Under Mary’s Mantle of Hope: The Path to a Deeper Friendship with Christ as a Tech Professional
In fast-moving product cycles and 24/7 on-call rotations, hope can feel like an outdated feature request. Yet the earliest Christian innovators—saints, scholars, and popes—leaned on a simple interface for resilience: Mary’s prayerful companionship in the Rosary.
Fr. Lawrence Lew, O.P.—a former Protestant, longtime photographer of sacred art, and now Promoter General of the Rosary for the Dominican Order—shares how that devotion became his API for friendship with Christ. He’ll unpack:
The Rosary’s core logic: a systematic walk through the life of Jesus that trains attention, wonder, and courage.
Hope as the ultimate uptime metric: why Christian hope endures when markets dip and projects fail.
Mary’s mentorship model: how trusting her nudges us toward bold, imaginative discipleship in the tech workplace.
Whether you already keep a rosary in your laptop bag or you’re simply curious about its place in the Jubilee Year of Hope, come recharge with prayer, insight, and conversation. The evening begins with Mass, flows into a candid talk and Q&A, then wraps with light refreshments and peer networking across the broad Catholics in Technology Community. Sponsored by Catholics at Microsoft and Amazon, open to all tech folks.
A small note on our use of "friendship" here, since it's a deeply important topic to me: Friendship should be understood in the Aristotelian or CS Lewis's Four Loves sense: Lewis’s robust vision of friendship differs sharply from today’s diluted concept of friendship as casual companionship or mere social acquaintance. Modern friendship often emphasizes convenience, emotional validation, or mutual entertainment—relationships easily abandoned when interests shift or conflicts arise. In contrast, Lewis views friendship as intentional, committed, and outward-looking. It thrives on shared truth-seeking, common passions, and mutual growth. Friendship, for Lewis, is vigorous, transformative, and rare—not superficial or disposable. As Aristotle says in the Nicomachean Ethics: “Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.” Now, let's learn how to deepen that kind of friendship with Christ. The kind Our Lady, the Theotokos, is uniquely qualified to provide.