Publications
The Continuum: Cistercian’s bi-annual magazine for family, friends and alumni of Cistercian
When The Continuum was first published as the newsletter for Cistercian alumni, the editors wanted to indicate by the title that continuity links the life of a student with his life after Cistercian. Alumni were still interested in the school, its faculty and its programs, and they wanted to keep up with the lives of their fellow alums. Every student was marked forever by the people they knew at Cistercian.
Today, the need for connection has grown. We want to connect the school’s current families and students with Cistercian students who have already graduated and their families. Likewise, we want alumni to maintain ties, not only with their former teachers and classmates, but also with the new generation of devoted Cistercian faculty and students.
As with all relationships, we must work at preserving and building the bond. We can lose touch with even our dearest friends when we no longer share activities, interests, concerns, and goals. Alumni go to their various colleges, pursue their chosen degrees and professions, and raise their own families. Families once so close because they chaperoned a party together after a football game or cheered the Hawks on during a basketball game can find themselves searching for the occasion to keep friendships going once their sons graduate from Cistercian. The Continuum, we hope, will be one such ‘occasion’ for the entire Cistercian family.
Visit the Continuum Archives to read more.
Reflections
Cistercian’s award-winning literary magazine is produced by a club of students who are passionate about creative expression. This extra-curricular group meets twice a week to gather creative projects from the entire school—from the imaginative tales and drawings of Middle Schoolers to the sophisticated poetry and artwork of upperclassmen. Our tradition is to encourage every student to submit work for publication in Reflections, and every student gets a copy of the printed magazine in August. This year, however, we’re starting a new tradition: posting a digital copy of the magazine online.
For our graduating seniors who might otherwise miss seeing their literary or artistic talents showcased, and for any student who may want to share a published story with distant relatives, we hope you enjoy this online version of Reflections.
A Word to Enkindle
A Word to Enkindle: Unanswered prayers
"Unanswered prayers" by Fr. John for The Texas Catholic. In these trying times of a pandemic, many people are expressing a beautiful desire to pray — to pray for protection from the coronavirus, for fast and full recoveries, for economic stability, for fruitful...
A Word to Enkindle: The Experience of being in solitude together
Immense graces are to be found in imitation of our solitary Lord’s fellowship with his disciples.
A Word to Enkindle: Stuck at home during the COVID-19 pandemic? Read!
As we move further into this global program of “social distancing” because of COVID-19, millions around the world are trying to figure out what to do with all the time they must now spend in isolation at home.
A Word to Enkindle: The faith of the first followers, and ours
We should offer hymns of thanks to the God who orchestrated all this for love of us.
A Word to Enkindle: Teachers and students, seize the moment!
What lessons can we learn at this time of distance learning?
A Word to Enkindle: Faith in the time of two quarantines
Let us, then, entrust our fears in prayerful silence to the divine Physician, who alone can calm our anxious hearts.
A Word to Enkindle: Fasting in the Rule of St. Benedict during Lent
Love fasting. Discern it well. Share it with those you can trust to tell you want they really think. And see you at Easter!
A Word to Enkindle: The faith of a Catholic woman in Auschwitz
Paraclete Press published the translation of a Jewish-Catholic woman’s experience in the death camps.
A Word to Enkindle: We are More than the Sum of our Parts
I recently finished a fascinating book by Norman Doidge on neuroplasticity, “The Brain that Changes Itself.”
A Word to Enkindle: Discussing Prudence, Providence and Proper Discernments
Focused reflection on this neglected virtue yields some fascinating and salutary insights.