The Huffington Ecumenical Institute at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles invites you to a discussion:

"Taking Up the Cross in the 21st Century: Self-Denial and the Ordinary Christian" Presented by Rev. Father John McGuckin and Kathleen Norris Wednesday, October 23, 2013 6:00 p.m. Ecumenical Prayer Service 7:00 p.m. Lecture Loyola Marymount University Roski Dining Hall – University Hall 1 LMU Drive Los Angeles, California

Registration is required for this FREE event. Please RSVP here.

About the Presenters

Father John McGuckin is an Orthodox Christian scholar, priest and poet. He was raised Roman Catholic and at the age of 19 became a member of the Passionist religious order. In 1989 he became Greek Orthodox and was ordained a priest for the Romanian Orthodox Church, now serving at the Saint Gregory the Theologian Orthodox Chaplaincy in Manhattan. He has written scholarly books on Cyril of Alexandria, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Origen, among others. His work has ranged over the areas of New Testament interpretation, Patristics, Byzantine history, and Orthodox theology. He is a prominent Orthodox theologian, who has taught both in the English-speaking world and in Eastern Europe. His wife, Eileen, is an iconographer. Kathleen Norris is a best-selling poet and essayist. After graduating from Bennington College in Vermont in 1969, Norris became arts administrator of the Academy of American Poets, and published her first book of poetry two years later. In 1974 she inherited her grandparents' farm in Lemmon, South Dakota, moved there with her husband, David Dwyer, joined Spencer Memorial Presbyterian church, and discovered the spirituality of the Great Plains. She entered a new, non-fictional phase in her literary career after becoming a Benedictine oblate at Assumption Abbey Richardton ND in 1986, and spending extended periods at Saint John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota. Since the death of her husband in 2003, Norris has transferred her place of residence to Hawaii, though continuing to do lecture tours on the mainland.

About the Huffington Ecumenical Institute

The Huffington Ecumenical Institute at Loyola Marymount University follows the pioneering work of Patriarchs and Popes during the last forty years in rapprochement between the Churches of Constantinople and Rome. The goals of the Institute are:

• to promote the unity of the Orthodox and Catholic Churches
• to provide opportunities for fraternal encounters between these two faith communities
• to provide resources and forums for reflective and frank ecumenical discussion and dialogue at local, regional, national and international levels
• to foster ecclesial and academic interest and leadership in constructive ecumenism
• to build a leading collection of library resources in the areas of ecumenism and Orthodox theology

“We give thanks to the Author of all that is good,  who allows us once again, in prayer and in dialogue, to express the joy we feel as brothers and to  renew our commitment to move towards full communion… May our meeting be a sign and an encouragement for us  to share the same sentiments and the same attitudes of fraternity,  cooperation and communion in charity and truth.”   Common Declaration by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I and Pope Benedict XVI November 2006