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Regular Weekly Meetings
During the 2007-2008 school year, our weekly meetings will take place on Thursday nights, beginning at 6:30pm at Brent House, 5540 S. Woodlawn Ave. We typically have with an evening prayer service (Vespers or Small Compline) and a meal together with informal fellowship or else a more structured discussion or Bible study. Please see the calendar for details, and sign up on our email list for scheduling updates. Everybody is welcome to attend our meetings.
Detailed directions to Brent House are available here.
Eastern Fathers Reading Group
Adrian Guiu is leading this year's Eastern Fathers Reading Group. The group will be starting with St. Symeon the New Theologian's Hymns of Divine Love. Please contact us for details.
Weekend Services
OCF students attend a number of different Orthodox churches throughout the city. If you need a ride to church, or are just curious and want to visit an Orthodox church, please don't hesistate to contact us!
Special Activities
- Guest Speakers - We regularly have guest speakers come to our OCF. Please see the calendar for upcoming talks. Past visitors have included: Fr. Thomas Hopko, Archbishop JOB, Fr. Alexander Golitzin, and Metropolitan Theodosius.
- Monastery Trip - Each year, we try to plan at least one retreat to a monastery, usually during Great Lent. In the past, we've visited St. John Chrysostom Greek Orthodox Monastery in Kenosha, Wisconsin and Holy Dormition Monastery (Romanian Episcopate) in Rives Junction, Michigan.
- Informal Gatherings - OCF members sometimes get together for informal meals, to study the Bible or to read the Church Fathers. If you're interested, just ask around to see if anything is going on.
- Service Opportunities -
Each year, OCF students are active in a variety of service projects. In the past, these have included group participation in the the University-sponsored Winter
Day of Service.
There is also the opportunity every year to be a part of "Real Break." This is a project sponsored by the national OCF which provides students with opportunities for service during the spring break. There are different trips for different dates. Over the past couple years, our Spring coincided with the Project Mexico trip. A team of ten students and one priest from schools scattered throughout the country, including one from the U of C, traveled down to St. Innocent’s Orphanage in Tijuana, Mexico. They helped out in various ways—painting the guest housing, installing a drainage system and permanent roof supports, and pouring concrete gutters. They also spent a lot of time with the boys of the orphanage.