Mission and Spirituality: A Xaverian Journey

Wed · Sep 30·Boston College events · Newton

Fee: $60 | Five Weeks Does the Gospel of Christ bear fruit in your life? How about in your church? In Evangelii Gaudium, Pope Francis calls Catholic Christians to ongoing conversion, to bring the joy of Christian discipleship out into the world. It’s a call to become a Church of open-doors and invitation, reaching out…

Wed · Sep 30·Boston College events · Newton

Fee: $60 | Five Weeks Of the almost forty Doctors of the Church in the Catholic faith, only four are women: St. Catherine of Siena, St. Teresa of Ávila, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, and St. Hildegard of Bingen. The title “Doctor of the Church” is given by the pope or ecumenical council to saints whose teaching and writings…

Wed · Sep 30·9:30 AM – 10:45 AM·3rd Floor Rear Arc · Newton

In this class we will discuss the many beautiful places and historic sites in the Boston area. Whether in the city of Boston itself or in other parts of New England — including Cape Cod, the Berkshires, the North Shore, and the South Shore — there is much to explore on a day trip or overnight. We will discuss the kinds…

Wed · Sep 30·10:30 AM – 11 AM·Newton Free Library, Children's Program Room

This is a lapsit program with movement, songs, and stories appropriate for babies, toddlers, and their caregivers. You will help your children learn how much fun it is to come to the library! For babies and toddlers ages birth - 24 months and their caregivers. No registration required, drop-ins welcome.

Mon · Sep 21·10 AM – 5 PM·McMullen Museum of Art, 2101 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02135

Showcasing the most important collection of Belgian symbolist art in private hands—assembled by Charles Hack over more than four decades—the exhibition features over 150 major works by Belgian and other European artists in their orbit. Shadows and Light charts a world of dualities: dream and reality, modernism and trad…

Mon · Sep 21·12 PM – 1 PM·Devlin Hall, Boston College, 255 Beacon Street, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 · Newton

Born in Spain, where ethnically Chinese residents comprise under 1% of the population, Quan Zhou Wu has become a prominent public figure in conversations concerning the local Chinese community as well as on more general questions of migration and identity. Zhou Wu rose to fame with the graphic novel Gazpazho Agridulce:…