<p><span style="color: #921a1d;"><strong>God’s Gifts of the Physical and Spiritual Senses • July 22-24 </strong></span><br /><br />Explore the tremendous benefits we receive daily through our amazing, delicate organs of sight, hearing, and feeling, etc., and how they open up to us God’s glorious creation, also human community and culture. We’ll learn that behind these physical senses are spiritual senses of glimpsing “in depth” the ultimate significance of things, hearing with the “ear of the heart,” feeling from the depths, “tasting and seeing that God is good,” etc.  We will discuss how to develop further these spiritual senses and appreciate fuller our physical senses. <br /><br /> <em>Robert Hale was born in Denver, Colorado in 1937. He attended Pomona College, then joined New Camaldoli in 1959, a year after its founding. He with Fr. Bruno were sent to Rome and the Benedictine College for their theology studies, then ordination there. Robert continued studies in spirituality at St. John’s, Collegeville, then Fordham University for a Ph.D.  He then taught in Rome at the Benedictine College, then founded Incarnation Monastery, Berkeley and taught spirituality at the Jesuit School of Theology there. He was then Prior of New Camaldoli from 1988 to 2000, then taught spirituality again at Berkeley.  He has been at the Hermitage now since 2006, is an Oblate Chaplain and teaches the young monks.  He is author of three books on spirituality and many articles, and regularly gives retreats and conferences outside the Hermitage.</em></p>