Students lingered before John Singer Sargent’s dramatic play with light and dark, while others stood transfixed before Winslow Homer’s rugged realism and quiet contemplation of nature. There were medieval illuminations glowing under glass, and magnetism in Monet’s light-soaked fields. Every student found something to marvel at. As Elisabet N. aptly described the museum, “It is small and spacey, room for beauty but no room for trash. Quieter and calmer than any museum I’ve been to — exactly my cup of tea!”
Then the travelers headed back to campus for a hearty supper. “Art always makes me hungry,” declared Vinny B. Students refueled and readied themselves for Study Hall, where the focus turned back to the lofty reasonings of Boethius and the exacting logic of Euclid’s next (slightly more difficult!) propositions.
After study, all gathered to pray the Rosary. Then came a joyful procession to the coffee shop, where root beer floats were served all around. At “Theology on Tap,” Fr. Moses and Fr. Markey fielded a wild, wonderful spread of questions. Topics ranged from whether sarcasm is a sin, to why the Norbertines wear white, women in the workplace, moral theology, and vocation discernment. And of course, questions about dating and relationships.
As the evening wound down, the girls returned to their residence halls, pajamas on, hair down, laughter and tired yawns filling the halls. But as the bell in the common area rang — a sound that usually means an important meeting — they gathered, puzzled but obedient. They were met with music and candlelight. To their astonishment and delight, the boys, dressed in their best, stood, roses in hand, to serenade.
