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SUMMARY:How to Grieve as a Catholic | West Suburban Catholic Culture Series
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER BELOW\n6:30 p.m. Doors Open  |  7:00 p.m. Dinner  |  7:30 p.m. Lecture and Q&A  |  8:30 p.m. End \nBusiness casual attire encouraged. For more information\, please contact Margaux Taffet at mtaffet@lumenchristi.org. \nGrief takes many forms. We grieve the death of those we love\, but also broken relationships\, lost abilities\, unrealized hopes\, and ways of life that cannot be ours. Contemporary therapeutic approaches often emphasize that there is no right way to grieve: each person’s loss is unique\, and each must find a way through it. But does the Catholic tradition have more to say about how we should live with loss? \nDrawing on interviews with grief counselors and chaplains alongside St. Augustine and the Catholic intellectual tradition\, this talk will explore what grief reveals about love and its right ordering. What does it mean to acknowledge the goodness of what has been lost without believing it was ever simply ours to possess? How can we honor our profound capacity to love without allowing longing to become despair? And how might grief itself become a work of love\, reorienting us toward the good of other persons and ultimately toward God? \n  \nSeries Description\nHow to Live\, Move\, and Be as a Catholic\nIn the ancient world\, religious adherents were set apart by special dress\, diet\, and customs. Yet in the 2nd century Letter to Diognetus\, the anonymous writer observes that Christians didn’t distinguish themselves from other people by a special abode\, a special language\, special attire\, or a special diet.    \nChristians are truly a people “set apart” and sanctified\, but what distinguishes the Christian people if not the traditional markers of culture? Catholics cook with a wide variety of spices and ingredients; attend all kinds of schools; are drawn to different kinds of art and music; and wear all kinds of clothes. Catholic life and worship looks very different in France from what it looks like in Rwanda\, which in turn differs from Catholicism in Japan\, the United States\, or Poland.   \nTo be Catholic — which means “concerning the whole” — means that everything about our lives relates back to our Faith. Yet it also means that there is a dynamic interaction between our Faith and the circumstances of our lives. To “cook as a Catholic” means something important\, something deeply connected to our innermost being\, but it is not a rigid set of procedures or list of prohibited foods. \nFor the 2026-2027 West Suburban Catholic Culture Series\, we would like to invite you to join us in considering how to view the “ordinary” elements of our lives through the wisdom and tradition of the Catholic Church — but without reducing the wisdom and tradition of the church to a single method or fashion. Lectures this year will consider how to live in that tension with imagination\, discernment\, and with that “peace which surpasseth all understanding.”  \n  \nFall Calendar\nSeptember 23: How to Pray as a Catholic | Daniel Wasserman-Soler\, Lumen Christi Institute \n October 28: How to Grieve as a Catholic | Cassandra Sever\, Lumen Christi Institute \nNovember 18: How to Read Literature (and Life) as a Catholic | Joshua Hren\, University of St. Thomas\, Houston; Wiseblood Books \n  \nSpring Calendar\nMarch 10: How to Do Politics as a Catholic | Anna Vincenzi\, Hillsdale College \nApril 14: How to Drink Wine as a Catholic | Jay Martin\, University of Notre Dame \nMay 12: How to Garden as a Catholic | Jennifer Newsome Martin\, University of Notre Dame \n  \nRegistration Form
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/wsccs-oct-2026/
LOCATION:Ruth Lake Country Club\, 6200 South Madison Street\, Hinsdale\, IL
CATEGORIES:West Suburban Series,Cultural Forum
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