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CANCELLED Master Class on the Song of Songs

Gavin House 1220 E 58th St., Chicago

DUE TO WEATHER, DOM MARK SCOTT HAS HAD TO POSTPONE HIS VISIT TO CHICAGO. THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Registration required. Open to current students and faculty. Dom Mark Scott, OCSO, will lead students through a Cistercian reading of the Song of Songs with reference to sermons of Bernard of Clairvaux. SCHEDULE 9:30am  Coffee, tea, and pastries 10:00am  Session I 11:00am  Break 11:15am  Session II 12:15pm  Close OPTIONAL PREPARATORY READINGS Song of Songs Bernard of Clairvaux, Collected Works (Paulist Press, 1987). Sermons 1, 2, 3, 8, 50, 74, 80, 83, 84. (PDF link provided when you register.) Dom Mark will...

CANCELLED Monks, Silence, God: The History of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance

Swift Hall, First Floor Common Room 1025 E 58th St,Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park

DUE TO WEATHER, DOM MARK SCOTT HAS HAD TO POSTPONE HIS VISIT TO CHICAGO. THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Theology Club and the Calvert House Catholic Center. Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact us at 773-955-5887 or by email. At this talk Dom Mark Scott, OCSO, abbot of New Melleray Abbey, will give an overview of the history and spirituality of the contemplative monastic order known as the Trappists. Dom Mark will also lead a master class for students on the Song of Songs on January 25. More...

CANCELLED New Melleray Abbey: A Chapter in the Story of Cistercian Trappist Monks in America

Loyola University of Chicago - Water Tower Campus Schreiber Center 16 East Pearson Street Chicago, IL 60611, River North

DUE TO WEATHER, DOM MARK SCOTT HAS HAD TO POSTPONE HIS VISIT TO CHICAGO. THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Cosponsored by the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage at Loyola University Chicago $500 Host Committee (includes 8 tickets) / $40 General / $10 students 5:30pm   Hors d'oeuvres reception 6:30pm   Talk and Q&A 7:30pm   Close Christian monasticism began in the 3rd century when St. Anthony sought God (and battled demons) outside of Alexandria.  In a sense, the story of New Melleray Abbey begins there with the “Desert Fathers” and continues through St. Benedict and his Rule (5th century), the Cistercian reform...