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June 2017

A House Built on the Rock

| Renée D. Roden

Tucked into the eastern slope of Mount Zion is a beautiful church called St. Peter in Gallicantu (Peter at Cockcrow). It boasts beautiful, panoramic views of the city from its expansive grounds, which reveal the rolling contours of the J...

An Act of Faith: a Parent's Experience of the Atrium

| Claire Fyrqvist

My first window into Catechesis of the Good Shepherd was actually as a senior in college, through an Atrium at a Montessori school.  I was surrounded by six, seven, and eight year olds busily coloring, arranging flowers, inviting fr...

Editorial Musings: Sacramental Formation in a Secular Age

| Jessica Keating Floyd

In early 1950s Rome, two women—a biblical scholar and a Montessori-trained educator—began the great catechetical experiment known as Catechesis of the Good Shepherd. In a way, Sofia Cavalletti and Gianna Gobbi’s partner...

The Ladder of Homiletics: 7 Steps to Effective Preaching, Part 1

| Guerric DeBona, OSB

Veteran homiletics teachers are asked a perennial question: what qualities make for great preaching? In 2016, the Kyle Lake Center for Effective Preaching at Baylor University’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary took a survey o...

Time and America's Pastime: Baseball with My Dad

| Jessica Keating Floyd

Moments before the opening pitch of a Giants-Cardinals doubleheader at the Polo Grounds in the summer of 1934, my dad remembers Jerome “Dizzy” Dean strutting up and down the length of the Giants dugout. The scrappy Cardinals ...

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Notre Dame Vision and the Art of Accompaniment

| Raquel Falk

As an undergraduate student imagining what life after college might hold, I joked more than once about wanting to be a professional Notre Dame Vision Mentor-in-Faith. Besides all of the laughter and play that came with the job, I discove...

Notre Dame Vision: Reality Imagined

| Samuel Bellafiore

Reality ignites our imaginations more than possibility does. We can imagine amazing things but only when we first look at what is real and in front of us. Reality reveals possibility, and that is what Notre Dame Vision did to me. My mom ...

Notre Dame Vision and the Miraculous Unlikely

| Michael D. Mesterharm

Our God is an unlikely one. I mean this not as an ontological argument (which would be above my pay grade) but as a small observation. To us, the small and the lost, the workings of our God can only rarely seem miraculous, and even when ...

Nourishing the Imagination: Science & Religion

| Jay Martin

As anyone reading this article is likely to know already, the McGrath Institute for Church Life is dedicated to nourishing the Catholic imagination and renewing the Church. The past three years of my work in the MICL have made the…

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Trinity Sunday: A Feast Celebrating Liturgy

| Timothy P. O’Malley

This weekend in the United States, we celebrate Trinity Sunday.  For the most part, our parishes will be inundated with a series of beige homilies, which celebrate not so much the mystery of the Triune God but the mathematical puzzl...

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Nourishing the Imaginations of the Young Church

| Megan Shepherd

In seeking to capacitate young people for mature lives of faith, Notre Dame Vision offers an opportunity for young people and the adults who minister to them to encounter the fullness of Jesus Christ revealed in the Scriptures, the sacra...