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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Maureen Schweninger, a Master of Divinity student, reflects on a gospel writer’s unwavering faith in the portrait Saint John the Evangelist by Artus Wolfaerts.

Caroline Mezzalingua, an art major from the class of 2028, reflects on faithful stewardship in Harvesting, Late Afternoon by Leon-Augustin Lhermitte.

Brother Jacob Gorman, C.S.C., religious brother and Master of Divinity student reflects on St. Joseph’s quiet strength in Holy Family by Simon Vouet.

Katy Orenchuk, Regional Director for University Relations, reflects on the grandeur of heaven in Kneeling Angels by Bernardino Lanino.

Adeboye Ifaturoti, a Master of Theological Studies major reflects on the virtue of honest self-examination in The Head of Cain by Fernand Cormon.

Cozette Brown, liberal studies major from the class of 2027, reflects on that which anchors us in love through this portrait of Saint Catherine of Alexandria by Bernardino Luini.

William Farrell, an Economics and Theology student, reflects on freedom from the bondage of sin in The Compassion of Pharaoh’s Daughter for the Infant Moses by Benjamin West.

Rosa Ramos, Master of Divinity student in the class of 2027, reflects on Dimitri Hadzi’s exceptional processional cross scultpure entitled Crucifix.