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Many of the participants in this year�s Summer Program remember fondly the homily that Rev. Nick Blaha (�02) gave at the Sunday Mass on July 26, the program�s midpoint. Fr. Nick has made available via his website at Didde Catholic Campus Center at Emporia State University, where he is a chaplain.

�These things are good that we strive for � material comfort, security, fulfilling relationships. There�s nothing wrong with those, so far as they go,� Fr. Nick says. �The problem is that they don�t go far enough. It�s not that we want too much, it�s that we don�t want nearly enough! The scope of our moral and our spiritual vision is narrow. It�s constricted, truncated. � There is a love and goodness and a truth that awaits me if I can lift my eyes from what is fleeting and set my heart on the desires of the spirit.�

Fr. Nick concludes by telling the students, �To you, the young men and women who joined us for this brief visit, this brief time here, to experience a little taste of what this college is all about, our hope for you is that in this experience you�ve come to recognize it as a community of white-hot desire for the satisfaction of the spirit. And I hope, all of us hope, that no matter where you choose to go that you will attach yourself to a community that stirs you into flame.�

Amen, Fr. Nick!