The Priory of Our Savior organizes a number of activities throughout the year. While the ultimate objective is to raise money and esprit de corps for our charitable work, we try to accomplish this with events that are fun and sometimes thought-provoking. One example of the latter was a presentation at our 2004 Spring Convent by a local art historian who was a long-time student of Da Vinci’s masterpiece “The Last Supper”. His discussion of the work’s history and restoration in the context of the widespread fascination with Dan Brown’s best-seller The Da Vinci Code was most interesting. In 2006, our Fall Convent guest speaker was Nonie Darwish, an Egyptian Muslim by birth, and today an American citizen, author, and in the media as an outspoken opponent of the grip that Islamic terrorism has held for decades on Arab culture. Our 2009 Fall Convent focused on the plight of Christians struggling to survive a de facto policy of ethnic cleansing under the new government in Iraq, and featured a documentary on the subject just released by a member who is an award-winning film maker.

Events planned for 2009 and early 2010 follow. For details, please click on each event.