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25th Week of Ordinary Time – Year C Liturgy of Hours – Week 1 September 22-28

THIS WEEK Shrine and Dine Mon Sep 23 Morning Prayer – 8:30a Friday, September 27 – 2:30p carpool Mass – 12:05p Get off of campus for the afternoon, see Evening Prayer – 5p beautiful sacred architecture, and chow Men’s Flag Football – 9:30p down on awesome Italian food. Our first No Adoration or Confession Shrine and Dine trip is this week and space is limited, so sign up pronto. Transportation Tue Sep 24 Morning Prayer – 9a included but bring $10-15 for dinner Free Lunch – 11:30a-1p (deliciousness guaranteed). Questions? Evening Prayer – 5p Email [email protected] Mass – 5:15p Brainstorm – 9p

40 Days for Life Kickoff Wed Sep 25 Morning Prayer – 8:30a Wednesday, September 25 – 5:30p Evening Prayer – 5p Join the Diocese of Tulsa, area 40 Days for Life Kickoff – 5:30p carpool churches, speakers, and musicians in RCIA – 7p beginning this year’s 960-hour peaceful Choir Rehearsal – 8p prayer vigil to end abortion. Nope, that’s Rosary – 9p Mass – 9:30p not a typo. Newman will be covering at least 12 of those hours, so check back Thu Sep 26 Morning Prayer – 9a soon for details. Evening Prayer – 5p Mass – 5:15p Float Trip Fri Sep 27 Rosary at Garden of Hope – 7:15a carpool Saturday, September 28 – 8a Morning Prayer – 8:30a Continue a Newman tradition and have a lot Adoration – 9-10a of fun at the same time during our yearly Mass – 12:05p float trip down the Illinois River. The day Shrine and Dine – 2:30p carpool starts with Mass and make-your-own- Evening Prayer – 5p sandwiches before bussing it to Tahlequah. Movie Night – 8p Spots are still open and it’s free for freshmen (upperclassmen bring $20). Email ariana- Sat Sep 28 Float Trip – 8a hernandez @utulsa.edu to sign up. Sun Sep 29 Confession – 9:45-10:45a Mass – 11a Movie Night Confession – 3:45-4:45p Friday, September 27 – 8p Mass – 5p Spend your Friday evening watching a Student Supper – 6p thought-provoking movie, follow it with Sunday Catechesis – 6:45p discussion, and enjoy homemade baked goodies. This Friday’s flick: The SAVE THE DATE Shawshank Redemption, a movie about Sep 30-Oct 4 Barefoot For Babies solace, redemption, and decency. Oct 1-2 40 Days for Life Prayer Coverage – 6p-6a Flag Football Fri Oct 4 Women’s Group Sleepover Monday, September 23 – 9:30p

Cheer Newman to victory! The co-rec team Sat Oct 5 Keystone Lake Campfire – 7p carpool has the week off but the men will be taking on the Fightin’ Presbys during flag football at Fri Oct 11 Swing Dance Lesson – 8:30p the Intramural Field on Monday night. Fri Oct 25 Fall Dance – 7p

Text follow tu_catholic to 40404 www.facebook.com/utulsaCatholic www.tu-newman.org Are you a BA (blind apostle)? TU Catholic Facebook Page "Our Catholic Faith should not be a blind unreasoning thing, but Updates right in your News Feed something based on a firm foundation of reasoning." -BCCp236 Confused about the various Newman Wait...what did the Pope say? Facebook groups and pages? Yeah, we A new and extensive interview with Pope Francis is making know. That’s why we’re simplifying headlines around the world. things with our new page dedicated to [...] Did the Pope really characterize the Church’s teachings on abortion, homosexuality and contraception as “small- current events and day-to-day updates. minded rules” that the Church should get beyond? We need your help to spread the word, That’s what you’d think by scanning the headlines, but the short answer is that the Pope said no such thing. Once again, though, so visit www.facebook.com/ this was a case of the secular press hyperventilating and taking utulsaCatholic, click like, and tell your the Pope’s remarks out of context. friends to join the same. Some in the mainstream media may have even sensed this, for The New York Times quietly changed its dramatic headline to a more moderate one: “Pope, Criticizing Narrow Focus, Swing Dance Lesson Calls for Church as ‘Home for All.’” At the center of the media maelstrom was a 12,000-word Friday, October 11 – 8:30p interview with Francis arranged by several Jesuit publications around the world [...] Our first swing dance lesson of the year was [Pope Francis] has quite a number of very interesting things such a hit, we’re doing it again! Our fabulous to say in the interview, but, here, let’s look at the passage that instructor is coming back to review and grabbed the most press attention — the one that involved abortion, homosexuality and contraception. teach a few more ways to show off on the This discussion is found in a section where Pope Francis dance floor. Don’t worry if you couldn’t was asked what he thinks the Church most needs at this make it last time; come anyway! No partner moment in history. needed. He responded by saying that what the Church most needs now is the ability to heal wounds, comparing it to a field hospital after a battle. In such a situation, he said, seriously Barefoot For Babies injured patients should not be asked about their cholesterol or blood sugar. Their urgent wounds need to be healed, and then September 30-October 4 the lesser matters can be discussed. Raise awareness of the pro-life He then elaborated on an approach that has been apparent in his ministry as pope, stating that the most important thing movement through a subtle yet strong that the Church needs to communicate is salvation through message: going without shoes in Jesus Christ. This proclamation of Jesus Christ is the Church’s central message, and people must not lose sight of it. memory of those who will never be able It is the message of Jesus, the Holy Father said, that to leave their footprints on the world. Do “fascinates and attracts more, what makes the heart burn, as it it for a day or the whole week to make a did for the disciples at Emmaus.” After people have responded to this message, after they quiet statement. have begun to draw closer to Christ, the issues of how we must reform our lives must be discussed. “It is from this proposition [of salvation in Christ] that the moral consequences Keystone Lake Campfire then flow,” the Pope said. These moral consequences include the Church’s teaching Saturday, October 5 – 7:30p carpool on abortion, homosexuality and contraception. Pope Francis Wear blue and cheer for TU at the Rice game accepts the Church’s teachings and said that they need to be that afternoon then carpool to the lake for a discussed in context of the larger message of salvation through Christ. laid back evening. Guitarists and ukelele-ists, bring your instruments. Everyone else, bring Read more at http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/pope-francis- focuses-on-the-bigger-picture-with-new-interview/#ixzz2fSgTWwWf your voice.

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