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STM The Magazine of The Catholic Chapel & Center at Yale University Spring 2017STAY IN TOUCH WITH STM @stmyale @STMatYale Visit us on the web @ stm.yale.edu www.facebook.com/stm.yale.edu https://new.flocknote.com/stm Download from the iTunes App Store for iphones or the Google Play Store for android phones. STM App Editors: Robin McShane is the director of communications at STM. Sarah Woodford ‘10 M.Div. is a graduate of Yale Divinity School and STM’s library director. Assistant Editors: Frank Greaney ‘68 M.P.H. is a graduate of the Yale School of Public Health and a member of the STM community. Jan Fournier ‘06 M.A.R. is a graduate of Yale Divinity School and a member of the STM community. STM MAGAZINE CONTRIBUTORS Writers: Muriel Wang ‘20 is a freshman at Yale College and a member of STM’s Undergraduate Council. Dan Reid GRD ‘17 is a Master of Divinity student at Yale Divinity School and an intern for STM’s Center for Music and Liturgy. Christina Stankey ‘19 is a sophomore at Yale College and a member of STM’s Undergraduate Council. Emma Lecarie is a postgraduate associate at the Yale School of Medicine and a member of the STM community. Katy Chan ‘15 is a graduate of Yale college. She is currently living in Seattle, Washington and preparing to enter medical school. Griffin Oleynick ‘15 Ph.D. received his doctorate from Yale in Italian Language and Literature. He is STM’s 2017 Scholar in Residence. Brantley Butcher ‘19 is a sophomore at Yale College and a member of STM’s Undergraduate Council. Michael Lalley GRD ‘18 is a Master of Arts in Religion student at Yale Divinity School and a member of STM’s Graduate Council. Design: Cadwell Art Direction Primary Photography: Robert A. Lisak Mission Statement Saint Thomas More Chapel & Center serves the Catholic community at Yale by: · Creating a vibrant and welcoming community through worship and service · Cultivating informed faith and spirituality · Engaging in reflective discourse on faith and culture · Advancing the Church’s mission of promoting social justice · Participating in the global Church’s life and witness About the Cover: Taizé, France: Spring flowers brighten the simple graves on the grounds of the Taizé community. In the foreground is the grave of Brother Roger Schütz, who founded the community in 1940. Photograph by Carlene Demiany Pictured: Wiley DawsonIn This Issue 268 Park Street, New Haven, CT 06511-4714 Phone: 203-777-5537 Fax: 203-777-0144 stmchapel@yale.edu Follow us online: stm.yale.edu STM Chaplains Rev. Robert Beloin, Ph.D., Chaplain Sr. Jennifer Schaaf, O.P., Assistant Chaplain Rev. Karl Davis, O.M.I., Assistant Chaplain Carlene Demiany ‘12 M.Div., Assistant Chaplain STM Magazine is published twice a year for our alumni, parents and friends. Opinions expressed in this magazine do not necessarily reflect those of the entire STM community. Alex Croxford ‘18 leads morning exercises with elementary school children in Nicaragua. 1 ALTERNATIVE SPRING BREAK: TAIZÉ, FRANCE 3 FROM THE CENTER OF MUSIC AND LITURGY: CLOUD HYMNAL 6 THE HUNGER BANQUET: ENCOUNTERING WORLD HUNGER 9 JUDGE GUIDO CALABRESI & PROFESSOR CATHLEEN KAVENY: CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION 14 STM SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE 15 ON SILENCE: BREAKFAST WITH FR. JAMES MARTIN Features STM MAGAZINE SPRING 2017 7 FROM THE ARCHIVES 12 THREE QUESTIONS 13 FAITH IN THE REAL WORLD 16 POP CULTURE 17 OPEN BOOK 18 SNAP SHOT Photograph by Jennifer SchaafFROM THE Chaplain’s Desk Dear Friends, The Spring season has been busy and enriching. Some students traveled to Nicaragua and France over break to help their neighbor and deepen their Catholic faith. Other students traveled to Chicago to join with students from nine campus ministries across the country for the annual ESTEEM (Engaging Students to Enliven the Ecclesial Mission) conference. Students from each group spoke about the experiences of these trips at a Sunday dinner after Easter. During the second semester, we had a full slate of challenging and informative lectures. Dr. Patrick O’Connor spoke as part of our Catholic Faculty Series: Life as a Scholar and a Believer. Cathleen Kaveny ‘90 J.D. ‘91 Ph.D. and Hon. Guido Calabresi ‘53 ‘58 L.L.B. continued their dialogue begun during the tenth anniversary celebration entitled “Life, Love and the Law: Continuing the Conversation.” The lecture for The Fay Vincent, Jr. Fellowship in Faith and Culture by Rev. James Martin, S.J. was attended by over 300 people, while 317 people viewed the lecture from home via livestream. Sr. Kathleen McManus, O.P. delivered The Rev. Richard R. Russell Lecture and Fr. Nicanor Austriaco, O.P. delivered The Thomas E. Golden, Jr. Fellowship Lecture in Faith and Science. Promoting a Catholic intellectual life on campus remains a high priority for us. The season of Lent offered members of the community a chance to write a daily reflection and share it through e-mail. The Easter Triduum was again the liturgical high point of the year. Two adults were baptized in the immersion font and five others were received into the full communion of the Catholic Church through a profession of faith and Confirmation. The beautiful Exsultet on Holy Saturday night was written by Julian Darius Revie ‘02, our Composer in Residence and included an ancient Syrian Christian Chant melody attributed to the fourth-century Syrian composer and theologian St. Ephrem. This was also the first Triduum that our choir (and our tech-savvy congregants) used the Center for Music and Liturgy’s Cloud Hymnal and sang hymns from their smart phones and tablets. You can learn more about some of these events in the following pages. As you read, I hope that the Spring 2017 issue of the STM Magazine will be a source of inspiration for you. Please know that your support makes a difference here every day. As you prepare for the feast of Pentecost on June 4, I pray that the fifty days of the Easter season will be a time of blessing for you. Fr. Robert Beloin Chaplain “Please know that your support makes a difference here every day.” Reunion 2017 May 27 - 28 15th, 20th, 25th, 30th, 35th, 60th and 65th Reunion Classes: Saturday, May 27th 5:30-6:30pm A cocktail reception for Catholic alumni and their friends will take place in the Thomas E. Golden, Jr. Center. Sunday, May 28th 10am A Mass of Remembrance for deceased alumni of reunion classes will be celebrated in the Chapel followed by brunch in the Thomas E. Golden, Jr. Center. All are welcome. June 3-4 5th, 10th, 40th, 45th and 50th Reunion Classes: Saturday, June 3rd 5:30-6:30pm A cocktail reception for Catholic alumni and their friends will take place in the Thomas E. Golden, Jr. Center. Sunday, June 4th 10am A Mass of Remembrance for deceased alumni of reunion classes will be celebrated in the Chapel followed by brunch in the Thomas E. Golden, Jr. Center. All are welcome.Before her Baptism at the Easter Vigil, Sophie Chung GRD '18 shares her faith journey with the STM Community. #MyCatholicYaleAlternative Spring Break: Taizé, France Muriel Wang ‘20 1. t is so wondrous to have a song stuck in your head. The melody automatically plays on loop, refusing to cease for even a second to allow the intervention of lunchtime chatter. You know exactly how the chant ends, and exactly how to subtly connect the last syllable with the first as the song repeats itself. You recognize that familiar calmness, that glowing feeling, as the chant slowly takes root and grows inside you. It takes a while for you to notice that you’re now singing “Bénissez le Seigneur” out loud in the Trumbull Dining Hall! You’re back at Yale, and people are staring. The Alternative Spring Break trip to Taizé from March 12 to 19 is at its core a pilgrimage of spiritual healing and personal discovery. As the inaugural STM Spring Break group to Taizé, the twelve of us—eleven students and Assistant Chaplain Carlene Demiany ‘12 M.Div.—left for France after a stressful week of examinations at Yale. In the ecumenical, international monastery in Burgundy, we prayed, chanted, observed silence with the brothers three times a day, discussed Bible readings with the most interesting people, squeegeed the kitchen floor and indulged in simple meals of soup and bread (and some- times, pasta). Every morning, we woke up to the slightly annoying screeching of birds. Every night, we tucked ourselves in with remnants of Taizé chants looping through our heads. Some nights, we lit candles and praised God through song until 1 a.m., our voices sore and soaring through the quiet countryside. We talked about brokenness, about love, about good chocolate, about bad artwork and about the stars, finding in all of our conversations the face of God. “We talked about brokenness, about love, about good chocolate, about bad artwork and about the stars, finding in all of our conversations the face of God.” Pictured at left, top L to R: Britt O’Daly ‘20, J.P. Kenney ‘20, Brantley Butcher ‘19, Stephen Irving ‘19, Kishore Chundi ‘20. Bottom L to R: Claire Ong ‘19, Ella Henry ‘20, Muriel Wang ‘20, Elizabeth Lee ‘19, Fatima Abaroa ‘20, Annie Killian GRD ‘19 Pictured at right, L to R: Ella Henry ‘20 and Claire Ong ‘19Photographs by Carlene Demiany 2. The Taizé Community, founded by Brother Roger Schütz in 1940, is an ecumenical monastic order in Taizé, France. The community is one of the world’s most important sites for pilgrimage and its ministries focus on youth, worship and music. Below is an example of a Taizé chant. It is simple in melody and structure, contains Biblical allusions and can be sung in many languages—French and English are printed below. “Bénissez Le Seigneur” Toutes les œuvres du Seigneur, Bénissez le Seigneur. Vous les anges du Seigneur, Bénissez le Seigneur. A Lui louange pour toujours, Bénissez le Seigneur, Bénissez le Seigneur! All the works (creations) of the Lord, Let us Bless the Lord. And you angels of the Lord, Let us Bless the Lord. Praise and glorify the Lord forever, Let us Bless the Lord, Let us Bless the Lord! Taizé represents an indescribable feeling I will carry with me forever, especially at times of stress and sadness. Whenever I feel distant from God’s love, I will trace the edges of the Taizé cross, shaped like a dove, resting on my collarbone. I will meet up with the amazing people who shared this experience with me, laughing over nothing and reveling in shared silence. I will gladly welcome into my head the melody of Taizé chants, especially during lunchtime, regardless of my classmates’ staring. In these experiences, I find the magic of Taizé — that in community and in silence, I can viscerally feel the normally- abstract concepts of peace, of kindness, of reconciliation, of healing. I hope that this feeling never leaves me. Photograph by Muriel WangFrom the Center of Music and Liturgy: Cloud Hymnal Dan Reid GRD ‘17 igh quality liturgical music offered in a highly affordable medium. That’s the quickest way to summarize Cloud Hymnal, a very young, innovative project for sharing newly harmonized hymns and newly composed music with churches around the world through online media. The idea is fairly old, but the medium through which it takes place is quite new. In the early part of the last century, the British composer Ralph Vaughn Williams set out to write new harmonies for already-existing hymn melodies of the English-speaking world. Like his eighteenth-century German predecessor, Johann Sebastian Bach, Vaughn Williams composed harmonies for hundreds of existing melodies and incorporated existing hymn melodies into his own original works. We on the Cloud Hymnal project see ourselves working in this same tradition of updating existing melodies with new harmonies. As one of the CML interns on the project, I have written new harmonies for five hymn melodies. Currently, I am working on a sixth new harmony for the hymn “Jesus, Lead the Way;” and I am in the process of adding an original composition into the hymnal’s library based on the spiritual “Let Us Break Bread.” Besides the fact that harmonizing existing hymn tunes is good for music’s own sake, we on the Cloud Hymnal project engage in this practice to provide hymns to congregations at no cost, since all of our hymns are public domain. All a parish must do, now that the Hymnal is available, is log into the site; create a community for its congregation; inform its parishioners about the site; and give them the community password for their mobile device—and they can have access to beautiful, newly composed music. My participation in this project has been a privilege. I have enjoyed working with Dr. Richard Gard ‘07 D.M.A. and with Julian D. Revie ‘02, STM’s composer in residence, and have had a unique opportunity to hone my skills as a composer and to provide a valuable service to the wider Catholic world. Giving people easy access to great music has been a special blessing to me this year; and, I look forward to seeing how the project develops in the years to come. 3.The Cloud Hymnal mission is to provide a powerfully simple tool for church leaders and communities to create and share liturgies, music, readings and prayers. Create a community 1 Create a liturgy 2 Invite members 3 Liturgies and Lists My Communities Invite Members 4. https://cloudhymnal.orgNext >