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Saturday | May 18 | 1 PM
Class of 2013 Service Send-Off
DeBartolo Performing Arts Center | Leighton Concert Hall
The Center for Social Concerns hosts a Service Send-Off Ceremony and reception during Commencement Weekend for all of the seniors who are planning to commit to one or more years of full-time service and for their families. Seniors who have participated in the past have committed to serve with programs like ACE, Americorps, ECHO, Peace Corps, and Teach for America, as well as smaller programs and service projects they have organized on their own.
This is a wonderful event and opportunity for students and families to meet and support each other and to be honored by the Center's staff, Fr. Jenkins, and representatives of the University. The ceremony includes music by the Folk Choir, reflections from guest speakers, as well as an opportunity for each senior to be recognized by name and receive a small gift for the journey ahead.
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Thursday, November 14–Friday, November 15, 2013
Blessed are the Merciful: Charity as Sacramental Action
Eck Center Auditorium and Geddes Hall
Registration is required. Conference participation is free and open to the public.
The aim of this conference is to recover the deep sacramental sense that charity once held in the pre-modern church, to explore why it has been minimized in modernity, and to consider how the church might reclaim such a sacramental vision of charity for our own time.
This conference is sponsored by the Institute for Church Life and the Center for Social Concerns, and is co-organized by Professor John C. Cavadini, McGrath-Cavadini Director of the Institute for Church Life, and Professor Gary Anderson, Hesburgh Professor of Catholic Theology, both of the University of Notre Dame. The conference draws its theme from Professor Anderson's forthcoming book, Charity: The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition (Yale, 2013). More information / Register online
