Campus Ministry Happenings
Feburary 5 - Feburary 12, 2019
This Week in Campus Ministry
Thursday, February 7, 2019, 12:30-1:30pm, Chapel of St. Ignatius
An annual service gathering representatives from a variety of faith backgrounds to pray and reflect on a commitment to peace and non-violence in our world.
Tuesday, February 12, 2018, 6:00pm-8:00pm, Casey Commons
We will be hosting an Interfaith Game Night! Come out to play games with your friends while meeting people of different religious or non-religious traditions. This will be a great chance to hangout with students from different backgrounds, learn more about different faith groups, and having an overall great evening! Dinner will be provided
Deadlines and Reminders
- Register for Winter Search: Join Campus Ministry for the Seattle University Search Retreat, February 22-24! Search is a reflective retreat opportunity for you to explore yourself, your spirituality, and your relationship to others. Search is open to students of all faith and philosophical traditions. Register on ConnectSU by February 6th.
- Register for Rooted: A Retreat for Students of Color: Rooted is a weekend, overnight retreat March 1-3, that invites students of color to explore intersecting identities and cultivate sustainable community. The SOC Retreat is facilitated by SU staff and faculty of color and will include opportunities for personal reflection, story-telling, rest and relaxation, and lots of fun!
Student Leader of the Week
SLOWdowns are featured each Wednesdays on Facebook and Instagram as way of recognize some of the awesome students who make up the Camp Min and Seattle U community. Know someone who you think should be featured on a SLOWdown? Email your nomination to campusministry@seattleu.edu.
Reflecting with Sunday's Scriptures
Each week during the academic year, students and staff write reflections on the week's Scripture readings to be included in the programs distributed at our 11am and 8pm masses at the Chapel of St. Ignatius. We'll be including them here in this newsletter. If you are interested in writing one, contact JoAnn Lopez, Campus Minister for Liturgy.
January 27, 2019: Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Readings)
Reflections by Jonathan Choe
One poignant thing I noticed in college is how vastly one’s identity can change. When we leave our native place deep and profound change is often inevitable. When students return home, for however long it may be, they can often face difficulty with their families when they bring home these developed senses of themselves. Similar to Jesus’ experience in today’s gospel, we can be often be unrecognizable to our old friends and parents.
Personally, I remember my first holiday at home after I began college was particularly difficult, as I had trouble sharing my experiences and articulating how they had changed me. Though each trip home has made this process easier, my life and world view has never quite been the same as before I left.
Amidst all this change and difficulty with finding grounding and expression at home, my one grace throughout my first year of college was going to Mass and being involved with various communities on campus, especially my community of faith. The love and acceptance I felt from this Chapel community made me realize that God can connect the things in our live that seem broken—if we simply let Him do so. The words of our first reading bring me comfort, as God reminds us that he has known us has loved us from the moment we were created, and continues to love and sustain us through every venture we embark on, every difficult decision we make, through all our transformations and every word we speak and hear.
When we encounter difficult trials, let us remember that the love of God, made manifest in so many different ways throughout our lives, is always with us wherever we may be. As we approach the often hectic midpoint of our quarter, how can we seek and embrace the love of God in our lives? How can we share that with others to create a community of love and acceptance for all we encounter? What helps you find connection and sustains you through challenge and transformation?
Around Campus
We will be featuring some cool goings-on around campus down here in our newsletter. Check out these opportunities from our on-campus partners! Do you have a program or opportunity coming up you'd like to see featured here? Email Anna Robertson with your request and a brief blurb!
- Join the Center for Community Engagement and Serve Local for their 4th Annual Winter Wellness Week. All events, focused on themes like healthy relationships, self-care, journaling, and meditation, are free and aim to support any SU students who volunteer. Check out the calendar of events on ConnectSU!
- The Catholic Church is in the midst of a crisis as great as any since the Protestant Reformation. About this there seems to be widespread agreement. However, when it comes to diagnosing that crisis, analyses differ considerably. Is this a crisis of sexual ethics, a failure of episcopal leadership, an abuse of power, or all of the above? Explore these and other questions next Tuesday night at 7pm with Dr. Richard Gaillardetz, Professor of Catholic Systematic Theology at Boston College, at A Church in Crisis: How Did We Get Here? How Do We Move Forward?. Learn more about this event, sponsored by the Institute of Catholic Thought and Culture, on the event page.
This photo was taken by student Ali Alderman (@_alialderman). Have a photo of something beautiful you would like to share in Campus Ministry Happenings? Tag @sucampusministry on Instagram or submit it to campusministry@seattleu.edu.