Dominican House of Studies | Washington, D.C.
This retreat is being offered for current university students.
Step away from the daily rush of life to pray and contemplate Aquinas on friendship with God, with the Thomistic Institute. The retreat will have seminars and discussions framed by the traditional elements of a retreat (Mass, adoration, the Divine Office, etc.).
Thanks to the generosity of our benefactors, meals and housing will be provided free for accepted applicants. Travel scholarships are available. Please contact Lauren (LFrawley@dhs.edu) to inquire.
Schedule:
Begins with check-in at 3:00 p.m. on Friday, November 3
Concludes with check-out at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, November 5
Speakers:
Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P. (Catholic University of America) is a native of Louisiana. Fr. Guilbeau entered the Dominican Province of St. Joseph in 2005. After several years of pastoral work in New York City, he began doctoral studies in moral theology at the University of Fribourg, where he completed a dissertation on St. Thomas Aquinas’s doctrine of the common good. In addition to his teaching, Fr. Guilbeau serves as senior editor of Aleteia.org (English edition). He is the University Chaplain and Director of Campus Ministry at the Catholic University of America.
Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P. (Dominican House of Studies) grew up as the youngest of ten children on a farm in Kansas, and studied history, philosophy, and classics at Benedictine College. He then went to St Andrews, Scotland for a Master of Letters in medieval history. He entered the Order of Preachers as a son of the Province of St. Joseph, and was ordained a priest in 2002. After finishing his S.T.L. and serving as an associate pastor for a brief time, he was sent to Kenya as a missionary for two years. He taught at the Tangaza College of The Catholic University of Eastern Africa and other institutions in Nairobi. He returned to the U.S. and completed a Ph.D. in theology at the University of Notre Dame, with the primary area of history of Christianity, specializing in patristic theology with additional studies in medieval theology, and the secondary area of systematic theology. His research appears in such journals as Vigiliae Christianae, Augustinianum, International Journal of Systematic Theology, New Blackfriars, Nova et Vetera, Pro Ecclesia, The Thomist, Communio, and Angelicum and in books published by Catholic University of America Press and Ignatius Press. He is the author of Christ in the Life and Teaching of Gregory of Nazianzus (Oxford Early Christian Studies), Oxford University Press, 2013, and the editor of Divinization: Becoming Icons of Christ through the Liturgy, Hillenbrand Books, 2015.
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Questions? Contact Ms. Lauren Frawley at lfrawley@dhs.edu.