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This blog is a supplement to Saint Agnes School's Senior Capstone Seminar, a course in which senior students have elected to read some of the greatest books of the Catholic intellectual tradition and discuss them in a Socratic seminar format. This blog will attempt to track our conversations throughout the year as well as post articles and news of related interest to the content of the course.

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Chicago Trip 2014 Pictures

We had a great trip to Chicago!  See the images below on the Picassa web album.

The slide show below contains images from the Capstone Seminar Pilgrimage to Chicago (Feb., 2014).  Captions describing each image can be viewed by clicking on the text icon in the lower left corner of every image.
The purpose of this annual Pilgrimage to Chicago is to engage in an integrated, Catholic experience in the big city – an amalgamation of culture, faith, politics, art, food, architecture, history etc.!

The students’ experiences include:
  • traversing the Windy City during rush-hour;
  • participating in an orchestral High Mass at St. John Cantius (Saint Agnes' "sister" parish in Chicago);
  • hearing a lecture from Dr. Joseph Mordente entitled "Life in the Real World" - a talk on the competing philosophies of reality and the epidemic of relativism;
  • eating deep-dish pizza at Pizzeria Uno where it was invented;
  • chanting Vespers with Benedictine monks downtown;
  • viewing the city from atop the John Hancock skyscraper;
  • meeting with a priest who is a Judge at the Tribunal for the Archdiocese of Chicago;
  • attending a lecture by renowned Jesuit, Fr. Kilgallen;
  • visiting the famous Art Institute of Chicago;
  • enjoying authentic Greek food in Chicago's Greektown;
  • Riding the "L" subway of the Chicago Transit Authority.
The images below are a window into the life of the group's four day pilgrimage to the Windy City.



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