{"id":149428,"date":"2026-03-26T20:58:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/149428\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T20:58:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:58:06","slug":"waymarks-toward-reunions-feast-held-at-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/149428\/","title":{"rendered":"Waymarks Toward Reunion\u2019s \u2018Feast\u2019 Held at Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Scranton\u00a0recently marked the opening of <a href=\"https:\/\/news.scranton.edu\/articles\/2026\/02\/news-beldio-art-grant.shtml\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Waymarks Toward Reunion<\/a>, a yearlong pilot program in sacred art and theology, with an opening event, titled, \u201cA Feast in the Wilderness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Directed by visiting assistant professor Patrick\u00a0Beldio, MFA, Ph.D., the\u00a0March 8\u00a0gathering featured a lecture,\u00a0meal\u00a0and\u00a0concert at the DeNaples Center and an evening Mass at Madonna della Strada Chapel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat filled the day was love, intention and care,\u201d Dr.\u00a0Beldio\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>In his opening remarks, Dr.\u00a0Beldio\u00a0reflected on major spiritual milestones that have shaped his own formation. He pointed to the Council of Nicaea in 325, the death of St. Francis of Assisi in 1226, St. Ignatius of Loyola\u2019s turning away from military life during his time in Manresa, the beginning of Meher Baba\u2019s decades-long silence in 1925 and the founding of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in 1926 as\u00a0helping\u00a0frame the program as a meeting point of his work as an artist, scholar and teacher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The University of Scranton\u00a0recently marked the opening of Waymarks Toward Reunion, a yearlong pilot program in sacred art&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[56589,56590,178,180,179,274,51163],"class_list":["post-149428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-a-feast-in-the-wilderness","tag-paul-kollman","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-the-university-of-scranton","tag-waymarks-toward-reunion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}