Core Decorum: your Sunday best includes rest

What do my Sundays look like?  I asked myself this question when I came across a beautiful poem by George Herbert, my focal poet for the JPo project. This...

Core Decorum: Be offensive

Ah, the modern college campus. One would have a hard time contradicting the great Obi-Wan Kenobi, but I think that most of us can agree that he was very wrong when he...

Core Decorum: social media

It has been less than 20 years since the creation, and surge of social media. Because it is a relatively recent invention, there are many unknown aspects as to how it affects...

Core Decorum: Loving in the little ways

Having recently celebrated St. Therese’s feast day, I’ve been reminded of the particular value she found in loving God through all her actions, even the most minuscule.   St. Therese...

Core Decorum: an odd faith

I don’t think that enough people take time to consider what a weird place the university is.  This dinky Catholic school is filled to the brim with socially-stunted homeschoolers,...

Core Decorum: fall

A solitary red leaf detaches from its home on a faithful old Maple tree near the local church on top of a hill lit up like fire. The leaf gracefully twists and...

Core Decorum: fate

A Schwarzeneggerian man wearing wrap-around sunglasses and a black leather duster steps out of his 80s car on the side of a busy road. He blankly gazes across the flowing streams of...

Core Decorum: rest

Aside from getting married and having kids, or becoming a priest and receiving a parish, there are few times in life which are filled with as many changes, responsibilities, transitions and things...

Core Decorum: thankfulness

As Thanksgiving draws closer, we seek to renew the spirit of thankfulness within our hearts.  On that day of the year, we find ourselves surrounded with plenteous food, beloved...

Core Decorum: Advent

Ah, December. What beauties you bring.  Dropping temperatures accompany the crunch of leaves on the paths through the Art Village and signal the imminent end of the semester. 

Core Decorum: humility

As we enter a new decade and yet another semester at the University of Dallas, it would be fitting to pause and think of what practices, virtues and habits we would wish...

Core decorum: flattery

Upon reading Act 1 of Shakespeare’s “King Lear,” Cordelia’s refusal to participate in her sisters’ competition of flattery is striking. She refuses to flatter her father with words she does not mean,...

Core decorum: useless for Good

Being in college, especially at one so focused on the liberal arts, places one inan unusual state.  You know the feeling. You go home for the summer and run...

Core decorum: time

Fulton J. Sheen, in an excerpt from From the Angel's Blackboard, reminds his readers of this seemingly simple, yet profound capability of mankind. Human beings are aware of time in a threefold...

Core decorum: families

Undoubtedly, this time of the COVID-19 quarantine has introduced many changes to our lives. For many of us, one of the chief changes includes much more time spent home with our families.