Transportation will be provided from Hyde Park. Open to current university students and faculty. Cosponsored by Calvert House.
Join us for an edifying evening of prayer, dinner, and conversation with Benedictine monks at the Monastery of the Holy Cross on the south side of Chicago. Attendees will participate in prayer of the Divine Office (Vespers and Compline), have dinner, and discuss Romano Guardini’s classic work The Spirit of the Liturgy with Prior Peter Funk. Following the monastic tradition of the oral reading of a text during meals, the students will listen to selections from The Spirit of the Liturgy while they eat, then discuss what they’ve heard, relating it to their own experiences and to the liturgy at the monastery.
More information about the monastery can be found HERE.
SCHEDULE
4:15pm Meet at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th St.)
4:30pm Depart from Hyde Park
5:00pm Arrive at the Monastery, welcome by Prior Funk
5:15pm Office of Vespers
6:00pm Dinner & Discussion
7:15pm Office of Compline
8:00pm Arrive back in Hyde Park
Students are also invited to a discussion with Fr. Peter on May 15 on “What is Contemplation?”