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Corpus Christi | An Intellectual Retreat for the UK


  • Theodore House Clitheroe, England, BB7 9PT United Kingdom (map)

Theodore House at Stonyhurst | Clitheroe, England

This retreat is being offered in the for university students and young professionals.

Step away from the daily rush of life to pray and study the riches of the Church’s intellectual tradition with the Thomistic Institute. The retreat will explore the tradition of Corpus Christi with conferences and seminar discussions, framed by the traditional elements of a retreat (Mass, adoration, the Divine Office, etc.).

Thanks to the generosity of our benefactors, meals and housing will be provided free for accepted applicants. Retreatants will stay at the Theodore House of the Stonyhurst Estate.

Schedule:

  • Begins with check-in Friday afternoon, June 20

  • Concludes with check-out Monday afternoon, June 23

Speakers:

  • Fr. Innocent Smith, O.P. (Dominican House of Studies) entered the Order of Preachers in 2008 and was ordained to the priesthood in 2015. From 2015 to 2018, Fr. Innocent served as parochial vicar at the Parish of St. Vincent Ferrer and St. Catherine of Siena in New York City. From 2018 to 2021, he lived in Munich while completing a doctorate in liturgical studies at the University of Regensburg. From 2021 to 2023, Fr. Innocent served as Assistant Professor of Homiletics at St. Mary’s Seminary & University in Baltimore. In 2023, he joined the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception. Fr. Innocent’s teaching and research interests include liturgy, homiletics, sacramental theology, ecclesiology, and sacred music. His S.T.L. thesis, “In Collecta Dicitur: The Oration as a Theological Authority for Thomas Aquinas,” explored the importance of the liturgy as a source for scholastic theology. His monograph Bible Missals and the Medieval Dominican Liturgy focuses on medieval manuscripts of the Bible that also contain liturgical texts for the celebration of Mass.

  • Fr. Matthew Jarvis, O.P. (St. Dominic’s Priory, London) is Prior of St Dominic’s Priory (the Rosary Shrine) in north London. He also serves as Provincial Secretary for the Dominican friars in Britain and as a member of the Order’s international liturgical commission. His intellectual interests include theology and church history, especially of the Patristic and medieval periods. He is presently researching the medieval and modern practice of Dominican chant for a part-time DPhil at Oxford University.

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

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