St Anselm Institute for Catholic Thought

09/03/2023

September 17 (4:00pm) Online Public Lecture; Bishop Robert Barron
Diocese of Diocese of Winona-Rochester, Founder of Word on Fire Ministries, "The Catholic Intellectual Tradition," https://www.stanselminstitute.org/

02/27/2023

Please join us as we warmly welcome the return of Fr. Ambrose Little, O.P. on Thursday, March 2, 2023. From 2014 until 2021, Fr. Ambrose was in residence at St. Thomas Aquinas University Parish as a graduate student in Philosophy at UVA. He completed his Ph.D. in 2021 and was appointed Assistant Director of the Thomistic Institute in Washington, D.C.
This public lecture is free and open to all, so invite a friend and come to meet others who are interesting in thinking about how the Catholic intellectual tradition can inform our understanding of the modern world.

04/19/2022

Christ is risen! And St. Anselm’s feast is this Thursday. One of our Institute’s oldest traditions is to mark this feast with on Grounds fellowship. Yes, you are invited (RSVP if possible through web form— of just come)!

04/07/2022

Discussing this Holy Woman tomorrow. Marie’s mystical experiences extended throughout her life and particularly centered on an encounter with the Persons of the Trinity… But Marie also led a remarkably active life: as a wife, widow, and mother who later left everything in France to follow a missionary call in North America. In her 40s and 50s Marie began to learn the Huron and Algonquin languages and wrote catechisms and dictionaries to share the Gospel.

04/06/2022

A great hybrid start to our journey with Anselm’s Proslogion last night, with Professors Jorge Secada (Philosophy) and Bill Wilson (Religious Studies, Emeritus).

04/04/2022

“Faith seeking Understanding” is St. Anselm of Canterbury’s great insight into how human thought, with Faith, draws us into the presence of God. Yet in the history of ideas, attention has concentrated on the short logical proof of God’s existence in Proslogion 2-4. With UVA professors Jorge Secada (Philosophy) and Bill Wilson (Religious Studies), our aim is to reclaim this beautiful text as an exploration of the virtue of contemplative thought that applies to all Christians.

All are welcome to join for any of these sessions on Grounds or through Zoom. RSVP not necessary, but for updates you may register through link in bio.

03/31/2022

03/31/2022

Saturday April 2, 2022 (10AM-2PM)

"Baptism, the University, and the Secular Age"
A Lenten Faculty, Staff and Graduate Student Mini-Retreat
St. Thomas Aquinas University Parish

Fr. Walter Wagner, O.P. and the St. Anselm Institute invite university faculty, staff, and graduate students to join for a special Lenten opportunity for shared prayer, reflection, Mass and lunch.

Registration through link in profile helpful, not required.

03/24/2022

Tonight! There will be pizza from 5pm. You won't want to miss this special talk.
..Matisse was not a sacred artist. However, this special exception was a gift to the French Dominican sisters in Vence, France. In his final years of frail health, Matisse worked intensively with Dominican sisters and priests to plan a Chapel of the Rosary and afterwards called it, in particular, “the fruit of my whole working life.” The chapel (glass, crucifix, stations of the cross, vestments) was evidently not only artistically but also personally transformative.

Matisse called this masterpiece, a gift to French Dominican Sisters, “the fruit of my whole working life”. Join us at the end of the month to find out why!

03/09/2022

“The world does not need what women have, it needs what women are,” St Edith Stein wrote. It is true of the Americas too— America needs what these holy woman are. Each one nurtured the faith that has been passed on to us, and has been featured in a St Anselm lunch seminar. Join for the upcoming April Holy Women of the Americas lunch in April.

03/07/2022

Matisse called this masterpiece, a gift to French Dominican Sisters, “the fruit of my whole working life”. Join us at the end of the month to find out why!