Scapegoating: Breaking the Cycle (A Program for Men) – Saturday, December 6, 2025

Event Phone: 630-969-4141

Saturday, December 6, 2025 — 8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. 

Location:  Carmelite Spiritual Center; 8419 Bailey Road; Darien, IL

Leaders:  Jack Moller and Fr. Bob Colaresi

Throughout history and today scapegoating has been a great social and personal evil.  Rather than deal with our own weaknesses and negativity, we find it easier to transfer our guilt onto some other group, person or things by singling that other out for unmerited negative treatment.  We seem to need another person or group to be against to form our identity or group.

Jack Moller and Bob Colaresi will lead us on a Saturday morning reflection on this prevalent Scapegoating that is a curse today socially and personally, to look at ways to break this vicious cycle.

This Saturday morning gathering is an invitation to go deeper.  To look at the scapegoat mechanism not just as a theological idea, but as a lived reality.  Together, we’ll explore:

• How scapegoating operates in our hearts and relationships
• What it means to confront our own complicity with courage
• How redemptive suffering, forgiveness, and spiritual maturity can break the cycle

This isn’t a lecture.  It’s a time for men who are willing to be honest, vulnerable, and open to transformation.  As brothers, we are called not to perfection but to presence — and this work is sacred ground.

Come ready to wrestle with hard truths.  And to find, perhaps, a deeper kind of freedom.

A program open to all men of faith.

Free will offering.  Pre-registration is important:  To register, call the Carmelite Spiritual Center at 630-969-4141 or register at retreats@carmelitespiritualcenter.org