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returning to the primary sources
of human & divine wisdom

Real Friendship

authentically cultivating
real communities

Real Living

integrating the truths of faith
into everyday life

Upcoming Events

St. John’s Day | Wine Blessing

Dr. Joey Spencer | Angels and the Christian Moral Life

Third Wednesday Reading Group: A Christmas Carol

2024 Charlemagne Ball

 

Alcuin understood that the movement of the mind from a state of ignorance to a state of knowledge, though at times difficult, ought not be a cold, sterile, and impersonal act that hardens the soul. Education should instead resemble a well-planned meal, advancing from course to course, each plate preparing the next, in the end leaving the guest utterly satisfied, yet somehow desiring more. The pleasure of the feast is a result of the company kept and the food served. Alcuin maintained that the best intellectual diet consisted of ‘ancient’ fare, that is ‘toothsome food’ that has been proven to cause health and vitality.

The Alcuin Institute seeks to return to this kind of education, one that is at once broad and deep, yet light and whimsical, and thoroughly grounded in the primary sources of the Christian West; the deer and pheasant to be found in our very own precincts. Such a feast among friends in Christ is “the best that life can offer.”

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Third Wednesday Reading Group: A Christmas Carol

o you want to grow in the intellectual life and make new friends along the way? Join the Alcuin Institute faculty on the third Wednesday of each month this academic year as we read beloved and impactful texts and explore their riches together! Our book for September is Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (ISBN: 9780199536306). Come…

St. John’s Day | Wine Blessing

For ages, Catholics throughout Christendom have had their wine blessed on the feast of St. John the Apostle. The tradition originates from the legend that the Beloved Disciple of Jesus once partook of a glass of poisoned wine, but was miraculously unharmed on account of the special blessing that he gave it with the Sign…

Dr. Joey Spencer | Angels and the Christian Moral Life

Come celebrate the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas (Jan. 28) with the Alcuin Institute and St. Philip Neri University Parish! St. Thomas has much to teach us about the moral life and about angels (he is the “Angelic Doctor,” after all). But rarely perhaps do we consider the role of angels in the moral life….

2024 Charlemagne Ball

“If music be the food of love, then play on!” – Duke Orsino, Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night The Alcuin Institute requests the pleasure of your company at the 2023 Charlemagne Ball. In festive celebration of the sacrament of Holy Matrimony, join others for an enchanting evening of fine dining and formal dancing. Registration includes a champagne…

Santa Fe Pilgrimage – In the Footsteps of Fr. Latour

Join the Alcuin Institute & Fr. Bryan Brooks as we pray, read, eat, and drink our way through New Mexico! Our quest to follow in the footsteps of the faithful priest Fr. Latour in Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop will take us to many places in historic Santa Fe, including…  High Road Mission…

Kevin Vost – The Art of Memory

Join us for food, drink, and fellowship hosted by The Alcuin Institute for Catholic Culture and St. Michael Catholic Radio!“Remember the former things of old” the Prophet Isaiah exhorts (46:9). But in our modernized, hyper-connected Internet age, the value of a good memory has been all but forgotten. In the world of TikTok, sound bites,…

Chad Pecknold – Altar Fire: The Religious Nature of the Soul and the City

Join us for food, drink, and fellowship hosted by The Alcuin Institute for Catholic Culture and St. Michael Catholic Radio!Ever since St. Augustine’s masterpiece The City of God, Catholics have applied the great truths of faith to better understand human society and how it can best flourish. However, in recent centuries, the rise of secularized…

Faith & Culture Conference: Art & Revelation

Join us for our last event of the 2021-2022 academic year! This year’s Alcuin Summit, hosted on the feast of Bl. Alcuin of York, will take a look at the relationship between art and Divine revelation. Principally geared towards teachers, this 1-day event will be led by our keynote speaker, Dr. Jared Staudt of the Augustine Institute!

Instituto Alcuino Convivio Socrático

Únase al Instituto Alcuin para uno de nuestros Alcuin Convivia exclusivos, ¡nuestra forma elegante de decir comida, amistad y buena conversación centrada en un conjunto particular de fuentes primarias! Este evento ofrece la misma gran formación disponible en nuestro Tulsa Convivia, ¡pero en un formato condensado!