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Strengthen Your Brethren
Daylong Men's Retreat

Registration forms available in the
Campus Ministry Offices.
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Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
Begins immediately following 10:10pm Mass 
on Monday, February 27th
Concludes at 11:30am
on Tuesday, February 28th
Mabee Chapel |
Service Trip Send-Off
Thursday, March 1st
4:00pm
Mabee Chapel
All members of the University community are encouarged to gather together to pray both for the students, staff and faculty embarking on spring break service trips and for the people whom they will encounter. Please join us. |
VOICES for JUSTICE
March Focus: Immigration
Thursday, March 1st
9:00pm
Finucane Jesuit Center |
Miller Service Scholarship Applications Now Available
Interested in doing service over Summer Break?

The Miller Service Scholarship provides an opportunity to do service for five weeks over summer break and, in return, to receive a scholarship that would be added to your financial aid package. You can do the service in your hometown or wherever you will be during break. For more information or an application contact Maureen Henderson at (816) 501-4869. The deadline to apply is Friday, March 23.
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A Prayer for Those Going on Service Trips
It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view.
The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision.
We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God's work. Nothing we do is complete, which is a way of saying that the kingdom always lies beyond us. No statement says all that could be said. No prayer fully expresses our faith. No confession brings perfection. No pastoral visit brings wholeness. No program accomplishes the church's mission. No set of goals and objectives includes everything.
This is what we are about. We plant the seeds that one day will grow. We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise.
We lay foundations that will need further development. We provide yeast that produces far beyond our capabilities.
We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something, and to do it very well. It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord's grace to enter and do the rest.
We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker.
We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own. Amen.
By Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero of El Salvador (1917-1980) |
Graduating Seniors:
Believe it or not, graduation and, with it, baccalaureate will be upon us before we know it! 
If you are interested in assisting with one of many roles in the baccalaureate Mass slated for the afternoon of Friday, May 11th, please email Maureen Henderson to express your interest.
Please do so soon! |
Sunday Mass Schedule and Spring Break
Due to spring break, Campus Ministry will not offer 6pm mass on Sunday, March 4th and Sunday, March 11th. We look forward to seeing you on Sunday, March 18th! If you are in town over the next two weekends, SFX offers mass at 4pm on Saturday, 8am on Sunday, and 10:30am on Sunday. |
Free Resources
Complimentary copies of Commonweal magazine and Lenten reflection booklets are available. Stop by the Campus Ministry offices or the Mabee Chapel to grab your copy of each. |
Is your Rosary Broken?
SFX Parisonher, Mr. Bob Cuttingham, has generously offered his services to repair broken rosaries. In return, he simply asks for your prayers, not monetary compensation.
If you have a broken rosary, place it in an envelope marked with your name and phone number, and drop it off at the St. Francis Xavier parish rectory.
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A Few Photos from the Week
Students enjoy their late night meal at Winsteads after rocking out at Winter Jam on Friday, February 17th.
Charli Bultmann, a Rockhurst student and RCIA candidate, poses for a picture after the Rite of Sending at the 6pm mass on Sunday, February 19th.
A student destroys a donut during Campus Ministry's Fat Tuesday food giveaway.
Members of the Rockhurst community receive ashes during Ash Wednesday mass in the Mabee Chapel.
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Is this how you feel?
Does this little girl's letter to God express how you feel about the season of Lent? If so, we invite you to reconsider. With its focus on fasting, prayer and almsgiving, Lent provides each of us with an important opportunity to recognize our own limitations, nurture our trust in and relationship with God, and grow our generosity towards our brothers and sisters.
We pray you are able to embrace the opportunities Lent presents and, in so doing, enjoy the countless graces the season has to offer.
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This Week in
Campus Ministry
Sunday, February 26th
6pm: Mass (SFX)
Monday, February 27th
Noon: Mass (MC) 10:10pm: Mass (MC)
Following 10:10 Mass: Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
Tuesday, February 28th
11:30am: Adoration ends
Noon: Mass (MC)
3:30-4:15pm: Reconciliation (MC) 4:30pm: Pasta & Prayer (MC) 9:00pm: UNITY (STD)
Wednesday, February 29th
Noon: Mass (MC)
7:30pm: Hawks for Life (Fishbowl)
10:10pm: Mass (MC)
Thursday, March 1st
Noon: Mass (MC)
4:00pm: Service Trip Send Off (MC)
4:00pm: Men's Bible Study
9:00pm: VOICES (FJC) 10:10pm: Mass (MC)
Friday, March 2nd
Noon: Mass (MC)
Spring Break Begins!
Sunday, March 4th
There is no 6pm Mass at SFX |
Mark Your Calendar!
Baccalaureate Mass
Friday, May 11, 2012
3:00pm
St. Francis Xavier Church |
Prayer on the Lenten Journey
We travel through deserts and despair As we focus on How Christ was crucified, And is crucified In the world today.
We agree to make This journey, this pilgrimage, And to leave life as usual, Business as usual, To pay attention, To be present To pain and suffering.
The journey to the Light of Easter Can only go this way. We choose to learn This hard truth, To accept the ashes, To witness the darkness, To walk the way of the Cross As it happens in our world.
Let us journey together, Open to the world So we may be renewed And help bring to all The renewal Of Resurrection.
by Jane Deren Education for Justice |
Need Prayer?
Email the Campus Ministry staff with your name and your intention, and we will happily hold you in prayer throughout the week. |
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