Reading Groups
St. Théodore Guérin (1798-1851)
Bring a friend and come to meet someone new as everyone is invited to join us for friendly conversation, a free lunch, and an introduction to the educational pioneer St. Theodore Guerin, a holy example of perseverance, ingenuity and missionary zeal despite family tragedies, personal health difficulties, and the resentful political, social and even ecclesiastical forces of her times.
Help us with the lunch order by registering today. We'll meet In UVA Bryan Hall-Room 235 on Friday, April 14 at 12:30pm for lunch, with discussion of Guerin's life and works beginning @ 1:00pm.
Questions? Please email Meaghan Brennan (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
Belief in the Holy Trinity clearly distinguishes Christianity from every other system of beliefs, and yet can we describe it as something more than a beautiful Mystery? Join us for 6 Friday lunch seminars as we search for an answer in St. Hilary's classic 4th-century text De Trinitate/On the Trinity. A light lunch will be provided and UVA students and faculty will receive a free copy of the text.
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (1945)
For the start of this unusual semester, Brideshead Revisited is our Catholic Novel pick. Waugh's classic novel invites us to savor the golden back-to-school days at pre-war Oxford, the unforgettable summers with the alluring Catholic Flyte family, and the subtle “twitches of the thread” of Grace in life's painful events.
Advent Breakfast Poetry Retreat
the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own...
Advent and Poetry are both opportunities that invite us to slow down and to contemplate the moment at hand, so on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception and the first Reading Day before the start of exams, we invite you and all friends of the Institute to join us as we read, enjoy and discuss the first of T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, “Burnt Norton.”
To assist with our event planning, please email Dr. Jocelyn Moore (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
The goal of this faculty-led seminar is to provide selected undergraduate students with the background knowledge and conceptual tools necessary to think clearly about the content, limits, and relation of modern science and faith.
Natalia Fenollera, The Awakening of Miss Prim (2013)
A young woman of ample academic qualification pursues a librarian job in a remote French village: what ensues is a delightful love story - that is equally a romance of literature, philosophy, and the search for Happiness. In Fenollera's debut bestseller, her bookish, secular protagonist stands to be changed by the community of charming San Ireneo, an enclave from the modern world founded around a Benedictine monastery. RSVP to Dr. Jocelyn Moore (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and we'll send you the Zoom link invitation. (UVA students: we'll buy and Amazon you the book).