The Community at the Crossing—an ecumenical group of young people living for a year on the Cathedral close—regularly hosts distinguished guest scholars and teachers. The Bridge Seminars offer an opportunity to learn from some of these eminent thinkers in an intimate, roundtable setting, side-by-side with members of the Community at the Crossing.

Among the prophetic books, there is perhaps no closer bond of oracle to song, and of psalm to response, than found in the book of Isaiah. Some twenty musical interludes (hymns of praise, summons to praise, and promises of songs to come) unite what many have come to see as a work spanning several centuries. The book of Isaiah will be studied through these hymns, so we may learn to face the One to whom we sing, and who sings to us in return.

The Rev. Dr. Peter A. Heasley is pastor of the Roman Catholic Church of Corpus Christi and Notre Dame in Manhattan. He teaches Scripture at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers and is the author of Prophetic Polyphony about allusion to the psalms in Second Isaiah.

The class schedule is
December 8, 10am - 12pm & 2:30pm - 4:30pm
December 9, 9:30am - 12pm & 2 :30pm - 4 :30pm

Attendance is required at both days of this seminar.