Dominican House of Studies | Washington, D.C.

Join other students of the Thomistic Institute for an Intellectual Retreat!

Students will have the opportunity to attend talks about the relationship between faith, reason, and contemplation, participate in Mass, attend Eucharistic Adoration, pray the Divine Office with the Dominican community, and attend socials with students and friars throughout the weekend.

Thanks to the generosity of our benefactors, meals and housing will be provided free for accepted applicants. Limited travel scholarships are available upon request.

Schedule:

• Begins with check-in from 3:00 - 4:00 pm on Friday, October 3

• Concludes with check-out at 1:30 pm on Sunday, October 5

Speakers:

Prof. Zena Hitz (St. John’s College) is a Tutor at St. John's College in Annapolis, where she teaches across the liberal arts.  She is the author of Lost In Thought:  The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life (2020) and A Philosopher Looks At the Religious Life.  Translations of Lost in Thought have appeared in Farsi, Japanese, Spanish, and Turkish, and are forthcoming in Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Chinese, and Vietnamese.  In 2020 she received the Hiett Prize in the Humanities and founded the Catherine Project, an open liberal arts program for adults, where she now serves as president.

Fr. James Dominic Brent, O.P. (Dominican House of Studies) is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Chaplain to Commuter Students at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington DC. He has articles in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Natural Theology, in the Oxford Handbook of Thomas Aquinas on “God’s Knowledge and Will”, and an article on “Thomas Aquinas” in the Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology.

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Questions? Contact Ms. Bridget Arbuckle at barbuckle@dhs.edu.