What an exceptional fall semester this has been! We continue to regularly update our new website with stories and pictures of our Catholic students. Our Catholic Community intramural football team won their division title and played their “bowl” game at the BB&T field. Each week we average about 60 hungry students for our Wednesday Join us on retreat in the spring too!Night dinners in our new Catholic lounge. (During finals week the lounge was “study central” with many students cramming for exams.) In early November our Catholic Community chose their new leadership for 2009. Our present team of peer ministers, officers...

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Planning a Spring Break Service Trip is always a challenging assignment for me. It requires me to pray, to keep a positive outlook and to have the faith that "all will be well" and that one way or another, we will have a successful trip. Very often, nobody signs up for our spring break trips until just a few weeks before we take off. Other times, we get a call from our contact person where we are going to serve with some last minute changes to the schedule (or destination!). We are proud of our tradition of Spring Break Service...

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 I have written two completely different blog posts this week and because of technical difficulties with our website host, I lost them both. Should I re-write one of them or just sum it up? Humm...I think I will sum up the last one I wrote. Each day, creeping toward December 21, we have a minute or two less of sunlight. Nah, that one was kind of boring. Instead, I think I will make a bullet list of some random thoughts School is amost out for the semester. We are having homemade chicken noodle and tomato soup tonight for students. WFU...

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 It's been two years since I wrote to you concerning this topic.Since, I sense a growing tension on campus - I think a timely reminder regarding this senseless tradition is in order.There is nothing that can morally justify this practice of consuming a fifth of alcohol under any circumstances whatsoever.  I would hope that all Wake Forest seniors and Catholics in particular would show good moral judgment and not engage in a custom which demeans the human person, abuses the human body (the Temple of the Holy Spirit) and can lead to greater dangers - both physical and spiritual.We do...

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 Keep Your Hand to the Plow Reflection and Prayer This reflection uses the words of WFU Founder Samuel Wait from a letter to his wife, Sarah Wait to give a glimpse into his thoughts. As he expresses a temptation to give up his labors on behalf of the school to return home to live on a farm, we see that we are not the only ones who may imagine greener pastures as we strive to serve as ministers. A prayer by Archbishop Oscar Romero on planting seeds which will grow in the future reflects the reality of WFU as it...

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