The Cardinal Newman Society awards an annual scholarship to a student who attends one of the colleges recognized for faithful Catholic education in the Society’s Newman Guide.
This year, Sarah Davis, a homeschooler from Pennsylvania, won the Society’s Essay Scholarship Contest and received a $5,000 scholarship toward attending Christendom College in Front Royal this fall.
This year’s contest asked high school students how attending a Catholic college strongly devoted to the Eucharist will uniquely impact their religious, moral, intellectual and social formation.
Davis wrote that she was drawn to study at a college that “keeps Our Eucharistic Lord at the center of campus life.” Such a “devotion to the Eucharist, nurtured during college, will be my strong foundation as I continue to grow into the woman God has created me to be,” Davis said.
“In front of the Blessed Sacrament, I will find the strength to conscientiously perform my duties as a student, treat others with true charity, and keep fighting for sanctity,” she wrote. “If our Eucharistic Lord reigns over the college which I attend, I will be challenged to let him reign over my own heart and life.”
Reilly is president and founder of The Cardinal Newman Society.
