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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino">Two Lectures Not to Be Missed!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino">March 16, 2023</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino">: Dr R.J. Snell, Witherspoon Institute<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino">Sloth, Leisure, and Love: How to Live Well <i>EVEN </i>at University<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino">We’re obsessed with racking up credentials and awards, fearful we’ll fall behind.
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino">It turns out we’re not majoring in physics or sociology so much as majoring in fear, terrified that we might fail at school and at life. So we’re busy and very, very, anxious. It turns out, though,
this is actually a form of sloth (acedia), but genuine education starts with leisure and ends in love.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino">April 3, 2023</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino">:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino">Why Science Needs Faith</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino">: Br Guy Consolmagno, SJ, B.S. & M.S. MIT, PhD University of Arizona<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino">Logic and reason must always start with assumptions, and the assumptions behind science are, at their root,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino">religious assumptions. Our core beliefs not only determine how we expect the universe to work; just as<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino">importantly they supply the motivation for the science we do, and indeed they determine why we as individuals choose to be scientists. We'll examine this theme from history to the present
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Reverend Michael B. Medas, MSW</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Catholic Chaplain | Director of Catholic Ministry</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">40 Massachusetts Ave.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Cambridge, MA 02139<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">“Jesus loves you always, even when you don’t feel worthy.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">When not accepted by others, even by yourself sometimes,</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">He is the one who always accepts you. Only believe, you are precious to Him.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Bring all you are suffering to His feet, only open your heart to be loved by Him as you are.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">He will do the rest.” Saint Mother Teresa</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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