Rev. Tom Eckert, Director of the Holy Cross Mission Center, celebrates a hope beyond borders in Resurrection of Christ by Noel Coypel.

Rev. Joe Corpora, C.S.C. ’76, ’83 M.Div.
Associate Director,
Transformational Leaders Program

Nohemi Tragesser, Master of Divinity student, reflects on the tension of Mary’s trust even through sorrow in Mother and Child by Käthe Kollwitz.

Elizabeth Serafin Berruecos ‘06
Director, Camino Program
McGrath Institute for Church Life

David Rae, a philosophy and theology major, challenges us with our call to die to ourselves so that we may rise with Christ in Christ on the Cross, by the Fraken Family.

Timothy Matovina,
Profesor de Teología

Allison Magera, Master of Divinity student and FaithND Intern, reflects on our complicity in Christ’s suffering and mission of restoration in Christ Crowned with Thorns by Aert Mytens.

Felicia Johnson-O’Brien ’95
Program Director, Institute for Social Concerns

Dr. Carlos Gomez-Meade ’01
Hispanic Alumni Board Member

Logan Edwards, Master of Divinity student, reveals the importance of cultivating Christ-like virtues in Samson Fighting the Philistines by Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier.

Sr. Paula Van Thienen, S.S.M., a Master of Divinity Student, reflects on surrendering our lives to Christ’s mission in The Madonna by Gustave Dore.

Veronica (Flores) Alonzo ’97, Faculty Member in the Mary Ann Remick Leadership Program

Caroline York, a theology major and Raclin Murphy Gallery Teacher, encourages us to see the gifts of profound love in Adoration of the Magi by Eduard Steinbruk.

Melody Padilla ’25, Campus Ministry Anchor Intern

Rev. Paul Kollman, C.S.C., professor of theology, reflects on the contradictions we face in our human nature in the sculptural pieces of Philip Julian Leighton Rickey.

Rev. Shohag Gabil, C.S.C., a Master of Theological Studies student from Bangladesh, reflects on preparing the way for Christ in our lives through Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and the Infant Baptist by Fra Paolino.

Martha Cleary, a liberal studies and theology major from the class of 2026 reflects on Mary’s contemplative pondering in Mater Purissima by Frederick Goodall.

Br. Ben Sasin, CSC, a Master of Divinity student, reflects on God’s presence through grief in The Raising of Lazarus by Lucas van Leyden.

Rev. Matthew Kuczora, C.S.C. ’05, ’11 M.Div., ’23 J.D., University Counsel, Office of General Counsel

Daniel Jung, a business analytics major and theology minor, reflects on Christ’s patient submission to his Father’s timing in Crucified Christ by José Rafael Aragón.

Isabelle Camilleri, an art major at Notre Dame, reflects on Mary’s tenderness in embracing sorrow in Madonna and Child by an Italian artist.

Soikat Kulentuno, C.S.C., a Holy Cross seminarian from Bangladesh, reflects on the joy and hope of Laetare Sunday in Spring by Natalia Goncharova.

Rev. John DeRiso, C.S.C., Director of the Office of Holy Cross Vocations, reflects on God’s hidden plans in Saint Joan by Paul Jacques Aimé Baudry.

Shea Nowicki, a Master of Divinity student, reflects on the hope in Mary’s faithful yes in Annunciation by Giorgio Vasari.