center Schuyler NE: Merton's Legacy

*Spiritual Direction Internship at Beech Grove: Desert Tradition

*Novitiate Gethsemani Abbey teaching Julian of Norwich

*Mission Committee of Sponsor Ascension 2016-17

Mission Committee of Board of Directors St. Vincent Indiana 2017-2019

St. Vincent Indiana Hospital Chaplains Retreat Day 2017

*Retreat Elk Horn NE Abbey 2017

*Ash Wednesday Retreat 2017 Benedict Inn

*Novice Institute Benedictines 2017

*World Day of Prayer for Contemplative Outreach 2018 On line

*Mission and Mentoring St. Vincent Leadership March 2018

Invitational Gathering Office of the President Georgetown University

Celebrating the 50 years of Dialogue sponsored by the PCID

Pontifical Council Of Interreligious Dialogue coordinated by

John Borelli. Paper on Monastic Experience of Dialogue

Accomplishments:

Coordinated the Gethsemani Encounter (1996) and Gethsemani Encounter II (2002)

Coordinated the Benedict's Dharma Conference (2001 and 2003)

Coordinated the first Nuns in the West (NITW) gathering in Los Angeles, Hsi Lai Temple (2003)

Participated in NITW III (2008) and NITW IV (2011)

Spoke at the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago (1993)

Coordinated and participated in the 6th Spiritual Exchange Program in 1995 (formal exchange program between USA and India/Tibet)

Participated in formal dialogue programs with Hindu, Zen Buddhist, Muslim, Confucian, and Taoist practitioners

Coordinated The MID Bulletin twice a year

Coordinated the website www.monasticdialog.com (73 issues)

Coordinated moving the MID archives to Notre Dame University Archives

Taught in the School of Lectio Divina in Tulsa, OK (2009-2014))

Taught in the School of Lectio Divina in St. Paul, MN (2005-2015)

Retreat on Lectio Divina Transfiguration Monastery Cincinnati Ohio (July 2018)

Parish Conversation St Thomas Indianapolis December 5, 2018: Renouncing Violence

Georgetown University Celebration of 50 years of PCID Invitational reflection on Dialogue

(details above)

Lilly Endowment young pastors. Indianapolis Alexander Hotel 2019. Thoughts Matter

Retreat St. Anselm's Abbey Washington DC 2019

Conference 7 with Abbot James Wiseman on Jon Roosbroec

Renouncing Violence: Advent programs St. Pius X December 2019

St. Enda 100 day virtual retreat through voice memos March 1st-July 11th, 2020

St. Enda 100 day virtual retreat co-teaching with Kathleen Cahalan 8/1/2020-11/11/2020

Published works:

Thoughts Matter (Continuum, 1998) is an updating of the teaching of the fourth century desert father, John Cassian, on the eight "afflictive thoughts" that impede spiritual life.

Tools Matter (Continuum, 2001) is on both ancient and modern practices that help us with our "afflictive thoughts" and help us to lift up our thoughts in prayer.

Humility Matters (Continuum, 2005) is on the teaching on humility of St. Benedict.

Islam Is...An Experience of Dialogue and Devotion (Lantern Books, 2003)

What Catholics Should Know About Islam (St. Anthony Messenger Update, 2004)

Revelation Catholic & Muslim Perspective (USCCB Publication No. 5-630. 2006)

Islam Is...An Experience of Dialogue and Devotion (Lantern Books, 2nd Edition 2008)

Lectio Matters: Before the Burning Bush: Through the Revelatory Texts of Scripture, Nature and Experience (Continuum, 2010) is a clear teaching from the Alexandrian School for catechumens (Didaskeleion) that is recommended by the Rule of St. Benedict

Lectio Matters in Polish: http://multibook.pl/pl/p/Mary-Margaret-Funk-OSB-Przed-krzewem-gorejacym.-O-czytaniu-slowa-Bozego/4229

Into the Depths: Memoirs of Bolivia (Lantern Books, 2011)

Thoughts Matter, Tools Matter, Humility Matters, Lectio Matters, Revisions, Discernment Matters Published by Liturgical Press Collegeville MN. 2013 (five book set: MatterSeries)

America Magazine August 19, 2016 Interview by Judith Valente on Anger and Politics

Renouncing Violence published by Liturgical Press September 15 2018

Contributed works:

Interview with Patrick Hart, ocso Dilatation Corde Volume 5, Numbers 1%2 January-December 2015 Lantern 2016

Interfaith Friendship. Edited by James Frederick (Palsgrave 2015)

Lectio Divina. Written for Oxford Handbook on Late Antiquity, but not published.

Gethsemani Encounter, 1996 (Continuum, 1998) edit. Don Mitchell & James Wiseman

Benedict's Dharma (Riverhead, 2001) edited Patrick Henry

Purity of Heart (Continuum, 2001) edit. Joseph Wong and Bruno Barnhart

Transforming Suffering (Doubleday, 2003)

A Monastic Vision for the 21st Century (Cistercian Publications, 2006) edit. Patrick Hart

Listen I, II, III Constitutions of Federation of Saint Gertrude. Both writer and facilitator

"Retrieving, Reclaiming and Reappropriating Monastic Life Today" in Living in the Meantime (Paulist Press, 1994) edit. Paul Philibert, OP

Forward Praise the Name of the Lord by Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald. Lit Press 2016

Endorsement: Rule of Benedict by Georg Hplzherr

Book Review: Do not Stifle the Spirit: Conversations with Jaques Dupuis

Book Review: The Church has left the Building. Cistercian Studies Quarterly. Vol 52.4. 2017

Give Us This Day Reflections published Liturgical Press. edited by Mary Stommes. 2000-2020

Articles Published in:

America Magazine

US Catholic

DIM Bulletin (UK)

Benedictine

St. Anthony Messenger

Living Light

Book Reviews:

Praise the Name of the Lord, by Bishop Michael Fitzgerald

Over 50 reviews published in Cistercian Studies, Living Light, MID Bulletin and the Merton Seasonal Reader, Worship, Cistercian Studies

MID/DIM Jaques Dupris and Pope Benedict XVI

Book Endorsements, three or four a year.

Recently: Michael Casey, Joan Chittister, Catherine Stewart, Georg Holzherr, Sam Rahberg,

Chris Manion, John Wimmer, Gerhard Lohfink

Public Presentations:

Speaker: the Gethsemani Encounter (1996) and Gethsemani Encounter II (2002)

Speaker: World's Parliament of Religions, Chicago (1993)

Retreat director: USA, Central America, Europe and India

Speaker: St. John's Collegeville Monastic Institute (4 Institutes gave written papers)

Speaker: Anniversary of Nostra Aetatae Rome San Anselmo and St. Michael's VT

Speaker: Los Angeles Religious Education Congress (7 Conventions)

Speaker: Islamic Society of North America Convention (2005)

Speaker: What is Prayer? Princeton University (2007)

2013 Closed blog: megfunk.com now use Amazon Author page

Board Memberships:

Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambride, MA (1980-1985)

St. Meinrad School of Theology, St. Meinrad, IN (16 years between 1985 and 2005)

Monastic Interreligious Dialogue Board of North America (1987-2005)

Thomas Keating's Contemplative Outreach Faculty and/or Board of Trustees (1989 - 2001)

Mission Committee: Sponsors of Ascension.org St. Louis 2016-2017.

Mission Committee Ascension St. Vincent Hospital Bard 2017 -2019.

Archives:

Archives for Sr. Meg Funk are available at University of Notre Dame Archives.

Attention Kevin Cawley