“Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.”

Luke 5:4

The intellectual life for Young Adults

Truth is not private property.

Welcome!

We are here to foster a Catholic intellectual community for young adults, dedicated to the pursuit of truth, hope, and the beauty of life.

  • “I see the sun, but if I didn't see the sun, I'd still know it was there. And to know that the sun's there, that's the very stuff of life."

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    The Brothers Karamazov

  • "There are more things in heaven and on earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

    William Shakespeare

    Hamlet

  • "The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing."

    C. S. Lewis

    The Weight of Glory

  • "I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller."

    G. K. Chesterton

    Orthodoxy

  • "We must live. We must love. And we must believe that there’s more to it all than our lives on this scrap of earth."

    Leo Tolstoy

    War and Peace

  • "An appetite for these things exists in the human mind, and God makes no appetite in vain. We can therefore pursue knowledge as such, and beauty, as such, in the sure confidence that by so doing we are either advancing to the vision of God ourselves or indirectly helping others to do so."

    C. S. Lewis

    “Learning in War-time”

  • "For what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man?"

    Henry David Thoreau

    Walden

  • "Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came back to me from my childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom."

    Evelyn Waugh

    Brideshead Revisited

  • "He who knows the truth, knows that light, and he who knows it knows eternity. Love knows it, O eternal truth, and true love, and beloved eternity!"

    St. Augustine

    Confessions

Want to Write for Us?

We invite all young adults with a passion for the Catholic intellectual life to write for us. If you are interested, submissions can be sent to contact.lumendelumine@gmail.com.

Please submit all writing in Microsoft Word.