Wednesday, March 4 — mid-winter contemplation
The McNichols Campus is pretty quiet, covered with old snow, waiting for a first peep of grass, let alone buds on tree branches and flowers stretching out from the earth.
Here, in this time of keeping vigil with the slow turning of the season toward spring, are words that Ignatio Ellecuria, sj spoke in 1982 while he received an honorary degree from Santa Clara University. Best to read them like a poem and imagine listening as he spoke them out loud 7 years before he was assassinated by the Salvadoran military in 1989.
It’s Spring Break on the McNichols campus, a good time to pause and contemplate what it is we try to do here in Motown all year long.
Have a blest day.
john sj
Today’s post –
“The university should be present intellectually where it is needed:
to provide science for those without science;
to provide skills for those without skills;
to be a voice for those without voices;
to give intellectual support for those
who do not possess the academic qualifications to make their rights legitimate.”
Ignatio Ellacuría, SJ (1930-1989, martyr and university leader)
