Priest, Rector, Fan - First Time Fans Vol. 5

Father Matt Kuczora has seen plenty of Notre Dame football games...from the student section that is. But now, he's a priest. And for the first time, he's a dorm rector on the Notre Dame campus. Call it "First Time Rector" if you will, but a football weekend for Father Matt is quite different nowadays. From the picturesque edge of campus at Carroll Hall, to the glorious reverence of Sacred Heart Basilica, to the unparalleled excitement of a Notre Dame game versus archrival USC, Father Matt truly serves the Notre Dame community as a priest, a rector, and a fan.

[@lesteryamamoto4294]

This is all so cool. A look from someone on the inside of Notre Dame. My first and only visit to Notre Dame (1991) will always be long remembered. And what made it so memorable where the places I saw and touched but more importantly, the students, administrators and people of Notre Dame made me feel so welcome.

[@IncentiVentas]

"God doesn´t care about football but her mother sure does"
I love it father Matt.
Go Irish!!!

[@brodiebutland1211]

Very nice, Father Matt!

[@coles237]

Thank you very much for this video! So true that success is being true to your call from God. Thanks again for reminding us of this!

[@captaincinema5066]

Let it never be forgot... that Carroll Hall is a pseudo-name for this home away from home; its REAL name is Dujarie Hall.
Since it's inception and up until the mid-60s, this residence building was the home of the Holy Cross Brothers -- their Scholasticate or house of formation. Here young CSC Brothers lived and flourished in the communal life, finding themselves, learning about life, all supporting each other in that all-important transition from adolescence into manhood and that never-ending search for self-knowledge and meaning -- young men dedicating themselves to live as CSC Brothers.
This place of learning, communal living and spiritual growth was Dujarie Hall as its cornerstone proclaims. While change is inevitable and the Holy Cross Brothers now have their house of formation elsewhere, it is sad that the administration has chosen to obliterate its own history in renaming the hall with no reference or any acknowledgement of the decades that had gone before where dedicated Holy Cross religious men began their search for understanding their calling in life and becoming Holy Cross religious.
Certainly repurposing a building happens all the time, many times changing its name goes along with the repurposing, but this is one building that is deeply connected to the Holy Cross religious community and is embedded in its history, named as it is, after Father Jacques-Francoise Dujarié, the co-founder of the Holy Cross religious community along with Father Basile Moreau. One couldn't imagine that the priests would ever change the name of the Moreau Seminary on campus; such an act would be an affront to all the seminarians and their mentors who spent their formative years there becoming men of Congregatio Sanctae Crucis. Changing the name would be a callus disregard of the history of the Priest Society as well as disrespectful of the men who called it home for their formative years.
So too, changing the name of the home of the Brothers' formation house (the exact equivalent of the Moreau Seminary), in effect obliterates the history of the Brothers, and likewise, is a disrespect for the Brother's community where even in the CSC website, is proclaimed that the priests and brothers are “bound together in one indivisible brotherhood.” Seems like the Brothers get short shrift by this name-change. The move is devoid of any sense of history or legacy and is really an affront to all the hundreds of men who gave themselves to the ideals of the community and service and began their religious life at Dujarie Hall.
Will the University ever change the name back? Most likely not, and to do so probably would be a slight to those ND students who lived there college years in that place, but at the very least, a plaque or memorial stone should be placed near the entrance of Carroll Hall acknowledging those CSC religious who walked those halls, laughed and prayed in those halls and called the place home while struggled with what it means to be a good, decent man and a good Holy Cross Brother...those who went before, adding to and enriching the CSC "indivisible brotherhood."
BTW, who is Carroll anyway? Let's really hope the University administration wasn't so crass and mercenary as to rename Dujarie Hall just because some rich cat donated a truck load of money to get his or her name on a building.

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Captain Cinema Carroll Hall was my home for four years at ND. It's named after Charles Carroll (the only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence). As to your point about remembering the building's original name, the cornerstone right next to the main sidewalk still reads "Dujarie 1906"