Study at ITI · Liturgical Life
Theology received on its knees.
At ITI, the liturgy is not an activity beside study — it is the place where everything studied is prayed. Every day, the Roman Mass and the Byzantine Divine Liturgy are celebrated under one roof.
Two Lungs, Every Day
The Church breathes with East and West. So does ITI.
Both the Western Roman Rite and the Eastern Byzantine Rite are celebrated on campus every day of the academic year. Students of both traditions worship as one community — and many discover the other lung of the Church for the first time here, not from a book, but from within.
Morning and evening prayer, confession, and adoration frame the ordinary week. The sacraments are never far away; the chapel is a few steps from the seminar room.
The Byzantine Chapel
A chapel that is still being painted.
In the heart of Schloss Trumau stands the Byzantine chapel, consecrated in 2016. Its walls and vaults are covered with icons written by Fr. Ioan Gotia — an ITI graduate — and new icons are still being added, year by year.
Students pray every day surrounded by this living iconography: the Annunciation, the Burning Bush, Pentecost, the angels of the vault. The chapel is not a museum. It grows with the community that prays in it.
Adoration
Someone is always before Him.
Eucharistic adoration continues through the day — and on Thursdays, through the night. In the middle of seminars, deadlines, and languages, there is a place on campus where everything is quiet.
The Liturgical Year
Feasts and fasts shape the calendar.
The rhythm of the academic year follows the rhythm of the Church: Advent and Christmas in the chapel, Corpus Christi through the streets of Trumau, the fasts kept and the feasts truly celebrated.
Pilgrimage
Every September, the whole university walks.
For the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, ITI goes on foot to Heiligenkreuz Abbey — students, professors, spouses, children on shoulders. New students meet old ones, stories are told, songs are sung.
It is the oldest tradition of the house, and the simplest: a community that studies together and prays together also walks together.
“An opportunity for new students to meet the old, for stories to be told, for songs to be sung — and for all to encounter a rich Catholic community that lives and prays together.” On the Heiligenkreuz pilgrimage
Visit ITI in Trumau
Come and pray with us.
No page can carry what the chapel carries. Come to Trumau, step into the liturgy, and see whether this is the life you are looking for.