Nunc Coepi

Last night during halftime of the Monday Night Football game Phillip Rivers, the QB for the Chargers, was being interviewed.  Now admittedly I have never been a Phillip Rivers fan.  I’m a Denver Bronco fan and no self-respecting Bronco fan would ever like the very competent QB of a division rival. But.  After his interview I became a fan.  Rivers was wearing a Nike shirt that read “Nunc Coepi.” My linguistic studies tell me that’s a Latin phrase but what does it mean?

And just like that I fell into a Latin/Catholic/Phillip Rivers worm hole.

Nunc Coepi is a phrase that Rivers, a devout Catholic and father of seven, used during his delivery of a commencement address at the Catholic University of America in D.C.  The Chargers have adopted it as a team phrase.

Nunc Coepi.  Now I begin.  In the commencement address Rivers told the class in our prayer, in our habits, in our relationships, in our profession.  Whether you made a bad grade or didn’t so well on a project.  You must begin again.

To read his speech in its entirety, check it out here.  It’s absolutely worth the read.

So I leave you with Nunc Coepi.