We offer lectures and courses in the Catholic humanities at no cost to the community. We shape each course with the superior so it fits that house.

Communities we have served include:

Carmel of Jesus, Mary and Joseph (Valparaiso, NE); Christ the King School Sisters and the Marian Sisters (Lincoln, NE); Poor Clares of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Roswell, NM); Abbey of St. Walburga (Virginia Dale, CO); Dominican Monastery of Our Lady of the Rosary (Summit, NJ); Our Lady of Clear Creek (Hulbert, OK); Our Lady of the Desert (Gobernador, NM); and Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist (Ann Arbor, MI).

To ask about a course: johnfreeh@motherrose.org · 949-573-7342

The following is a partial list of lectures we have offered:

* “Community in a Postmodern Isolationist World.”

* “The Friend of Friends: Tolkien’s Re-presentation of Friendship’s Power in Middle-earth.”

* “Willa Cather and J.R.R. Tolkien: Two Modern Authors Depicting True Friendship to a Desperate Audience.”

* “The Waste Land Revisited: T.S. Eliot’s Diagnosis of Modernity.”

* “Newman’s Dream of Gerontius.”

* “ ‘As the gentle rain from heaven’: Shakespeare’s Heart of Mercy.”