The Garaventa Center has received many requests for access to the recent Zahm Lecture by Sister Ilia Delio OSF, “Cosmology, Catholicity and Consciousness: Why Wholeness Matters.” A downloadable podcast of that talk, as well as most of the other talks from recent years, is available in the Archives section of the Center’s website at www.up.edu/garaventa. Follow this direct link for the 2016 Zahm Lecture, and while you’re there, check out Fr. Charlie’s weekly reflections on the Sunday Mass readings and talks by many of the speakers hosted by the Garaventa Center in the past three years.2016 Zahm Lecture Podcast Now Available
The Garaventa Center has received many requests for access to the recent Zahm Lecture by Sister Ilia Delio OSF, “Cosmology, Catholicity and Consciousness: Why Wholeness Matters.” A downloadable podcast of that talk, as well as most of the other talks from recent years, is available in the Archives section of the Center’s website at www.up.edu/garaventa. Follow this direct link for the 2016 Zahm Lecture, and while you’re there, check out Fr. Charlie’s weekly reflections on the Sunday Mass readings and talks by many of the speakers hosted by the Garaventa Center in the past three years.
All members of the campus community are invited to attend the annual Red Mass on Wednesday, September 28, at 5:30 p.m., in the Chapel of Christ the Teacher. Red is a traditional color associated with the Holy Spirit, and the Red Mass is celebrated each fall to honor and invoke the gifts of the Holy Spirit on all those associated with the practice and administration of law, a custom dating back to the Middle Ages. The first Red Mass in the U.S. was celebrated in 1859.
All faculty and staff are warmly invited to the first Thirst Friday of the year on September 9. Haven’t been before? Expect great conversation, tasty treats (don’t miss our new Cheetos tasting menu) and libations of all sorts to toast the start of the year, not to mention the best view on campus. Thirst Friday regulars – 17 extra credit points if you bring along someone new to the UP community! Join us in the Garaventa Center (Franz 330) any time from 4-6 p.m., for 10 minutes or two hours. Like to plan ahead? Future Thirst Fridays are 12/2, 2/10, and 4/21 (note the new April date if you received a Save the Dates napkin).
Registration for “Creating Space for Beauty, Hope and Wonder”— a spiritual retreat open to all faculty members — is now open. Spend a day at The Grotto being refreshed and given time to reflect and simply be, as a busy year gets underway. Brief talks will be given by Fr. Stephen Rowan; Casey Shillam, nursing; and Fr. Charlie Gordon, CSC, Garventa Center. All materials, including lunch, will be provided for retreatants. The day begins with an optional Mass at 8:30 a.m., and coffee and donuts at 9 a.m.; the full retreat will last from 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. The Offices of Campus Ministry, the Provost and Garaventa Center are sponsoring all costs. Please register 
There will be an opening reception for Rev. Mark Ghyselinck, C.S.C.’s art show “Look Again,” at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, August 24 in the Buckley Center gallery. The event, hosted by the Garaventa Center, will feature opening remarks from Fr. Ghyselinck as well as wine and refreshments. All are welcome to attend. For more information on the opening reception, please contact the Garaventa Center at 
University of Porltand mathematics students will explore personal axioms for living as they share their responses to the prompt, “This I Believe,” on Tuesday, April 12, at 7:15 p.m., in Franz Hall Room 120. The event is co-sponsored by the Garaventa Center and the Dundon-Berchtold Applied Ethics Initiative.
Fr. Charlie Gordon, C.S.C., and Karen Eifler will present “Love and Mercy in the Maelstrom: Images of Family in Modern Cinema” on Tuesday, April 12, at 3 p.m., in Franz Hall Room 120. It would seem that “family” should be a reliable place for finding comfort in tumultuous times, but you’d never suspect that by looking at many of the families in popular movies today. Is there anything positive to glean from the moms, dads, and grandparents on the big screen? Fr. Gordon and Eifler will tackle that question as well as present images and clips from several recent films.
The Garaventa Center has announced winners of its annual High School Essay Contest. The theme this year was “The Playlist of My Life.” Congratulations to the winners: