Our Quadratos Connection
 

Bread of Life has worked alongside Dr. Alexander Shaia, author of The Hidden Power of the Gospels: Four Questions, Four Paths, One Journey, for many years.  Since 2004 we have partnered to offer retreats, public presentations, and to develop an immersion experience for those in spiritual leadership. We find the four-fold path powerfully descriptive of how Grace works in creative process, in the development of community, and in the natural developmental processes of spiritual maturation. It’s about participating in the transforming work of Spirit within and among us, becoming a fully alive human being in the world as it is.

 

Preparing for the Journey

Bread of Life founder and Co-Director Sandra Lommasson and Board member David G. Mullen are regular bloggers on the Quadratos website.

Please go to www.quadratos.com for more information.

Bread of Life offers hosts periodic introductory Quadratos experiences as well as ongoing groups for spiritual leaders engaging the Gospels as spiritual practice and encouraging their communities to do so.

 

Embodying the Journey

Describing the Four-fold Journey

uadratos is a new name for the ancient four-fold journey of spirit and transformation recognized by every major religious faith tradition and found at the heart of Christianity.

The four progressive paths of Quadratos correspond to the four gospels and the four great questions of the spiritual life described below. Each gospel's question and practice is revealed within a particular landscape and its human experience.
The journey is universal, sequential, and cyclical. At its most universal, the pattern of Quadratos is found in our experience of the four seasons and their cycle.

Visit the website for full descriptions at www.quadratos.com

 

1st Movement - Beginning Again/ Receiving the Summons: How do we face change? Climbing the Great Mountain of Matthew/ Autumn Harvest into Letting Go

2nd Movement - Meeting Obstacles /Getting Lost: How do we move through suffering? Crossing Mark's Stormy Sea/ Wandering in the Winter Wilderness

3rd Movement - Awakening to the Gift: How do we receive joy? Resting in John's Glorious Garden / Surprised by Spring

4th Movement - Becoming the Gift: How do we mature in service? Walking Luke's Road of Riches / Bearing Good Fruit in the World

 
Group Collage of the 4-fold Journey
 
Praying the Journey