DUE TO WEATHER, DOM MARK SCOTT HAS HAD TO POSTPONE HIS VISIT TO CHICAGO. THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
Cosponsored by the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage at Loyola University Chicago
$500 Host Committee (includes 8 tickets) / $40 General / $10 students
5:30pm Hors d’oeuvres reception
6:30pm Talk and Q&A
7:30pm Close
Christian monasticism began in the 3rd century when St. Anthony sought God (and battled demons) outside of Alexandria. In a sense, the story of New Melleray Abbey begins there with the “Desert Fathers” and continues through St. Benedict and his Rule (5th century), the Cistercian reform led by St. Bernard of Clairvaux (12th century), the austere reforms of La Trappe in Normandy (17th century), and, in the 19th century, the planting of Trappist Cistercian monasticism at Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky by monks from France and at New Melleray in Iowa by Irish monks . In a rare public talk, the Abbot of New Melleray will tell the story of the abbey in light of this longer history.