{"id":15432,"date":"2026-02-07T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T09:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=15432"},"modified":"2026-02-07T00:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T00:50:16","slug":"2000-notre-dame-students-attend-mass-at-outdoor-ice-chapel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=15432","title":{"rendered":"2,000 Notre Dame students attend Mass at outdoor ice chapel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pretty cool (a pun?), built by two students. See the short video and hit the link below for more of the story. Starts to make up for this recent ND posting I put up. <a href=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=15418\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Another stab in the back from Notre Dame<\/em><\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Faith in the Cold: Mass in a Snow Chapel at Notre Dame\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TDzjZ9igaRo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/zeale.co\/news\/articles\/more-than-2000-notre-dame-students-attend-mass-at-outdoor-ice-chapel?utm_campaign=129541854-The%20LOOP&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9-iQKWrCUO3HkaFgvB3DH9-iDTU0pvqo70lE25ro_evixUa4BeW82oWeCmUrgebDCh0FzH2y6GtJSgKfnzNTuPoU8D_g&amp;_hsmi=22671585&amp;utm_content=22671585&amp;utm_source=hs_email\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/zeale.co\/news\/articles\/more-than-2000-notre-dame-students-attend-mass-at-outdoor-ice-chapel?utm_campaign=129541854-The%20LOOP&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9-iQKWrCUO3HkaFgvB3DH9-iDTU0pvqo70lE25ro_evixUa4BeW82oWeCmUrgebDCh0FzH2y6GtJSgKfnzNTuPoU8D_g&amp;_hsmi=22671585&amp;utm_content=22671585&amp;utm_source=hs_email\">After 38 inches of snow fell on the campus, seniors Wesley Buonerba and Martin Soros, residents of the university\u2019s Coyle Hall, built a chapel from ice and snow.&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"664\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ice-chapel-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15433\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.024088059184928;width:117px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ice-chapel-1.jpg 680w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ice-chapel-1-300x293.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSoros, a civil engineering major, and Buonerba, who studies architecture, spent over 50 hours constructing the chapel,\u201d the university <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notredame\/\"><u>stated<\/u><\/a> on Facebook. \u201cEverything from the crucifix, candle holders, cross, and altar was created or carved from a mixture of snow and water.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>***********************<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a Feb. 4 emailed interview, Fr. McCormick told Zeale News that Mass at the ice chapel taught a valuable lesson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe ice chapel was a quiet reminder that sacred space isn\u2019t defined by permanence or polish,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen students carve out a place for prayer in the middle of winter, they are saying something profound about what they value and about where they believe God meets them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty cool (a pun?), built by two students. See the short video and hit the link below for more of the story. Starts to make up for this recent ND posting I put up. Another stab in the back from Notre Dame After 38 inches of snow fell on the campus, seniors Wesley Buonerba and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15432"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15436,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15432\/revisions\/15436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}