Our students had a wonderful and powerful retreat this past weekend (11/13-15). Thank you for your prayers for the retreat. The team did an amazing job exploring how our faith intersects with the entirety of our lives, given it is so easy to compartmentalize faith to just Sunday or times in private prayer, leading to a sense of incompleteness or disingenuousness.

The talks given include:

• in the world, but not of it

• fratelli and fruits: a presentation on how to dialogue in our day and age

• the littlest of the children (a look at Our Lady of Guadalupe and colonization)

• abortion and preference for the poor

• care for our common home

• self-care! and dealing with isolation

Thanks to the 2020 Fall (not a) Retreat Team: Edrick Sabalburo, Nique Salapare, Manuel Morales, Matt Grehm, Tracy Tansui, and Amaris L'Heureux. Our community is blessed with amazing students.

All the retreat talks were recorded, so if any of the topics interest you, come check them out. The talks are amazing. They are concise and personal and I hope will help you to start thinking more deeply how our Catholic faith enlightens our approach to the world. Click here for the Retreat Talk Playlist.

Two encyclicals referenced frequently by the speakers were Fratelli Tutti (On Fraternity and Social Friendship) and Laudato Si' (On Care for our Common Home). These are worth checking out if you have done so already.