Coca-Cola Scholar

March 6, 2024 | Media

Cistercian congratulates Rithvik Gabri ‘24 as a 2024 Coca-Cola Scholar! One of the most selective national scholarship competitions, the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation (www.coca-colascholarsfoundation.org/) honors 150 seniors across the United States (out of over 103,800 applicants) who are leading and serving their schools and communities with distinction. Rithvik will receive a $20,000 college scholarship and join the Coke Scholars community of former recipients who continue to effect positive change in their communities and around the world.

In school, Rithvik has excelled as a Presidential Volunteer Service Award recipient, National Merit Finalist (1600 SAT), and leader of Cistercian’s Finance & Business Club (winner of the 2022 Texas Stock Market Game) and Robotics Club (winner of the 2022 First Robotics World Championship Title). Outside of school, he has pursued a number of business internships and ventures, including as CEO and Co-founder of The Commerce Crew, a non-profit to provide free student-led consulting on business, operations, and finances around the country with the goal of reducing waste in small businesses.

Hawk Happenings

Mini Arts Festival

Here’s a look at the Mini Arts Festival when the sun was shining and creativity was in full bloom.

2025 Literary Competition

Full guidelines and entry link are posted here.

Stations of the Cross

Did you know? Cistercian’s campus features a dedicated Stations of the Cross trail, offering students a place to walk, pray, and reflect in the beauty of nature.

Publications

Thy Kingdom Come

The more I reflect on the petitions of the Our Father, the more I’m convinced that I have no idea what I’m praying when I mumble those words multiple times every day.

The current object of my loving mystification is “Thy kingdom come.” In an effort to be slightly less intimidated by this vast and marvelous petition, I will arrange my musings as responses to the time-honored journalistic questions.

Lessons learned in a monastery

One of the most important rooms in a monastery, after the church, is the chapter room. This is the place where monks meet to do various things as a community: hear an exhortation from their abbot; listen to a spiritual reading (often a chapter from “The Rule of St. Benedict”); deliberate and vote on the important material and spiritual questions that arise in a monastery, such as who should be the abbot, whether to welcome a young monk as a permanent member of the community through solemn profession, and how best to structure their lives to promote God’s purpose.

Calling upon the hallowed name of the Lord

Jesus poses a problem when He instructs us to pray to the Father with the words “hallowed be Thy name” (Matthew 6:9). Many Psalms exhort the faithful to praise or call upon the name of the LORD (Psalm 113:1; 116:13; 148:13), and others assert that “Our help is in the name of the LORD” (Psalm 124:8). But how can human beings hallow — that is, make holy — the name of the LORD (in Hebrew, YHWH), Who is already, always, and automatically holy, utterly beyond our ability to add to or subtract from, to influence or change?