College of Saint Benedict
| www.csbsju.edu St. Joseph, MN May 12, 2007 |
Sr. Ephrem Hollermann, OSB, associate professor of theology at the College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University and incoming College of Saint Benedict Koch Chair in Catholic Thought and Culture: |
"Esteemed graduates, fortified with the completion of your privileged Catholic, Benedictine, liberal arts education, remember to listen to your deeper call – to respond to the human and spiritual needs so evident in our world today. And consider it a privilege to do so. I was so inspired by the words of U2 rock star Bono: ‘God is in the slums,’ he said, ‘in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. |
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God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.’ Bono has obviously heard his deeper call beneath celebrity and fame." |
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