Kingfisher Living Learning Community
Think deeply. Live generously. Ask the big questions together. Catholic Studies, in partnership with the Department of Residence Life and New Student Programs, supports the first-year student experience through the Kingfisher Catholic Studies Living-Learning Community where students will live and learn together. The Kingfisher Catholic Studies LLC is a community where faith meets intellectual life and spills over into service. We explore the Catholic tradition across disciplines — philosophy, sociology, theology, art, literature — and practice what we learn through hospitality and outreach. Open to curious first-years of any major. For more information, visit the Department of Residence Life's website.
The name “Kingfisher” is inspired by the poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins:
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;
As tumbled over rim in roundy wells
Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's
Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;
Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
Selves — goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,
Crying Whát I dó is me: for that I came.
I say móre: the just man justices;
Keeps grace: thát keeps all his goings graces;
Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is —
Chríst — for Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men's faces.
This poem celebrates the way in which each created thing makes God manifest in the world by being what it is, and it calls us to become more fully who we are through living out our vocation. It expresses a sacramental vision of the world in which God is encountered in the concrete and the ordinary. Guided by this Jesuit practice of “finding God in all things,” the Kingfisher LLC gives the Catholic tradition embodied expression through communal learning, service, and action.
Think deeply. Live generously. Ask the big questions together. Catholic Studies, in partnership with the Department of Residence Life and New Student Programs, supports the first-year student experience through the Kingfisher Catholic Studies Living-Learning Community where students will live and learn together. The Kingfisher Catholic Studies LLC is a community where faith meets intellectual life and spills over into service. We explore the Catholic tradition across disciplines — philosophy, sociology, theology, art, literature — and practice what we learn through hospitality and outreach. Open to curious first-years of any major. For more information, visit the Department of Residence Life's website.
The name “Kingfisher” is inspired by the poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins:
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;
As tumbled over rim in roundy wells
Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's
Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;
Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
Selves — goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,
Crying Whát I dó is me: for that I came.
I say móre: the just man justices;
Keeps grace: thát keeps all his goings graces;
Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is —
Chríst — for Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men's faces.
This poem celebrates the way in which each created thing makes God manifest in the world by being what it is, and it calls us to become more fully who we are through living out our vocation. It expresses a sacramental vision of the world in which God is encountered in the concrete and the ordinary. Guided by this Jesuit practice of “finding God in all things,” the Kingfisher LLC gives the Catholic tradition embodied expression through communal learning, service, and action.