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Home > Notre Dame News > Good Fridays w/Padre: Céad Míle Fáilte

Good Fridays w/Padre: Céad Míle Fáilte

August 17, 2018 by Father Sorin

With a class of new students moving onto campus, I’m seeing a lot of different ‘Welcome’ signs all over the place. Each hall seems to have its own personalized, color-coordinated  placards staking a claim to its new inmates residents. But the sign I see most is “Welcome Home!”

I had a whole series of suggestions for appropriate (and more realistic) welcoming signs. But, as usual, my wisdom was neither sought nor appreciated by the current administration. When they retire you, they take away your keys and your clout. So I thought I’d share my preferred welcome signs with all of you here.

Imagine these written in blue script on a gold signboard. In fact, imagine these written in that awful, awful wedding-invitation-script that they’re using on the Shamrock Series uniforms:

 

The Struggle May Not Be Real,

But Parietals Are.

 

Your Mother Can’t Stay With You,

But OUR MOTHER Will Never Leave You.

 

The Notre Dame Trail Ends Here.

The Notre Dame Trial Begins Here.

 

This May Be Your First Year,

But You’ll Always Be Freshmen

To Me.

 

We Don’t Control The Weather,

But We Do Control

EVERYTHING ELSE.

 

Welcome, Probationary Alumni!

 

Now Leaving South Bend, Indiana,

And Entering Notre Dame, Indiana.

Do Not Make That Mistake Again.

 

Stay Off The Grass,

Don’t Feed The Leprechaun,

Fear The Squirrels.

 

Dorms On The Edge Of Campus

Have Amenities.

Dorms Closer To The Main Building

Have “Character.”

 

Welcome To MY World.

 

EFS CSC

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Father Sorin
University Founder
Son, in 199 years of religious study, I have only come up with two hard, incontrovertible facts: There is a God, and I'm pretty tight with Him.

Now I’m going to tell you a whole lot of things I’ve kept to myself for years. None of you ever knew me. I was along before your time, but you all know what a tradition I am at Notre Dame. And one of the most important things I ever said was, “Friends, sometime when my University is up against it and the breaks are beating the students, tell them to go out there with all they’ve got and win at everything for Padre. I don’t know exactly where I’ll be then, friends,” I said, “but I’ll be looking right over your shoulder.”
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About Father Sorin

University Founder
Son, in 199 years of religious study, I have only come up with two hard, incontrovertible facts: There is a God, and I'm pretty tight with Him.

Now I’m going to tell you a whole lot of things I’ve kept to myself for years. None of you ever knew me. I was along before your time, but you all know what a tradition I am at Notre Dame. And one of the most important things I ever said was, “Friends, sometime when my University is up against it and the breaks are beating the students, tell them to go out there with all they’ve got and win at everything for Padre. I don’t know exactly where I’ll be then, friends,” I said, “but I’ll be looking right over your shoulder.”

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