Does Prayer Bring Happiness?
The Monastery of the Holy Cross 3111 South Aberdeen St. Chicago, IL 60608, Chicago, ILThis event was open to university students and faculty, and was co-sponsored by Calvert House. On the evening of February 22nd, students and faculty joined together for an edifying evening of prayer, dinner, and conversation with the Benedictine monks at the Monastery of the Holy Cross on the south side of Chicago. Their evening program consisted of praying the Divine Office (Vespers and Compline), having dinner, and discussing practices of prayer and how these may grow into contemplation that crowns the happy life. Following monastic tradition of oral reading during meals, selections of a patristic text were read during dinner, before being opened with...