Peter L. Fritsch's class on the Reality of Evil and How Our Spiritual Lives Can Effectively Overcome Its Destructiveness

I have been reading Peter L. Fritsch's book A Moment of Great Power. Fritsch is an Episcopal priest and he teaches, writes, provides spiritual direction, and is a businessman of some kind in Port Orford, Oregon. I'm undecided about the book. It takes up generational trauma, healing, therapy and psychology, and evil from an Episcopal point of view that is informed by other faith traditions. If you are struggling with generational trauma or experiencing negative paranormal activity then this book may be useful to you. The views expressed in this book are not what you're going to hear from the pulpit.   

I have not read Fritsch's book The Spirituality of the Holy Grail.

I know that many readers of this blog will be interested in the class listed below that is being held in Port Orford.

A Six-Week Class on the Reality of Evil and How Our Spiritual Lives Can Effectively Overcome Its Destructiveness.

Wednesdays January 25, February 1, 8, 15, 22, and March 1. Each class is from 11 a.m. - 12:15 a.m.
Peter Fritsch, writer, teacher, spiritual director, and Episcopal priest, continues his classes meeting at the Port Orford Library, Wednesdays from 11:12:15 a.m. This next six-week course will focus on the reality of Evil, its destructive force, and how we can recognize, confront, and overcome its ability to discourage, confuse, and destroy our trust in a loving God.

This subject is one all of us have to deal with and work with the paradoxical question: How can a loving God allow evil to exist and do the hurt and destruction it does and is there anything spiritually grounded people can do about it.

Fritsch has written a great deal about his own wrestling with this subject in his most recent publication, The Spirituality of the Holy Grail: Restoring Feminine Spirit in the Western Soul, published by John Hunt Publishing of London. He is currently working on a complete, more extensive book on the same topic.

No matter what one may be struggling with, devastating illness, addictions, personal attacks upon one's character, political or family divisiveness, this class will help people understand the nature of evil, and the reality of the power of a loving God and our relationship to this God, stops, checks, and overcomes the destructive power of evil, and brings goodness and grace to every situation by which we are confronted.

The purpose of the class is to help people realize and use the power of their love, prayer, and meditation life to bring real change to the world about them.

The class is a scholastic teaching and discussion experience, open to the general public. The outline of the topics for each weekly session is as follows.

1. What are the understandings of the source of evil in world philosophical and religious traditions.
2. How to recognize evil in both its collective (corporate) and individual forms which confront us.
3. What are the causes and roots of evil as we understand it in contemporary society?
4. How unconsciousness attributes to both individual and collective evil and the need for conscious awareness.
5. How to deal with evil without becoming a participant in the very evil we are confronting.
6. To learn what we can do in our spiritual capacities/life to confront, transform, and remove the destructiveness of evil in our lives and in the lives of those we love.

Peter has extensive experience and training in this area both prior and after working as a parish priest and counseling, both in the United States and abroad.

Classes begin next Wednesday, January 25th at 11 a.m. There is no fee, and this program is open to all who are interested in growing spiritually and psychologically to bring changes for the good to their lives and the lives of others.

For more information, write an email to Fritsch at plfritsch@hotmail.com or text him at (619) 481 0714.

No registration is required, just come and be present.

Photo is Bene Bufano's St. Francis of Assisi