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Tuesdays, Oct. 7-Nov. 25 Gavin House, 1220 East 58th Street 6:00PM Informal Dinner 6:30PM Presentation Fr. Paul Mankowski, S.J. REGISTER HERE He left a powerfully personal and enduring stamp on his and subsequent civilizations, while almost nothing is known of the man himself.  Isaiah was not Israel’s first prophet, yet can be said to have created once-for-all the terms of prophetic expression.  The vigor, clarity and assurance with which he conveyed his oracles imposed a characteristic shape on prophecy that to this day remains unbroken.  As a poet, further, he brought into being a family of images so vital as...

Anna Bonta Moreland (Villanova University) In this luncheon presentation, Argentinian-born theologian Anna Bonta Moreland employs Pope Francis’s Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (Joy of the Gospel) as a roadmap to the Pope’s vision for the Church and the Christian life as a call to evangelization.  She  shows how the Apostolic Exhortation is representative of how Pope Francis thinks through most issues.

A book talk and screening of documentary film-in-progress with Abbie Reese cosponsored by the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and Calvert House Abbie Reese will share the process entailed in a long-term oral history and visual arts project that is the basis for her recent book, Dedicated to God: An Oral History of Cloistered Nuns (Oxford University Press, 2014) and her documentary film in-progress, Chosen (Custody of the Eyes). Set within the insular realm of the Corpus Christi Monastery, Chosen (Custody of the Eyes) is a collaborative ethnographic and documentary film in-progress that emerges from research starting in 2005 and an ongoing relationship...

“Uncloistered: Sounds from the Convent” Saturday, October 25: 8:00pm Sacred Heart Parish, Winnetka, IL Sunday, October 26: 3:30pm St. Clement Church, Chicago, IL A concert by Schola Antiqua of Chicago Tickets available online or at the door (cash, check or credit)$25 adults / $10 student and senior An expanded roster of outstanding female voices presents a wide-ranging program of music heard in convents before the turn of the seventeenth century. The ensemble will lure listeners into the sound world of nuns across medieval and early modern Europe, with soaring chants by Hildegard von Bingen, scintillating early polyphony from the Codex Las Huelgas,...

Join us on the Feast of All Saints for Solemn Vespers, dinner, and conversation with Prior Peter Funk at the Monastery of the Holy Cross. For Solemn Vespers, the monks will sing traditional Gregorian chant and be accompanied by its choir-in residence Schola Laudis. This is a rare opportunity to experience prayer with beautiful sacred music in its proper liturgical setting. To read more about Solemn Vespers at the monastery, visit HERE. SCHEDULE: 4:30pm: Depart from Hyde Park 5:00pm: Welcome and Introduction 5:15pm: Office of Solemn Vespers 6:00pm: Dinner and discussion with Fr. Peter Funk 7:15pm: Office of Compline 8:00pm: Arrive...

Rémi Brague (Sorbonne/University of Munich) cosponsored by the France Chicago Center at the University of Chicago We commonly conceive of the Good as being what we should do, sharing Aristotle’s rejection of Plato’s Idea of the Good and his reduction of the good to what can be done by a free subject. Since this subject is a human being, it must first come to be by being born, a process in which we don’t “do” anything and are radically non-free. To what extent can we call this process “good”? If not, we cannot  ensure the perpetuation of humankind. Should humankind...

A master class discussion on On the God of the Christians (and one or two others) by Rémi Brague with Rémi Brague (Sorbonne/University of Munich) REGISTER HERE In this one-off seminar, participants will discuss the bookOn the God of the Christians with the author, philosopher Rémi Brague. They will discuss Prof. Brague’s philosophical treatment of the unique character of the Christian conception of God among religions and philosophies. Topics will include the nature of Christian monotheism; revelation; the relation of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism; the Trinity; the Good; and human freedom. Participants will be provided with a complimentary copy of the book...