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January 2019
Eastside Night School for Deeper Learning with St. Ephram the Syrian (Series V, Session I)
The Night School is an adventurous exercise of greater depth and reflectivity than is normal for most people. Each of the Tuesday evenings (the 3rd Tuesday of each month), Fr. Ganz welcomes into our gathering each time a profound thinker, explorer, philosopher, painter, poet, theologian or mystic from the ancient or nearer past. For example, he may invite Aristotle (4th century BCE) to attend, and through some short and penetrating texts from his writings to give us his best thoughts on friendship.…
Find out more »Westside Night School for Deeper Learning with St. Ephram the Syrian (Series V, Session I)
The Night School is an adventurous exercise of greater depth and reflectivity than is normal for most people. In each of these classes, Fr. Ganz welcomes into our gathering each time a profound thinker, explorer, philosopher, painter, poet, theologian or mystic from the ancient or nearer past. For example, he may invite Aristotle (4th century BCE) to attend, and through some short and penetrating texts from his writings to give us his best thoughts on friendship. This monthly habit offered…
Find out more »February 2019
Eastside Night School for Deeper Learning with Rūmī (Series V, Session II)
The Night School is an adventurous exercise of greater depth and reflectivity than is normal for most people. Each of the Tuesday evenings (the 3rd Tuesday of each month), Fr. Ganz welcomes into our gathering each time a profound thinker, explorer, philosopher, painter, poet, theologian or mystic from the ancient or nearer past. For example, he may invite Aristotle (4th century BCE) to attend, and through some short and penetrating texts from his writings to give us his best thoughts on friendship.…
Find out more »Westside Night School for Deeper Learning with Rūmī (Series V, Session II)
The Night School is an adventurous exercise of greater depth and reflectivity than is normal for most people. In each of these classes, Fr. Ganz welcomes into our gathering each time a profound thinker, explorer, philosopher, painter, poet, theologian or mystic from the ancient or nearer past. For example, he may invite Aristotle (4th century BCE) to attend, and through some short and penetrating texts from his writings to give us his best thoughts on friendship. This monthly habit offered…
Find out more »March 2019
A Pilgrim’s Day Retreat
One of the earliest ways that Christians designated themselves was not as “people of the Book” (as the Jews did) but as “people of the Way.” From the very first, Christians experienced the truth that they had not arrived but that they were always “on the Way”. We could say that Christians grasp something centrally important about themselves when they acknowledge that they are pilgrims – being “on the Way” with Christ, being “in the world … but not of the world,”…
Find out more »A Lenten Evening: Preparation for the Season of Lent
Join us on Tuesday, March 5th from 7-8PM at the Loyola Jesuit Center for A Lenten Evening: Preparation for the Season of Lent. On this Tuesday evening before Ash Wednesday, Fr. Rick Ganz, SJ will help us prepare to enter the 40 days of Lent. We will explore what the season of Lent is, why it lasts for 40 days, what we are supposed to do with it, and how to know we've done it well. The program will be…
Find out more »Eastside Night School for Deeper Learning with Charles Wesley (Series V, Session III)
The Night School is an adventurous exercise of greater depth and reflectivity than is normal for most people. Each of the Tuesday evenings (the 3rd Tuesday of each month), Fr. Ganz welcomes into our gathering each time a profound thinker, explorer, philosopher, painter, poet, theologian or mystic from the ancient or nearer past. For example, he may invite Aristotle (4th century BCE) to attend, and through some short and penetrating texts from his writings to give us his best thoughts on friendship.…
Find out more »Westside Night School for Deeper Learning with Charles Wesley (Series V, Session III)
The Night School is an adventurous exercise of greater depth and reflectivity than is normal for most people. In each of these classes, Fr. Ganz welcomes into our gathering each time a profound thinker, explorer, philosopher, painter, poet, theologian or mystic from the ancient or nearer past. For example, he may invite Aristotle (4th century BCE) to attend, and through some short and penetrating texts from his writings to give us his best thoughts on friendship. This monthly habit offered…
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