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Portsmouth Institute 2021

The Portsmouth Institute is beginning today. “As I Have Loved You” is the them taken from Fourth Gospel and commented upon by saints and theologians alike for centuries. Regrettably the 2021 iteration is virtual but worthy of our attention, as always. Allow me to share a prayer that I think will capture the trajectory of the work to be done. The opening prayer for the Portsmouth Institute is composed by Prior Michael Brunner, OSB, Prior of Portsmouth Abbey and Chancellor of Portsmouth Abbey School.

We pray,

Almighty Father, you sent your Son to save us and demonstrate to us the infinite depth of your love for us. Your son gave us the new overarching commandment to love one another in the same radical manner by which he loved us. Give us, Lord we pray, the grace, courage and strength to love as he did, meek and humble of heart.

Help us to not strike back at those who strike out at us. Help us to love those we do not like, those with whom we disagree, those who vilify us. Help us to respond to them by loving as Jesus did and not with harsh words. Help us to love our country by showing it the way of love by our living it. Help us to actively love the loveless, the hopeless and the faithless.May the way, the truth and the life be visible to the world in us.

Guide us, Lord, on this path of love so that we do not deceive ourselves by following the path of our own loves. Forgive us our failures and consider our right intentions as we live and work and build in the ways of your kingdom. May everything we do be according to your will and for your greater glory, as we follow Jesus Christ the King of hearts. 

In His name we pray, Amen.

The Institute is a collaborative work of the monks of Portsmouth Abbey and St Louis Abbey with key laypeople offering a great program on faith and reason for 2021. Remember, faith and reason go hand-in-hand and is particularly catholic in scope and depth (think of Benedict XVI).

I have known some of the presenters at this year’s Institute for some time, and recommend that you dive deeply with them into the content they offer. I am particularly excited to hear John Cavadini, a friend I met at UND but who is a native of North Haven, Connecticut (a suburb of New Haven). He’s a stellar scholar and a man with a great, loving humanity.

2013 Portsmouth Institute Announced

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The Portsmouth Institute is delighted to announce that the 2013 Institute will take
place June 7-9 on the topic of CATHOLICISM AND THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. 
The keynote speaker on June 7th will be George Weigel, author of many books on
Catholicism, papal biographer,  and senior fellow of the Ethics and
Public Policy Center in Washington DC.  

Stay tuned for further details on
speakers and events of next June’s Institute; call or
write Cindy Waterman at cwaterman@portsmouthabbey.org
or 401.643.1244. 

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Modern Science, Ancient Faith: Portsmouth Institute set

pi-2011-logo.jpgThe Portsmouth Institute is set to begin its third year of work from June 22-24, 2012, with the theme of “Modern Science, Ancient Faith.” The Institute is located at Portsmouth Abbey and School (Portsmouth, RI).

The speakers include Rt. Rev. Dom James Wiseman (St. Anselm’s Abbey, Washington, DC), R. Dom Paschal Scotti (Portsmouth Abbey), William Dembski, John Haught, Kenneth Miller, B. Joseph Semmes, Michael Ruse, Fr. Nicanor Austriaco, OP.
Prayer, fraternity and time to think are hallmarks of the Portsmouth Institute. Situated at the beautiful Portsmouth Abbey on the Narrangansett Bay, who could not love expanding one’s thinking on faith and science.
Visit the website noted above for more information of the conference, the Abbey and School.
Previous Institutes:
2009 The Catholic William F. Buckley, Jr.
2010 Newman & the Intellectual Tradition
2011 The Catholic Shakespeare?
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Portsmouth Abbey Monks face future with internet help

Portsmouth Monks 2011.jpgBenedictine monasticism has a beautiful way of adapting, in a sensitive and intelligent way, to the times. Being contemporaneous doesn’t mean trendy. It means, in my mind, taking seriously the fact of the Incarnation: that in all things God may be glorified. Pope Benedict has been advocating the prudent use of social media, a point for this blog!

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The Portsmouth Institute announces inaugural conference “The Catholic William F. Buckley Jr.”

On the feast of Saint Scholastica (February 10th), The Portsmouth Institute was launched.

 

“The Portsmouth Institute is a summer conference, study, recreation and retreat center for Catholic intellectuals, scholars and all those who are interested in questions pertaining to Catholic leadership, life and service in the 21st century.”

 


Portsmouth abbey school.jpgWhat is labeled as “America‘s Premiere Catholic Boarding School” a center for summer study has been founded to explore the relevant matters pertaining to Catholic life in 21st century. Akin to what Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, Msgr. Luigi Giussani and Pope Benedict XVI and other like-minded intellectuals would say: faith broadens reason. This Institute envisions a comprehensive look at Catholicism from many vantage points that will appeal to scholars interested in Catholic faith and life. As you would expect, the Institute will engage faith and reason by engaging experts in the fields of spirituality, theology, history, science, the arts, politics, sociology as well as other aspects of contemporary society.

 


Portsmouth Abbey.jpgThe Institute’s webpage indicates that

 

Initial funding for The Portsmouth Institute has been established with generous contributions from National Review Institute, the William E. Simon Foundation, the Healey Family Foundation and other generous alumni and friends.  Accepting the role of director is Jamie MacGuire, Senior Development Officer of the Portsmouth Abbey School and 1970 graduate of The Portsmouth Abbey School.

 

The Portsmouth Institute will feature leadership and participation by Portsmouth Abbey’s resident Benedictine monks and faculty of the Portsmouth Abbey School. Institute programs are designed to offer attendees frequent opportunities for informal discussion, as well as access to recreational opportunities on the School’s campus at Carnegie Abbey, and in nearby Newport.  In keeping with its mission, the Institute’s yearly sessions will also provide opportunities for attendance at Mass, the Divine Office and “mini-Retreat” sessions centered around the Abbey’s landmark Church of St. Gregory the Great.

 

The Institute’s inaugural conference will be “The Catholic William F. Buckley Jr.: In Gratitude” June 18-21, 2009 at the Portsmouth Abbey School, Portsmouth, Rhode Island.