We live in a liturgical epoch. Each age can be characterized by the theological questions the councils address, and the restoration of Christian culture will be founded upon the liturgical life of the Church. I am living the liturgy myself and with my family. I strive to help make the liturgy known as a place of worship—an encounter with the Divine.

My career path has been developing my whole life. Growing up, we frequently attended daily Mass, which helped foster in me a love of the liturgy. While at Wyoming Catholic College, I served as the campus sacristan and studied the greatest things that have ever been thought. My love of the liturgy continued to grow with easy access to daily Mass, and my intellectual appreciation reached new bounds when I wrote my thesis on the history and theology of the liturgy. This led me to continue my liturgical studies and pursue an M.A. at the Catholic University of America.

My professors lived very inspiring lives. They showed how ‘knowledge jobs’ can lead to happy lives. While I have seen that many academics are consumed by the need to publish many articles each year and are alienated from their families, at WCC, I saw another story. I witnessed happy families in academia. One professor’s wife would read Latin with us in the evening, and then she would run her husband coffee the next morning as he was starting class.

As a high school student, I did not feel the need to get a specialized degree. Instead, I wanted human and spiritual formation, something I could use in any walk of life. Rather than spending four years training to get a job, I wanted to spend four years training to be an excellent person. As a freshman, I ascended the staircase to the dean’s office to ask him for study advice. I wanted to learn how to focus and succeed as a student. This was a skill that the dean had certainly mastered and a skill that I would certainly need to master if I was going to keep up my assignments. It is certainly easier when you don’t have Wi-Fi and a phone—focus is a skill that is hard to learn in the modern world.