We picked "What the Thunder Said" because we believe its a really good read. (That's the short answer.)
The book mirrors the history of our University on several levels. We'll explain. (You guessed it. . . this is the long answer.)
In 1834, in a village high in the mountains of Southern Italy, a young woman named Maria De Mattias, impelled by her love of the suffering Christ and pained by the lack of education for girls and women, opened a school for girls.
She also founded the religious order the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, which laid the groundwork for a community of religious women who, like herself, would take their strength and inspiration from the suffering Christ.
A century later, on the dust-blown plains of South Central Kansas, Mother Beata Netemeyer, Adorer of the Blood of Christ, urged by that same love for Christ and the need for education for her Sisters and other women in the area, opened Sacred Heart Junior College, which laid the groundwork for what is today Newman University.
Now, 75 years later, we celebrate again the courage, the spirit and the trust in Divine Providence of those Sisters, who in the depths of the Great Depression and against all odds, founded a college.
"What the Thunder Said" is a story of those times, a story of pain, a story of great loss and, in the end, a story of redemption.
The book mirrors the history of our University on several levels. We'll explain. (You guessed it. . . this is the long answer.)
In 1834, in a village high in the mountains of Southern Italy, a young woman named Maria De Mattias, impelled by her love of the suffering Christ and pained by the lack of education for girls and women, opened a school for girls.
She also founded the religious order the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, which laid the groundwork for a community of religious women who, like herself, would take their strength and inspiration from the suffering Christ.
A century later, on the dust-blown plains of South Central Kansas, Mother Beata Netemeyer, Adorer of the Blood of Christ, urged by that same love for Christ and the need for education for her Sisters and other women in the area, opened Sacred Heart Junior College, which laid the groundwork for what is today Newman University.
Now, 75 years later, we celebrate again the courage, the spirit and the trust in Divine Providence of those Sisters, who in the depths of the Great Depression and against all odds, founded a college.
"What the Thunder Said" is a story of those times, a story of pain, a story of great loss and, in the end, a story of redemption.
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