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-7 posts tagged "Christ"
Andrew Sveda | Tuesday, October 6, 2020
If you had 60 seconds to deliver a message to the entire world, what would you say? This was the premise of an international competition last May. I thought about entering it, but I just couldn’t find the words. I thought of all the one-liners and words of encouragement I’ve heard since March, and then
Gina Twardosz | Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Easter brunch is a holiday tradition, but what about the brunches leading up to Easter? Every Sunday until Palm Sunday, students can join Campus Ministry leaders in the conference rooms outside the Noble Family Dining Hall for Blessed Brunch and Encounter with Christ to reflect upon their Lenten spiritual journey. Junior Grace Erving was one
Erin Thomassen | Thursday, April 27, 2017
The most intense religious experience I had during this past Easter weekend was watching “The Passion.” As a member of the Folk Choir, I sang at Holy Thursday Mass, Good Friday Stations of the Cross and two Easter Sunday liturgies. Yet no service made as real to me what Easter and the entire Catholic faith
Christopher Damian | Thursday, February 4, 2016
Last year, I worked as a student attorney defending the underprivileged in my community. A few had committed heinous crimes. People ask me how I could defend someone convicted of sex trafficking, drug trafficking or murder. Somehow, after overcoming the initial shock, I never hesitated in my representation. I think part of it came out
Amanda Peña | Monday, April 13, 2015
I’ve often wondered, “What is the point of life?” It’s a centuries-old question, so it’s not like I’m asking something profound or groundbreaking. I’ve just always thought about it more often than people know. I do believe, though, that the more important question is to understand why people start asking that question in the first
Scott Boyle | Friday, December 5, 2014
I don’t know if any of you have read the columnist David Brooks from the New York Times, but I have taken a liking to him recently. His articles began to pop up on my Facebook news feed earlier this year. The first article I read was titled, “Stairway to Wisdom.” In it, Brooks analyzes the
Carolyn Hutyra | Sunday, September 28, 2014
Novelist Ron Hansen gave a lecture entitled “Seeing into the Middle of Things: On Being a Catholic Writer” sponsored by Notre Dame’s Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism on Friday. Hansen is an author of eight novels, including “A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion” and “Exiles,” as well as three short story collections,