Lessons from Loyola Hall

While watching the Wildcats' Varsity football game this past weekend against Archbishop Hoban, Mr. Healey saw two possible endings as the Knights lined up for a potential game-winning field goal kick. It's what he didn't see or consider in that moment that inspires today's Lesson from Loyola Hall.

Jesus understands our very human desire to be seen as important, to be seen as special. Every one of us wants to be singled out from the crowd for our talents and accomplishments. Every one of us wants to feel important. The path to finding this importance or happiness, however, is not what human instinct leads us to.

The great Christian ethicist Stanley Hauerwas and one of our age’s greatest philosophers, Alasdair MacIntyre, agree that it is a “terrible time to be young." But they offer an adventure with a worthy task onto which young people can latch; perhaps you can guess what they mean.

When Mr. Healey was a senior in college, one of his roommates was a devotee of the writings of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. Initially viewing Sheen as “nothing more than a televangelist,” Mr. Healey eventually came around to his work. Through Sheen’s “Life of Christ”, Mr. Healey reflects on the mission of Jesus and what it is to be one of His Followers.