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-15 posts tagged "prayer"
Morgan Johnson | Thursday, November 8, 2018
Two Notre Dame alumni are fulfilling the mission of a Holy Cross education by providing busy students and working people with convenient access to faith through their new app, Hallow. Hallow offers guided prayer and meditation sessions to allow users to grow in faith in a Catholic online community. Hallow is scheduled for release at
Thomas Murphy | Thursday, August 30, 2018
The International Justice Mission of Notre Dame (IJMND) will be holding a “Grotto Prayer Night to End Slavery” prayer service Thursday evening. Founded in the spring semester of 2018, the organization is a chapter of International Justice Mission (IJM) and seeks to bring an end to modern slavery through prayer, advocacy and fundraising. IJMND co-presidents
Soren Hansen | Monday, March 26, 2018
Ah humility, the forgotten virtue. Over spring break I stumbled across the Litany of Humility and was immediately put in my place. Though I’ll admit there is a great irony in my pontifications on this virtue — pretending to have authority we rarely possess is the op-ed columnist’s bread and butter — I hope to
Tom Naatz | Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Every month, the McGrath Institute for Church Life holds vespers, an evening prayer service in the chapel in Geddes Hall. John Cavadini, a professor of theology and the director of the institute, explained that Vespers is part of the church’s ongoing Liturgy of the Hours. “Liturgy of the Hours refers to the daily prayers of
Caroline Humphreys | Monday, September 4, 2017
My friend Carrie and I walked to the Grotto last night. We stopped to take pictures of every pretty angle (which seems to be just about all of them when the light begins to change at Notre Dame) and were finally met with the warm glow of a thousand candles. A thousand prayers, really. And
Lucy Collins | Thursday, March 2, 2017
This is the eternal question that has plagued centuries of good Catholic boys and girls. A lot rides on what you decide to abstain from, after all. Back in grade school, I would proudly announce my brave sacrifice for that year — most likely candy, pop or fighting with my brother — to my classmates,
Megan Valley | Friday, January 27, 2017
Tanya Schwarz, a visiting research fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, presented a lecture about the meanings and roles of prayer for faith-based organizations working in areas of peacebuilding Thursday afternoon in the Hesburgh Center for International Studies. “I’m interested in how do they pray, why do they pray, when do they
Megan Valley | Wednesday, November 30, 2016
The Notre Dame community gathered Tuesday night at the Grotto to kick off the fourth annual celebration of Las Posadas. The event, whose Spanish title means “lodging,” represents Mary and Joseph’s search for shelter before Jesus’s birth. Traditionally, Las Posadas is celebrated over nine days, but at Notre Dame it only lasts for three ever
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, November 16, 2016
On the day after the election, students, faculty and staff gathered in one of the chapels at Saint Mary’s to pray for peace, healing and for our new governmental leaders. Our president, Jan Cervelli, invited the campus community to make this response. Before all else, we are a community grounded in faith, and we are
Letter to the Editor | Friday, September 23, 2016
On our usual walk to Fe y Alegria Elementary in Lima, Peru, my site partner Simon and I were asked an unusual question. It came from a geography professor from the University of Oklahoma, who filmed local stories worldwide for his independent movie projects. “Hey, guys! I’m heading to ‘La Bendicion de Una Casa!’ Wanna