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SUMMARY:Magis Lecture | The Making of St. Ignatius
DESCRIPTION:5:00 Mass*  | 5:45 Drinks & Hors d’Oeuvres  | 6:30 Lecture  | 7:15 End \nREGISTER HERE \nCosponsored by the Bollandist Society\, St. Ignatius College Prep. Supported by the Fr. Paul V. Mankowski\, S.J.\, Memorial Fund for Jesuit Scholarship at Lumen Christi. \nFree and open to the public. Registration required. For questions\, please contact Marial Corona at mcorona@lumenchristi.org. \nAlthough the Church calls upon the saints as heavenly intercessors\, their lives on earth unfold in time and space in the midst of their fellow men. The recognition of the saints’ holiness begins with the people who know them face-to-face\, who often provide divergent testimonies and conflicting images. How do hagiographers sift through a variety of sources—eyewitness testimonies\, narrative accounts\, and physical remains—to write historically reliable lives of the saints? \nIn this lecture\, Fr. Sam Zeno Conedera will explore the contribution of Pedro de Ribadeneyra\, an early Jesuit and the first official biographer of St. Ignatius\, to the hagiography of the Spanish Golden Age. His prodigious literary output\, including multiple lives of Ignatius\, shows how the Society of Jesus has always treated the saints with both devotion and careful historical study and invites us to do the same. \n* The Solemnity of All Saints\, celebrated on November 1\, is a Holy Day of Obligation. \nABOUT THE MAGIS SERIES \nThe Magis Series on Faith and Reason is a partnership between the Lumen Christi Institute and St. Ignatius College Prep to bring accessible yet sophisticated lectures on the Church’s intellectual tradition to the broad lay public. The event is open to everyone from high school students to retirees. No affiliation with St. Ignatius is needed. Anyone who desires a lively entree into the mind of the Church is welcome and encouraged to attend.
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2023-11-making-of-st-ignatius-sam-conedera-s-j-2/
LOCATION:Saint Ignatius College Prep\, 1076 W Roosevelt Rd\, Chicago\, IL
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SUMMARY:Visit to Monastery of the Holy Cross
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nOpen to current university students and faculty. Others interested in attending please contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. Transportation will be provided. \nJoin us 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. We will pray the Divine Office (Vespers and Compline)\, have dinner\, and discuss a spiritual topic with prior of the monastery and University of Chicago alum Fr. Peter Funk\, OSB. Following monastic tradition of oral reading during meals\, selections of a text will be read during dinner and discussion will follow. \nMore information about the monastery can be found here. \nSchedule \n4:15pm   Meet at Gavin House (1220 E. 58th St.)\n4:30pm   Depart from Hyde Park\n5:00pm   Arrive at the Monastery\, welcome by Prior Funk\n5:15pm   Office of Vespers\n6:00pm   Dinner & Discussion\n7:15pm   Office of Compline\n8:00pm   Arrive back in Hyde Park
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2023-04-fall-visit-to-monastery-of-holy-cross/
LOCATION:The Monastery of the Holy Cross\, 3111 South Aberdeen St.\nChicago\, IL 60608\, Chicago\, IL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231108T190000
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SUMMARY:The Revolt of the Masses and the Suicide of Civilization
DESCRIPTION:Open to current undergraduate students at the University of Chicago. Registration is capped at 20. Students who register after capacity has been reached will be put on a waitlist. All registrants will be provided with a free copy of the text. This seminar and the Nicklin Fellows are cosponsored by the First Analysis Institute. \nREGISTER HERE \n“As they say in the United States: ‘to be different is to be indecent.’ The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different\, everything that is excellent\, individual\, qualified\, and select. Anybody who is not like everybody\, who does not think like everybody\, runs the risk of being eliminated.” \nWe live in a world of mass media\, mass markets\, mass hysteria. It is no wonder\, then\, that we have become what the 20th century Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset called “mass man.” While we are constantly making the world around us a better place to live in\, we neglect to make ourselves better persons. We have lost even the aspiration for excellence. \nIn this dinner-time seminar\, we will read Ortega’s masterpiece\, The Revolt of the Masses\, in order to examine how our culture has lost something essential\, and what it means to be more than a face in the crowd. \n\nSCHEDULE \n6:00 PM Dinner | 6:15 PM Discussion | 7:30 PM Close \nOctober 11th: Who is the Mass Man? \nRevolt of the Masses: § 1\, 2\, 3\, 6 \nOctober 25th : Nobility and vulgarity \nRevolt of the Masses: § 7\, 8\, 9 \nNovember 8th: Specialization and the State \nRevolt of the Masses: § 11\, 12\, 13\, 15 \n\nThis event is part of Lumen Christi’s Fundamental Questions seminar\, a quarterly reading group designed for undergraduate students at the University of Chicago. By fostering intellectually rigorous conversation around culturally resonant texts\, we aim to allow students to experience the force of the deep existential concerns which animate our lives: “Where do my values come from? What is the good life? How can I become happy?” Our aim is not to answer such fundamental questions\, but rather to equip students with the intellectual skills needed to recognize and articulate them for themselves. This group welcomes students from all religious and philosophical backgrounds because existential questions of being are of concern to all. \nIn addition\, undergraduate students who participate in this seminar are eligible to become “Nicklin Fellows.” These fellows will have exclusive access to research and development grant funds to pursue their intellectual interests. Grants can be used to do things like the following: \n\nOrganize a reading group\nBring a speaker to campus\nOrganize a movie night\nDevelop and plan future fundamental questions seminars\nWrite a paper for a journal\nAnd more!\n\n 
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2023-10-jose-ortega-s-revolt-of-masses-suicide-of-civilization/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Fundamental Questions Seminar
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SUMMARY:Integrity\, Creation\, and a Restless Heart: Augustine's Contribution to Philosophy - Faith and Reason | West Suburban Catholic Culture Series
DESCRIPTION:The West Suburban Catholic Culture Series returns in 2024 to continue its series on\n“Faith and Reason as the Two Wings:\nThe History and Enduring Importance of Catholic Philosophy“\nREGISTER HERE\n(Business casual attire encouraged. For questions\, please email Marial Corona at mcorona@lumenchristi.org). \nSchedule: 6:30 p.m. Drinks | 7:00 p.m. Dinner\, Lecture\, & Q&A | 8:30 p.m. End \nNovember 9:\nIntegrity\, Creation\, and a Restless Heart: Augustine’s Contribution to Philosophy\nJared Ortiz (Professor of Theology\, Founder and Executive Director of the St. Benedict Institute\, Hope College)\nChristianity integrates wisdom and worship\, something no philosophy can do. Augustine understood this well and changed the parameters of philosophy by insisting that Christ was the true Wisdom philosophers were seeking. Further\, he showed how the world has not always existed but was made by a transcendent God\, who is our ultimate fulfillment. \nIn this lecture\, Prof. Ortiz will argue that the end of the person’s natural search for happiness is deification\, which only happens in Christ and through the Church. \nSERIES DESCRIPTION \nIn his 2006 Regensburg Address\, Pope Benedict XVI argued that “it is necessary and reasonable to raise the question of God through the use of reason\, and to do so in the context of the tradition of the Christian Faith.” \nChristianity shared a sense of “reason” with Greek philosophy. Jesus himself was the Word (Logos)\, the Greek word for reason and speech.  St. Paul himself reminded us that Christian worship is “reasonable worship” (logike latreia) (Rom. 12:1)\, and while love “transcends” knowledge and can perceive more than thought alone\, it remains the love of the God who is Logos (Eph. 3:19). \nFaith and reason support one another; however\, many have tried to tear them asunder. The Reformation tried to get to a “pure” faith without reason; modern atheism has claimed that nothing can be “known” about God. When faith and reason are pulled apart\, we lose sight of God and of ourselves\, since we are made to know and love God. \nIn this year’s WSCCS\, we will challenge the all-too-common assumption that the Church’s faith stands in opposition to reason. Join us as we examine the philosophical\, monastic\, and artistic geniuses who have borne the Church aloft through their engagement and enrichment of worldly wisdom. \nEach month\, we will gather at Ruth Lake Country Club. Over dinner\, we will listen to a sophisticated yet accessible lecture offered by accomplished academics. The lectures will introduce insights from the treasure house of the Church’s intellectual tradition and their bearing on contemporary themes and issues\, presenting faithful Catholic teaching in a way that avoids the acrimony of the culture wars. \nCALENDAR \nSeptember 13: Golden Calf: Philosophy and Theology in the Early Church\nKenneth Calvert (Professor of History\, Director of the Oxford Program\, Hillsdale College) \nOctober 4: The One Thing Necessary: Monasticism and Philosophy\nPrior Peter Funk\, OSB (Monastery of the Holy Cross) \nNovember 9: Integrity\, Creation\, and a Restless Heart: Augustine’s Contribution to Philosophy\nJared Ortiz (Professor of Theology\, Founder and Executive Director of the St. Benedict Institute\, Hope College) \nMarch 20: Catholic Women in the Arts and Sciences: An Underappreciated Tradition\nBronwen McShea (Professor of History\, Augustine Institute) \nApril 10: Is Free Will an Illusion? St. Thomas Aquinas and Human Action\nFr. Stephen Brock (Professor of Medieval Philosophy\, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross) \nMay 15: The Bond of All Creation: Renaissance Humanism and the Incarnate Word\nMatthew Gaetano (Professor of History\, Hillsdale College) \nNOVEMBER SPEAKER \nJared Ortiz
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/integrity-creation-and-a-restless-heart-augustines-contribution-to-philosophy-faith-and-reason-west-suburban-catholic-culture-series/
LOCATION:Ruth Lake Country Club\, 6200 South Madison Street\, Hinsdale\, IL
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SUMMARY:Dionysius the Areopagite Reading Course
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nOpen to current students and faculty at the University of Chicago. Participants can come to whichever sessions they choose. Others interested in participating should contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. Books\, food\, and beverages will be provided.  \nThis reading group explores the key works of Dionysius the Areopagite. A mysterious figure in the Christian tradition\, he presents himself as a friend of both Paul and Plato. Christian theology in East and West remains forever indebted to his contribution. \nA copy of The Complete Works will be provided to all participants. \nSCHEDULE:\nThis group will meet Mondays (beginning October 9th) from 1pm – 2pm. \nOctober 9: The Mystical Theology \nOctober 16: Divine Names | Pt. 1 \nOctober 23: Divine Names | Pt. 2 \nOctober 30: The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy | Pt. 1 \nNovember 6: The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy | Pt. 2 \nNovember 13: The Letters
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2023-10-dionysius/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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SUMMARY:Franz Kafka Graduate Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nOpen to current graduate students at the University of Chicago. Participants can come to whichever sessions they choose. Others interested in participating should contact Sam Landon at snlandontn@gmail.com. Books\, dinner\, and beverages will be provided.  \nHow do you navigate a world beyond comprehension? Do law and justice care about the individual? What are the causes of modern anxieties and can we find peace? \nThese questions and more are raised by the puzzling and alienating worlds of Franz Kafka. Join us at Gavin House on Mondays at 4:30pm for dinner\, drinks\, and discussion as we explore this master of 20th century literature! \nA copy of The Complete Stories will be provided to all participants. \nSCHEDULE:\nThis group will meet on Mondays (beginning October 9th) from 4:30pm – 5:30pm. \n\nOctober 9: Brief Introduction and “Before the Law” (pg. 3-4)\nOctober 16:  “A Hunger Artist” (pg. 268-277)\nOctober 23: “In the Penal Colony” (pg. 140-167)\nOctober 30: “The Refusal” (pg. 263-267)\nNovember 6: “The Burrow” (pg. 325-359)\nNovember 13: “The Problem of Our Laws” & “On Parables” (pg. 437-438 & 457)
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2023-10-kafka-reading-group/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231114T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231114T203000
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SUMMARY:Non-Credit Mini Course | The  Vatican 'Secret' Archives
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, October 31-November 14\n6:00pm: Dinner\n6:30pm: Presentation \nREGISTER HERE \nThis event is in-person only. Intended for university students and the broader university community. Others interested in attending please contact dstrobach@lumenchristi.org. \nRegistrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. Sessions do not presuppose previous attendance or prior knowledge of the subject. \nThe Catholic Church has kept archives from the very beginning. They are a treasure trove for researchers seeking to cast light on controversies such as the Investiture Controversy\, the Crusades\, the Inquisition(s) & the trial of Galileo\, and the alleged “silence” of Pope Pius XII vis-à-vis the Holocaust. This 3-class course will draw on documentation preserved in the Vatican “Secret” [i.e.\, “private”] Archives to clarify the historical record regarding these putative scandals. \nSCHEDULE  \nOctober 31: Paradoxes of the Inquisition \nNovember 7: Shake Hands with the Devil: Modern Genocide from the French Revolution to Rwanda \nNovember 14: The Silence of Pius XII: the Pope Accused
URL:https://lumenchristi.org/event/2023-010-fall-non-credit-course-the-vatican-secret-archives/
LOCATION:Gavin House\, 1220 E 58th St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
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