10.27.13

Campus Ministry Bulletin
vol 22 no 10

October 27, 2013 - Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
+ Sirach 35: 12-13 + 2 Timothy 4: 6-8, 16-18 + Luke 18: 9-14+
Masses this Sunday at 10:30am and 6:30pm






Mass Intentions:

Sunday	10.27	10:30am
Sunday		6:30pm
Monday	10.28	Noon	+Fr. Bill Dawson
Tuesday	10.29	4:30pm	+Patricia Bush
Wednesday	10.30	9:15pm	Student Intentions
Thursday	10.31	4:30pm	Vigil of All Saints
Friday	11.1	Noon	All Saints Day  +Joe Winter

This Week's Activities Include:
Monday: Music Ministry 6pm (Chapel)/College Bible Study 9pm (Gathering Space)
Tuesday: Bridge Bible Fellowship 9pm (Gathering Space)
Wednesday: Ambrosians for Peace and Justice 8pm (Lower Chapel)/Mass and More 9:15pm (Grotto/Chapel)

The Sacrament of Reconciliation (confession) is celebrated Wednesday from 8:30-9pm in the Reconciliation Room in the Chapel and by appointment.

WHAT GOOD IS A VISION WITHOUT FAITH?
We need visionary leaders. They help us see more clearly where we are going.  But for institutions founded on a religious conviction, vision alone is not enough. Vision helps us see, but faith sets a vision in motion.  But don’t misunderstand faith. It’s too easily written off by well-meaning people as simply a pious muttering of devotions, a memorizing of ancient formulas, or a performance of nice deeds.  If it is to guide our vision, faith has to be much more than that. The Christian tradition holds up this Friday, November 1 as the Feast of All Saints, a day to honor people of faith from every generation.  Those of us who have been around St. Ambrose a long time would do well this All Saints Day to call to mind those from our collective history who were visionary about the potential they saw in students, and who with faith conviction and intellectual excellence, drew that good out of them.  Let’s remember our own prophets of social justice and peace who realized that our patron Ambrose of Milan was not merely a contributor of good works, but a bold man of faith who combated heresies with honey-tongued oration, was a Doctor of the doctrine of the Catholic Church, and who allowed his deep faith to inform his care for the poor.  And we recall the genuinely holy men and women whose spiritual lives helped envision St. Ambrose as a place that moved students to listen to the voice of God in the depth of souls and who by their example, inspired within students the courage to respond to that voice.  I mention no names here, but those who fell under their influence include them in our personal litany of saints.  Their memory is dear to those of us who were their students, inspired by their vision, set in motion by their faith.  Saints of St. Ambrose University.  Pray for us!     ---Fr. Chuck

•Holy Day This Week - The Solemnity of All Saints, a holy day of obligation for Catholics. The vigil mass will be celebrate Thursday Oct. 31 at 4:30 pm and Mass on Friday Nov. 1 will be celebrated at 12:00 noon.

•Remembering Our Deceased Loved Ones--In the Catholic Tradition November is the month of All Souls. We invite all Ambrosians to acknowledge your deceased loved ones by writing names on cards which will be available in the Gathering Space. Please drop the filled out cards in the basket provided in the Gathering Space and they will be placed before the altar and remembered at all of our masses throughout the month of November.

•Service Trips: Are you interested in a Winter or Spring Break Service Trip? It’s not too early to start thinking about Winter and Spring Break.  We have a couple new options for service trips this year.  If you want to know more, stop by our table and display after the Masses in Christ the King Chapel next Sunday, Oct. 27th and/or a table in the Cosgrove Cafeteria on Monday, Oct.  28th to get information about service trips available for this year.

•National Catholic Collegiate Conference - Nov 21 - 23
Come with us to Indianapolis!  Meet up with college students from all over the country for three days of inspiring keynotes, engaging workshops, dynamic prayer and worship, exceptional music and entertainment, and gain a deeper awareness of what it means to be a Catholic young adult today.  Campus ministry is organizing a group to go, so email ministry@sau.edu to learn more.  Plus, check out the NCCC website at www.ntlccc.org/.

•Music for the Feast of St. Ambrose Mass
Rehearsals start this Monday at 7pm in the Chapel for music for the Feast of St. Ambrose Mass.  All SAU students, faculty, and staff are invited to join with Music Ministry and Chamber Singers to help out with music for this special liturgy on Sunday, December 1 at 6:30pm.  If you are interested, please contact Chris Clow at ministry@sau.edu to learn more!

•Brewed Awakening Monday Oct. 28: “It Doesn’t Happen Here, Right?” - Come discuss the causes of poverty and homelessness & how these issues affect our community from leaders at the local Humility of Mary Shelter. Join us for good coffee and great discussion! Meet in the Chapel Gathering Space at 8:00pm.

•International Religious Freedom Day/Interfaith Council 
October 27th is International Religious Freedom Day! Please join Interfaith Council for a discussion on Tuesday, October 29th at 2:30 P.M. in the Chapel Gathering Space to talk about the meaning, importance, and enactment of religious freedom in various countries and how that relates to our individual faiths. Contact Kristin Upah at UpahKristinR@sau.edu with any questions.

•BEE the Difference Day November 3
The annual day of service to those who live in the SAU neighborhood will be on Sunday November 3 from 1:00 - 5:00pm.  Sign-up as an individual, or as a team of 6 of your friends to help out the community in the spirit of the Diocesan heritage of St. Ambrose University. Contact Brady Curran, curranbradyr@sau.edu or Kelly Bush, bushkellya@sau.edu.

•Project Renewal Halloween Family Fun Night: On Thursday October 31, from 3 - 5:30pm, several clubs on campus are sponsoring Halloween themed games for the family of children at Project Renewal.  If you as an individual or your club wants to participate, contact Kelly Bush at bushkellya@sau.edu.

•Respect Life Workshop: The Dioceses of Davenport Respect Life Coordinator Jeanne Wonio, invites all Respect Life Representatives and interested people to a workshop and informational session on life issues. Nov. 16, St. Paul the Apostle Church, Davenport. Please contact ministry@sau.edu or go to: http://davenportdiocese.org/socialaction/socialactionlibrary/Respect%20Life%20Worshop%20Rev.%2011-16-2013.pdf

•Service on Saturday:  Spots are available for service on Nov. 2 from 9am-noon to maintain the prairie @ Nahant Marsh;  Nov. 9 from 8am-2pm for holiday decorating @ CASI;  &  Nov. 23 from 2pm-4pm for visiting the Kahl Home. Please contact Koniuszykaitlync@sau.edu or sign up on the bulletin board in the Lower Chapel if you’re interested!

•RCIA/Sacramental Preparation: The next session for those interested in becoming Catholic, receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation, or just wanting to learn more about the church, will be on Sunday October 27, following the 10:30 am mass. There is still time to join.  Contact Sheila Deluhery, deluherysheilam@sau.edu.

10.20.13

Campus Ministry Bulletin
vol 22 no 9

October 20, 2013 - Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
+ Exodus 17:8-13 + 2 Timothy 3:14-4:2 + Luke 18:1-8 +
Masses this Sunday at 10:30am and 6:30pm






Mass Intentions:

Sunday	10.20	10:30am	Dr. Richard and Judith Woods (50th Anniversary)
Sunday		6:30pm
Monday	10.21	Noon	+Martin E. Lamarr
Tuesday	10.22	4:30pm	+Edward O'Donnell
Wednesday	10.23	9:15pm	Student Intentions
Thursday	10.24	4:30pm	+Bethani Werner
Friday	10.25	Noon	+Dennis Jerome Murphy

This Week's Activities Include:
Monday: Music Ministry 6pm (Chapel)/College Bible Study 9pm (Gathering Space)
Tuesday: Bridge Bible Fellowship 9pm (Gathering Space)
Wednesday: Ambrosians for Peace and Justice 8pm (Lower Chapel)/Mass and More 9:15pm (Grotto/Chapel)
Friday: Benefit Concert in R.C. Ballroom 7pm

The Sacrament of Reconciliation (confession) is celebrated Wednesday from 8:30-9pm in the Reconciliation Room in the Chapel and by appointment.

Joy in Being our Spiritual Selves
One of the blessings of working in Campus Ministry is the unique vantage point we so often have to witness how actively students pay attention to their spiritual lives.  This weekend, for example, some 50 or so students will take part in the Fall semester’s Antioch retreat, reflecting on their spiritual lives in the context of Christian community. Knowing the importance of one is no small matter. To discover one’s spiritual life is equivalent to discovering one’s true self. The great scientist and theologian, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ, once said, “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.”  To know that we are spiritual beings, means that we find our truest selves not when we are  grasping after money, possessions, fame or fortune, but when we are offering more of ourselves to others.  To be a spiritual being means that we pay less attention to the rat-race of life and more attention to the glory of the present and to those with whom we share the present moments.  And when we remember that we are spiritual creations of a loving God, we find ourselves able to let-go of the negativity that too often surrounds us and begin serve God in the way we were created to do.  Thank God for making us spiritual beings.  It allows us to enjoy the goodness of being human.   ---Fr. Chuck

•Benefit Concert for Student Emergency Fund
This Friday (October 25) at 7:00 pm, join in the Rogalski Center Ballroom, Quad City native Denny "Red" Gallagher, Lorraine Gallagher, and special musical guests: Pat Frese and SAU's Rev. Brian Miclot and Sheila Deluhery will perform a concert Fundraiser to benefit the Student Emergency Fund.  Gallagher has opened for B.B. King, the Oakridge Boys and Three Dog Night and together with Pat Frese and our own Fr. Miclot and Sheila Deluhery, once performed under the name “Sheila and Her Four of a Kind.” Cost is $ 10 for adults and $ 20 for families.

•RCIA/Sacramental Preparation
The next session for those interested in becoming Catholic, receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation, or just wanting to learn more about the church, will be on Sunday October 27, following the 10:30 am mass. There is still time to join.  Contact Sheila Deluhery, deluherysheilam@sau.edu.

•College Bible Study
College Bible Study is a group of college students who meets to reflect, study,  and pray with the scriptures for the upcoming Sunday. So often the given scriptures speak to exactly what’s happening in our lives at this time. Please join us Monday at 9:00 pm in the lower Chapel conference room.

•Brewed Awakening
On Wednesday Oct. 23rd, the Brewed Awakening Topic will be “Finding Relief in the Quad Cities.” Come discuss issues surrounding culture, assimilation, and living as a refugee with someone who sought refuge in the Quad Cities & with World Relief. Join us for good coffee and great discussion! Brewed joins with Ambrosians for Peace and Justice, so we’ll meet in the Lower Chapel at 8pm on Wednesday.

•Service on Saturday
Are you interested in service opportunities in our local community? There are still spots available for service on Oct. 26 from 2pm-4pm for visiting ministry @ the Kahl Home, Nov. 2 from 9am-noon to maintain the prairie @ Nahant Marsh, & Nov. 9 from 8am-2pm for holiday decorating @ CASI. Please contact Koniuszykaitlync@sau.edu in campus ministry or sign up on the bulletin board in the Lower Chapel if you’re interested!

•Service Trips
Are you interested in a Winter or Spring Break Service Trip? It’s not too early to start thinking about Winter and Spring Break.  We have a couple new options for service trips this year.  If you want to know more, stop by our table and display after the Masses in Christ the King Chapel next Sunday, October 27th and/or a table in the Cosgrove Cafeteria on Monday, October 28th to get information about service trips available for this year!

•National Catholic Collegiate Conference - Nov 21 - 23
Come with us to Indianapolis!  Meet up with college students from all over the country for three days of inspiring keynotes, engaging workshops, dynamic prayer and worship, exceptional music and entertainment, and gain a deeper awareness of what it means to be a Catholic young adult today.  Campus ministry is organizing a group to go, so email ministry@sau.edu to learn more.  Plus, check out the NCCC website at www.ntlccc.org/.

•Music for the Feast of St. Ambrose Mass
Calling all musical Ambrosians!  On Sunday, December 1st at 6:30pm we will celebrate mass for the Feast of St. Ambrose, our patron saint, and all SAU students, faculty, and staff are invited to join Music Ministry in leading music for the liturgy!  Practices will start on Monday, October 28 at 7:00pm in the Chapel.  Come to the rehearsal, or email Chris Clow at ministry@sau.edu to get involved!

•Clothes Out Hunger THANK YOU
Congratulations to member of Ambrosians for Peace and Justice who worked so hard on the Clothes-Out Hunger project.  It netted $ 500 which will go toward Kids Against Hunger meals in the Quad Cities. Also great job to the students who walked in the CROP Walk to end hunger and to the 12 students who took part in the “Sleep Out” at Modern Woodman Park to bring awareness to homelessness in the QCA.

•Project Renewal Halloween Family Fun Night
On Thursday October 31, from 3 - 5:30pm, several clubs on campus are sponsoring Halloween themed games for the family of children at Project Renewal.  If you as an individual or your club wants to participate, contact Kelly Bush at bushkellya@sau.edu.

•BEE the Difference Day November 3
The annual day of service to those who live in the SAU neighborhood will be on Sunday November 3 from 1:00 - 5:00pm.  Sign-up as an individual, or as a team of 6 of your friends to help out the community in the spirit of the Diocesan heritage of St. Ambrose University. Contact Brady Curran, curranbradyr@sau.edu or Kelly Bush, bushkellya@sau.edu.

10.6.13 and 10.13.13

Campus Ministry Bulletin
vol 22 no 8

October 6, 2013 - Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
+ Habbuk 1:2-3, 2:2-4 + 2 Timothy 1:6-9, 13-14 + Luke 17:5-10 +
Masses this Sunday at 10:30am and 6:30pm

October 13, 2013 - Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
+ 2 Kings 5:14-17 + 2 Timothy 2:8-13 + Luke 17:11-19 +
Mass this Sunday at 6:30pm only
No 10:30am mass due to mid term break


Mass Intentions:

Sunday	10.6 10.13	10:30am NO 10:30am
Sunday		6:30pm 6:30pm
Monday	10.7 10.14	Noon	+Michael Feeney Acad '54 +Richard Dekeyper Acad '48
Tuesday	10.8 10.15	4:30pm	+Sr. Phyllis McMurray, OSB +Bernard J. Hank
Wednesday	10.9 10.16	9:15pm	Student Intentions
Thursday	10.10 10.17	4:30pm	+Adrienne Striegel Corsiglia/Mike Orfitelli
Friday	10.11 10.18	Noon	+Charles Vanek SAC +Dennis Jerome Murphy

This Week's Activities Include:
Monday: Music Ministry 6pm (Chapel)/College Bible Study 9pm (Gathering Space)
Tuesday: Bridge Bible Fellowship 9pm (Gathering Space)
Wednesday: Ambrosians for Peace and Justice 8pm (Lower Chapel)/Mass and More 9:15pm (Grotto/Chapel)

The Sacrament of Reconciliation (confession) is celebrated Wednesday from 8:30-9pm in the Reconciliation Room in the Chapel and by appointment.


The Joke is on You
I was pleased to hear hat the SAU theater department had chosen SPAMALOT for its annual musical.  I understand that not everyone enjoys the kind of satirical, silly, and sometime dark humor of the British comedy troupe that created Monty Python’s Flying Circus. But for me, growing up in an age before Sesame Street and Mister Rogers, I thought that PBS was Monty Python’s channel. I still laugh when I think of skits like, “the Lumberjack Man,” “And Now for Something Completely Different,” and the extremely irreverent Python movie, “The Life of Brian.” Yes, irreverent, but not necessarily offensive. After all if we don’t learn to laugh, even at ourselves, we condemn ourselves to an existence that’s just not a lot of fun and not very life affirming. It’s especially true that in an academic culture we can sometimes take ourselves much too seriously. It’s a sign of maturity when we can laugh and let ourselves off the hook for our human imperfections. I agree with Fr. James Martin, the Jesuit priest and author of the book, Between Heaven and Mirth, who claims that a healthy sense of humor and a healthy spirituality go hand-in-hand. “Of course God has a sense of humor,” he would say. “It’s obvious.  Just look into a mirror.” Having experienced some of the great work of our theater department over the years, I really do look forward to Spamalot this weekend. And by laughing, we might even grow spiritually.    ---Fr. Chuck

•Midterm Break Mass Schedule
No daily mass will be held Friday, Oct. 11 and no 10:30 a.m. mass on Sunday, Oct. 13. The regular mass schedule resumes with 6:30 p.m. mass on Sunday, Oct. 13.

•Learning About the Catholic Church/RCIA STARTS TODAY
Campus Ministry offers a program for SAU students, faculty and staff interested in learning more about the Catholic church. Those with an interest in joining or those who have not been confirmed and through the process decide they now want to will be able to complete the Sacraments of Initiation. Please plan to meet this Sunday Oct. 6 after the 10:30 am mass. Contact Sheila Deluhery in Campus Ministry ministry@sau.edu or 333 6132 for more information.

• REGISTRATION for Antioch Retreat  DUE THIS WEEK
Registration forms are available in the Chapel Gathering Space, in the cafeteria, or the Campus Ministry offices for this semester’s Antioch Retreat which will be held from Friday evening October 18 until Sunday October 20 in the early afternoon.  The Antioch Retreat is a great opportunity to spend some time with fellow students away from campus reflecting on your life from the perspective of a non-judgmental Christian community.  It is open to any SAU student, regardless of your religious denomination.   Questions?  Contact Leah Norcross NorcrossLeahL@sau.edu , Scott Timmerman TimmermanScottM@sau.edu , or ministry@sau.edu. Space is limited so get your registration to Campus Ministry by October 9.

•Interfaith Council
Interfaith Council will have a faith sharing discussion in the Lower Chapel Conference room at 4:00 P.M. on Thursday, October 10th. Students will be bringing ethnic food to share. People of all religious and non-religious traditions are welcome!

•Brewed Awakening 
Oct. 14: “Justice Behind Bars.” Come discuss Justice in the Prison System with a SAU Grad Student who was formerly incarcerated.

•Service on Saturday
There are also still spots available for the Fall Break Service Trip to CASI on Oct. 12 from 10am-2pm & Noogiefest at Gilda’s club on Sept. 19 from 4pm-6pm. Please contact Koniuszykaitlync@sau.edu in campus ministry or sign up on the bulletin board in the Lower Chapel.

•NCCC National Catholic Collegiate Conference - Nov 21 - 23
Join other college-age and post-graduate young adults from around the country in Indianapolis for three days of inspiring keynotes, engaging workshops, dynamic prayer and worship, exceptional music and entertainment, and gaining a deeper awareness of what it means to be a Catholic young adult today.  Students who went to NCYC in high school will recognize that NCCC coincidence with that conference. Campus Ministry is looking for students who may be interested in traveling as a group.  Are you interested? Email ministry@sau.edu, and check out www.ntlccc.org/ to learn more!

•Restorative Justice Movie Night - October 9th
Based on a true story, the movie Amish Grace tells the story of an outsider who commits murder in an Amish town, and the road to forgiveness.  The story garnered national media attention because the Amish were able to forgive the offender almost immediately.  Join us at 7:00 p.m. in the Gottlieb Conference  Room for the movie and stay for a discussion facilitated by Kent Ferris, the Director of Social Action for the Diocese of Davenport.

•Clothes Out Hunger
Going home for fall break?  Bring back any clothes you don’t need anymore to donate to the Clothes Out Hunger Drive.  Clothes will be sold and profits benefit the Humility of Mary Food Pantry.  For more information, contact Kelly Bush at bushkellya@sau.edu

•Plans for SPRING BREAK SERVICE TRIP
Interested in going on a service trip for Winter or Spring Break?  Look for a table after the Masses in Christ the King Chapel on Sunday, October 27th and a table in the Cosgrove Cafeteria on Monday, October 28th to get information about the service trips available for this year!

•Have a Prayer Request?
We are grateful to all those who are a part of the Bees Knees prayer ministry.  Each week requests for prayer are received by this group and these prayers are offered to God.  If you’d like us to remember your request, there are two ways to present it: 1) email your request to: beesknees@sau.edu or 2) drop a note in the locked wooden box which is placed at the back of Christ the King Chapel near the statue of St. Francis.