Master Class on “Dark Night and Flame of Love: The Mysticism of John of the Cross”
Registration is required. Open to current university students and faculty. A copy of John of the Cross: Selected Writings (Paulist Press, 1987) will be provided for registrants. The Discalced Carmelite friar, Juan de la Cruz (1542-91), is one of the most famous of Catholic mystics. This one-time Master Class will present a synopsis of John’s mystical teaching as found in some of his noted poems, as well as the four prose works he composed as commentaries on these allusive and beautiful verses. John’s use of both poetry and prose raises issues about the relation of these two literary forms in…
How Catholics Can Realize the Royal Priesthood of the Laity and Rebuild a Church in Crisis
You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, Stitcher, TuneIn, ListenNotes, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Google Play Music. To view photos of the address, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. To read the published version of the address in Commonweal, click here. You can download the event poster here. $30 Student (with ID) / $60 General / $600 Host Committee Registration includes lunch. The Church has long taught that all baptized Christians share in Christ’s royal priesthood, and that we are “a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people,” who should “declare the wonderful deeds of him who…
“The Mystery of Hope: A Monk’s Reading of Spe Salvi” at the Benedictine Monastery of the Holy Cross
Transportation will be provided from Hyde Park. Open to current university students and faculty. Join us for an evening of prayer and conversation with Benedictine monks at the Monastery of the Holy Cross on the south side of Chicago. Attendees will participate in prayer of the Divine Office (vespers and compline), and have dinner and discussion with Prior Peter Funk on Benedict XVI’s encyclical on the theological virtue of hope, Spe Salvi. Fr. Peter will emphasize the need for hope in the life of the Church today. More information about the monastery can be found HERE. SCHEDULE 4:15pm Meet at…
CANCELLED New Melleray Abbey: A Chapter in the Story of Cistercian Trappist Monks in America
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…
CANCELLED Monks, Silence, God: The History of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance
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 Master Class on the Song of Songs
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…
Symposium on “Action versus Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters”
Listen to the symposium as a podcast episode. You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, Stitcher, TuneIn, ListenNotes, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Google Play Music. To view photos of the symposium, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. A symposium on the recent book Action versus Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters (University of Chicago Press, 2018) by Jennifer Summit and Blakey Vermeule. Free and open to the public. Persons with disabilities who may need assistance should contact us at 773-955-5887 or by email. Cosponsored by the English Department, the Seminary Coop Bookstore, the University of Chicago Press, the Our Sunday Visitor…
CANCELLED: Master Class on “Thomas Merton at Columbia: On the Love of Learning and the Desire for God”
Due to unforseen circumstances, Professor Inchausti has to cancel his visit to Chicago and unfortnately this event has been cancelled. Open to current university students and faculty. Others interested in participating should contact us. Copies of the readings will be provided to those who register. Thomas Merton is one of the most influential spiritual writers of the 20th century. His autobiography, Seven Storey Mountain, tells the story of a restless and brilliant young man who goes from a literature student at Columbia University to taking vows as a Trappist monk. In this two-part, one day master class, we will look…
Weekly Non-Credit Course: “Who Do You Say That I Am? Visions of Christ in the Christian Tradition”
REGISTER HERE 6:00 Dinner | 6:30 Lecture This weekly non-credit course is open to current students and faculty. Registrants are free to attend as many sessions as they choose. Sessions do not presuppose previous attendance or prior knowledge of the subject. “But what about you? Who you say that I am?” (Lk 9.20) The Christian tradition arose in response to the question of the person of Jesus Christ, and in every generation Christians have struggled, debated, and developed answers to that question. This course will feature a selection of biblical, ancient, and medieval Christian thinkers who gave distinctive and highly…
The Life and Legacy of Saint Oscar Romero
Listen to the address as a podcast episode. You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, Stitcher, TuneIn, ListenNotes, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Google Play Music. To view photos of the talk, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. This program was made possible in part by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute. Join us for a luncheon talk on the recently canonized Óscar Romero. Since his death in 1980, the world is still absorbing the witness of Óscar Romero, the Archbishop of San Salvador, martyred for his commitment to the poor and social justice. Prof. Lee will consider how Romero’s witness…