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Preparing university students for a life of St. Philip Neri faith and leadership in the Catholic Church CATHOLIC NEWMAN CENTER and service to the world. 31st Week of Ordinary Time – Year A Liturgy of the Hours – Week 3 November 2-9, 2014 ! Fireside Chat THIS WEEK ! Mon Nov 3 Morning Prayer – 8:30a Tuesday, November 4 - 7p ! Mass – 12:05p God shows himself through his creation and ! Evening Prayer – 5p nature reflects his goodness. Learn more ! RCIA – 7p about Catholicism’s teaching on ! face2Face – 9-10p environmental stewardship at this month’s ! ! Fireside Chat. The chat is sure to be great, Tue Nov 4 St. Charles Borromeo but just in case you need extra incentive, ! Morning Prayer – 9a there will be brownies. ! Free Lunch – 11:30a-1p ! Evening Prayer – 5p face2Face ! Mass – 5:15p Fireside Chat – 7p Monday, November 3 - 9-10p ! Brainstorm – 9p Experience Christ wholly and truly ! present in the exposed Eucharist, praise ! ! Wed Nov 5 Morning Prayer – 8:30a Him through song, and take advantage Evening Prayer – 5p of the opportunity for Confession at our ! Choir Practice – 8p next face2Face. Come for a few ! Rosary – 9p minutes or stay the whole hour. ! ! !Mass – 9:30p, followed by ice cream Thursday Funday: Corn Maze Thu Nov 6 Morning Prayer – 9a Thursday, November 6 - 7p carpool ! Evening Prayer – 5p Mass – 5:15p Get off campus for an evening and go ! Thursday Funday: Corn Maze – 7p carpool exploring with friends in Tulsa’s corn maze. It ! Adoration – 9p-12n Friday may be chilly outside that night, so bring a ! sweater and be ready to wander. We’ll ! ! Fri Nov 7 Pro-Life Rosary – 7:15a carpool carpool from Newman; bring $8 for Morning Prayer – 8:30a admission. ! ! Mass – 12:05p ! Evening Prayer – 5p Thanksgiving Shindig ! ! Thursday, November 20 - 6p Sun Nov 9 Dedication of the Lateran Basilica Before we all scatter for a well-deserved ! Confession – 9:45-10:45a week of rest and relaxation over ! Mass – 11a Thanksgiving break, gather together for ! Confession – 3:45-4:45p a Thanksgiving dinner of our own, then ! Mass – 5p continue the evening with our talent ! Sunday Dinner – 6p show. Turkey is provided but we need ! Catechesis – 6:45p volunteers to bring all the fixings, so ! ! sign up on the chalkboard. Plus, if you ! ! have a talent to show off, sign up to ! ! demonstrate it. ! ! ! ! Canned Food Drive SAVE THE DATE! ! All Through November Thu Nov 13 Faith and Food Everyone loves free food, but those in need ! ! especially benefit from food banks during the Thu Nov 20 Thanksgiving Shindig cold and holiday seasons. All through ! ! November, we’re collecting non-perishable Nov 22-29 Thanksgiving Break – NO EVENTS food donations for Catholic Charities. Our ! Events resume with 5p Mass on Nov 30 goal is 300 pounds total, and if we reach it, ! ! there may be some entertaining results. Fri Dec 5 Broomball vs. CYA Everyone is encouraged to contribute and ! ! pres scholars: this is your time to shine. Sat Dec 13 Christmas Party Text follow tu_catholic to 40404 @TU_Catholic www.facebook.com/utulsaCatholic www.tu-newman.org MEME OF THE WEEK Faith and Food Thursday, November 13 - 6p at SAC Christ calls us to love our neighbor as ourselves; come to Faith and Food this month to hear the Executive Director of Catholic Charities Tulsa, Deacon Kevin Sartorius, speak about the role of charity in a Christian life. Bring your friends and stay for dinner. Monastic Moment November 14-15 - 6p-6p Have you ever considered religious life? If you’re a woman, consider signing up for St. Joseph Monastery’s Monastic Moment, a 24- hour retreat with the sisters of the monastery at their home just a mile and a half away from campus (basically, it’s the world’s shortest-distance nun run). Sign up at the chalkboard; visit stjosephmonastery.org for more details. Are you a BA (blind apostle)?! Pope Declares There is No Conflict Between Big Bang, Evolution and ! The Catholic Faith... In 1951 by Ryan Scheel ! The secular media has grasped on to a recent speech that the Holy it perceives and recognizes the work of creative omnipotence, whose power, Father Pope Francis gave to the Pontifical Academy of the Sciences. In the set in motion by the mighty “Fiat” pronounced billions of years ago by the speech which was given on the occasion of the unveiling of a bust of his Creating Spirit, spread out over the universe, calling into existence with a predecessor, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Pope Francis gave remarks gesture of generous love matter busting with energy. In fact, it would seem concerning the theories of Evolution and The Big Bang. that present-day science, with one sweeping step back across millions of “The Big Bang, which nowadays is posited as the origin of the world, centuries, has succeeded in bearing witness to that primordial “Fiat lux” does not contradict the divine act of creating, but rather requires it. The uttered at the moment when, along with matter, there burst forth from evolution of nature does not contrast with the notion of Creation, as nothing a sea of light and radiation, while the particles of chemical elements evolution presupposes the creation of beings that evolve” the Pope Said. split and formed into millions of galaxies.” In the typical fashion that we have gotten accustomed to, the media Just a year earlier, in his encyclical “Humani Generis“, Venerable Pius has presented this as novel approach for a Pontiff, a new direction, a break XII wrote concerning the theory of Evolution from his unenlightened, firmly planted in the dark ages, predecessors on the “For these reasons the Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid Chair of St. Peter. It is presented as though past Catholic teaching was that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred similar to American Fundamentalism, and it’s scientifically awkward defense theology, research and discussions, on the part of men experienced in both of “Young Earth” creationism. fields, take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it But this is simply not the case.The Church and the Popes have long inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and been patrons of the sciences, from the earliest developments of the living matter — for the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are scientific method by Roger Bacon, OFM, a Franciscan Friar to Monseigneur immediately created by God. However this must be done in such a way that Georges Lemaître, the Belgian Priest/Astrophysicist/Cosmologist who the reasons for both opinions, that is, those favorable and those unfavorable developed the theory of the Big Bang. To assert that Pope Francis’ remarks to evolution, be weighed and judged with the necessary seriousness, on these scientific theories is novel is simply a gross, and likely wanton, moderation and measure, and provided that all are prepared to submit to the inaccuracy. judgment of the Church, to whom Christ has given the mission of In fact, Pope Francis’ venerable predecessor, Pius XII gave an address interpreting authentically the Sacred Scriptures and of defending the dogmas to the very same body to which Francis gave his remarks, stating that there of faithful[11] Some however rashly transgress this liberty of discussion, was NO conflict between Evolution, the Big Bang and the Catholic Faith… in when they act as if the origin of the human body from preexisting and living 1951 matter were already completely certain and proved by the facts which have The speech, given on November 22, 1951, was titled “The Proofs For been discovered up to now and by reasoning on those facts, and as if there The Existence Of God In The Light Of Modern Natural Science“. In this were nothing in the sources of divine revelation which demands the greatest speech, Pius XII gives a graceful and learned spiritual grounding to the, at moderation and caution in this question.” the time, new theory of the “Expanding Universe”. Subsequent Popes, particularly Saint John Paul II and Pope Emeritus “True science discovers God in an ever-increasing degree—as though Benedict XVI, have made similarly statements about the harmony between God were waiting behind every door opened by science.” “It is undeniable true religion and true faith. So when the media presents Pope Francis’ recent that when a mind enlightened and enriched with modern scientific statements as a novelty that changes Catholic teachings or breaks with past knowledge weighs this problem calmly, it feels drawn to break through the Popes, do not put stock in it and remember the long standing patronage and circle of completely independent or autochthonous matter, whether acceptance of science by the Bride of Christ. uncreated or self-created, and to ascend to a creating Spirit. With the same Fides Et Ratio [Faith and Reason]! clear and critical look with which it examines and passes judgment on facts, http://www.ucatholic.com/blog/pius-xii-1951/ 918.599.0204 440 S Florence Ave, Tulsa OK 74104 www.tu-newman.org [email protected].