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Morning - Easter Wednesday - Missa 'Venite' - April 7th, 2010

ADW Blog >> A Chronological Sequence of the Resurrection Appearances (Excellent!) Ars orandi >> Collect of the Day: Wednesday in Easter Week Ars orandi >> Novena for the Holy Father (Knights of Columbus) A Trail of Flowers >> Easter Wednesday Chiesa.expressonline.it (Sandro Magister) >> The Passion of Pope Benedict. Six Accusations, One Question (the most cited article on Catholic blogs today!) Creative Minority Report >> Abortionist: "Abortion is Birth Control ” Damian Thompson >> A vast sex and money scandal threatens the Vatican. But, once again, Ratzinger emerges as the campaigner against 'filth ' First Thoughts >> What’s So Great About the Great Books ? Insight Scoop >> The Meaning of Sacrament Meeting Christ in the Liturgy >> "Stay with us " New Liturgical Movement >> News from the Cistercians on Sri Lanka Mulier Fortis >> St. George & The... Ummm... Bee ! Reflections

CNA: Wyoming Catholic College finishes its first year

In a post from CNA dated June 6th, Wyoming Catholic College finished its first year as an institution : The students, who finished their final exams on Thursday, have taken Latin immersion classes and read some of the masterpieces of Western literature. They have also learned leadership and survival skills and horsemanship on wilderness trips made to observe nature, which college officials call “God’s first book,” according to the Casper Star Tribune. All incoming students participated in a National Outdoor Leadership School program before the start of the academic year. The students were broken into small groups to spend three weeks in the wilderness with a NOLS instructor and a priest from the college. Amid the hiking, camping, fishing, and rock climbing, they laid a foundation for a close community. "It was hard, it was challenging, and it was survival," said Kate Harrison, a student from Kansas City. "I think the NOLS experience bonded everybody." " The

First Things >> Blog Archive >> One College That’s Getting It Right

Michael Linton posted this story on May 16th on the First Things Blog . As he relates in his piece: Like many of us reading these pages, I was in the middle of that spring migration known as “bringing the kid home from college for the summer break” (and, we hope, the summer job). My daughter and I were having breakfast at the local diner with seven of her friends (who had helped us schlep her gear to the car–always a good idea to reward cheap labor), and I was asking them about their first year in college. What did they like about it? What didn’t they? What were the big surprises, how were the roommates? All those kinds of questions I’ve learned are fairly innocuous ways to get to know 19-year-olds and to pick up a little local flavor and some entertaining gossip. After a couple of sentences complaining about the food, they were ignoring me and talking between themselves. Talking about Aristotle. And Plato. About the nature of virtue in the Nicomachean Ethics and how Verdi captured