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Rector's letter for April 2025
1 april 2025
Dear students, dear teachers,
There are times when the light delays its coming. When days stretch on in a uniform grey, and nights seem thicker than usual. There are moments when we study, when we teach, when we search — with the quiet intuition that something is there, near at hand, yet still veiled. April is the season of passage: between winter and spring, shadow and light, what fades and what begins. Nothing is yet visible, and yet everything is already in bud. The sap is rising once more. And weary or anxious spirits begin to stir again, gathering new momentum.
At Domuni, academic life follows this quiet rhythm. A world is seeking meaning. A culture questions its foundations. Humanity struggles to come together. It is here — at the heart of these tensions — that the vocation of this place of study and research finds its meaning: not in certainty or mastery, but in the humble boldness of thinking, of dialogue, of trusting in intelligence. To pass through the night is to accept obscurity. To study is an act of hope. To teach, a gesture of trust. To search, a long-haul commitment.
For everything bears fruit. Even in darkness, an invisible life is at work. Spring does not need brilliance to begin its work. “I shall die in hope, but it remains to found that hope,” wrote Sartre. For Christians, this passage through the night finds its strength and its light in Easter.
Rector