Respite 

Bob Handelman

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Bob Handelman

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Yale’s Fisk organ stands at the door to the Divinity School’s Nouwen Prayer Chapel. Tucked into a corner of the school’s  library, the chapel “feels like a secret, a hidden retreat,” says Sophia Špralja ’26MAR, head of the YDS Roman Catholic Fellowship. The Catholic group attends vespers in the chapel every Tuesday, but most of the time the space is free for personal devotion. “It reminds me of when I spent time in Rome,” adds Špralja, who worked in the Vatican museums before coming to Yale. “It’s a very I personal space.”