About This Event
Corpus Christi for Unity and Peace
Presents...
On the 800th Anniversary of the
Death of St. Francis
Not Peacenik and Bambi-Lover but Mystic of the Mass and Defender of the Eucharist:
Discovering the True St. Francis of Assisi
We will meet at Old Spaghetti Warehouse in Carmel, Indiana.
6:00 PM Cocktail Hour
6:30 PM Dinner
7:00 PM Dr. Kwasniewski's Talk
7:45 PM Q&A and book signing
DISCOVERING THE TRUE ST. FRANCIS
Featuring Dr. Peter Kwasniewski
On the 800th anniversary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi, Dr. Peter Kwasniewski recovers the saint who has often been reduced to a gentle nature-lover and apostle for social justice. Drawing on Francis’s own writings and the earliest sources, the talk presents him instead as a fierce Eucharistic mystic: a man whose spirituality centered on the Mass, the Real Presence, and the dignity of the priesthood. Francis wrote with unusual severity about dirty or unworthy vessels used at the altar and treated the consecration as a continuation of the Incarnation itself—Christ coming among us as truly as He once came in the flesh. Far from a modern “peacenik,” he was a defender of Catholic doctrine who preached conversion even to the Sultan and whose deepest encounter with God took place not in the woods but at the altar. The evening at Old Spaghetti Warehouse in Carmel invites participants to meet this more demanding, more Catholic Francis and to see how his Eucharistic fire still speaks to the Church today.
Date: Sunday, October 4
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Location: Old Spaghetti Factory, Carmel, IN
Ticket Prices:
Individuals: $35 | Couples: $65 | Families: $120
Come hungry for the saint who loved the Host more than the headline.
Bring a friend. God bless you—see you there.
#TheTrueStFrancis
Follow us on X - @CUPforTruth
Questions? Email us at vyamasaki@corpuschristiforunityandpeace.org
About the Author
Dr. Peter Kwasniewski is a Thomistic theologian, liturgical scholar, author, publisher, and composer. He holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Thomas Aquinas College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from The Catholic University of America.
After teaching philosophy and theology at the International Theological Institute in Austria and music for Franciscan University of Steubenville’s Austrian Program, he helped found Wyoming Catholic College in 2006. There he taught theology, philosophy, music, and art history, directed the choir and schola, and served as Assistant Academic Dean and Director of Admissions until 2018. He now writes, lectures, edits, and publishes full-time in defense of Catholic tradition.
Dr. Kwasniewski has written or edited more than twenty books and more than a thousand articles on sacramental and liturgical theology, sacred music, Thomistic thought, and the social doctrine of the Church. His work has been translated into some twenty languages. He is also a composer of sacred choral music and the founder of Os Justi Press
About This Event
Corpus Christi for Unity and Peace
Presents...
On the 800th Anniversary of the
Death of St. Francis
Not Peacenik and Bambi-Lover but Mystic of the Mass and Defender of the Eucharist:
Discovering the True St. Francis of Assisi
We will meet at Old Spaghetti Warehouse in Carmel, Indiana.
6:00 PM Cocktail Hour
6:30 PM Dinner
7:00 PM Dr. Kwasniewski's Talk
7:45 PM Q&A and book signing
DISCOVERING THE TRUE ST. FRANCIS
Featuring Dr. Peter Kwasniewski
On the 800th anniversary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi, Dr. Peter Kwasniewski recovers the saint who has often been reduced to a gentle nature-lover and apostle for social justice. Drawing on Francis’s own writings and the earliest sources, the talk presents him instead as a fierce Eucharistic mystic: a man whose spirituality centered on the Mass, the Real Presence, and the dignity of the priesthood. Francis wrote with unusual severity about dirty or unworthy vessels used at the altar and treated the consecration as a continuation of the Incarnation itself—Christ coming among us as truly as He once came in the flesh. Far from a modern “peacenik,” he was a defender of Catholic doctrine who preached conversion even to the Sultan and whose deepest encounter with God took place not in the woods but at the altar. The evening at Old Spaghetti Warehouse in Carmel invites participants to meet this more demanding, more Catholic Francis and to see how his Eucharistic fire still speaks to the Church today.
Date: Sunday, October 4
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Location: Old Spaghetti Factory, Carmel, IN
Ticket Prices:
Individuals: $35 | Couples: $65 | Families: $120
Come hungry for the saint who loved the Host more than the headline.
Bring a friend. God bless you—see you there.
#TheTrueStFrancis
Follow us on X - @CUPforTruth
Questions? Email us at vyamasaki@corpuschristiforunityandpeace.org
About the Author
Dr. Peter Kwasniewski is a Thomistic theologian, liturgical scholar, author, publisher, and composer. He holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Thomas Aquinas College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from The Catholic University of America.
After teaching philosophy and theology at the International Theological Institute in Austria and music for Franciscan University of Steubenville’s Austrian Program, he helped found Wyoming Catholic College in 2006. There he taught theology, philosophy, music, and art history, directed the choir and schola, and served as Assistant Academic Dean and Director of Admissions until 2018. He now writes, lectures, edits, and publishes full-time in defense of Catholic tradition.
Dr. Kwasniewski has written or edited more than twenty books and more than a thousand articles on sacramental and liturgical theology, sacred music, Thomistic thought, and the social doctrine of the Church. His work has been translated into some twenty languages. He is also a composer of sacred choral music and the founder of Os Justi Press