DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY Spiritan Campus Ministry Sunday, January 25 - Saturday, February 7, 2015 AN UNUSUAL PATH OF RADICALISM IN REMEMBRANCE of our Spiritan heritage during so that each group received and Founders Week, it is important to look at our second understood the Gospel in the founder, Venerable Francis Libermann, whose feast day is context of their own traditions. celebrated on Feb. 2. Fr. Libermann’s zeal was so Venerable Francis Libermann had a most remarkable inspiring that when seminarians journey of faith. He was born into an orthodox in France heard of the deaths Jewish family in the Alsace region of France in 1802. of some of the first missionaries Libermann was preparing to become a rabbi like his to West Africa, they lined up father, when his studies led him to the New Testament at his door to volunteer as and to Christianity. He was baptized, Francis Mary Paul, replacements. Surprisingly, Fr. Libermann himself never in 1826, at Christmas. Soon he was studying for the went overseas. Yet he inspired and empowered literally Catholic priesthood, but violent attacks of epilepsy put his thousands of missionaries around the globe. vocation on hold. It was fifteen years before he was finally He exhausted himself in the process of leading his great ordained, in 1841. enterprise, and died on Feb. 2, 1852, before his 50th birthday. Fr. Libermann was a pioneer of strategies now More information on Spiritan Founders and Heritage recognized as a blueprint for modern missionary activity. can be found at www.duq.edu/about/centers-and- He urged the Spiritans to “become one with the people” institutes/spiritan-studies/founders. CHAPEL SCHEDULE RESPONDING TO THE WORD Saturday Vigil Mass THIRD SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME 5:30 p.m. – Sunday, Jan. 25 Sunday Masses, 11 a.m. & 9 p.m. • Jonah 3:1-5,10 6 p.m., Towers multi-purpose room • 1 Corinthians 7:29-31 Monday, 8 p.m. • Mark 1:14-20 Weekly Mass for Peace Monday – Friday,11:30 a.m. FOURTH SUNDAY OF Reconciliation ORDINARY TIME – Sunday, Feb. 1 Daily Masses 7:45 a.m. & Noon • Deuteronomy 18:15-20 • 1 Corinthians 7:32-35 • Matthew 4:16 www.duq.edu/campus-ministry “Act justly, love tenderly and walk humbly with your God.” – Micah 6:8 “SHARE A MEAL, PRAYER SHARE YOUR FAITH!” JOIN US for a revamped format of BIBLE STUDY! Oh Divine Spirit, Bible Study has been moved to the second and fourth I want to be before you like Tuesday of every month at 6 p.m. in the Spiritan a light feather, Campus Ministry Center. We will provide a meal at so that your breath may carry me where it will each meeting, along with fellowship and conversation. and I may not offer the least resistance to it. All are welcome! For more information or to let us know you will attend, please contact Fr. Bill Christy at – Francis Mary Paul Libermann [email protected] or Kate Lecci at [email protected]. ALIVE HAPPY NEW YEAR! We are so excited to announce our inaugural ALIVE Eucharistic adoration event on Monday, Jan. 26, at 8 p.m. in the Duquesne Chapel of the Holy Spirit. Everyone is welcome to join us for mass, Bible Study Meetings a speaker, candlelit adoration and contemporary praise Tuesdays | 6 p.m. and worship. We feel that this monthly event will be a wonderful opportunity to build community on campus, to • Jan. 27 • Mar. 10 • Apr. 7 connect with students from other Pittsburgh universities • Feb. 10 • Mar. 24 • Apr. 21 and to grow in the love of Christ. • Feb. 24 Mass begins at 8 p.m., followed by welcome and witness at 8:30 p.m. and adoration at 9 p.m. Hot chocolate, apple cider and cookies will be served In Bayer Hall after the event. Please join us and invite your friends from other universities in the area to share in this night of praise. Hope to see you there! For more information contact Linda Donovan at [email protected]. SCM ON: TWITTER, It is the Spirit that gives life! – John 6:63 FACEBOOK & INSTAGRAM Want to get the most up to date information on SCM FAIR TRADE IN THE SPRING! events? Interested in working on Fair Trade Awareness events Follow us @SCMduq on Twitter and Instagram to get this spring, but missed the first meeting? Not a problem! instant updates on events and more information on all We are always looking for people to pitch in! If you are that we offer! interested, please contact Kate Lecci at [email protected] If you don’t already, LIKE us on Facebook at Spiritan for more details. Campus Ministry-Duquesne University. Founders Week 2015 Faces ofCOURAGE Saturday, Jan. 31 - Friday, Feb. 6 SATURDAY, JAN. 31 MONDAY, FEB. 2 TUESDAY, FEB. 3 Faces of Courage: Sr. Rosemary Nyirumbe Men’s Basketball Game: Mass for Feast Day of Venerable Stories with the Spiritans 4 p.m. | Africa Room Duquesne Dukes vs. George Francis Libermann Noon | Commuter Lounge Mason University Patriots Noon | Duquesne University 7 p.m. | Living Learning Centers FRIDAY, FEB. 6 7 p.m. | A.J. Palumbo Center Chapel of the Holy Spirit WEDNESDAY, FEB. 4 Vespers and Reception Faces of Courage Lunch 4:30 p.m. | Trinity Hall SUNDAY, FEB. 1 Spiritan Stories: Interview Following Mass | Africa Room RSVP is required* Mass RSVP is required* Edition! 11 a.m. | Duquesne University 8 p.m. Chapel of the Holy Spirit Founders Day Giveaway – Towers LLC Multipurpose Room *Please visit duq.edu/founders- week to make reservations. Brunch Free Ice Cream Sundaes! 1-3 p.m. THURSDAY, FEB. 5 Noon | Africa Room Throughout Founders Week, RSVP is required* Duquesne Union, 3rd Floor Founders Week Luncheon: Living the Mission we encourage you to share Special Founders Week Dinner Noon | Africa Room your Faces of Courage for Resident Students RSVP is required* on social media with 5-7 p.m. #DUQFacesofCourage. Rev. Sean Hogan Dining Center WHAT IS FOUNDERS WEEK? As a Catholic Spiritan University, each year our tradition. Please join the Division of Mission & Identity as community takes the time to celebrate and learn from the we celebrate the many ways in which we are living the founders and great contributors to the Spiritan Congregation University mission as one heart and one spirit. and Charism. Founders Week is dedicated to reflecting on For more information on the Spiritan Founders the history and work of the Spiritans and learning about please visit www.duq.edu/about/centers-and-institutes/ ways the Duquesne community is continuing this rich spiritan-studies/founders. THE FEAST OF ST. BLAISE On Tuesday, Feb. 3, in The following day, the church uses two of these freshly honor of the feast day of St. blessed candles in the blessing of throats.” Blaise, churches will hold Under the reign of Emperor Licinius, the persecution the annual blessing to protect of Christians escalated and Bishop Blaise was forced into people against and heal them from throat ailments. In this exile in the wilderness of his diocese, where he lived as a ceremony, the priest places two blessed candles joined hermit. It was during the trip back to town that the group in the shape of a cross at each person’s throat and says a came across a little boy who was choking to death. St. prayer for their health. Blaise placed his hands on the child and prayed for him. “Use of the candles actually comes from the Feast The fishbone caught in the boy’s throat was dislodged. St. of the Presentation of the Lord on Feb. 2,” said Msgr. Blaise became the patron saint of throats after healing the Lawrence B. McInerny, pastor of Stella Maris Church boy choking on a fishbone. on Sullivan’s Island. “On this day, all the candles in the For more information about St. Blaise, visit church are blessed to commemorate the presentation of www.themiscellany.org/index.php/news/3560-st-blaise. Jesus in the temple, when Simeon called him ‘the light’. What is Spiritan Campus Ministry? Spiritan Campus Ministry Staff Spiritan Campus Ministry is much more than a group of individuals Rev. Daniel Walsh, C.S.Sp., or an agenda of programs or opportunities for service. It is the Spirit Director and University Chaplain of Duquesne University…the Spirit that moves, that leads, that guides. 102 Administration Building SCM serves all students, faculty and staff—whatever their faith— 412.396.6020 • [email protected] by helping them understand and engage the University mission and Spiritan tradition so they can share it with each other, their Mary Beth Calorie, Administrative Assistant communities and the world beyond. 102 Administration Building Pastoral Care- Spiritan campus ministers are trained professionals, 412.396.6020 • [email protected] lay and ordained, men and women, who are available to serve the needs of Duquesne students, faculty and staff, especially on issues Rev. Bill Christy, C.S.Sp., Assistant Director of faith, relationships and life’s struggles. 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