LUKE PONCE FINE ARTS COLUMNIST The pointed question to which I refer is this: why not? Allow me to explain. First, some context. I find that a surprisingly small contingent of my compatriots are aware that the Latin Rite of…
LUKE PONCE FINE ARTS COLUMNIST Few things are as inescapable in our day-to-day experience as light, and there are few places on earth where it is entirely extinguished. Nevertheless, it often slips by our conscious thought entirely unnoticed. It surrounds…
LUKE PONCE FINE ARTS COLUMNIST A thought from spring break: strolling around the streets of a small town at night, one encounters a sort of strange, sacred solitude. The remarkable thing about it is that this tranquility doesn’t exist within…
LUKE PONCE FINE ARTS COLUMNIST The world is filled with a great many sources of instantaneous excitement and entertainment. One might think that facilitating the pursuit of such experiences would increase the happiness of society, but it has only deepened…
LUKE PONCE FINE ARTS COLUMNIST Not long ago, an instance of note to this present column occurred as I sat inside Antonian Hall, that illustrious purveyor of bodily sustenance which towers benevolently over the heart of our campus. I was…
LUKE PONCE FINE ARTS COLUMNIST For all its variance and vacillation of creed and custom, humanity nevertheless continues to hold the fine arts in high regard. At worst, they are esteemed as a harmless endeavor, perhaps unimportant but nice in…
LUKE PONCE FINE ARTS COLUMNIST Some nights, I stare blankly at the screen of my laptop at a loss for what artistic ruminations I could possibly contribute to this illustrious publication that are worth the attention and time of the…
LUKE PONCE FINE ARTS COLUMNIST College students and books: they go together like salsa and cilantro, which is to say our academic reading is something we either relish, despise or put up with because it is a necessary part of…
LUKE PONCE FINE ARTS COLUMNIST Seeing as this edition appears in print on All Hallows’ Eve, I have leapt upon the opportunity to write about organ music. What can I say; it is what organists do. Early in my college…
LUCK PONCE FINE ARTS COLUMNIST In the liturgy of the Church, art has always played an important role in elevating the minds and hearts of the congregation to the contemplation of the divine, of Christ’s real and true presence in…
