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• Online Audio Files for the Sacred Triduum

  Pray along with the Liturgical Institute from the Mundelein Psalter

• Courses and Faculty Announced for 2013 Summer Session

  Learn more about the exciting offerings in the 2013 summer session!

• Love Connection at the Liturgical Institute

  Institute's first "liturgicouple" finds love in the summer session.

• Writings of Pope Francis Now Available

  The Library has begun to acquire books containing writings of Pope Francis. Cardinal Bergolio produced few monographs, but he contributed chapters or prefaces to many books over the past twenty-five years. Several of these are available for browsing in the bookcase labeled “Writings of Pope Francis” in the McEssy Center Gallery. Not surprisingly, publishers are rushing to prepare English translations of the Pope’s writings, and to publish biographical works. We will add these to the bookcase as they become available. 

• Fr. Robert Barron Offers Thoughts on 2 Samuel and Sacrifice in the Hillenbrand Distinguished Lecture Series

  Noted promoter of the New Evanglization and newly-appointed Rector/President of the University of Saint Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary gives Liturgical Institute students a preview of the findings in his forthcoming book on 2 Samuel.

• Third Mundelein Authors Annual Reception

   

  Join us on Wednesday April 10th from 2 to 4pm in the McEssy Gallery to celebrate the work of Very Rev. Thomas A. Baima, STD, Melanie Barrett, PhD, STD (cand.), Rev. Ronald T. Kunkel,STD, Rev. Edward T. Oakes, SJ, and Rev. James Presta, STD.  Each author will give a brief presentation on his or her work.  Copies of many titles will be available for purchase and signing by the authors. Refreshments will be served.  Click on the title above for a list of featured works.

   

• Liturgical Institute Graduates Largest Class Yet As Cardinal George Confers Degrees at University Commencement

  Graduates head across the globe to promote the Church's liturgy.

• LMAP Completes a Successful First Year

  The Lay Ministry Alumni Project (LMAP) closed out its first year with its third formation day.  Fr. Michael Ahlstrom gave a lively presentation on the Second Vatican Councilattending.

• The Very Reverend Robert Barron will present the Commencement Address

• Pope Francis I meets the world

• Associate Director gives workshop at Chicago Catechetical Conference

  As part of this year’s Chicago Catechetical Conference, Live Your Faith Boldly, Katarzyna Kasiarz presented a workshop entitled, “Leaven for the World: Reading & Applying Gaudium et Spes.”

• Lay Ministry Alumni Project inaugural formation day

  The Lay Ministry Alumni Project (LMAP) held its inaugural formation day, “Who Do You Say that I Am?” presented by Catherine Sims, M.Div at University of St. Mary of the Lake.

• Could the next pope be an American?

  Of the nominations for pope, several names are coming to the surface, including that of Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of New York. Another American, Cardinal Sean O’Malley from Boston, is also consideredone of the top papal contenders. TODAY’s Lester Holt interviews NBC contributor Father Robert Barron.

• Candidates for ordination on May 19, 2013

  Candidates for ordination on May 19, 2013 completed a canonical five-day retreat on Sunday, May 5 where they made a Profession of Faith, Oath of Fidelity and received a Call to Orders

• April 2, 2013

• Associate Director featured in NALM’s Lay Minister Stories project

  Katarzyna Kasiarz participated in the National Association for Lay Ministry (NALM) Lay Minister Stories project featured on the Co-Workers in the Vineyard of the Lord website. View her video along with many other inspiring stories of call to ministry.

• Director attends New Cloud of Witnesses: Vatican II & the Laity conference.

  Linda Couri traveled to John Carroll University in Ohio to attend a conference on the impact of the Second Vatican Council on the laity in the Church. 

• First documents from Vatican Library go online

  2013-01-31 Vatican Radio

  (Vatican Radio) More than six centuries after it was founded by Pope Nicholas V, the Vatican Library announced this week that it has made a first selection of ancient manuscripts available for consultation online.The first 256 documents to be digitalised form part of a broader project to make a large section of this prestigious archive freely available to students, scholars, researchers and teachers. The library, founded in 1451, has been supported in this work of digitalisation by a £2 million grant from the Polonsky Foundation and other sponsors...

• Cardinal George: New pope must 'govern the church as a pastor'

• Candidate Path Year I - Institution of Reader

• March 18, 2013

• Aspirants

  Aspirants will meet the Admission & Scrutinies Board in June

• The Legacy of Pope Benedict XVI: A commentary by Fr. Barron

• Who will be the next pope?

  NBC News analyst Father Robert Barron suggests some names that will emerge in the search.

• NOTICIAS

  El pasado 21 de Octubre fue ordenado Diácono Permanente el Sr. Miguel Santillán, de manos del Sr. Obispo Alberto Rojas. La ordenación tuvo lugar en la Parroquia Nuestra Señora de Gracia, donde el nuevo diácono estará sirviendo, y fue una celebración llena de gozo, júbilo y agradecimiento por tan especial regalo a nuestra Iglesia de Chicago.

• Thank you for your friendship': Benedict leaves Vatican for final time as pope

• Love Connection at the Liturgical Institute

  Institute's first "liturgicouple" finds love in the summer session.

• Courses and Faculty Announced for 2013 Summer Session

  Learn more about the exciting offerings in the 2013 summer session!

• New website

  The Library has a new website! Please give us feedback to help improve user experience.  Email cgeuther@usml.edu with suggestions.

• Friday Hours Affected by Memorial Service

  The Library will be open from 2 pm – 10 pm on Friday, February 1, to allow everyone to participate in the memorial service for Father Richard Wojcik.

• Tree Trimming

  Come celebrate the season at a Library Christmas Open House in the McEssy Gallery on the 12th!  There will be plenty of food, a beautiful tree, and we hope you join for some good company.
  
  In preparation we still have a bit more to go decorating the tree.  Father Franzman and the student volunteers did a lot of hard work, even leaning over the spiral staircase to reach the top. 
  
  Thank you very much to our volunteers!

• Christmas Open House

  Please join us for the Library Christmas Open Housefrom 12:30-3:30 this afternoon in the McEssy Gallery.

• Credo Reference Trial

  As information resources become available electronically, the Library has the opportunity to offer them for the Seminary community to try out. The current trial is for Credo Reference, a discovery tool that gives access to information in many resources and formats. A user entering a keyword in the search box on the Credo Reference page will obtain results from the USML online catalog and other catalogs, journal article databases, and hundreds of online reference resources. Users also have access to Topic pages, which gather information about a specific topic and provide links to resources.

• Congratulations Cohort 2012

• Trial of L'Année philologique

  As information resources become available electronically, the Library has the opportunity to offer databases for the Seminary community to try out. The current trial is for the L'Année philologique (The Year in Philology), the standard bibliographical tool for research related to the language, literature, history and culture of the Greco-Roman World. Each year’s volume includes articles from 1,500 periodicals, with an additional 500 articles from collections...