Death & Dying | An Intellectual Retreat

Dominican House of Studies | Washington, DC

This retreat is being offered for current university students!

Step away from the daily rush of life to pray and study the riches of the Church’s intellectual tradition with the Thomistic Institute. Throughout this retreat we will consider death and dying.

The retreat will have seminars and discussions framed by the traditional elements of a retreat (Mass, adoration, the Divine Office, etc.).

Schedule:

• Begins with check-in at 3:00 p.m. on Friday, February 24th

• Concludes with check-out at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, February 26th

Speakers:

• Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P. (Dominican House of Studies) is the Director of the Thomistic Institute and Assistant Professor in Dogmatic Theology at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Ph.L. from the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America, and a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He entered the Order of Preachers in 2001, after having practiced constitutional law for several years as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. He has also taught at The Catholic University of America Law School and at Providence College. He is the author of The Trinitarian Christology of St. Thomas Aquinas (Oxford University Press, 2016).

• Prof. Michael Root (Catholic University of America) is Ordinary Professor of Systematic Theology at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC.  Root is a native of Norfolk, Virginia and studied at Dartmouth College (B.A.) and Yale University (Ph.D. in theology).  He was received into the Catholic Church in August, 2010.  His particular theological interests are ecumenical relations, eschatology/last things, and grace and justification.  Root has been a member of the US and international LutheranCatholic dialogues, the US LutheranUnited Methodist dialogue, the AnglicanLutheran International Working Group, and the AnglicanLutheran International Commission.  He served on the drafting teams that produced the Lutheran Roman Catholic “Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification”.

Applications to this retreat are due by Wednesday, February 15th.

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• Dominican House of Studies
• 487 Michigan Avenue Northeast Washington, DC,
• 20017United States (map)

Questions? Contact Ms. Lauren Frawley at lfrawley@dhs.edu.