Our 2023-2024 Calendar
(All events are free, although reservations are sometimes required).
August 31 (Thursday): Graduate Student Fellowship Old & New Friend Social, 7:00-9:00pm, Fry Spring Station
September 7 (Thursday): Faith and Reason in the Modern University, Seminar 1, 12:00-1:30pm
September 8 (Friday): Faith and Science: Catholic Engagement with the Modern Sciences, Seminar 1, 10:30am-12:00pm
September 13 (Wednesday, 6:30pm): Graduate Student Fellowship Dinner Discussion (Interview of Fr. Nicholas Hartman, OP)
September 14 (Thursday): Faith and Reason in the Modern University, Seminar 2, 12:00-1:30pm
September 15 (Friday): Faith and Science: Catholic Engagement with the Modern Sciences, Seminar 2, 10:30am-12:00pm
September 15 (Friday, 12:30pm): Holy Women of the Americas Lunch Discussion: Servant of God Sr. Thea Bowman (1937-1990)
September 16 (Saturday, 6:00-9:00pm): Student Field Trip to Dinner + “I will live until I die” musical performance, Charlottesville Martin Luther King Performing Arts Center
September 17 (Sunday, 4:00pm/online only event): Bishop Robert Barron, “The Catholic Intellectual Tradition"
September 21 (Thursday): Faith and Reason in the Modern University, Seminar 3, 12:00-1:30pm
September 22 (Friday): Faith and Science: Catholic Engagement with the Modern Sciences, Seminar 3, 10:30am-12:00pm
September 22 (Friday): St. Athanasius Reading Group, seminar 1, 12:30-2:00pm
September 27(Wednesday, 6:30pm): Dante Inferno Reading Group
September 28 (Thursday: Faith and Reason in the Modern University, Seminar 4, 12:00-1:30pm
Sept. 30-Oct. 3: Fall Break
October 6 (Friday): Faith and Science: Catholic Engagement with the Modern Sciences, Seminar 4, 10:30am-12:00pm
October 11 (Wednesday, 6:30pm): Graduate Student Fellowship Dinner & Discussion (Pacem in Terris)
October 12 (Thursday, 11:30am-1:00pm): Aquinas Reading Group
October 13 (Friday): Faith and Science: Catholic Engagement with the Modern Sciences, Seminar 5, 10:30am-12:00pm
October 18 (Wednesday, 6:30pm): Dante Inferno Reading Group
October 26 (Thursday, 12:00-1:30pm): Aquinas Reading Group
October 27 (Friday): St. Athanasius Reading Group, seminar 2, 12:30-2:00pm
November 8 (Wednesday, 6:30pm): Graduate Student Fellowship Dinner & Discussion (Evangelium Vitae)
November 9 (Thursday, 6:00pm): Public Lecture: Gavin Flood (Oxford), “Evolutionary Science, Narrative Structures, Religion and Our Human Future”
November 10 (Friday): 2:30-4:30pm Seminar Discussion: “Bare Life, the Resurrection of the Body, and the Cultures of Life and Death: Rereading Evangelium Vitae (1995)"
November 15 (Wednesday, 6:30pm): Dante Inferno Reading Group
November 17 (Friday): St. Athanasius Reading Group, seminar 3, 12:30-2:00pm
November 17 (Friday): 5:15pm Mass/6:00pm Dinner/6:30pm Pacem in Terris Panel
November 22-26: Thanksgiving Break
December 5: Final Day of Classes
December 6 (Wednesday, 6:30pm): Graduate Student Fellowship Dinner Discussion (Advent Reflection)
December 7-15: Exams
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Jan. 22 Online Public Lecture: Tyler VanderWeele, "How Can We Flourish?"
Jan. 27 Graduate Student Reading Group
Jan. 31 Film Discussion: The Labyrinth: The Testimony of Marian Kolodziej
Feb. 1 Online Webinar: Feeding the Hungry, Caring for Creation
Feb. 3 Graduate Student Reading Group
Feb. 7 Dante Purgatorio Reading Group
Feb. 9 Faith & Reason and a Meaningful Life Minicourse
Feb. 13 Online Webinar: Feeding the Hungry, Caring for Creation
Feb. 14 Ash Wednesday
Feb. 15 Aquinas Summa Contra Gentiles Reading Group
Feb. 15 C.S. Lewis Performance @ the Paramount
Feb. 16 Faith & Reason and a Meaningful Life Minicourse
Feb. 21 Graduate Student Fellowship Dinner+
Feb. 23 Faith & Reason and a Meaningful Life Minicourse
Feb. 23 St. Ephrem Reading Group
Feb. 24 Ora et Labora Lenten Mini-Retreat
Feb. 28 Public Lecture: Catholic Investigations of Artificial Intelligence
Feb. 28 Dante Purgatorio Reading Group
Feb. 29 Aquinas Summa Contra Gentiles Reading Group
March 2-10 UVA Spring Break
March 14 Aquinas Summa Contra Gentiles Reading Group
March 15 St. Ephrem Reading Group
March 20 Graduate Student Fellowship Dinner+
March 21 St. John Henry Newman Seminar
March 21 Public Lecture: Ramon Lazzaraga
March 27 Dante Purgatorio Reading Group
March 28 Holy Thursday
March 29 Good Friday
March 31 Happy Easter!
April 10 Dante Purgatorio Reading Group
April 12 St. Ephrem Reading Group
April 18 Aquinas Summa Contra Gentiles Reading Group
April 21 Feast of St. Anselm!
April 25 Aquinas Summa Contra Gentiles Reading Group
2022-2023 Calendar
August 7-13, 2022: Modern Science and Christian Faith Summer Seminar
Cosponsored with the Lumen Christi Institute
August 20-27, 2022: Welcome Back Students, Faculty & Friends of the Institute!
Sept. 6, 2022: Online Series on Synodality
Synodality in the Ancient Church
Sept. 8, 2022: Faith and Reason Minicourse, Seminar 1
Sept. 9, 2022: Faith & Science Minicourse, Seminar 1
Sept. 15, 2022: Faith and Reason Minicourse, Seminar 2
Sept. 15, 2022: Online Series on Synodality
Synodality and Medieval Reform
Sept. 16, 2022: Faith & Science Minicourse, Seminar 2
Sept. 19, 2022: Online Series on Synodality
Synodality and the Roots of Vatican II
Sept. 22, 2022: Faith and Reason Minicourse, Seminar 3
Sept. 23: Faith & Science Minicourse, Seminar 3
Sept. 23, 2022: "An Evening with the Ordinariate"
Evensong, Dinner, Public Lecture
Sept. 23, 2022: Graduate Student Fellowship Group
Sept. 29, 2022: Faith and Reason Minicourse, Seminar 4
Sept. 30, 2022: Faith & Science Minicourse, Seminar 4
Oct. 1-4, 2022: UVA Fall Reading Days
Oct. 4, 2022: Online Series On Synodality
Eastern Catholic and Orthodox Perspectives
Oct. 7, 2022: Faith & Science Minicourse, Seminar 5
Oct. 12, 2022: Graduate Student Fellowship Group
Oct. 13, 2022: Public Lecture
Meghan Sullivan (Philosophy, University of Notre Dame), "The Good Life Method"
Cosponsored with The Center for Christian Study and UVA Catholic Hoos
Oct. 14, 2022: Breakfast Seminar with Meghan Sullivan
Oct. 18, 2022: Online Series on Synodality
Pope Francis's Vision of a Synodal Church
Oct. 25, 2022: Online Series on Synodality
The Synod of 2023: Process and Prospects
Oct. 26, 2022: Graduate Student Fellowship Group Dinner
Nov. 4, 2022: Aquinas Summa Contra Gentiles Reading Group
Nov. 8, 2022: Public Lecture
Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P., "Justice and the Common Good"
Cosponsored with the Thomistic Institute @ UVA
Nov. 9, 2022: Graduate Student Fellowship Group Dinner
Nov. 11, 2022: Aquinas Summa Contra Gentiles Reading Group
Nov. 18, 2022: Holy Women of the Americas Lunch Discussion Series
Dec. 2, 2022: Aquinas Summa Contra Gentiles Reading Group
Dec. 3, 2022: Graduate Student Fellowship Group
Dec. 4, 2022: Public Lecture
Charles Kromkowski and Anna Stelow, "Faith, Reason, Science: The Ever Ancient, Ever New Christian Synthesis," cosponsored with the UVA Darden Catholic Student Association and the UVA Law School St. Thomas More Society
Dec. 9, 2022: Aquinas Summa Contra Gentiles Reading Group
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Jan. 18, 2023: First Day of Class
Jan. 19: First Day to Consider St. Anselm Institute Programs
Jan. 25, 2023 Grad Student Dinner Fellowship Group
Jan. 27, 2023: Beauty & the Catholic Imagination Minicourse (#1)
Feb. 2, 2023: Faith & Reason Minicourse (#1)
Feb. 3, 2023: Beauty & the Catholic Imagination Minicourse (#2)
Feb. 9, 2023: Faith & Reason Minicourse (#2)
Feb. 10, 2023: Beauty & the Catholic Imagination Minicourse (#3)
Feb. 10, 2023: St. Hilary, On the Trinity Reading Group
Feb. 13, 2023: Grad Student Dinner Fellowship Group
Feb. 16, 2023: Faith & Reason Minicourse (#3)
Feb. 17, 2023: Beauty & the Catholic Imagination Minicourse (#4)
Feb. 17, 2023: St. Hilary, On the Trinity Reading Group
Feb. 23, 2023: Faith & Reason Minicourse (#4)
Feb. 24, 2023: Beauty & the Catholic Imagination Minicourse (#5)
Feb. 25, 2023: Mr. BLUE! (Reserved tickets required)
March 2, 2023: Public Lecture (Fr. Ambrose Little, O.P.)
March 4-12, 2023: UVA Spring Break
March 17, 2023: St. Hilary, On the Trinity Reading Group
March 18, 2023: Public Lecture (Joseph Davis and Sr. Maria Gonzalo)
March 31, 2023: St. Hilary, On the Trinity Reading Group
April 3, 2023 (10:30am): Aquinas Summa Contra Gentiles Reading Group
April 12, 2023 (4:30pm): Zoom lecture: Tyler Vanderweele, "The Power of Forgiveness"
April 12, 2023 (6:30pm): Grad Student Fellowship Dinner
April 13, 2023 (12:00pm): Aquinas Summa Contra Gentiles Reading Group
April 14, 2023 (12:30pm): Holy Women of the Americas Lunch Seminar: St. Theodore Guerin (1798-1856)
April 21, 2023 (12:30pm): St. Hilary, On the Trinity Reading Group
April 27, 2023 (12:00pm): Aquinas Summa Contra Gentiles Reading Group
April 28, 2023 (12:30pm): St. Hilary, On the Trinity Reading Group
April 28, 2023 (6:30pm): Catholic Novel Reading Group
May 4, 2023 (12:00pm): Aquinas Summa Contra Gentiles Reading Group
May 25, 2023: Paul Scherz, "Tomorrow's Troubles: Risk, Prudence and Govenrnance in an Algorithmic Age"
June 5-11, 2023: Monastic Wisdom: The Schola Caritatis Summer Seminar
2021-2022 Calendar
August 29: Outdoor Open House for Students, Faculty & Friends of the Institute
Sept. 2: Faith & Reason Minicourse, Seminar 1
Sept. 3: Faith & Science Minicourse, Seminar 1
Sept. 7: Faith & Reason Minicourse, Seminar 2
Sept. 8: Faith & Science Minicourse, Seminar 2
Sept. 14: Faith & Reason Minicourse, Seminar 3
Sept. 15: Faith & Science Minicourse, Seminar 3
Sept. 15: Grad/Professional Student Fellowship Night
Sept. 22: Public Lecture: Ross Douthat (New York Times), "The Home and Family in a Post-Covid World"
Sept. 23: Breakfast with Douthat
Sept. 24: Faith & Science Minicourse, Seminar 4
Sept. 29: Grad/Professional Student Fellowship Night
Sept. 30: Faith & Reason Minicourse, Seminar 4
Oct. 1: Faith & Science Minicourse, Seminar 5
Oct. 4: Doctors of the Church Faculty/Student Seminar: St. Gregory of Nazianzus
Oct. 4: Thomistic Institute @ UVA Public Lecture (Andrew Hofer, O.P.)
Oct. 9-12: UVA Reading Days
Oct. 13: Catholic Novel Reading Group: Connolly, Mr. Blue
Oct. 20: Grad/Professional Student Fellowship Night
Nov. 3: Grad/Professional Student Fellowship Night
Nov. 11: Holy Women of the Americas Lunch Discussion: Ven. Henriette Delille (1813-1862)
Nov. 17: Public Lecture: Jonathan Lunine (Cornell), "From Mendel to Pope Francis: Evolution from a Catholic Perspective"
Dec. 2: Public Lecture: Fr. Michael Niba (Catholic University of Cameroon), "Ecclesia in Africa/Africa as 'Light of the World'"
Dec. 8: Advent Breakfast Poetry Discussion: T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets: “Burnt Norton.”
Feb. 9 (6:30pm): Grad Student Dinner Fellowship Group
Feb. 10 (12:30pm): Faith & Reason Minicourse (1)
Feb. 11 (10:00am): Beauty & the Catholic Imagination Minicourse (1)
Feb. 17 (12:30pm): Faith & Reason Minicourse (2)
Feb. 17 (7:00pm): Thursday Movie Night @ Violet Crown-The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)
Feb. 18 (10:00am): Beauty & the Catholic Imagination Minicourse (2)
Feb. 22 (11:30-1:00pm): Aquinas Summa Contra Gentiles Reading Group
Feb. 22 (7:00pm): Catholic Novel Group: Chesterton, The Ball and the Cross (1909)
Feb. 23 (6:30pm): Grad Student Dinner Fellowship Group
Feb. 24 (12:30pm: Faith & Reason Minicourse (3)
Feb. 25 (10:00am): Beauty & the Catholic Imagination Minicourse (3)
March 1 (11:30-1:00pm): Aquinas Summa Contra Gentiles Reading Group
March 5-13: UVA Spring Break
March 15 (11:30-1:00pm): Aquinas Summa Contra Gentiles Reading Group
March 16 (6:30pm): Grad Student Dinner Fellowship Group
March 17 (12:30pm: Faith & Reason Minicourse (4)
March 18 (10:00am): Beauty & the Catholic Imagination Minicourse (4)
March 24 (5:30pm): Public Lecture: Dobbins, "Matisse's Rosary Chapel"
March 25 (10:00am): Beauty & the Catholic Imagination Minicourse (5)
March 29 (11:30-1:00pm): Aquinas Summa Contra Gentiles Reading Group
April 2 (10:00am-2:00pm): Faculty/Grad/Staff Student Mini-Lenten Retreat @ St. Thomas
April 5: St. Anselm Proslogion Reading Group
April 8: Holy Women of the Americas Reading Group: St. Marie de l'Incarnation
April 12: St. Anselm Proslogion Reading Group
April 13 (6:30pm): Grad Student Dinner Fellowship Group
April 14: Holy Thursday
April 15: Good Friday
April 17: Happy Easter!
April 19: St. Anselm Prosologion Reading Group
April 20: St. Anselm Institute Garden Party, 4:30-6:30pm
April 27 (7:00pm): Catholic Novel Reading Group: Spark, The Girls of Slender Means
2020-2021 Calendar
September 16, 2020 (7:30pm)
Catholic Novel Group (Brideshead Revisited, Book 1)
September 17, 2020 (7:00pm)
Faith & Reason Minicourse (Seminar 1)
September 18, 2020 (10:00am)
Faith and Science Minicourse (Seminar 1)
September 24, 2020 (7:00pm)
Faith & Reason Minicourse (Seminar 2)
September 25, 2020 (10:00am)
Faith and Science Minicourse (Seminar 2)
September 29, 2020
Quaecumque Vera Grad Fellowship
October 1, 2020 (7:00pm)
Faith & Reason Minicourse (Seminar 3)
October 2, 2020 (10:00am)
Faith and Science Minicourse (Seminar 3)
October 7, 2020 (7:30pm)
Catholic Novel Group (Brideshead Revisited, Books 2 and 3)
October 8, 2020 (7:00pm)
Faith & Reason Minicourse (Seminar 4)
October 9, 2020 (10:00am)
Faith and Science Minicourse (Seminar 4)
October 9, 2020 (1:00pm)
Summa Theologica Reading Group
October 16, 2020 (10:00am)
Faith and Science Minicourse (Seminar 5)
October 23, 2020 (1:00pm)
Summa Theologica Reading Group
October 27, 2020
Quaecumque Vera Grad Fellowship
October 30, 2020 (2:00pm)
Holy Women of the Americas Discussion
November 6, 2020 (11:00am)
Undergrad Student Reading Group
C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
November 6, 2020 (1:00pm)
Summa Theologica Reading Group
November 11, 2020 (7:30pm)
Catholic Novel Group (Babette's Feast and Leaf by Niggle)
November 20, 2020 (11:00am)
Undergrad Student Reading Group
C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
November 20, 2020 (1:00pm)
Summa Theologica Reading Group
November 24, 2020 (6:30pm)
Quaecumque Vera Grad Student Fellowship
December 4, 2020 (1:00pm)
Summa Theologica Reading Group
December 15, 2020 (6:30pm)
Quaecumque Vera Grad Student Fellowship
December 21, 2020 (7:00pm)
Catholic Social Teaching Series: Arcanum Divanae (1880)
2021 Spring Events
January 6, 2021 (7:00pm)
Augustine, Confessions Reading Group
January 20, 2021 (7:00pm)
Augustine, Confessions Reading Group
January 27, 2021 (7:00pm)
Augustine, Confessions Reading Group
February 8, 2021: (7:00pm)
Beauty and the Catholic Imagination Minicourse
February 11 (8:00pm)
Zoom Public Lecture: Dr. Anthony Abela, "On Distributivism," Cosponsored with UVA Thomistic Institute
February 15, 2021: (7:00pm)
Beauty and the Catholic Imagination Minicourse
February 17, 2021: (7:30pm)
Catholic Novel Reading Group/Sigrid Undset, Wild Orchid
February 19, 2021: (11:00am)
Faith & Reason and a Meaningful Life Minicourse
February 22, 2021: (7:00pm)
Beauty and the Catholic Imagination Minicourse
February 26, 2021: (11:00am)
Faith & Reason and a Meaningful Life Minicourse
March 1, 2021: (7:00pm)
Beauty and the Catholic Imagination Minicourse
March 5, 2021: (11:00am)
Faith & Reason and a Meaningful Life Minicourse
March 8, 2021: (7:00pm)
Beauty and the Catholic Imagination Minicourse
March 12, 2021: (11:00am)
Faith & Reason and a Meaningful Life Minicourse
March 22, 2021
Quaecumque Vera Grad Student Fellowship
March 24, 2021 (7:00pm)
Augustine, Confessions Reading Group
Friday, March 26: (1:00pm)
Holy Women of the Americas--St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
+ Virtual Fieldtrip Tour
March 31, 2021 (7:00pm)
Augustine, Confessions Reading Group
April 7, 2021 (7:00pm)
Augustine, Confessions Reading Group
April 12, 2021
Public Lecture Series: Hart, "Contemplation and the Imagination"
Cosponsored with Thomistic Institute and Chesterton Society
April 14, 2021 (7:00pm)
Augustine, Confessions Reading Group
April 19, 2021
Quaecumque Vera Grad Student Fellowship
April 30, 2021 (1:00pm)
Holy Women of the Americas--Mother Mary Lange
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2019-2020 Event Calendar
September 5, 2019 (4:30-6:00pm)
Welcome Back Graduate Student/Faculty Happy Hour
September 12, 2019 (12:00-1:30pm)
Faith & Reason Lunch Seminar 1: "Beyond Pizza, Frisbees, and Grade-School Catholicism: A Short Introduction to the Long Tradition of Catholic Thinking about Faith and Reason"
September 20, 2019 (6:30-8:00pm)
14th Annual Faculty/Student & Friends of the Institute Dinner
Welcome Back Graduate Student/Faculty Happy Hour
September 12, 2019 (12:00-1:30pm)
Faith & Reason Lunch Seminar 1: "Beyond Pizza, Frisbees, and Grade-School Catholicism: A Short Introduction to the Long Tradition of Catholic Thinking about Faith and Reason"
September 20, 2019 (6:30-8:00pm)
14th Annual Faculty/Student & Friends of the Institute Dinner
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September 26, 2019 (12:00-1:30pm)
Faith & Reason Lunch Seminar 2: "Why am I Here? The Distractions of Life and the Distortions of the Modern University"
September 27, 2019 (12:00-1:30pm)
Holy Women of the Americas Discussion: St. Marianne Cope, OSF, (1838-1918), "Mother of Outcasts"
September 26, 2019 (12:00-1:30pm)
Faith & Reason Lunch Seminar 2: "Why am I Here? The Distractions of Life and the Distortions of the Modern University"
September 27, 2019 (12:00-1:30pm)
Holy Women of the Americas Discussion: St. Marianne Cope, OSF, (1838-1918), "Mother of Outcasts"
October 3, 2019 (5:15pm, Newcomb Hall Ballroom)
Public Lecture Series
Fr. John O'Malley, SJ (Georgetown University)
"What was Vatican I about and Why it Still Matters 150 Years Later"
October 4, 2019 (12:00-2:00pm)
Doctors of the Church Faculty/Student Lunch Seminar
"Comparing The Council of Trent, Vatican I, and Vatican II"
October 5-8, 2019: Fall Readings Days
October 9, 2019 (7:00-8:00pm, St. Thomas University Parish)
Catholic Novel Reading Group
The Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor
October 10, 2019 (12:00-1:30pm)
Faith & Reason in the Modern University Seminar 3: "Our Choices, Our Habits and Our Vocations as Students"
October 11, 2019 (10:00-11:00am)
Faith & Reason Lunch Seminar II.1: "Beyond Pizza, Frisbees, and Grade-School Catholicism: A Short Introduction to the Long Tradition of Catholic Thinking about Faith and Reason"
Faith & Reason Lunch Seminar II.1: "Beyond Pizza, Frisbees, and Grade-School Catholicism: A Short Introduction to the Long Tradition of Catholic Thinking about Faith and Reason"
October 11, 2019 (12:00-2:00pm)
St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica Reading Group
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October 18, 2019 (10:00-11:00pm)
Faith & Reason Lunch Seminar II.2: "Why am I Here? The Distractions of Life and the Distortions of the Modern University"
Faith & Reason Lunch Seminar II.2: "Why am I Here? The Distractions of Life and the Distortions of the Modern University"
October 18, 2019 (12:00-1:00pm)
UVA Family Weekend Faculty/Parent Lunch Seminar
October 24, 2019 (12:00-1:30pm)
Faith & Reason in the Modern University Seminar 4: "On Faith Seeking Understanding and Reason’s Endless Pursuit of the Wisdom of Faith"
October 24, 2019 (6:30pm, Monroe 130)
Public Lecture Series
Dr. Denis McNamara (Benedictine College)
“How to Make a Church ‘Look like’ a Church: Architecture as an Image of Heaven”
October 25, 2019 (12:00-2:00pm)
St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica Reading Group
Email Anna Stelow: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
November 1, 2019 (11:30-1:00pm)
Holy Women of the Americas Lunch Discussion
Bl. Anne-Marie Javouhey (1770-1851)
November 8, 2019 (12:00-2:00pm)
St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica Reading Group
Email Anna Stelow: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
November 14, 2019 (6:30-9:00pm)
UVA Student Field Trip Series: "C.S. Lewis’ Surprised by Joy," Charlottesville Paramount Theater
November 15, 2019 (12:00-1:30pm)
Faith & Reason in the Modern University Seminar II.4: "On Faith Seeking Understanding and Reason’s Endless Pursuit of the Wisdom of Faith"
November 15, 2019
Doctors of the Church Faculty/Student Lunch Seminar
St. Albert the Great (1025-1280)
November 20, 2019 (7:00-8:00pm, St. Thomas University Parish)
Catholic Novel Reading Group
Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts
November 22, 2019 (12:00-2:00pm)
St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica Reading Group
Email Anna Stelow: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
November 27-31, 2019: Thanksgiving break
December 6, 2019 (12:00-1:30pm)
Catholic Social Teaching Series: Maximum Illud (1919)
December 6, 2019: Final day of Classes
January 16, 2020 (6:30-8:30pm)
Poetry Night & Reception
January 23, 2020 (12:00-1:30pm)
Faith & Reason Minicourse (Session I.A)
January 23, 2020: Public Lecture
Mary Hirschfeld, "The Trouble with Money: Aquinas on Desire, Economics, and the Good Life"
Janurary 24, 2020 (8:30-10:00am)
Doctors of the Church (Breakfast!) Seminar: St. Thomas Aquinas
January 30, 2020 (12:00-1:30pm)
Faith & Reason Minicourse (Session I.B)
January 31, 2020 (10:00-11:00am)
Faith & Reason Minicourse (Session II.A)
February 2, 2020
(Free) Local Field Trip: Our Lady of the Angels Monastery (Crozet, VA)
February 4, 2020 (6:30-8:30pm, St. Thomas Aquinas Parish)
Catholic Novel Reading Group
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
February 6, 2020 (12:00-1:30pm)
Faith & Reason Seminar I.C
February 7, 2020 (10:00-11:00am)
Faith & Reason Seminar II.B
February 13, 2020 (12:00-1:00pm)
Holy Women of the Americas Discussion Series
Mother Mary Joseph "Mollie" Rogers (1882-1955)
February 14, 2020 (12:00-2:00pm)
St. Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica Reading Group
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February 20, 2020 (12:00-1:30pm)
Faith & Reason Seminar I.D
February 21, 2020 (10:00-11:00am)
Faith & Reason Seminar, II.C
February 28, 2020 (10:00-11:00am)
Faith & Reason Seminar, II.D
March 6, 2020 (12:00-2:00pm)
St. Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica Reading Group
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March 7-15, 2020: Spring Break
May 8-31, 2020: Easter Poetry Garland
May 15, 2020 (1:00-2:00pm Zoom session)
St. Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica Reading Group
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May 22, 2020 (1:00-2:00pm Zoom session)
St. Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica Reading Group
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May 27, 2020 (7:30pm-8:30pm Zoom session)
Catholic Novel Reading Group: Boyagoda, Original Prin
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May 29, 2020 (1:00-2:00pm Zoom session)
St. Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica Reading Group
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2018-2019 Calendar
Postponed due to weather:
September 13, 2018 (Public Lecture, 5:15pm, Minor Hall)
John McNerney (Catholic University of America), "The Wealth of Persons: Rethinking Economics in Light of the Human Person"
Postponed due to Weather:
September 14, 2018 (12:00-2:00pm, UVA Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture)
"Wealth of Persons Seminar" with John McNerney (CUA); Tal Brewer (UVA, Philosophy), Paul Scherz (CUA, Theology), and Olga Burkina (Financial University-Moscow)
September 21, 2018 (6:30pm)
13th Annual Fall Faculty/Student & Friends of the Institute Dinner
13th Annual Fall Faculty/Student & Friends of the Institute Dinner
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September 25, 2018 (7:00pm, St. Thomas Aquinas Library)
Catholic Novel Reading Group: Mauriac, The Viper's Tangle
October 6-7. 2018
2018 St. Michel School (Saltadère, Haiti) Sponsorship Drive
October 6-9, 2018: Fall Readings Days
October 12, 2018 (12:00-2:00pm)
St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica Reading Group
Email Anna Stelow: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
or Charles Kromkowski: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
October 13, 2018 (Saturday, TBA)
Student Field Trip: Whiffletree Farm Tour and Lunch
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October 19, 2018 (12:00-2:00pm, Garden Room)
Holy Women of the Americas Lunch Discussion
St. John Paul II, Mulieris Dignitatem [On the Dignity of Women]
Email Jocelyn Moore: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
October 23, 2018 (7:00-8:00pm, St. Thomas Aquinas Library)
Catholic Novel Reading Group: Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
October 26, 2018: UVA Family Weekend events
1) Parent/Faculty Lunch (Reservations requested: 12:00pm & 1:15pm)
2) UVA Family Weekend Dinner Discussion: "Voices of Truth in an Age of Corruption--St. Hildegard of Bingen and St. Catherine of Siena," with Special Guest Rachel Grabowski (Georgetown University)
November 2, 2018 (12:00-2:00pm)
St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica Reading Group
Email Anna Stelow: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
or Charles Kromkowski: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
November 8, 2018 (Public Lecture, 5:15pm, Minor Hall)
John McNerney (Catholic University of America), "The Wealth of Persons: Rethinking Economics in Light of the Human Person"
November 9, 2018 (12:00-2:00pm, UVA Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture)
"Wealth of Persons Seminar" with John McNerney (CUA); Tal Brewer (UVA, Philosophy), Rita Koganzon (UVA, Politics), and Andrew Lynn (IASC Postdoctoral Fellow)
November 9, 2018 (12-1:30pm, Garden Room)
Holy Women of the Americas Lunch Discussion: Bl. Conchita [Concepcion Cabrera de Armida]
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November 11, 2018 (Sunday, 12:30-3:30pm)
Student Field Trip: Latin Mass @ Holy Comforter Parish and Downtown Mall Lunch
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November 16, 2018 (12:00-2:00pm, Garden Room)
St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica Reading Group
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November 21-25, 2018: Thanksgiving break
November 27, 2018 (7:00pm, St. Thomas Aquinas)
Catholic Novel Reading Group: Bernanos, Diary of a Country Priest
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November 29, 2018: (Thursday, 5:15pm, Public Lecture)
Roberta Ervine, St. Nersess Armenian Seminary
"St. Gregory of Narek: The Newest Doctor of the Church!"
November 30, 2018 (Friday, 12:00-2:00pm, Garden Room)
Doctors of the Church Faculty/Student Lunch Seminar: St. Gregory of Narek
December 7, 2018 (12:00-2:00pm, Garden Room)
St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica Reading Group
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December 10-18: UVA Exams
December 25, 2018: Merry Christmas!
Spring 2019 Semester
January 16, 2019: Movie Night
Bresson, Diary of a Country Priest
January 31, 2019 (Thursday, 12:00pm, Garden Room)
January 31, 2019 (Thursday, 12:00pm, Garden Room)
Holy Women of the Americas Lunch Discussion: "On the Female Vocation"
January 31, 2019: Public Lecture (Thursday, 5:15pm)
Sr. Prudence Allen, "Newman and the Proof of the Integral Complementarity of Woman and Man"
February 1, 2019: Lunch Seminar (Friday, 12:00pm, Garden Room)
February 1, 2019: Lunch Seminar (Friday, 12:00pm, Garden Room)
"Gabriel Marcel and the Discovery of Fatherhood"
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February 1, 2019: Dinner & Discussion (Friday, 6:00-8:30pm)
"The Lived Complementarity of Jacques & Raissa Maritain"
February 2, 2019: Student Field Trip (Saturday, 4:00-6:30pm)
Our Lady of the Angels Monastery, (Crozet, VA)
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February 7, 2019: Public Lecture (Thursday, 5:00pm, Location: TBD)
Rusty Reno, "Christianity in Public Life"
February 8, 2019: Student Q&A with R.R. Reno
February 15, 2019 (Friday, 12:00-2:00pm, Garden Room)
St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica Reading Group
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February 22, 2019 (Friday, 12:00-1:30pm, Garden Room)
Holy Women of the Americas Lunch Discussion: St. Rose of Lima
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February 27, 2019 (Wednesday, 7:00pm, St. Thomas Aquinas)
Catholic Novel Reading Group: Shusaku Endo, Silence
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February 28. 2019 (12-1:30pm, Garden Room)
Catholic Social Teaching Series
"Who is Catholic Philosopher Jean Vanier and What is Catholic Thinking about Disability?"
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March 1, 2019 (Friday, 12:00-2:00pm, Garden Room)
St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica Reading Group
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March 1, 2019 (Friday, 6:30pm, Minor Hall Auditorium)
Summer in the Forest (2018)
March 6: Ash Wednesday
March 9-17: Spring Break
March 22, 2019 (Friday, 12:00-1:30pm, Garden Room)
Holy Women of the Americas Lunch Discussion: Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Nican Mohopua
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March 27, 2019 (Wednesday, 7:00pm, St. Thomas Aquinas)
Catholic Novel Reading Group: Walker Percy, Moviegoer
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March 29, 2019 (Friday, 12:00-2:00pm, Garden Room)
St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica Reading Group
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March 29, 2019 (Friday, 6:00-8:00pm, St. Thomas University Parish)
New Foods/New Friends Student Dinner Series
Lenten Dinner and St. Bernard of Clairvaux
April 4, 2019 (Thursday, 7:30pm, Holy Comforter Church)
Three Notch'd Road Concert: "The Rosary Sonatas of Heinrich Biber"
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April 5, 2019 (Friday, 12:00-2:00pm, Garden Room)
Doctors of the Church Lunch Seminar
St. John of the Cross and the Spiritual Canticle
April 5, 2019 (Friday, 5:15pm, Minor Hall Auditorium)
Richard Kearney, "St. Teresa of Avila's Many Mansions"
April 6, 2019 (Saturday, 9:00am-4:00pm)
Conference: "Meditation, Prayer, Contemplation"
UVA Philosophy Department Library
April 12, 2019 (Friday, 12:00-2:00pm, Garden Room)
St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica Reading Group
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April 12, 2019 (Friday, 3:00-4:00pm, The Grit (Elliewood Rd.)
Open Graduate Student Hour
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April 24, 2019 (Wednesday, 7:00pm, St. Thomas Aquinas)
Catholic Novel Reading Group: Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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April 26, 2019 (Friday, 5:15pm)
Robert Louis Wilken, "Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom"
May 3, 2019 (Friday, 12:00-2:00pm, Garden Room)
St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica Reading Group
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May 17, 2019 (7:00pm)
Baccalaureate Mass, St. Thomas Aquinas University Parish