#  Graduate Profile: Patrick Griffin Downes, MDiv '23  

 





May 15, 2023

 

 

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Photo courtesy of Patrick Downes

 



 

**How I've Changed**

I came, in part, to make peace with myself and to learn how to surrender, and I have gone a long way toward both.

**Memorable Moment**

I spent two of three years remote, so my first in-person meeting with my thesis group last August, introducing myself to other third-year MDiv students I had only encountered online through Zoom, impacted on me. "Oh, so good to meet you in person," I heard myself saying again and again.

**Favorite Class or Professor**

A superlative distilled from a handful of superlatives?

**Message of Thanks**

I would like to thank my fellow students, and, to be honest, the entire Divinity School. I found it humane and compassionate.

**What I Hope to Be Remembered By**

I hope to be remembered for my effort to bring not only a Quaker witness to the Divinity School but a personal presence of clarity, stillness, and attention.

**Future Plans**

To write. And I'll chaplain through writing. There will be other creative endeavors, too. And there's something else, something else...



 

 

 

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