The Lumen Christi Institute follows St. Paul’s injunction to attend to whatever is true, noble, right, admirable, and lovely (Phil 4:8). LCI supports this endeavor by sponsoring a number of graduate student reading groups that may explore any genre, theme, time, and place. Reading groups are rooted in friendship, hospitality, and the pursuit of truth. They do not claim to offer a definitive reading or teaching of the text nor do they need to be explicitly Catholic. A successful reading group approaches a text with humility, reading a work on its own terms, uncovering its meanings and what is at

Christ is Risen! On Easter Sunday, I write to tell you about St. Mary of Egypt, who is remembered by the Catholic Church on April 2 – Holy Thursday this year.

Rose Johnson, one of our Development Associates, tells her story of how Lumen Christi has shaped her adult relationship with Christ, especially during her time as a graduate student at UChicago.