Annunciations: An Advent Retreat with the Poetry of Denise Levertov

Saturday, November 22, 9AM-3PM
St. Gregory the Great, 5545 N Paulina St

Led by Fr. Kevin Burke, SJ

Join us for a day of prayer and reflection, drawing on the work of 20th century poet and Catholic convert Denise Levertov.

Her great poem "Annunciation" invites the reader to consider the working of grace in one's life and helps us to acquire the capacity to recognize and be transformed by it.
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Denise Levertov’s (1923-1997) remarkable poetic journey was always one moving closer and closer to God. She formally entered the Catholic Church later in life and soon after engaged in a six-month process of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola under the direction of a Jesuit Spiritual Director in Seattle. ​

Free and open to the public. The day will include coffee in the morning and a complimentary lunch. No familiarity with Levertov's poetry is required to participate. More details TBA. 

This event is presented with the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage at Loyola University Chicago. ​Fr. Burke will also give a lecture at Loyola on November 20.

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Rev. Kevin F. Burke, S.J. is the Vice President for Mission at Regis University in Colorado. Previously, he served as Executive Dean and a Professor Ordinarius on the ecclesiastical faculty of the Jesuit School of Theology on the Berkeley, California, campus of Santa Clara University. From 1997 to 2006, he was a member of the faculty of Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His first book, The Ground beneath the Cross: The Theology of Ignacio Ellacuria (2000), focuses on the theology of a Salvadoran priest who was one of six Jesuits murdered by the Salvadoran Army in 1989 at the University of Central America along with two women co-workers. He co-edited a collection of essays entitled Love that Produces Hope: The Thought of Ignacio Ellacuria (2006) and edited a collection for the Contemporary Spiritual Masters series, Pedro Arrupe: Essential Writings (2004). Fr. Burke also co-edited a volume entitled The Ignatian Tradition with his sister, Dr. Eileen Burke-Sullivan, a professor of theology at Creighton University.