The Companion

Weekly E-Bulletin of
Rockhurst University's Campus Ministry
 
March 24, 2013
  
Holy Week

Sunday, March 24th

Palm Sunday

6:00pm Mass (SFX)

 

Monday, March 25th

12noon Mass (MC)

12:30pm-10:00pm Eucharistic Adoration (MC)

8:00pm-10:00pm Reconciliation (MC)

 

Tuesday, March 26th

12noon Mass (MC)

4:30pm Stations of the Cross (MC)

 

Wednesday, March 27th

12noon Mass (MC)

10:10pm Mass (MC)

 

Thursday, March 28th

Holy Thursday

12noon Mass (MC)

 

St. Francis Xavier's Triduum Schedule

Thursday, March 28th at 7:00 p.m.

HOLY THURSDAY: Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper

 

Friday, March 29th at 7:00 p.m.

GOOD FRIDAY: Friday of the Passion of the Lord

 

Saturday, March 30th at 10:00 a.m.

Blagoslov (Blessing of Easter Foods)

 

Saturday, March 30th at 8:00 p.m.

HOLY SATURDAY: Easter Vigil

 

Sunday, March 31st at 8:00 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.  

Easter Sunday

Easter Egg Hunt for children after 10:30 a.m. Mass

Adoration
   EUCHARISTIC
ADORATION
:

Monday, March 25th

begins at 12:30pm and ends at 10:00pm

Sign up on the Chapel door or simply stop by. 

Water for Duchity
For our Lenten Almsgiving offering, Campus Ministry is partnering with a student effort to bring clean water to the village of Duchity, Haiti, where residents currently drink from a cesspool of a water source. Monies raised through our Lenten Water Bottle Piggy Banks will be used to purchase water filters that would bolster health and the local economy: the one-piece filters are Haitian-made.

Filters cost $35 each. 

Have you remembered to place change in your bottle?

No?  We still have a couple weeks left of Lent.  Consider striving to save enough to purchase a filter for a family.  One filter provides a family with clean water for five years.

Silent Retreat  
Applications Now Available! 
   

Stop by Campus Ministry today to pick up your application.
SuperNatural Christians Retreat  
Applications Now Available! 


Stop by Campus Ministry today to pick up your application.
Question #3 on the April 2nd Ballot  

On April 2, Kansas Citians will be given the opportunity to vote on Question 3, which would stop KC from offering future incentives for companies and the U.S. government to make parts for nuclear weapons.

 

 

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states, "Every act of war directed to the indiscriminate destruction of whole cities or vast areas with their inhabitants is a crime against God and humanity, which merits firm and unequivocal condemnation.  A danger of modern warfare is that it provides the opportunity to those who possess modern scientific weapons - especially atomic, biological, or chemical weapons - to use them" (CCC #2314; cf. also Gaudium et Spes #80).  Since the use of such weapons is morally questionable, it follows that the production of such weapons is also morally questionable.

 

Excerpt from a Statement from the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City/St. Joseph, Sept. 8, 2010 

 

Click here to read more

Question of the Week

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This Week's Question: Get to know Pope Francis! Send in a fun fact about our new leader. 
 
Last Week's Answer: Pope Francis was archbishop of Buenos Aires.

And the Winner is . . . Caitlyn Tilden!

Send your answer to Cindy Schmersal by 9:00am on Wednesday.  Of those students who respond, one will be chosen at random to receive a free (and delicious!) twister from the Pub.  The winner will be announced in the following week's bulletin.
Here's to You! 

Here's to the students, staff, and faculty members who participated in RU:

 

Service Trips

 

Students who participated in Interfaith Panel

 

Male Service Day

 

You Rock
Deepening our Faith in the Year of Faith
The Reality of Sin and Faith in God's Mercy

 

This week, we offer the fourth in a series of excerpts on morality taken from the U.S. Catholic Catechism for Adults.

 

We cannot speak about life in Christ or the moral life without acknowledging the reality of sin, our own sinfulness, and our need for God's mercy. When the existence of sin is denied it can result in spiritual and psychological damage because it is ultimately a denial of the truth about ourselves. Admitting the reality of sin helps us to be truthful and opens us to the healing that comes from Christ's redemptive act.

A Prayer 

Disturb us, Lord, when

We are too well pleased with ourselves,

When our dreams have come true

Because we have dreamed too little,

When we have arrived safely

Because we sailed too close to the shore.

 

Disturb us, Lord, when

With the abundance of things we possess

We have lost our thirst

For the waters of life;

Having fallen in love with life,

We have ceased to dream of eternity

And in our efforts to build a new earth,

We have allowed our vision

Of the new Heaven to dim.

 

Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly,

To venture on wider seas

Where storms will show your mastery;

Where losing sight of land,

We shall find the stars.

 

We ask You to push back

The horizons of our hopes;

And to push into the future

In strength, courage, hope, and love.

 

-Attributed to Sir Francis Drake, c. 1577

 

In This Issue
Holy Week
Eucharistic Adoration
Water for Duchity
Silent Retreat
SuperNatural Retreat
Question 3
Question of the Week
Here's to YOU!
Year of Faith
A Prayer
This Week in
Campus Ministry

 

Sunday, March 24th

Palm Sunday

6:00pm: Mass (SFX)  

 

Monday, March 25th  

12noon: Mass (MC)

Post-Mass: Liturgy of the Hours (MC)

12:30pm: Eucharistic Adoration Begins (MC)

6:00pm: Liturgy of the Hours (MC)

8-9:45pm: Reconciliation (MC)

Pre-Mass: Eucharistic Adoration ends and Liturgy of the Hours (MC)

10:10pm: Mass (MC) 

 

Tuesday, March 26th 

12noon: Mass (MC)

Post-Mass: Liturgy of the Hours (MC)

4:30pm: Pasta and Prayer: Stations of the Cross (MC)  

6:00pm: Liturgy of the Hours (MC)

 

Wednesday, March 27th

12noon: Mass (MC)

Post-Mass: Liturgy of the Hours (MC)

6:00pm: Liturgy of the Hours (MC)

Pre-Mass: Liturgy of the Hours (MC)

10:10pm: Mass (MC) 

 

Thursday, March 28th

Holy Thursday 

12noon: Mass (MC) 

Post-Mass: Liturgy of the Hours (MC)

7:00pm: Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper (SFX)

 

Friday, March 29th

Good Friday

Easter Break - No Classes

7:00pm: Friday of the Passion of the Lord (SFX)

 

Saturday, March 30th

Holy Saturday

8:00pm: Easter Vigil (SFX)

 

Sunday, March 31st

Easter Sunday

8:00am and 10:30am: Mass (SFX) 

Need Prayer?

 

Email the Campus Ministry staff with your name and your intention, and we will happily hold you in prayer throughout the week.

Office of Campus Ministry
Massman 4 (lower level)
(816) 501-4063 

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