‘Memento homo, quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris.’

A blessed Lent to one and all.
It is a foggy day here at Notre Dame and the campus is a bit more quiet than usual.  Perhaps the Lenten spirit is sinking in.  Perhaps folks just overslept.  Or, most likely, perhaps all of the pre-med students are taking a horrendous test together in Stepan Center.  Yes, [...]

Awake at Night
Late in the night I pay
the unrest I owe
to the life that has never lived
and cannot live now.
What the world could be
is my good dream
and my agony when, dreaming it,
I lie awake and turn
and look into the dark.
I think of a luxury
in the sturdiness and grace
of necessary things, not
in frivolity.  That would heal
the [...]

I’m baaaack…

Sorry for the unplanned hiatus, folks, but thanks to an unusually eventful past couple of weeks, I’ve been kept away from my usual thinking, writing and posting.  In any case, I am now back on the blog.
There’s much to share, but since music seemed to be a prevalent theme throughout the past few weeks, I’ll [...]

Only at Notre Dame…

A few days I go my dorm received an email from our rector, Fr. Doyle.  It read:
Mass on Sunday will either be at 10:30pm as usual, or ten minutes after the Superbowl, whichever is later.  Thanks.
Perhaps a note about keeping the Eucharistic fast would have been apropos, too, but alas…