What if a calendar were more than a list of events?
What if it were a map of what a place loves?
Tonight, on Chesterton Radio, we walk through the Benedictine College calendar—not as a schedule to be managed, but as a world to be entered.
There are lectures that ask whether truth can still be known…
Concerts that carry centuries of music into a single evening…
Plays that wrestle with the soul in the age of machines…
And quiet moments—services, gatherings, acts of charity—that remind us what a community is for.
In this deep dive, we don’t simply read the calendar.
We listen to it.
From the Thomistic Institute lecture on St. John Henry Newman…
to the orchestra’s Finlandia and Beethoven…
to the King’s Banquet, where students step into another age…
to the Raven Day of Giving, where generosity becomes a shared act…
This is a portrait of a college where faith, intellect, and culture are not scheduled separately—but lived together.
Because in the end, a calendar is not about time.
It is about meaning.
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📍 Broadcast from Atchison, Kansas
🎧 A Chesterton Radio Original
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