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Steubenville Lone Star

June 25, 2024 | Media

21 Cistercian Upper School students participated in Steubenville Lone Star – the annual Catholic youth conference that draws over 3000 teens each June to the Irving Las Colinas Convention Center.  With the theme, “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”(John 1:15), high school youth from around the country joined together for a weekend of fellowship, prayer, and sacraments.  Fr. Augustine and Fr. Raphael served as chaperones together with alumni Kyle Blessing ’20 and John Flaherty ’17. The students had a very favorable impression of the weekend and felt its spiritual impact strongly. Several expressed a desire to attend again in June of 2025.

Cistercian students at Steubenville Lone Star
Cistercian students at Steubenville Lone Star
Fr. Raphael

Hawk Happenings

Keeping Irving Beautiful

Once a month during their free Activities period, Upper School students gather to pick up trash in partnership with the local nonprofit Keep Irving Beautiful. So far, their efforts have focused on areas affected by the frequently flooding creek that runs through campus and the underpass connecting UD and Cistercian.

MS Football

Our Middle School Football team is having an incredible season, 7 wins and only one loss so far! But even more impressive than their record is their character, grit, and humility.

Homecoming Week

Don’t miss the big game on Friday, October 10, against Fort Worth Country Day. Go Hawks!

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Publications

Finding God in the ecotone of faith and life

"Finding God in the ecotone of faith and life" by Fr. John for The Texas Catholic. As Catholics, how should we imagine our relationship with the world? We often talk about “walls” and “doors” and “bridges” to explain how the Church should either connect to the world...

And lead us not into temptation

"And lead us not into temptation"  by Fr. Thomas for Texas Catholic. In the last decade, the liturgical versions of the Our Father have been changed in both French and Italian to soften the apparent harshness of this petition. The French translation is now “Ne nous...

‘The Benedict Option’

"‘The Benedict Option’" by Fr. John for The Texas Catholic. Rod Dreher’s “The Benedict Option” (2017) has been on my list of things to read for a long time. As a Cistercian monk rooted in the Benedictine tradition and apostolically engaged as a priest and teacher, I...