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Six years have passed since the Cavaliers' NBA Championship parade through downtown Cleveland. Today, Mr. Healey shares his memory of that day, drawing a connection to the motto of that drought-ending squad, the crowd who turned out that day, and the ways in which we might try to always, under any circumstance, live our best lives for Jesus.

Much like pride, everyone is prone to moments of anger. And just as people talk about “good” pride and “bad” pride, so do they talk about anger. Every time someone is filled with so much anger that they become enraged there is the danger of that wrath becoming violent. That rage becomes wrongdoing and even wrongs the causes it aims to fight for.

St. Juliana of Liege is probably not very high on the list of ‘most known Catholic saints.’ Despite this fact, she holds the distinction of being the source of the celebration of the Solemnity of Corpus Christi. Mr. Healey explains the origins and history of this first feast and the saint whose dreams brought it all about.

If empathy is a virtue, and it seems to have all of the necessary characteristics of a virtue, then it is something that can be practiced and strengthened. And, while all virtues are worthy of our attention, maybe empathy is the best place to begin the journey away from vice and toward virtue--to journey away from envy and toward deeper love of others.

In a world of radical individualism based on a philosophy of me-first self-actualization, marriage and the family – as well as its underlying theology of the Blessed Trinity – are looked down upon as an unappealingly bland and vanilla way of living. On this Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, Mr. Healey explains why what seems to be vanilla is actually exactly what God wants us to know and to experience.

Now that school is out, Mr. Healey will tie this summer’s midweek blog entries together under the theme of “deadly sins and lively virtues”. He begins humility--essentially the primary virtue for all humans--and counsels against the dangers of pride. As Healey writes: "Everything we do to imitate the humility of Jesus moves us one step closer to what we are called to be: human persons fully alive."

As a boy, Mr. Healey was chosen to proclaim the first reading on Pentecost Sunday at Mass. As he fumbled through the names of far-flung places, it dawned on him that the Church being a universal community was true--and had been for generations. The fruits of the Holy Spirit have given us the universal language of the Gospel.

As the campus prepares for Reunion Weekend this Friday through Sunday, Mr. Healey recounts some recent alumni gatherings that he's been a part of, highlighting the tight bonds among many classmates and the ways that ties of new days still connect to the old. Welcome back to all of our alumni!