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SUMMARY:How to Pray as a Catholic | West Suburban Catholic Culture Series
DESCRIPTION:How to Live\, Move\, and Be as a Catholic\n2026-2027 Series\n  \nREGISTER BELOW\n6:30 p.m. Doors Open  |  7:00 p.m. Dinner  |  7:30 p.m. Lecture and Q&A  |  8:30 p.m. Close \nBusiness casual attire encouraged. For more information\, please contact Margaux Taffet at mtaffet@lumenchristi.org. \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 makers 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  \nSeptember 23:\nHow to Pray as a Catholic\nHave you wondered about how to pray — whether to recite a traditional prayer or just say what is on your mind? whether to sit\, kneel or stand? whether to pray silently or aloud? The wide range of self-help books related to prayer suggests that many people today are looking for guidance. This is not new. Even before the printing press developed in the fifteenth century\, Catholic writers published books to assist both lay people and clergy with their prayer lives. This talk will provide an overview of Catholic prayer traditions in the Middle Ages and the Reformation era. It will focus on the work of one Dominican friar from Spain — Louis of Granada (1504-1588) — who made it his life’s work to help his fellow Catholics to pray. Though they lived centuries before us\, the spiritual writers of the Middle Ages and Reformation still can teach us how to pray as Catholics.   \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\, St. Irenaeus Institute \n  \nSpring Calendar\nMarch 10\, April 14\, May 12 \n  \nRegistration Form
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/wsccs-sep-2026/
LOCATION:Ruth Lake Country Club\, 6200 South Madison Street\, Hinsdale\, IL
CATEGORIES:West Suburban Series,Cultural Forum
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