The Bringing Eyes of Faith to Film Series will present “The Lego Movie” on Tuesday, Feb. 3 at 7:15 p.m., in Franz Hall room 223. Enjoy movie snacks and hear Karen Eifler and Fr. Charlie Gordon, C.S.C., use the series to illuminate unexpected themes of grace and transcendence in popular contemporary movies. For further information, please contact Karen Eifler at eifler@up.edu or 8014.
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Michael Andrews Lecture, Feb. 10
Michael F. Andrews, the University’s McNerney-Hanson Endowed Chair in Ethics and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, will give a lecture on Edith Stein in the Holy Cross Lounge on the 3rd floor of Franz Hall on Tuesday, February 10, at 7:15 p.m. His talk is free and open to faculty, staff, students, and the public.
Andrews will explore the life of Edith Stein in terms of her understanding of “woman” and “vocation.” Stein was a Jewish philosopher and author who converted to Catholicism before becoming a Carmelite nun, and ultimately perished in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. She was canonized in October 1998.
For more information contact the Garaventa Center at 7702 or garaventa@up.edu.
Come Celebrate Thirst Friday, Jan. 23
The Garaventa Center will hold its first Thirst Friday social gathering for the spring semester on Friday, January 23, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. All faculty and staff are invited to celebrate settling in to the new semester with a glass of wine, tasty appetizers, and fun conversation. For more information contact Karen Eifler, Garaventa Center, at 8014 or eifler@up.edu.
Visio Divina Contemplative Prayer Sessions For Advent
The Garaventa Center and Campus Ministry invite all members of the UP community to step away from the frenzy of the season for Visio Divina on Wednesdays during Advent, 12:45 and 7:15 p.m., in the Chapel of Christ the Teacher. Visio Divina, which means “sacred seeing,” is an ancient form of contemplative prayer centered on sacred images. It is rooted in monastic tradition.
Participants will experience the Divine in images from the University’s Saint John’s Bible, a different one each week. Visio Divina asks only for our silent presence; each session lasts about 30 minutes.
For more information please contact Karen Eifler, Garaventa Center, at eifler@up.edu or Beth Barsotti, Campus Ministry, at barsotti@up.edu.
Join The Garaventa Center For Thirst Friday, Dec. 5
The Garaventa Center will hold a Thirst Friday social gathering on Friday, December 5, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. All faculty and staff are invited to celebrate the last day of classes before finals with a glass of wine, tasty appetizers, and fun conversation. For more information contact Karen Eifler, Garaventa Center, at 8014 or eifler@up.edu.
“Pro-life Relational Apologetics,” Nov. 17
The University’s student-led Voice for Life club will host a talk, “Pro-life Relational Apologetics,” on Monday, November 17, at 7 p.m., in St. Mary’s Student Center lounge. The talk will focus on cultivating friendships and encouraging dialogue about human rights injustices. The event features Josh Brahm and Deanna Unyk, who met online and sparked a friendship over 13 months, 127 e-mails, and more than 20 hours on Skype.
Brahm describes himself as a straight, Christian, pro-life advocate from California; Unyk as a gay atheist from Canada. The pair formed an unlikely friendship that led to Deanna’s pro-life conversion. They will meet face-to-face for the first time at this event and will speak about the things that make their friendship work and how to cultivate friendships with people of different faiths and political backgrounds. The event will be followed by a Q&A session.
This event is sponsored by the University’s Voice for Life club, with funding from the Garaventa Center for Catholic Intellectual Life and American Culture, the Dundon-Berchtold Institute for Moral Formation & Applied Ethics, and Campus Ministry. Student leaders Margaret Persing and Julia Anderson brought the speakers on campus through the Garaventa Center’s Student Leadership Development Initiative. The fund aims to develop students’ capacities to write fundable grants, develop entrepreneurial orientations and expand programming that furthers the status of Catholic intellectual life on campus and in the region.
For more information regarding the event, contact the Voice for Life Club at voiceforlifeup@gmail.com.
Ideas Welcome For 2015 Pollentia Expedition, Nov. 20
Those who missed the October presentation on the summer 2014 Pollentia expedition are invited to attend a presentation on the recent and future expeditions on Thursday, November 20, at 7:30 p.m., in Franz Hall Holy Cross Lounge. Expedition members Ray and Ronda Bard, Fr. Ron Wasowski, C.S.C., and Fr. Richard Rutherford, C.S.C, will share experiences from the recent expedition, which was spent excavating an early Christian cemetery in the ancient Roman city of Polllentia in Mallorca, Spain. Those who attend are invited to suggest ways to send future faculty and student research teams to Polllentia, beginning in summer 2015. Refreshments will be served. Sponsored by the provost, the Garaventa Center, and the Pollentia 2014 team.
For more information contact Fr. Rutherford at ruther@up.edu; RSVPs are requested.
Prayers For World Peace, Nov. 11
The University will have calls for world peace in the International Peace Garden located outside of Buckley Center Auditorium on Tuesday, November 11, at 2 p.m. A few short readings will be given by international students, along with personal messages and prayers in their own languages and religions calling for world peace. This is an annual event held on Veterans Day. For more information contact international students services at 7367 or iss@up.edu.
This Week’s Garaventa Center Events: All Welcome
The Garaventa Center will host three events this week, according to Jamie Powell. All faculty, staff, and students are welcome to attend:
- International Prayers for Peace, Tuesday, November 11, 2 p.m., International Peace Garden (Buckley Center patio).
- Stanford economist (and 2006 UP alumnus) Adam Bonica will explore reasons why the U.S. political system has failed to counterbalance rising inequality in a lecture, “Why Hasn’t Democracy Slowed Rising Inequality?”, on Tuesday, November 11, at 7:15 p.m., Tuesday, November 11, in the Bauccio Commons executive boardroom.
- Rev. Pat Hannon, C.S.C. (pictured), will present a book reading and conversation drawn from his experiences as a priest, memories of his childhood, and more on Thursday, November 13, at 7:15 p.m., in the Pilot House.
For more information, contact Powell, at 7702 or powell@up.edu.
“This I Believe,” Nov. 19
The Garaventa Center will host “This I Believe: A Conversation about Personal Axioms,” presented by Real Analysis students, on Wednesday, November 19, at 6 p.m., in Franz Hall Holy Cross Lounge. The event is free and open to all. Students in Stephanie Salomone’s Real Analysis class will describe the things that they believe without proof as they read essays written in the format of This I Believe. For more information contact Jamie Powell, Garaventa Center, at 7702 or powell@up.edu.