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Supporting Our Veterans

1/29/2017

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​Dear Newman Community,
 
Our student leaders have been working in earnest over the last  couple of weeks to get Campus Ministry things going. While the large majority are events for students by students, we are excited to share about an opportunity for the entire parish to get involved!
 
The first is with our Care Packages for Veterans initiative. Last semester students cleaned the yards of parishioners for a donation. This semester students will be using the donations to purchase items for care packages to send to our parishioners who are currently in the military, serving in active zones. This is where you come in! Do you have a family member who is serving in an active zone? Let us know so we can send them a care package. Students will be available after all the Masses this weekend to take your information or you can email me at mona@stalbertnewmancenter.org.
 
Students will be gathering for our monthly Service Saturday on    February 11th to pack and prepare the care packages for shipping. Please join me in keeping the students, this initiative, all veterans and current members of the military, their families and friends, and all impacted by conflicts around the world in your prayers.
 
Peace,
Mona
 

Prayer for Those Who Await a Soldier's Return
God of all goodness,
Look with love on those who wait
for the safe return of their loved ones
who serve in the armed forces
of their country. In faith and hope,
we turn to you for comfort.
Grant that we may trust in your mercy
and send an angel to sustain us as we await their safe return.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Amen.

Prayer for Refugees & Victims of War
Lord God, no one is a stranger to you
and no one is ever far from your loving care.
In your kindness, watch over refugees and
victims of war, those separated from their loved ones, young people who are lost,
and those who have left home or
who have run away from home.
Bring them back safely to the place where they long to be and help us always to show your kindness to strangers and to all in need. Grant this through Christ our Lord.
Amen.

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welcome Back!

1/22/2017

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Greetings!

As of Wednesday, the Spring Semester is off and running! I extend a heartfelt, Newman ‘welcome back’ to student, faculty and staff. I trust you all enjoyed the time away from the regular routine of classes, assignments and paper grading and are all rarin’ to go for a new semester of learning and teaching. We are eagerly anticipating another busy semester in Campus Ministry, so keep your eyes peeled for invitations to a variety of events! Here are a few upcoming events:
♦ Lunch Bunch continues to serve a great meal at a budget friendly price. Lunch is served on the daily from 11am 1pm.
♦ Mass on Campus will start up on Tuesday, January 24. Mass is celebrated at 12:10p at the Spiritual Center on campus.
♦ Mid week Mass and Dinner starts up on Wednesday, January 25th. Mass is at 5:30, meal is served after Mass.

Oh, and just a early reminder, Ash Wednesday is on March 1...the Lenten season is around the corner!

Peace,
​Sal 
Prayer for the New Semester
Lord, as we prepare for the coming of a new semester, make us ready, attentive and available to hear you. Thank You for the gift of being able to rise each day with the assurance that You walk through it with us. Thank You for the gifts of creativity and uniqueness, and the energy to put them to good use. May all that we are today, all that we try to do today, may all our encounters, reflections, even the frustrations and failings all be placed in your hands. May the work we do and the way we do it, bring new hope, new life, and courage to all we come in contact with this semester. We thank you, Lord.
Amen.
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A Beginner's Mind

1/15/2017

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Dear Newman Community,

If you’re like me, we’re only a couple weeks into 2017 and already I feel the “Happy New Year!” glimmer starting to fade. This weekend students are returning to campus for the spring semester. Soon they’ll be busy with syllabi, then reading assignments, then tests. Soon we’ll be busy at Newman with programs and events Mass on Campus, Midweek Mass and Dinner, etc. Business as usual. Or is it?

While I can feel all this barreling at me like a fast moving truck, a deeper seated part of me says, Wait! Enjoy the newness! Isn’t this spirit of the new and unexpected what we’ve just celebrated with the birth of Christ? Isn’t this sense of seeking what we’ve recently witnessed with the Magi traveling to see the newborn King? Why then, am I so quick to say goodbye to all that and get back to the grind?

​There is so much goodness in the everyday. As Catholic author Matthew Kelly writes, “God loves the ordinary.” Yet, one of the fundamental messages of Christianity is that of hope. So rather than just get back to business as usual, I invite us to pause and consider, not simply stock New Year’s resolutions, but how we might intentionally make this new year a time to cultivate a beginner’s mind recognizing God’s abundant goodness, seeking opportunities for growth, and nurturing hope in the ordinary of our daily lives.

Peace, 
​Mona
Start the New Year with a Beginner’s Mind

“What might 2017 become if I opened it up to the possibility of being a genuinely new episode of my life instead of a tiresome rerun or lame sequel? What if I approached today with an open, eager spirit, forsaking all preconceptions about these free and curious beings who inhabit my life and roam through my territory? Zen Buddhists have a name for this stance: beginner’s mind. Author Shunryu Suzuki notes, “In the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.”

​If you want a Catholic name for beginner’s mind, try grace. The divine river of grace flows through our days, inviting us to wade in, play, refresh ourselves, dare to take a risk and do something differently. Grace has the full authority of holy transformation in its waters. Just as you can never step into the same river twice, you never emerge from the river of grace quite the same as when you waded in.”

​Excerpt from article of same title,
​U.S. Catholic magazine, January 2017 
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    Director of Campus Ministry
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    -Justine Del Castillo,
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St. Albert the Great Newman Parish
2615 S. Solano Dr
Las Cruces, NM 88005
​575-522-6202

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Monday - Friday:  5:30 pm
Saturday:  5:30 pm
Sunday:  8:30 am, 11 am, 6:30 pm 

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