March 18-20, 2011: "The Life and Piety of St. Francis of Assisi"
Location: Mary Mother of the Church Abbey (Richmond, VA)
Guest Speaker: Fr. Augustine Thompson, O.P., S.T.M., Professor of History, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology,
Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California
Retreat Chaplain: Fr. Jacek Buda, O.P.
Preliminary Schedule of 2011 Retreat
Friday, March 18, 2011
6:30-7:30pm: Arrive at Mary Mother of the Church Abbey
7:30: Evening Prayer (Conference Room, Lower level)
8:00: Dinner
9:30: Night Prayer
Saturday, March 19, 2011
8:00-8:30am: Breakfast
9:00: Morning Prayer
9:30-11:30: First Session--What Can St. Francis teach us on Conversion and Vocation?
Presenter: Fr. Augustine Thompson, O.P., S.T.M.; Professor of History, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology,
Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California
Readings: St. Francis of Assisi: A Critical Life, chs.1-3
11:30: Mass
Noon: Lunch
1:00-3:00: Personal time (Confessions available with Benedictine Abbey monks,Time and Location TBA)
3:00-3:30: Stations of the Cross
3:30-4:45: Second Session--What Can St. Francis teach us about living as Catholics?
Presenter: Fr. Augustine Thompson, O.P.
Readings: St. Francis of Assisi: A Critical Life,chs. 4-6
4:45: Evening Prayer
5:00: Dinner
7:00-8:00: Third Session--What Can St. Francis teach us about Sickness and Death?
Readings: St. Francis of Assisi: A Critical Life, chs. 7-8
8:00: Night Prayer
8:30pm: Faculty Reception
Sunday, March 20, 2011
7:30-8:00am: Breakfast
8:30: Morning Prayer
9:00: Mass with the Benedictine Abbey monks (Abbey Church)
10:00: Departure
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February 20, 2010
Lenten Retreat Topic: "The Truth will set you free"
Location: St. Thomas Aquinas University Parish (Charlottesville, VA), 12:00-8pm
Guest Speaker: Dr. Thomas Russman, (retired, formerly Director of the Center for Thomistic Studies at the University of St. Thomas (in Houston) and past President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association)
Retreat Chaplain: Fr. Stephen Alcott, O.P.
Lenten Retreat Schedule
11:00-12:00: Adoration and Confessions (optional)
12:00pm: Assemble in St. Thomas Hall, Sixth Hour (Noon) Prayer
12:15: Lunch
1:15: Session I: Thomas Russman, "Journeying the Biblical Cosmos, pt. 1"
2:45: Ninth Hour Prayer
3:00: Stations of the Cross
3:30: Coffee/Tea break
3:45: Session II: Thomas Russman, "Journeying the Biblical Cosmos, pt. 2"
5:15: Mass
6:30: Dinner
8:00pm: Evening Prayer
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March 27-29, 2009 – Lenten Retreat Topic: The Love of God and the Spiritual Life
Location: Mary Mother of the Church Abbey (Richmond, VA)
Guest Speaker: Dr. Robert Louis Wilken
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of the History of Christianity, Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia
Retreat Chaplain: Fr. Augustine Thompson, O.P.
Readings:
1. Origen, Commentary on the Song of Songs, pp.21-39.
2. The Works of Bernard of Clairvaux. Vol. Two. Song of Songs, pp. 1-20.
3. Augustine, Confessions, 13.vi(7)-13.xi(12), pp. 276-80; AND 9.4.8
4. Gregory of Nyssa, On the Soul and the Resurrection, ch. 6, "Purification of the Soul," pp. 75-81.
5. Augustine, City of God, Bk.XIV, ch.9, pp. 561-566.
6. Maximus Confessor. Selected Writings. Four Hundred Chapters of Love, esp. 36-39, 70-71.
7. Augustine, The Catholic Way of Life and the Manichean Way of Life, (11.18-17.32) pp. 39-46.
8. Wilken, The Spirit of Early Christian Thought, Chapter 12 and Epilogue, pp. 291-321.
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8:00: Faculty Reception and Dinner (Lower level)
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Background Readings:
b) Origen, Commentary on the Song of Songs, pp.21-39.
c) The Works of Bernard of Clairvaux. Vol. Two. Song of Songs, pp. 1-20.
d) Augustine, Confessions, 13.vi(7)-13.xi(12), pp. 276-80.
Noon: Lunch
1:00-2:30: Free time (Confessions available,1:30-2:30: Location TBA)
b) Gregory of Nyssa, "Purification of the Soul," pp. 75-81.
c) Augustine, The Catholic Way of Life and the Manichean Way of Life, (11.18-17.32) pp. 39-46..
d) Maximus Confessor. Selected Writings. Four Hundred Chapters of Love, esp. 36-39, 70-71.
5:00: Dinner
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8:30pm: Faculty Social
Sunday, March 29, 2009
7:30-8:00am: Breakfast
8:30: Morning Prayer
March 14-16, 2008 - Lenten Retreat Topic: What is Catholic Social Doctrine?
Location: Mary, Mother of the Church Abbey (Richmond, VA)
Guest Speaker: Dr. Russell Hittinger
Warren Professor of Catholic Studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of Tulsa
Retreat Chaplain: Fr. Ralph Hamlet
Readings:
- Russell Hittinger, “The Personhood of Society: What Makes Catholic Social Doctrine ‘Social’?”
- Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum (1891)
- Pius XI, Quadragesimo Anno (1931)
- Russell Hittinger, “Human Nature and States of Nature in John Paul II’s Theological Anthropology”
- John Paul II, Centesimus annus (1991).
March, 2007 - Lenten Retreat Topic: What is it that we university faculty do, and what contribution is made to our doing it by the fact that we are Catholic?
Location: Mary, Mother of the Church Abbey (Richmond, VA)
Guest Speaker: Dr. Reinhard Huetter
Professor of Christian Theology, Duke University Divinity School
Retreat Chaplain: Fr. Augustine Thompson, O.P.
Readings:
- Joseph Pieper, Leisure the Basis of Culture
- Jacques and Raisa Maritan, Prayer and Intelligence
- Joseph Pieper, The Four Cardinal Virtues (selections)
- Alice Ramos, "Studiositas and Curiositas," Educational Horizons 83/4 (2005)
- Alasdair Macintyre, "The End of Education," Commonweal (October 20, 2006)
- Robert Louis Wilken, "Catholicism in the Secular University," First Things (forthcoming).