Following a practice first observed in 1548 at the first Jesuit school, in Messina, Italy, some 1,000 members of the Boston College community gathered on the O’Neill Plaza on September 19 to mark the opening of the academic year with the annual Mass of the Holy Spirit. Delivering the general intercessions, director of Campus Ministry James Erps, SJ, said, “As we gather this afternoon and pray for the gift of the Spirit—the gift of wisdom—for our new academic year, we remember that wisdom has been highly prized in the Christian, Jewish and Muslim traditions. As people of the book, today we seek and long for that wisdom.”