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Continuum Fall 2024

December 17, 2024 | Continuum

Contents

  1. From the Headmaster
  2. News & Notes
  3. College Matriculation
  4. “A Cloud of Witnesses” by Tom Pruit
  5. “A Calling of the Heart” by Bob Greenfield
  6. In Memoriam
  7. Class Reunions
  8. Fall Sports
  9. Afterthoughts by Patrick Spence ’08
  10. Running as a metaphor for the spiritual life by Fr. Thomas

Hawk Happenings

Angel Tree

Form I’s Angel Tree Project for St. Vincent de Paul was a huge success! Every single gift slot was filled, thanks to the generosity of our Form I families.

Musical Revue

Upper School performed their musical revue for a packed theater of Middle School students. The standing-room-only crowd sang along to Christmas carols, enjoyed Broadway hits, and laughed at comedic sketches.

GRN Tour

Two Cistercian upperclassmen toured the Guadalupe Radio Network and were interviewed for Saturday’s “interview of the week.”

Experience Cistercian

Publications

Reflections on the Lord’s Prayer, Our Father

The Our Father is the most familiar of all Christian prayers. Its constant recitation inevitably leads to a glazing of our mental eyes, rendering us numb to the shocking permission Jesus grants us in the opening words. He invites us, even requires us, to claim familiarity with God. “Pray like this,” Jesus tells those gathered for His Sermon on the Mount: “Our Father, who art in Heaven…” (Matthew 6:9).

Understanding Church teachings and defending the dignity of life

"Understanding Church teachings and defending the dignity of life" by Fr. John for The Texas Catholic. As another election concludes, Catholics should remember we are responsible for helping to unify our country. One way to do that is to announce together the Church’s...

Silence and the Word

When Moses asks God to provide a name that he might share with the enslaved Israelites in Egypt, “God replied to Moses: ‘I am who I am.’ Then He added: ‘This is what you will tell the Israelites: I am has sent me to you.’ God spoke further to Moses: ‘This is what you will say to the Israelites: The Lord, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you’” (Exodus 3:14-15).