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Robotics Competition

March 18, 2019 | Media

Fusion Corps, Cistercian’s robotics team, is in the midst of its competition season. They had their first competition in Plano from March 14-16. After falling from 2nd to 15th during the heat of the qualification matches due to some issues with their robot, they battled back rising as high as the 2nd seed before finishing fourth overall. The team then captained the fourth overall alliance and defeated the fifth alliance in the quarterfinals before falling to the first alliance in the semifinals. The judges at the competition also acknowledged the impressive effort and comeback of the team by awarding them the Judges Award.

It was a strong start for Fusion Corps as they look forward to the Dallas District where they hope to qualify for the State Championship in Austin!

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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.

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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?