Reconstructing a World: Reentry After the Pandemic

Nicholas Collura leads our discussion as we consider the effects of isolation and chronic stress upon our spirits and psyches and offer a contemplative, trauma-informed reflection on "reentry after the pandemic.”

For many of us, the pandemic has shrunk our worlds to the size of a few rooms or a few relationships. As society gradually opens up, we may be anxious about what comes next, not just for our planet but for ourselves.

How can we navigate our fear, our awkwardness, our uncertainty as we begin the next chapter of our lives? How can we reconstruct a world of meaning and social connection as we come blinking back, as it were, into the light of day?


image.png

Nicholas Collura earned a Master of Divinity and trained as a spiritual director at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. He is a board-certified healthcare chaplain, having completed his clinical pastoral education at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and at Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, and he serves as a visiting retreat director at St. Raphaela Center in Haverford, PA. A former Jesuit, he has also ministered on several college campuses, at a L'Arche community in the Pacific Northwest, and at juvenile halls and adult state prisons in California.

Previous
Previous

An Examen for Transition from the Pandemic Year

Next
Next

What's Discernment? And How Can it Help Me Discover God's Will for My Life?