A Great Start
 We were once again very pleased to have a big crowd for our first Mass & More of the year, as over 130 students packed the Grotto on Wednesday night! The weather was perfect and the ice cream sundaes afterwards didn’t hurt either. As exciting as it was to see such a nice group for Mass & More, we are more excited to see the sustained involvement of our students throughout the year. We know how busy our students can get between classes, sports, clubs, jobs, etc., and yet we feel that some involvement in what campus ministry has to offer -- even if it’s just coming to Mass on Sunday, taking on a liturgical ministry, or volunteering for the occasional Service on Saturday -- is an important part of the Ambrosian experience. Given the choice, I would rather have fifty people each doing one thing in campus ministry than five people doing ten things. If you want to get more involved, click the banner below for our Interest Survey. Of course, in ministry we know that numbers don’t even tell half the story. I am convinced that so much of what we do in ministry bears only that hidden fruit in the depths of human hearts or may only bear visible fruit in years or decades to come. In the Gospel this Sunday, people walk away from Jesus because they cannot accept his teaching -- hardly the picture of “successful ministry.” And yet, Jesus is true to himself and true to his message, and the “proof is in the pudding,” as here we are some two-thousand years later. Fr. Thom. |
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