Volume 15, Issue 1 (2022)
A sincere and warm welcome to this student journal. If you have not engaged with Obsculta in the past, we are glad to know you are joining us. We pray that you find the works herein invigorating, thought provoking, and enriching. For those readers who have encountered previous editions of Obsculta, welcome back. With Christ’s help, may this text serve as an introduction to the voices in our community and the work to which we commit ourselves daily. The Obsculta journal cannot fully encompass our diverse community; nevertheless, it aims to lift up our voices in charity and fruitful dialogue.This year—in conjunction with the Synod for a Synodal Church—our contributors bring forward many creative expressions of language and faith, especially as they relate to the global Church. Our text captures the signs of the times—in particular, reflections on what it means to exist in the modern, technological world, on the continued COVID-19 pandemic, and the various ways in which Scripture has influenced our community and traditions. We are grateful to our contributors for all that they have shared with our community. We have found it truly enriching to read their works. Our hope, dear reader, is that, having listened with the ear of our heart, we may all set out for loftier summits of teaching and virtue. May we reach them under God’s protection.
in omnibus glorificetur Deus.
Sincerely,
the Obsculta editorial team
Article
A Letter from the Diocese
David Fremo, Mayuli Bales, Toni Hudock, Brenda Kresky, Janine Mettling OSB, Kent Schmitz, Philip Shefveland, Barbara Sutton, and Ralph Zimmerman
Contributor Bios
Obsculta Editors
The Church as Polis
Amy Wen
A Homily on Romans 10:14-15
Dinh Vo
Christian Asceticism
David Allen OSB
The Church in the Modern Context
Maria Milazzo
On the Task of Today's Theologian
Henry O. Widdicombe
The Music in the Trees
Peter Jensen
The Generation of the Smartphone
Anisabel Palma
How Big Are Your Arms, O God?
Carol M. Meier
Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
Chinh Nguyen
Everyone Wants a Revolution, No One Wants to Do the Dishes
Henry O. Widdicombe
Reflections on Isaiah 63:7-9
Maria Milazzo
Liturgical Signs and Gestures
Chinh Nguyen OP
The Faith of Jesus
Hang T.H. Nguyen OP
Pope Francis' Leadership in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Hang T.H. Nguyen OP
Editors
- Editor
- Bernie Donlon
- Editor
- Denys Janiga
- Editor
- Leah Wakefield
- Editor
- Amy Wen
- Editor
- Henry Widdicombe
- Faculty Advisor
- Shawn Colberg
- Staff Advisor
- Donelle Poling
- Staff Librarian
- David Wuolu
A special thank you to our faculty and staff advisors: