NEWMAN AND THE INTELLECTUAL TRADITION
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Afternoon 3:00-5:00 Registration, Administration Building
Evening 5:30 Vespers, Church of St. Gregory the Great 6:30 Dinner at Green Animals Topiary Gardens, 380 Cory’s Lane Take a short walk to the Gardens or take the shuttle bus from the Administration Building parking Lot 8:45 Rosary, followed by Afterglow, meet at Church of St. Gregory the Great; Afterglow in Winter Garden
Friday, June 11, 2010
Morning 7:45 Mass 8:00 Breakfast, Stillman Dining Hall 9:00 Morning Session I, Auditorium
Introduction: Edward Short, Author
Address: “The Anglican Newman & Recent Developments” Rev. George Rutler, Pastor, Church of Our Saviour, New York City
Discussion: Vincent Millard ’64, Moderator, Fall River, MA
10:30 Break and Refreshments, Auditorium Foyer
11:00 Morning Session II, Auditorium Introduction: Dimitra Zelden, Spiritual Life Assistant/Christian Doctrine, Portsmouth Abbey School
Address: “The Grammar of Assent” Professor Paul J. Griffiths, Warren Chair of Catholic Theology, Duke Divinity School
Discussion: Dan Hodes, Moderator
Afternoon 12:15 Anglo-Catholic Newport Bus Tour (fee applies, check availability) Meet at Administration parking lot, box-lunch included
12:30-1:30 Lunch, Stillman Dining Hall
Golf at Carnegie Abbey (pre-arranged), tennis, squash, free time
2:00 Fr. Dominic Barberi in “Newman’s Conversion.” Performed by Kevin O’Brien, President & Artistic Director, Theater of the Word Incorporated, Library
3:30 Afternoon Session, Auditorium Introduction: Dom Julian Stead, O.S.B. ’43, Chaplain, Alumni Association, Portsmouth Abbey School
Address: “The Dream of Gerontius” Dr. Peter Kreeft, Professor of Philosophy, Boston College
Discussion: Rev. F. Washington Jarvis, Pastor, the Parish of All Saints, Ashmont; Director, the School Leadership and Ministry Program at the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale; Oblate to Portsmouth Abbey
4:30-5:30 Refreshments, Administration Foyer
Evening 5:30 Vespers 6:15 Concert, excerpts from “The Dream of Gerontius”, Auditorium 7:00 Cocktails and Hors d’ oeuvres, sponsored by The Cardinal Newman Society, Stillman Dining Hall 7:45 Dinner and Speech, Stillman Dining Hall Invocation: Right Reverend Caedmon Holmes, O.S.B., Abbot, Portsmouth Abbey School
Introduction: Patrick Reilly, President, Cardinal Newman Society
Address: “The Newman Cause” Father Richard Duffield, Provost, The Oratory of St. Philip Neri, Birmingham, England and Actor of the Cause for the Canonization of John Henry Cardinal Newman
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Morning 7:45 Mass - Homilist: Deacon John Sullivan: “My Miraculous Healing” 8:00 Breakfast, Stillman Dining Hall 9:00 Morning Session I, Auditorium Introduction: Dom Paschal Scotti, O.S.B., Head of Christian Doctrine, Portsmouth Abbey School
Address: “Newman and the Americans” Edward Short, Author
Discussion: J. Clifford Hobbins, Moderator, Teacher of History, Portsmouth Abbey School
10:30 Break and Refreshments, Auditorium Foyer
11:00 Morning Session II, Auditorium Introduction: Dr. James DeVecchi, Headmaster, Portsmouth Abbey School
Address: “Newman and the Renewal of Catholic Identity in Higher Education”, Patrick Reilly, President, Cardinal Newman Society
Discussion: Dr. Mary Beth Klee, moderator, Founder of Crossroads Academy, NH; Board of Regents, Portsmouth Abbey School
Afternoon 12:15 Sail on the 101’ schooner, Aurora, (fee applies, check availability) Meet at Administration parking lot, box-lunch included
12:30 Lunch, Stillman Dining Hall
2:00 Fr. Dominic Barberi in “Newman’s Conversion.” Performed by Kevin O’Brien, President & Artistic Director, Theater of the Word Incorporated, Library
Wind Turbine and Solar House Tour, meet at base of turbine Paul Jestings, Director of Operations/Project Manager, Portsmouth Abbey School
Tennis, squash, free time
4:00 Afternoon Session, Auditorium Introduction: Fr. David Stokes Assistant Professor of Theology, Providence College; Assistant Pastor, St. Sebastian Parish, Providence
Address: “Newman’s (and Pope Benedict XVI’s) Hermeneutic of Continuity” Rev Ian Ker, Newman biographer and Professor of Theology, Oxford University
Discussion: Right Reverend Dom Caedmon Holmes, O.S.B., Moderator, Abbot, Portsmouth Abbey
Evening 5:30 Solemn Evensong, Sung by the Choir of The Parish of All Saints: Ashmont, Dorchester, Boston, Church of St. Gregory the Great
Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament
Closing Reception following concert, Winter Garden
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Morning Low Masses at 7 and 8 and Conventual Mass with the Monastic Community at 9:30 AM
10:30 Brunch, Stillman Dining Hall
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