Bon Secours center slates workshops

Bon Secours Spiritual Center, 1525 Marriottsville Road, Marriottsville, will offer "Grounded in Gratitude," a workshop focused on the seasons and their changes, challenges, beauty and constancy, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow.

Stories, music, art and quiet time will help participants discover the gifts of winter and cultivate its seeds of growth.

The cost is $55 and includes lunch and art supplies.

The center will celebrate "40 Years of Peace, Healing and Hope" with an open house from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.

An "Icon Workshop: A Time for Gazing" is scheduled from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. The workshop will focus on how icons are reflective of the mystery of grace.

Information: 410-442-1320 or www. bonsecoursspiritualcenter.org.

Meditation seminar set at interfaith center

The Vikatadamshtri Buddhist Center, 2937 N. Charles St., Baltimore, will present a meditation seminar, "Keeping Your Cool: Patience as Antidote to Anger," from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. tomorrow at Oakland Mills Interfaith Center, 5885 Robert Oliver Place, Columbia.

Participants can learn to identify anger in its early stages and understand its negative effects.

The cost is $30.

Information: 410-243-3837, or www. MeditationMd.org.

Jewish Student Union to offer lecture at HCC

The Howard Community College Jewish Student Union will sponsor a lecture and discussion by educator Rebbetzin Chanie Baron from 12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. Feb. 19 in ELB 100 (the Kittleman Room of the English, Languages and Business Building), 10901 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia.

A free lunch is included. Everyone is invited.

Reservations: Sue Bard, 410-772-4887, or e-mail, sbard@howardcc.edu.

'The Passion of the Lord' at Shrine of St. Anthony

The Shrine of St. Anthony, 12290 Folly Quarter Road, near Glenelg, will begin the Lenten season with an enactment of the Passion, The Passion of the Lord, performed by the Torchlight Players of Frederick County, at 7 p.m. today.

Admission is free.

Reconciliation, the sacrament of penance, is available year round from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays, and from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Fridays, except on the first Friday of each month when a healing Mass is held at 7:30 p.m.

Information: 410-531-2800.

Musical experience at Sunday gathering

Journeys Community, a nontraditional spiritual group, will offer a musical experience meant to lift the spirit and touch the heart at 10 a.m. Feb. 17 in the second-floor auditorium of Vantage House, 5400 Vantage Point Road, Columbia.

The group meets at 10 a.m. Sundays to explore spirituality using music, video, reflection and meditation.

Information: 410-730-6079, or www.journeyscommunity.org.

Take a course at Lubavitch Center

The Lubavitch Center for Jewish Education, 770 Howes Lane, Columbia, is offering a six-week Rohr Jewish Learning Institute course, "Beyond Belief: Reflections on Jewish Faith, Reason and Experience," at 10 a.m. Sundays.

The classes, which present the Torah's perspective on important questions addressed by all religious faiths, are designed to help students understand how Jewish beliefs can bring meaning to their lives and guide their choices.

The cost is $75, with a 20 percent discount for additional family members, and includes the text. Registration: 410-740-2424, or www.myJLI.com.

The Lubavitch center is offering bricks for sale in its newly completed courtyard. The bricks, which can be engraved with a text of the purchaser's choice, can memorialize a loved one, celebrate a child or honor someone important in the purchaser's life.

To submit a request for prayers for someone who is ill: www.lubavitch ofhowardcounty.org.

Trip to Baltimore basilica planned for Feb. 20

The Howard County Department of Recreation and Parks will sponsor a trip for those ages 55 and older to the Basilica of the Assumption in Baltimore from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 20.

The first cathedral built in the United States, the Baltimore basilica, designed by architect Benjamin Latrobe, recently celebrated its 200th anniversary with a $32 million restoration project. The trip involves walking; lunch is on your own at the Inner Harbor. The cost is $35.

Information or registration: 410-313-7320 or 410-313-7279.

Two talks remain in Beth Shalom series

Beth Shalom Congregation, 8070 Harriet Tubman Lane, Columbia, is offering a series of talks by Rabbi Susan Grossman, "A Study in Comparative Religions from a Jewish Perspective," at 7:45 p.m. Tuesdays, through Feb. 19.

Next week's session deals with Islam; the Feb. 19 session, with Confucius and the Buddha.

The cost is $20 for Beth Shalom members; $28 for nonmembers.

Registration is available for individual classes at a reduced rate.

Information: 410-531-5115.

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