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,

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 , 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,

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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