Our Events

Intended for current university students. Others interested in attending please contact info@lumenchristi.org. Join us for an evening of prayer with Benedictine Monks at the Monastery of the Holy Cross. Students will participate in the prayer of the Divine Office (Vespers and Compline), dine with the monks, and learn about the Benedectine tradition of Sacred Reading or Lectio Divina with […]

Russell Hittinger (University of Tulsa) This lecture will compare the great pontificates that represented two “modern times”: Leo XIII at the end of the 19th century and John Paul II at the end of the 20th. Between Leo’s birth in 1810 to JPII’s death in 2005, the lived experience of these two men encompass all […]

Tuesdays, April 7-May 19 Gavin House, 1220 East 58th Street 6:00pm: Dinner 6:30pm: Presentation Paul Mankowski, S.J. (Lumen Christi Institute Scholar-in-Residence) REGISTER HERE Open to current university students and recent graduates. Others interested in attending please contactinfo@lumenchristi.org. “This book is solely an expression of my personal search ‘for the face of the Lord’.”  Pope Benedict XVI’s Jesus […]

Lewis Ayres (University of Durham) To understand the exegetical culture that nurtured and formed classical Patristic exegesis, we must attend to some understudied features of the generation of Irenaeus and Clement of Alexandria. This generation, in response to the exegetical cultures of ‘Gnostic’ thinkers, developed the exegetical practice that became fundamental for all later Christian […]

Brian Daley, S.J. (University of Notre Dame) REGISTER HERE This master class seminar will cover the theological and doctrinal issues surrounding the First Council of Nicaea, focusing on the Arian controversy over the nature of Christ in relation to the Father. Participants will read and discuss primary texts from the early Nicene controversy with one […]

Saturday, April 18, 3:00pm Le Jardin at the First Division Museum, Cantigny Park, Wheaton, IL $5 Parking; Free concert admission. DETAILS HERE Sunday, April 19, 2:00pm Art Institute of Chicago Concert included with museum admission. DETAILS HERE Schola Antiqua celebrates the fascination with arms and battle in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, particularly in the realm of […]

Due to the funeral of our friend, supporter, and Episcopal Moderator His Eminence Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I. taking place on Thursday, we will unfortunately have to cancel the event with Giuseppe Mazzotta on “Dante’s Theology of the Future.” If you have already paid a registration fee, you will be refunded in the coming days. We […]

Giuseppe Mazzotta (Yale University) Keynote Lecture for the Graduate Student Conference on “Amor Vincit Omnia: Love as a Destructive Force in Italian Arts and Literature” Sponsored by: The Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Norman Waite Harris Fund, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Chicago, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Department of […]

How does today’s economy impact the modern family? Several trends link mounting burdens on family life to economics: children are raised amid familial and fiscal instability, young people are delaying or forgoing marriage, the elderly are made increasingly vulnerable with a growing distance between generations and rising health care costs, and the families of economic […]

Jean-Luc Marion (University of Chicago) cosponsored by the Philosophy Department How is it possible to admit a rational truth that at the same moment could not be achieved by mere rationality? This implies a revision of the definition of knowing, and of the relation between will and understanding. Saint Augustine and Pascal – with some […]