I have never been accused of driving online traffic to Facebook, but today I must break with precedent. Take a moment to visit The Atonement Academy page and relive the welcome that the student body gave Bishop Lopes as he arrived on campus Tuesday. (The dramatic footage is courtesy of alumnus Alex Trevino ’08!)
It was moving to witness young people giving honor where honor was due. And if you will reflect with me for a moment, that formula—“give honor where honor is due”—is a helpful way to distill what is in fact a primary aim of a Catholic liberal arts education at a school like The Atonement Academy. In the Western educational tradition, the truly educated man is he who possesses both the faculty for discerning what is good, true, and beautiful,
and a will trained and strengthened to choose these in the face of the siren allure of the world, the flesh, and the devil.
If Tuesday was any evidence, we are on the right track.
This Advent, I hope you and your family are daily entering more deeply into a spirit of anticipation of the coming of Christ. As we do, let us continue to pray for one another.