The Office of Alumni Engagement recently launched an initiative to offer cultural programming that is in line with the Jesuit mission at Saint Peter’s University. These outings included a visit to The Metropolitan Museum of Art to see Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination and to Ellis Island where alumni were led on a guided a tour, listened to a speech about searching family lineages and were given the opportunity to start their own family tree exploration. The newest addition to this collection of cultural events is a visit to the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) in Hyde Park, N.Y.
The trip, which is $60 per person, includes a round trip bus ride from Saint Peter’s University to the CIA. While at the CIA, guests will enjoy a delicious three-course lunch at Ristorante Caterina de’ Medici followed by a tour of the CIA, including the St. Andrew-on-Hudson cemetery. The cemetery is the final resting place of Rev. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J., arguably one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century, and who is cited by Pope Francis in the Laudato si’.
Rev. Rocco Danzi, S.J., vice president for mission and ministry, who will be in attendance on the trip, commented, “The cemetery at the CIA reminds us that from 1903-1968 the campus was a place of Jesuit formation for hundreds of young men who felt called to serve the church. Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin is one Jesuit buried in the cemetery who continues to capture the spiritual and scientific imagination of many. This 20th century Jesuit priest and paleontologist worked to understand the evolutionary nature of the world and the cosmos. Chardin once said: ‘You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.’”
The bus will leave Saint Peter’s at 9:00 a.m. and return at 5:00 p.m. The $60 investment includes transportation, lunch and tour. This tour will likely sell out, if you are interested in coming, please click here and register before March 11, 2019. For more information about this program or others offered by the Office of Alumni Engagement, click here or call (201) 761-6122.