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“Welcome to Lumen Institute: Enlightening leaders, pursuing excellence, influencing culture,” their webpage reads at the very top. This notice is followed by their ambitious mission: “to further enhance the character, faith, and leadership skills of today’s business and cultural leaders and their families.” This is what a few Legionary priests and some business men that form the Lumen chapter of New York are up to in the bustling, fast-paced, secular world of Manhattan. CLICK FOR MORE

Br. Pedro Cadena reflects on his own near-death experiences, and the precious gift of our lives. He urges us to live our mission well and make every second count. Read Blog

On April 10, 2018, a Mass for the eternal repose of Br. Anthony Freeman's soul was held in Rome with many Legionary seminarians and family members in attendance.  Click for more.

Our eyes and minds were tested by a day of art gazing. This time we visited the Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford, Connecticut. For hours, artwork after artwork flashed before our eyes in an engaging march to gaze upon the treasures of a museum before the time ran out. FULL STORY

"The College of the Legionaries of Christ in Cheshire has been, during many years, a place of prayer where you can have a better chance to hear God’s voice in your life. In the middle of a noisy world, that does not allow us to reflect on the purpose of our lives, most people do not realize that they are thirsting for God.  Click for More

The power goes out on a Friday afternoon, and around a hundred men are in a small town of Connecticut, at the Seminary of the Legionaries of Christ. The majority of these men are donning a black cassock. The others are guests on retreat.  Click for More
 

Br. Emmanuel Flores, LC, denies he is much of a dancer, but there was a time when his willingness to step out of his comfort zone brought joy to a wrinkled face.  Read Blog


 

On Friday, February 24, around 25 of our students went to a concert at Yale University titled, “At the Foot of the Cross,” to hear Yale’s Schola Cantorum perform two pieces composed as meditations on Christ’s Passion.  Click for more.

On Tuesday, February 27, Karl Isaac Johnson, M.A.R., a graduate from Yale Divinity School, gave a lecture to the community of Legionaries here at our college.
This lecture examined the themes of fate and free will in Homer, and in the much-later Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius, a late-antique Christian Roman philosopher.  Click for more.

From January 30th to February 1st all the religious here at the Legionaries of Christ Novitiate and College of Humanities in Cheshire had a Triduum of Renewal of vows before the feast of the Presentation of the Lord, the world day of religious. The Triduum consists of three days of more prayer and time for reflection. This proved quite a change from everybody’s busy daily schedule. Fr Kevin Meehan LC preached the meditations and talks.  Click for more.

“Paul, more than anyone else, has shown us what man really is, and in what our nobility consists, and of what virtue this particular animal is capable.” Saint John Chrysostom, with a bit of good humor, praises St Paul in such a way in a sermon read in the Liturgy of the Hours every January 25.  Click for more.

On January 19th thousands of people marched up Capitol Hill, determined to protest the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade. Among the massive throng were 26 humanists and priests from Cheshire, CT.

Our day started at 4:30 AM in a house in Virginia. At 5:10 AM, we started out for the Capitol One arena in downtown DC. Click for more.

Saint Bonaventure described what happened the night St. Francis made the first nativity scenes: “The brethren were summoned, the people ran together, the forest resounded with their voices, and that venerable night was made glorious by many and brilliant lights and sonorous psalms of praise. Then he preached to the people about the nativity of the poor King.”  Click for more.

From December 29 ^th to January 1 ^st a total of fifty young men (mostly High-school age) attended an Ignition retreat here at the Novitiate and College of Humanities in Cheshire. A bus load came from Georgia and Louisiana and the rest from other states. Many who came for the first time said they did not know what to expect and came simply because they had been invited ...

On Wednesday, December 13, the brothers in their humanities studies went to Yale’s hometown of New Haven for a cultural visit. But first, they had the Celebration of the Eucharist at St Mary’s Church, which was the first parish Fr Michael McGivney, the founder of the Knights of Columbus, worked at. Click for more.

“Christ’s Kingdom grows by us loving others to the point of motivating them to go and do the same. The Kingdom of Christ is like yeast that makes the dough rise. Love for others is that yeast in this world.” This was the message of the homily for the Solemnity of Christ the King. Click for more.

On Tuesday, November 14 ^th, we had the opportunity to visit the Frick Collection and the MET, in New York City.  These are great opportunities to see firsthand what they have studied. The Frick Collection presented a special exhibition of Murillo’s portraits, which we spent time studying and discussing.  Click for more.

On November 11, we hosted the Annual Benefit Dinner. We had been preparing for this moment for a couple of months. The brothers prepared the dinner with much dedication and effort. The first activity we had was, the Celebration of the Eucharistic to give thanks to God for all of his gifts above all the gift of each one of the people that came, for their generosity and charity towards us. Without them, it would be close to impossible to continue on with our vocation, the call to follow God in the Consecrated life. Click for more.
 

The year of Consecrated Life has long since passed. It has been two years since Pope Francis invited all consecrated people to reflect on their call. The fruits of his effort continue to transform the church and to bring all consecrated people together.
In the spirit of that year of Consecrated life, the archdiocese of Hartford organized an evening event to bring all the religious of the archdiocese together for a Eucharistic Celebration with the Archbishop of Hartford, Bishop Leonard Blair. A nice dinner followed at St. Thomas Seminary in Bloomfield, CT.  Click for more.