Friday, November 27, 2015

11.29.15

Campus Ministry Bulletin
vol 24 no 13

November 29, 2015 - First Sunday of Advent

+  Jeremiah 33:14-16  +  1 Thessalonians 3:12-4:2  +  Luke 21:25-28, 34-36  +
Mass this Sunday at 6:30 pm ONLY







Mass Intentions:
Sunday11.29NO 10:30 am
6:30 pm         

For the SAU Community                   
Monday     11.30Noon+ Fr. Richard Bevenour, '53
Tuesday     12.14:30 pm+ Peter Bushma, '50
Wednesday     12.29:15 pmFor Student Intentions           
Thursday12.3       4:30pm+ Judith Dusenberry, '89          
Friday        12.4Noon+ Dean Dye

This Week's Activities Include:
Monday: Music Ministry Rehearsal 6 pm (Chapel); Men's Faith Group 7 pm (Gathering Space Side Room); Brewed Awakening 8 pm (Gathering Space)
Tuesday: Bridge Bible Fellowship 9 pm (Chapel)
Wednesday: Ambrosians for Peace and Justice 8 pm (Lower Chapel); Sacrament of Reconciliation 8:30 pm (Chapel); Mass and More 9:15 pm (Chapel)

Campus Ministry Offices - Lower Chapel
333-6132 or ministry@sau.edu
Fr. Chuck Adam, Chaplain
Chris Clow, Director of Music and Liturgy
Kaitlin Depuydt, Director of Service and Social Justice
Tammy Norcross-Reitzler, Director of Faith Formation
Tom Prior, Grad Assistant

Prayer Ministry - send intentions to BeesKnees@sau.edu.



Prepare the Way for Hope
This Sunday, as students return to campus from Thanksgiving break, we enter the season of Advent.  Advent is a time of preparation for Christmas, but more importantly it's a time to be attentive for the coming of God into our world. It can be a bit of a challenge to heed the Advent call us to  “stay awake” and “be prepared.” It is a busy time and the mere thought of all that is left to be done in the few remaining days of this semester can leave us exhausted. We can also become fatigued by reading the daily news and the horrible tragedies and acts of terror that have occurred in recent weeks. But Advent is above all else, a season of hope. Advent assures us that God will fulfill his promises. And we desperately need that assurance. There are many ways to make the most of Advent. Some of the opportunities are listed in this campus ministry bulletin. The fact is, each one of us have a role to play in creating the more just and peaceful world for which we long. Need a shot of energy?  Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of an elderly woman whom he described as the most dedicated participant in the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. Walking miles every day rather than ride on segregated buses, he quoted her as saying, “My feet are tired, but my soul is rested."  Advent can do that for us. Despite all the hectic activity of the next few weeks, try to find time for prayerful renewal. Be assured that we have no reason to give-in to fear. And take time for some action that brings hope to others. Preparing the way might make our bodies tired, but by doing what is right and just, our souls can rested and ready to welcome the Lord.  ---Fr. Chuck

•Join Us for 6:30pm Mass on Sunday
As you come back to campus from Thanksgiving break, join us for mass on Sunday, November 29 at 6:30pm in the Chapel.  There will be no 10:30am mass this Sunday.  The daily mass schedule resumes with 12 noon mass on Monday, November 30.

•Project Renewal Giving Tree
Students from a themed house on campus focused on service to Project Renewal invite you to take an ornament from the Giving tree in the Gathering Space the weekend of December 6th.   Each ornament has the name, age and interests of a child at Project Renewal.  We ask you to buy a new backpack for that child and return it by December 13th.  The service house guys will deliver them during finals week.  Thank you!

•Advent Season Events  
Advent begins Sunday, November 29th.  Advent is a season of preparation for Christmas and a reminder to be constantly vigilant “waiting in joyful hope” for the Lord’s coming.  Here are some ways you can celebrate Advent right here at SAU:
→Pick up a copy of A Season of Mercy by David M. Knight.  These Advent reflections will help us to begin the Year of Mercy proclaimed by Pope Francis.   The booklets are available in the Chapel gathering space, at the Rogalski Center Post Office, and in the Health Science Building.
→Participate in Daily Mass at Christ the King Chapel. Monday and Fridays at 12:00 pm. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 4:30pm, and Wednesday at 9:15pm.
→Enjoy a special Lessons and Carols service Friday, December 4 at 7:00pm in the Chapel.  The evening consists of scriptures for the season and music featuring the University Chorale and Chamber Singers.
→Celebrate the Feast of St. Ambrose with us on Sunday, December 6.  The Most Rev. Martin Amos, Bishop of Davenport, will be the presider and homilist for a special liturgy at 10:30am as we celebrate our patron saint.  This mass will feature music led by a combined choir of SAU Chamber Singers and Music Ministry, as well as the presentation of the McMullen Awards to Msgr. John Hyland, ‘64 and Karen and Jim Collins, ‘69. Reception to follow in the Gathering Space.
→Attend the Advent Communal Reconciliation, Monday, December 7 at 7:00pm in Christ the King Chapel.  A short prayer service is followed by the opportunity for individual confession to one of the priests present.
→Commemorate the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Tuesday, December 8,  by celebrating mass at 12 noon or 4:30pm on the holy day of obligation.
→Take time out for a quiet evening of Advent Reflections at the Stable led by IlaMae Hanisch, ‘89 at 8 pm Thursday, December 10th in the Gathering Space.   Refreshments will be provided by Women & Faith.
→Plan to take part in the Student Candlelight Mass preceding Midnight Breakfast on Tuesday Dec. 17 at 9:00pm.  In the chapel, filled with light from candles held by students, we celebrate the mystery, the joy, and the hope Christ’s birth has brought to our world.  All are welcome to each of these events.

•Music for the Feast of St. Ambrose Mass  
There are two remaining rehearsals for the Feast of St. Ambrose Mass - Monday, November 30 at 7pm, and right before the mass Sunday, December 6 at 9am, both in the Chapel.  All SAU students, faculty, and staff are invited to take part in the music for this mass.  If you are interested email ministry@sau.edu to find out more.

•Brewed Awakening
Join us for the last Brewed Awakening discussion of the semester!  On Monday, November 30 at 8pm in the Gathering Space, SAU GREENLife will lead a discussion about local and global climate change, to coincide with the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris. Bring your friends, enjoy free specialty coffee drinks, and stick around for a great discussion on an important topic.

•Service on Saturday 
Join us for the Kids Against Hunger meal packaging on Dec. 5 to package meals that will feed Syrian refugees in refugee camps in Greece.  It will be held at the Waterfront Convention Center in Bettendorf; we will be helping in the 2-3pm shift.  You can sign up at ministry@sau.edu. Reserve your spot today!

•Ambrose of Milan Lecture
Fr. David Voprada, Ph.D. of Charles University in Prague, is presenting the annual Saint Ambrose of Milan lecture on Dec. 6th at 4:30 in Christ the King Chapel at St. Ambrose University entitled, "St. Ambrose and Growth in the Christian Life."  Fr. Voprada says of his theme that "The bishop of Milan encouraged his Church to go always further, never to stop in our journey of getting to know and love God.  Is there in his teaching something that would help even Christians of our time to proceed on their journey to God?”

•Bless the Pencils
Are you worried about your finals and feel like you need all the help you can get? Bring a pencil to the chapel at 7:30 pm, Sunday December 13th and get it blessed before finals begin!  Grab a cookie and some hot chocolate too.    

•Service Trip Applications are Now Available
Applications for our Winter break service trip are due on December 9th - join us as we go to the Port Ministries in the Back of the Yards neighborhood in Chicago.  From January 12-16, we’ll be working with kids in the after-school program, helping in the free clinic, serving meals from the bread truck, and witnessing peace-making circles with a restorative justice program.  Can’t go in January?  Take part in one of the Campus Ministry service trips to East St. Louis, Cleveland, Northern Mississippi, or Eastern Kentucky over Spring break.   Applications are available now in the gathering space and lower chapel.  Any questions?  Contact Kaitlin in Campus Ministry at ministry@sau.edu.

•Year of Mercy
Pope Francis has announced an extraordinary jubilee, a Holy Year of Mercy, beginning on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, December 8.  The Diocese of Davenport will be celebrating this jubilee all year long, beginning on Sunday, December 13 at Sacred Heart Cathedral with the opening of the Holy Year Door at 9:00am, and a Communal Penance Liturgy at 3:00pm.  All are welcome at both, and be sure to follow along for events all throughout the Holy Year.

Thursday, November 12, 2015

11.15.15 & 11.22.15

Campus Ministry Bulletin
vol 24 no 12

November 15, 2015 - Thirty-Third Sunday of Ordinary Time

+  Deuteronomy 12:1-3  +  Hebrews 10:11-14, 18  +  Mark 13:24-32  +
Masses this Sunday at 10:30 am and 6:30 pm

November 22, 2015 - Feast of Christ the King
+  Deuteronomy 7:13-14  +  Revelation 1:5-8  +  John 18:33-37  +
No Masses this Sunday



Mass Intentions:
Sunday11.1510:30 am
6:30 pm         
+  Luke Mayfield
For the SAU Community                   
Monday     11.16Noon+  George Lindle, '64
Tuesday     11.174:30 pm+  Mary Henkel, '80
Wednesday     11.189:15 pmFor Student Intentions           
Thursday11.19     4:30pm+  Martin Lyons, '04          
Friday        11.20Noon+  James E. Foley, '62

This Week's Activities Include:
Monday: Music Ministry Rehearsal 6 pm (Chapel); Men and Faith 7 pm (Lower Chapel Conference Room); Brewed Awakening 8 pm (Gathering Space)
Tuesday: Bridge Bible Fellowship 9 pm (Chapel)
Wednesday: Ambrosians for Peace and Justice 8 pm (Lower Chapel); Sacrament of Reconciliation 8:30 pm (Chapel); Mass and More 9:15 pm (Chapel)
Thursday: Women & Faith 8 pm (Gathering Space)

Campus Ministry Offices - Lower Chapel
333-6132 or ministry@sau.edu
Fr. Chuck Adam, Chaplain
Chris Clow, Director of Music and Liturgy
Kaitlin Depuydt, Director of Service and Social Justice
Tammy Norcross-Reitzler, Director of Faith Formation
Tom Prior, Grad Assistant

Prayer Ministry - send intentions to BeesKnees@sau.edu.



COUNTING BLESSINGS--NURTURING THE SOUL
Thanksgiving is an incredibly important holiday. In fact, at St. Ambrose, students are given an entire week free from classes so that they can celebrate Thanksgiving with family and friends. But we can make every day a day of thanksgiving if we learn to be more conscious of the great gift of life, the beauty of creation, and all the blessings that of our lives. Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of “When Bad Things Happen to Good People,”  recommends that we look for holiness in even the little things of life. He writes, "If you concentrate on finding what is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul." It is no coincidence that happy people are so often the ones who are most thankful. Gratitude does nourish the soul. G.K. Chesterton wrote, "Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." Want to be happy? Learn to count your blessings. It might be the most important arithmetic lesson we ever learn. Happy Thanksgiving! Prayers for safe travel and for an enjoyable break. --Fr. Chuck 
                         
•Thanksgiving Break Schedule
Due to Thanksgiving break, there will be no Sunday or daily masses celebrated from Sunday, November 22 through Saturday, November 28.  There is also no 10:30am mass on Sunday, November 29.  Regular mass schedule will resume with 6:30pm mass on Sunday, November 29. From all of us in Campus Ministry, have a safe and blessed thanksgiving!

•If You’re Staying Around Over Thanksgiving
An area family has graciously offered to invite a student to their farm for a home cooked meal and a break from campus.  Please contact us at ministry@sau.edu if you or someone you know cannot go home for the holidays.

•Advent Season Events
Advent begins Sunday, November 29th.  Advent is a season of preparation for Christmas and a reminder to be constantly vigilant “waiting in joyful hope” for the Lord’s coming.  Here are some ways you can celebrate Advent right here at SAU:

→Pick up a copy of A Season of Mercy by David M. Knight.  These Advent reflections will help us to begin the Year of Mercy proclaimed by Pope Francis.   The booklets are available in the Chapel gathering space, at the Rogalski Center Post Office, and in the Health Science Building.

→Participate in Daily Mass at Christ the King Chapel. Monday and Fridays at 12:00 pm. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 4:30pm, and Wednesday at 9:15pm.

→Enjoy a special Lessons and Carols service Friday, December 4 at 7:00pm in the Chapel.  The evening consists of scriptures for the season and music featuring the University Chorale and Chamber Singers.

→Celebrate the Feast of St. Ambrose with us on Sunday, December 6!  The Most Rev. Martin Amos, Bishop of Davenport, will be the presider and homilist for a special liturgy at 10:30am as we celebrate our patron saint.  This mass will feature music led by a combined choir of SAU Chamber Singers and Music Ministry, as well as the presentation of the McMullen Awards.

→Attend the Advent Communal Reconciliation, Monday, December 7 at 7:00pm in Christ the King Chapel.  A short prayer service is followed by the opportunity for individual confession to one of the priests present.

→Commemorate the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Tuesday, December 8,  by celebrating mass at 12 noon or 4:30pm on the holy day of obligation.

→Take time out for a quiet evening of Advent Reflections at the Stable led by IlaMae Hanisch, ‘89 at 8 pm Thursday, December 10th in the Gathering Space.   Refreshments will be provided by Women & Faith.

→Plan to take part in the Student Candlelight Mass preceding Midnight Breakfast on Tuesday Dec. 17 at 9:00pm.  In the chapel, filled with light from candles held by students, we celebrate the mystery, the joy, and the hope Christ’s birth has brought to our world.  All are welcome to each of these events.

•Music for the Feast of St. Ambrose Mass
All SAU students, faculty, and staff are invited to join with Music Ministry and help lead music for the Feast of St. Ambrose Mass on Sunday, December 6 at 10:30am.  Contact Chris Clow at ministry@sau.edu by Monday, November 16 to sign up!  Rehearsals continue on Monday at 7pm in the Chapel.

•Brewed Awakening
Come to the Chapel Gathering Space on Monday, Nov. 16 from 8-9pm for a discussion about The Catholic Messenger, our local diocesan newspaper and provide input into faith topics you’d like to see discussed in it. Barb Arland-Fye, editor and Lindsay Steele, reporter, will lead the discussion. Please sign up at ministry@sau.edu if you’ll attend so we can order enough pizza.  Also, join us on Monday, Nov. 30 for a Brewed about climate change and the environment, and it’ll be led by SAU Greenlife. Bring your friends and come enjoy free coffee specialty drinks.

•Service on Saturday 
Join us for the Kids Against Hunger meal packaging on Dec. 5 to package meals that will feed Syrian refugees in Jordan. It will be held in the morning at the Waterfront Convention Center in Bettendorf. You can sign up at ministry@sau.edu. Reserve your spot today!

•Service Trip Applications are Now Available
Take part in one of the Campus Ministry service trips to Chicago, East St. Louis, Cleveland, Northern Mississippi, or Eastern Kentucky over Winter and Spring breaks.   Applications are available now in the gathering space and lower chapel.  Any questions?  Contact Kaitlin in Campus Ministry at ministry@sau.edu.

•Year of Mercy
Pope Francis has announced an extraordinary jubilee, a Holy Year of Mercy, beginning on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, December 8.  The Diocese of Davenport will be celebrating this jubilee all year long, beginning on Sunday, December 13 at Sacred Heart Cathedral with the opening of the Holy Year Door at 9:00am, and a Communal Penance Liturgy at 3:00pm.  All are welcome at both, and be sure to follow along for events all throughout the Holy Year.

•Saxophone Recital
Senior music major, Josh Hopper, will present his senior recital on Sunday Nov. 15 at 3pm in Madsen Hall of the Galvin Fine Arts Center. Our congratulations and thanks to Josh for his faithfulness to music ministry in Christ the King Chapel.

Thursday, November 5, 2015

11.08.15

Campus Ministry Bulletin
vol 24 no 11

November 8, 2015 - Thirty-Second Sunday of Ordinary Time

+  1 Kings 17:10-16  +  Hebrews 9:24-28  +  Mark 12:38-44  +
Masses this Sunday at 10:30 am and 6:30 pm







Mass Intentions:
Sunday11.810:30 am
6:30 pm         
For the SAU Community                   
Monday     11.9Noon+  Lawrence Hancher, '56
Tuesday     11.104:30 pm+  David Thoensen, '55
Wednesday     11.119:15 pmFor Student Intentions           
Thursday11.12     4:30pm+  Edward Kregor, '57          
Friday        11.13Noon+ Leo Latz, '57

This Week's Activities Include:
Monday: Music Ministry Rehearsal 6 pm (Chapel); Men and Faith 7 pm (Lower Chapel Conference Room); Brewed Awakening 8 pm (Gathering Space)
Tuesday: Bridge Bible Fellowship 9 pm (Chapel)
Wednesday: Ambrosians for Peace and Justice 8 pm (Lower Chapel); Sacrament of Reconciliation 8:30 pm (Chapel); Mass and More 9:15 pm (Chapel)
Thursday: Women & Faith 8 pm (Gathering Space)

Campus Ministry Offices - Lower Chapel
333-6132 or ministry@sau.edu
Fr. Chuck Adam, Chaplain
Chris Clow, Director of Music and Liturgy
Kaitlin Depuydt, Director of Service and Social Justice
Tammy Norcross-Reitzler, Director of Faith Formation
Tom Prior, Grad Assistant

Prayer Ministry - send intentions to BeesKnees@sau.edu.



Ambrosian Values
Last summer when Jon Stewart was about to retire as host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central, a list of some of his sayings and observations found their way around the internet. One “Stewart-ism” that caught my attention said this, “If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values. They're hobbies." It gave me food for thought. It is easy for us to say that we value certain things and then put forth little effort to prove it.  For example, it’s wrong to say that we love everyone, and then act as though some people don’t even exist. We can’t claim to be for peace and justice and then refuse to examine our own lives and change practices that might be hurting others. We are hardly being genuine if we thank God for all that is good but do not responsibly use and care for the gifts of the earth. Are the things we call our values really just hobbies? This Sunday, hundreds of Ambrosians will spread out across our neighborhoods to be of service raking leaves, cleaning gutters, and a host of other projects. It’s a fantastic way to demonstrate our diocesan heritage which means that we value being a part of the local community and contributing to it. It’s a way to live out something we value. Stick to your values. That way they are not just occasional acts of kindness. They are not just hobbies. Ambrosian values become our way of life.  –Fr. Chuck

•Month of All Souls
In the Catholic Tradition the month of November is a time to pray for our deceased loved ones.  All month we keep a candle at the front of the altar with the names of the deceased loved ones of SAU students, faculty, and staff.    If you would like to add the names of your deceased loved ones, you can still fill out a card in the Gathering Space and place it before the altar.  We will remember them all in our prayers at every Mass.

•Men and Faith
A group of SAU male students are meeting Monday’s from 7 - 8 pm for casual study of the bible and discussion of faith. Want to join the group?  It’s made of students from various denominations. For more info and study materials, contact Fr. Chuck Adam @ ministry@sau.edu.

•Welcome Busy Student Retreat Guides
We are pleased to welcome Sr. Bobbi Bussan, OSB;  Sr. Rita Cameron, PBVM; Sr. Kathy Carr, BVM; Sr. Ginny Heldorfer, OSF; Fr. Thom Hennen, and Fr. Adam MacDonald, SVD to campus as spiritual guides for this semester’s Busy Student Retreat.  Over 40 students will be meeting with the spiritual guides this week to reflect on scripture and the movement of God in their lives.   Please keep the directors and students in your prayers this week.

•Service Trip Applications are available!
Service Trips are previewed at 6pm Thursday Nov. 5 in the Ballroom. Information about the Campus Ministry trips to Chicago, East St. Louis, Cleveland, Northern Mississippi, and Eastern Kentucky and Habitat for Humanity trips to North Carolina and Colorado. The trips are over Winter and Spring breaks.   Applications are available now in the gathering space and lower chapel for Campus Ministry trips.  Any questions?  Contact Kaitlin in Campus Ministry at ministry@sau.edu.

•Service on Saturday
We’ll be helping with the RiverBend Food Bank’s backpack program for kids from 8:30-11:30am this Saturday, November 7th.  Let us know by noon on Friday by emailing ministry@sau.edu if you can join us.   Also, next weekend on November 14th, you have an opportunity to help provide housing for homeless veterans at Freedom Home Ministries.  We will be cleaning and painting in two shifts - either 9am-noon or 1pm-4pm.  Reserve your spot today!

•Hunger Week - November 7-13
We have lots going on for Hunger Week, sponsored by Ambrosians for Peace & Justice.  Join us in these activities!
Monday, November 9: During lunch and dinner in the cafeteria, stop by our table to answer some trivia questions to donate through the Free Rice games.  Also at 8pm, the weekly Brewed Awakening topic will focus on advocacy for legislative policies to end hunger.
Wednesday, November 11: The Clothes Out Hunger sale will be held in the lower level of Cosgrove from 10am-4pm.  Everything is $1, and the proceeds go to organizations that work to serve meals to the community.  Raffle tickets for gift cards from local businesses are also available at the sale.
Thursday, November 12:  Stop by the Rogalski Center after 2pm for some baked good from the GreenLife organization - proceeds go to Oxfam to buy animals for developing communities in other countries.  Late night on Thursday, we’re having a Food Justice movie shown in the Beehive at 9:15pm.  Come see the film “Fed Up,” have a healthy snack, and discuss how poverty and food insecurities are connected.  If you are able, bring a canned food item to donate to local organizations in our community!
Friday, November 13:  We’ll be bringing donations of food and clothing from the week to community organizations like Humility of Mary Housing, Cafe on Vine, and Central Community Circle food pantry.

•Brewed Awakening
Want to learn about local efforts to end hunger here and abroad? Come to the Chapel Gathering Space on Monday, Nov. 9 from 8-9pm for a discussion about Hunger Week and ending worldwide hunger. Kent Ferris, the Diocese of Davenport’s Director of Social Action, will join with SAU students to lead the discussion. Bring your friends and come enjoy free coffee specialty drinks.

•Music for the Feast of St. Ambrose Mass
Calling all musical Ambrosians!  All SAU students, faculty, and staff are invited to join with Music Ministry and help lead music for the Feast of St. Ambrose Mass on Sunday, December 6 at 10:30am.  Contact Chris Clow at ministry@sau.edu to sign up!  Rehearsals begin this Monday, November 9, at 7pm in the Chapel.

•Matt Maher Concert 
The "Saints and Sinners Tour" with Matt Maher is coming to Muscatine, Thursday, December 3rd.  Tickets are $22 each.   If you are interested in attending the concert as a group,  bring your money to the campus ministry office by Friday, November 6th.  For more information email ministry@sau.edu

•Interested in Becoming Catholic or being Confirmed?
There is still time.  Contact Tammy Norcross-Reitzler in Campus Ministry at ministry@sau.edu for more information.

•Middle East Institute Lecture
Environmental Justice in the Desert: The Lotan Story. 7:00 pm Tuesday November 10 in the Rogalski Center Ballroom. Alex Cicelsky MSc from the Kibbutz Lotan Center for Creative Ecology.