by SrDeniseSickinger | Jan 18, 2022 | a current event, Accompaniment, Ad maiorem Dei gloriam and the salvation of souls!, Ecumenical Dialogue, Fellowship Opportunity, Pope Francis, Prayer Intentions, United in Christ
During the Angelus Pope Francis recalls this year’s Week of Prayer for Christian Unity from 18 to 25 January and invites everyone to offer up their struggles and suffering in favor of Christian unity. By Vatican News staff writer Pope Francis has invited everyone to participate in the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity from 18 to 25 January, which this year focuses on a theme relating the experience of the Magi, who came from the East to Bethlehem to worship the Messiah King: “We saw the star in the East, and we came to worship him.” Pope to close Week of Prayer for Christian Unity with vespers The Pope said that in a similar way, Christians of diverse backgrounds and traditions “are pilgrims on our way to full unity” who come closer to our goal when keeping our gaze fixed on Jesus. The Pope encouraged us to pray for Christian unity and also offer up our struggles and suffering. The Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity has published resource materials for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity available to all. Source: Pope: May we all join in Week of Prayer for Christian Unity – Vatican...
by SrDeniseSickinger | Jun 15, 2020 | Ad maiorem Dei gloriam!, College Grads, Fellowship Opportunity
TI JUNIOR FELLOWS PROGRAM THE THOMISTIC INSTITUTE is now accepting applications for the Thomistic Institute Junior Fellows Program, a year-long fellowship designed for recent graduates who are motivated to help bring university students (and others) to engage the Catholic intellectual tradition and the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas while going deeper into that tradition themselves. Being a Junior Fellow is a full-time engagement with the Thomistic Institute and requires residency in Washington, D.C. Fellows take one for-credit M.A. class per semester at the DOMINICAN HOUSE OF STUDIES. Outside of class time, they work in the Institute’s Campus Chapters program, learning the ins-and-outs of this fast-growing initiative to bring the Catholic intellectual tradition to more than 50 university campuses in the United States, Canada, Britain, and Ireland. They’re invited to participate fully in the academic and liturgical life of the Dominican House of Studies. Includes daily Mass, daily rosary, and the full chanted divine office with the Dominican friars in the Dominican House of Studies chapel. The TI will also sponsor the Fellows’ participation in the major TI conferences held in Washington, D.C. and on other university campuses (travel expenses covered). Conferences are in the works for 2020-21 at both...
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