Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!!
Friends, our guest speaker comes highly recommended by our FF member, Lenore Pardee.
Friendship Force will have Dr. Ned O’Malia as the first guest speaker for 2024! We will learn about the spirituality of northern New Mexico
Northern New Mexico is home to many religious traditions, some modern, some much older and all living in the same geographical area. There are the traditional religions of this area, Roman Catholic, various Protestant denominations, Curanadaras and Hermano Penitenteses. In the early 1960s came new forms of religion into this area.
A Hindu temple in Taos, the Sikhs of Espanola, Zen Buddhists temples, several Tibetan Stupas along the Rio Grande, Christ in the Desert Monastery, A Muslim village in Abiquiu and numerous Spiritual communes following different religious leaders. This is a rich spiritual area Dr. O’Malia will talk about and perhaps even explain.
Dr. O’Malia received his PhD from Temple University. He has instructed at several colleges for over 50 years. The longest of these at the Honors College of the University of New Mexico. His area of instruction is Asian Religions.
He designed a seminar on the Spirituality of northern New Mexico which involved classroom instruction followed by a two week resident in the north visiting and living at these spiritual areas. He instructed this seminar over 25 times. Dr. O’Malia spends considerable time in northern New Mexico. Using a PowerPoint presentation, Dr. O’Malia will discuss many of these communities.
Please make your reservations no later than Thursday, Jan 4, 2024, by calling or texting Berta Wagstaff at 505-710-4448 or emailing her at vets4vets@aol.com.
A late lunch will follow after the presentation.
PLACE: International District Public Library
ADDRESS: 7601 Central Ave. NE
DATE: Saturday, Jan 6, 2024
TIME: 11:30 am
Restaurant: To be determined; any suggestions please let me hear from you!