Called to Fellowship

RomanEchoes FEBRUARY 2019 VOLUME 23: ISSUE 2 THE PONTIFICAL NORTH AMERICAN COLLEGE Called to Fellowship 12 Aussies at the College 20 Carl J. Peter Lecture 22 Communion & Liberation 28 Neuroscience Contents 20 12 Features 7 Cross-Cultural Communion 22 Communion 8 Staff Interview – Beatrice and Liberation 9 Carl J. Peter Lecture A School of Community 10 Studying with the Saints 26 Catholic Bytes 27 Taking a Tune Home With Me 12 Aussies at the College The History of Australians at the Pontifical North American College 28 Neuroscience Mind over (Gray) Matter 14 An Ancestral Island 30 From the Patrimony to 15 Hockey Sticks in Italy the Fraternity 16 130th Alumni Reunion 31 Lector: Not a Cursory Reading 20 Carl J. Peter Lecture 32 Forging Fraternity As Pilgrims Preaching with Priestly Joy 2 The Pontifical North American College CHRIST ANTHRO POLOGY ? FACTS ? 28? SOUL BODY BIOLOGY BRAIN NEURO SCIENCE 22 ? ? Updates 5 Rector’s Corner 24 ICTE 6 NAC Voices 25 Economo's Corner ? ? 18 Snapshots 34 Institutional Advancement ? From the Editor "Unless the Lord Theology might be roughly described as learning how apparently contradictory truths about God fit together. Take this: “Unless the builds the house, Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain.” (Ps 126:1) And, from an admittedly less canonical and more cinematic source: those who build “The kingdom of God must be defended like any other kingdom.” it labor in vain.” (Becket) Both are true, but it would take more than a course on grace or ecclesiology to see how. Every sacred partnership is ~Ps 126:1 similar. When Our Lord inspires and men follow through, even diverse elements forge a true community—one that, here at the College, turns mere brick and mortar into a house of fellowship. Nathanael Anderson, '20 Archdiocese of Washington Editor-in-Chief Contributors EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Nathanael Anderson '20, Archdiocese of Washington MANAGING EDITOR Nathaniel Glenn '20, Diocese of Phoenix ASSISTANT EDITOR Seth Lemaire '21, Diocese of Lafayette LAYOUT & DESIGN EDITOR Andy DeRouen '20, Diocese of Lake Charles ASSISTANT LAYOUT & DESIGN EDITOR Madison Hayes '21, Archdiocese of Anchorage Administration of the Pontifical North American College RECTOR Very Rev. Peter C. Harman ‘99 VICE RECTOR FOR ADMINISTRATION Rev. Kerry Abbott, OFM Conv. ICTE ’14 VICE RECTOR FOR SEMINARY LIFE Rev. Adam Y. Park ‘05 ACADEMIC DEAN AND ROMAN ECHOES FACULTY LIAISON Rev. John P. Cush ’98, C’15 SUPERIOR, CASA SANTA MARIA Rev. Msgr. Fred Berardi C’82 DIRECTOR, INSTITUTE FOR CONTINUING THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION Rev. Edward Linton, OP EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT Mark Randall, CFRE For more information about the Pontifical North American College, subscription questions, or to learn about ways you can financially support “America’s Seminary in Rome,” please contact Mark Randall, CFRE, Executive Director, Institutional Advancement. Tel: (202) 541-5411 Fax: (202) 722-8804 Email: [email protected] Website: www.pnac.org This publication is written, edited and photographed by the students of the Pontifical North American College. LEFT: The Good Shepherd guarding the sheep gives an eternal model to the priests of the Casa Santa Maria as 4 The Pontifical North American College the welcome the New Men for the yearly dinner and tour. Rector’s Corner Mary as Model of Humility: Only Way to Unity n an era when divisions and then? “Why did Peter, James and failure as a priest, even when that suspicions reign, certainly in our John get to go to Mt. Tabor and we did response is understandable. Like culture, and spilling over into the not?” “Peter, you were often wrong, any father, and always trusting on the Body of Christ, even a seminary you denied the Lord three times, teamwork of their mother, a priest community, so much alike in many should you really be speaking to us consoles, encourages and unifies his Iways, must always work to be a house or for us?” “Seems like John gets a children. Our men are reminded often of communion. Thanks be to God that lot more time with Jesus.” Did they that the only way to hope to reflect our house is dedicated to Mary! As say these things, were they tempted unity to God’s people in the future is the mother of priests and help of all to? We cannot know, but we can to practice it now. Christians, she is, as is every earthly gather that their temptations, as ours mother, a force for unity in the family, do, sometimes got the best of them. At Pentecost, the Disciples were given very often its source. She loves her Perhaps they did they not say these the gifts to be universally understood. children equally even though they are things, maybe because Mary was Humility, Charity and Communion not equal in all things. And she wants there? Could not her presence have are graces that can be understood by them to love each other as much as consoled their fears, focused their everyone, with or without words. And she wants them to love her. She keeps thoughts, gathered them together with at the same time, any eloquence or them together. In an age of vocal the devotion of the experiences of wisdom is immediately undermined if disunity, I think it could be helpful to Jesus that they did in fact know we lack those gifts. recall the first novena: Mary waiting and recall, instead of and over what with the apostles from after the Lord’s confused, frightened or tempted to Our College is entrusted to our Lady Ascension until the much-needed gifts divide them? What does devotion to of Humility, and that is no accident. of the Holy Spirit came at Pentecost. Mary as Mother of the Church and We are, thanks be to God, a very This was a time of uncertainty in the Mother of priests offer us in our own blessed and talented community, infant Church, what to do, whom to temperament and charity? If our mother which I would hold up to any other. trust. Over the Church’s long history, and her tender love comforts and I seriously doubt that I will ever live lack of unity and communion have encourages us, will we refrain perhaps in a community with such talent, often plagued her mission. from thinking or acting cynically or in ability, energy and generosity. But a divisive manner, or falling victim to with that blessing comes a challenge I wonder if it is possible that in the the worries of speculation? to be equally intent on actively apostles’ waiting for the Holy Spirit, building up charity, humility and they were tempted to not be of one A priest is one who cultivates unity in authentic joy. That is the call for mind? People sometimes react that the Church at all times, like a mother, every Christian, and especially for way in fear and in confusion. Could even when he is tempted himself, even a man who will lead them. they have recalled doubts or grudges when easy answers elude him. He has or comparisons? We know they to love evenly and equally, even and argued about various things, even especially, when the people of God about who was most important, even have difficulties, when the assignment while Jesus was in their midst. Could is a challenge, when it does not seem Very Reverend Peter C. Harman, STD ’99, these distractions have shaken them fair. A cynic or grouch is an objective Rector ROMAN ECHOES 2019 • VOLUME 23: ISSUE 2 5 Some commentators have characterized our age as a period of “liquid modernity” in which young people, now more than ever, VOICES need communities of intentional disciples to help them strengthen and en-flesh their faith. OF NAC What is one Catholic group or body of believers that helped your faith mature before seminary? “I was part of a “The Work “My experience Totus Tuus team of Christ of being part of for three summers. Charismatic my homeschool Our days were Community in community was demanding and Lansing, Michigan a catalyst in my life packed with the children’s catechet- had a powerful impact on my of faith. The stereotype of an ical program in the morning and faith-life before seminary. This “isolated homeschooler” seems afternoon, dinner with a host family community encouraged high ironic to me because my experience in the evening, and the high school schoolers to join small groups, was one of boisterous community. program following dinner. We which meant regular interaction My peers inspired me by their con- relied heavily upon one another with other young men seeking to tagious joy, integrated seamlessly and upon our communal prayer. live for the Lord. Accountability in a devout Catholic lifestyle. It We learned a great deal about in these groups led me first to was cool to be Catholic.” patience with one another and honesty, then to vulnerability, Rev. Mr. James Morrison, with ourselves, the joy of seeing then finally to a life of devoted Archdiocese of Washington D.C., the unique and various gifts of our prayer and service.” Class of 2019 teammates flourish and enliven the Peter Ludwig, Church, and reliance upon Christ in Diocese of Lansing, Class of 2022 the mission of evangelization.” Rev. Mr. Kevin Chalifoux, “My senior year of Diocese of Burlington, Class of 2019 college I lived in a household of eight men through an organization called “The Newman St. Paul's Outreach. We began Center challenged every morning with a holy hour. me, in the midst Several times a week, we had of a typical meals together around the dining university culture, room table where we laughed to put Jesus at the center of my hysterically, argued intensely, and life and to entrust all else to Him.

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