Have you ever wondered how to pray? Join us for a lecture by Dr. Daniel Wasserman-Soler, as he explores the spiritual writers on prayer from the Middle Ages – and how they can relate to our life of prayer today.
Grief takes many forms. Contemporary therapeutic approaches often emphasize that there is no right way to grieve: each person's loss is unique. But does the Catholic tradition have more to say about how we should live with loss? Drawing 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.
How can we inhabit the moral imagination in a way that avoids heavy-handed moralism? How can we grow in prudential judgment and spiritual discernment while delighting in the books we get lost in? Literature does not automatically make us wise, the artful subtleties of great literature can help us to locate our "our current position on the continuum that swings from self-deceit to wisdom.” This talk will explore the way the Catholic intellectual tradition sheds light on the inward journey of a reader.
