Catholic Community at Stanford

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1 Catholic Community at Stanford Catholic Community at Stanford P.O. Box 20301, Stanford University, Stanford, CA main office: For emergencies, call , pager #17736 Sunday Mass Marriage 10:30 am Tresidder Oak Room 3 pm misa en español Memorial Church 4:30 pm Memorial Church Memorial Church 10 pm To arrange a Catholic Wedding, call the wedding coordinator at Memorial Church at Daily Eucharist Baptism is celebrated once per quarter. For more information, please visit eligibility.html or contact Teresa Pleins tpleins@stanford.edu. M-W-F - 12:20pm Memorial Church T-Th - 12:20 - Old Union Sanctuary Confessions Tuesday 1:30-2:30pm and 7:30-9pm Old Union, 3rd Floor, 304 or 319 call or by appointment: Infant Baptisms Information about Catholic liturgies in Palo Alto, call or Catholic Community Staff Fr. Nathan Castle, O.P. Sr. Ramona Bascom, O.P. Fr. Carl Schlichte, O.P. Guillermo Colombetti Nancy Greenfield Jacob Arias Teresa Pleins Matt McEvoy Pastor/Director (ncastle@stanford.edu) Parochial Vicar/Associate Director (frcarlop@stanford.edu) Chaplain/Marriage Preparation (nanccas@aol.com) Chaplain/Liturgy & Music (tpleins@stanford.edu) Counselor (ramonabascom@gmail.com) Bulletin Editor (gcolombetti@yahoo.com) Development Intern (jarias@stanfordalumni.org) Intern (mtmcevoy@stanford.edu)

2 Religious Ramblings What s the plan? Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT MASS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT MARCH 14, 2010 Let s listen in as the Castle family makes plans to go out to dinner. Castle #1: Jeet?* (jeet- Southern drawly contraction, a corruption of the phrase: Did you eat? ) Castle#2: No, and I m starving. Castle #3: I haven t eaten all day. Castle #1: Ya ll wanna git sumpin? Castle#2: Sure, where ya wanna go? Castle #3: I dunno. Castle#1: Me neither, where do you wanna go? Castle#2: I don t care. Anywhere s good by me. And so on. Honestly, we could starve to death for lack of a plan. This is the third time in my life that I ve been made a director of a Catholic Campus ministry. Di is Greek for through ; rector is related to the word rectum, or end! So a director is one who sees a thing through to the end. It s a wonderful thing, being a director. Directing presumes group activity. I love to watch an orchestra conductor direct. He or she presumes talent on the part of every member of the orchestra. The director also makes sure that everyone has their music and is literally on the same page. Only then can they hope to make beautiful music together. Last year, my first as director of CCAS, I went with the flow. I took part in all the things on our calendar. Or, more properly, our calendars. There are always at least three significant calendars in Catholic campus ministry: the university calendar (beginning of the quarter, midterms, finals, breaks), the church s liturgical calendar (Advent, Christmas, Lent, Holy Week), and the local community s calendar (the student retreats, service trips, the Early Holiday Liturgy). Campus ministry communities can stay busy just doing what they did the year before, which can be like a dog chasing its tail. After we got the school year launched in September and October, I gathered some members of our community and invited a friend, Paul Breaux, to lead us in a visioning day that I hoped would yield the beginnings of a strategic plan for our community s life. Out of that day emerged a draft of a strategic plan. That first draft has been circulated and revised several times since then. That process is ongoing. In November we also had the first meeting of a Leadership Council, a group of recognized leaders, some local, some at a distance, who love our mission and are committed to helping us thrive. They ve since met a second time and are beginning to gel as a group. I ll be having them introduce themselves to you very soon. They re offering their insights into our plan, too. I thought I d begin: Catholic Community at Stanford University Strategic Plan Mission Statement The Catholic Community at Stanford University seeks to develop and form well-educated, passionate and faithful Catholic leaders in order to bring positive change to their disciplines, communities, Church and world. Vision Statement By virtue of the universal priesthood of baptism, all the faithful of the academic community have the opportunity and the obligation, according to their gifts, to help higher education reach its full potential. 1 With a deep belief in an abundant God, the Catholic Community joins the University s mission to form the next generation of leaders in transforming the world. Accepting the University s invitation to offer lively, thoughtful, and supportive contexts in which to pursue [members ] spiritual journeys during their time at Stanford, 2 the CCAS nurtures the formation of compassionate Catholic leaders. By its life and witness, the community also provides the University access to the Church s rich and ever-evolving intellectual, moral and spiritual traditions. Overarching (Values) 1. Allignment of the mission and vision of the Catholic Community at Stanford with those of Stanford University. 2. Insuring that our programs, personnel and activities are on a par with the world-class standards and spirit of Stanford University. Key responsibility Areas for the next five years: 1. Catholic Student Leadership Development: To establish and expand an Institute for Catholic Student Leadership Development in order to support the vision of Stanford University, the vision of the Catholic Community at Stanford and to extend the reach and impact of the Catholic ministry on this campus. Action Item: Hire a full-time campus minister. Goals: 1.1 Continue our participation in the Dominican Institute for Student Ministers (DISM) of the Western Dominican Province and formalize our participation in the ESTEEM project cosponsored by the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management and the Saint Thomas More Newman Center at Yale University Establish an 8-12 page detailed design for the Institute for Catholic Student Leadership Development by December The design would include the following elements: A model of student leadership development that offers integration with the Catholic perspective on inner ongoing formation, aligns with the envisioned Institute for Catholic Theological Education, partners with other organizations and departments that bring the needed expertise not currently available through the Catholic Community at Stanford and provides practical and accessible resources and tools Religious Ramblings continued on last page of bulletin...

3 General Community Announcements Lenten Fasting Regulations: Abstinence: abstinence from eating meat is to be observed on Ash Wednesday and all Fridays during Lent. All persons are bound by the law of the Church to abstain from the day after their 14th. birthday. Fasting: The Church s law of fast binds on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. The law of fasting obliges from the day after one s 18th. birthday until the day after one s 59th. birthday. Fasting means that one full meatless meal per day may be eaten. Two other meatless meals may be taken sufficient to maintain strength, but together they should not equal a full meal. Liquids, including milk and fruit juice, may be taken between meals. If health or ability to work are affected, fasting does not oblige. Private, self-imposed observance of fasting on all week days of Lent is strongly recommended. Pastors and parents are to see to it that children who are not bound by the laws of fast and abstinence are educated in an authentic sense of penance, conversion and reconciliation. Help Send CC@S Students to Guatemala! We are sending 10 students to Guatemala over spring break to serve young children in an after-school program called Safe Passage. The kids are very poor and would be growing up in the city garbage dump if not for Safe Passage and the work of volunteers like us. We re already more than 2/3 of the way to our fundraising goal, and we ll be officially launching our Guatemala Campaign on Ash Wednesday. The Catholic Foundation of SC County has given us a grant for $6600 for the trip; the students are contributing $500 each for the trip; and we re hoping that the community will help us raise the extra $5000 we will need to make the trip happen. As a part of your Lenten call to almsgiving, please consider sponsoring one of our students for $500. Feel free to join up with other members or families and sponsor a student together. You can donate through our website, with the Guatemala Campaign located on the ParishPay link. For more information about the trip, please contact Matt:(mtmcevoy@stanford.edu). Save the Date: Sat, 4/24, National Rebuilding Day The Catholic Community at Stanford is once again participating in National Rebuilding Day through the organization Rebuilding Together Peninsula, The assignment this year is in East Palo Alto and includes yard work, some light construction and possibly painting. This service event is open to all in the CCAS. All day shifts will run from 8:15AM to 4:30PM, with some half day shifts available. Space is limited so sign up now with the Volunteer Captain, Larry Hu, hudat@stanfordalumni.org For those looking for a service event during Lent, there will be a prep day this Sat, 3/20 at the site, 9am to 4pm (morning or afternoon shifts are available). Contact Larry ASAP for more info or to sign up. Announcements for March 14, 2010 WIDOWED, SEPARATED, and DIVORCED Weekend April 16-18, at Vallombrosa Retreat Center in Menlo Park. For information and a brochure contact Cathy (408) or Helen (415) or us at SJBeginExp@aol.com or see our website: beginningexperience.org. The San Jose Beginning Experience is a peer ministry for Widowed, Separated and Divorced Catholics, with Fr. Albert Grosskopf as its spiritual counselor. Beginning Experience is an international ministry that has been active throughout the Bay Area for over 30 years, helping individuals suffering from a loss to reevaluate themselves and their lives and to move into the future with renewed hope. The Beginning Experience Weekend is the foundation of our ministry. The weekend program invites the resolution of the grief that results following the loss of a loved one. UNDERGRADS Interested in being the CC@S Intern? Attention graduating seniors: Are you looking to stay around Stanford for another year? Do you hope to serve your faith community through campus ministry work? Do you want to plan retreats and dinners, spend time with students, create your own programming, and grow in your faith? Then the CC@S Intern position is for you! A one-year job with housing provided near campus, this position is perfect for students looking to launch careers in Christian ministry or those who are simply hoping to work for a year before graduate school. Applications will be released in February and will be due March 19. If you have any questions, please talk to this year s Intern, Matt, at mtmcevoy@stanford.edu or Old Union Room 305. Fellowship Dinners in the Dining Halls: Today, March 14, we ll be at Flomo! After the 4:30 Mass, we ll all head over to a Dining Hall and share a meal in fellowship with each other. Feel free to join us even if you didn t attend Mass (around 5:45pm). The rotation is: Wilbur, Stern, Lagunita, Flomo, Ricker. Come to all and meet people around campus and see which dining hall is the best! For information, contact Rachel Kelley (rkelley7@stanford.edu). Food & Finals! All students are welcome to join us on any night, Monday- Thursday during Finals Week, on the 3rd floor of Old Union. We ll have snacks and drinks available from 10pm - 1am on each night, and we hope you ll come for a study break or for some company while you study. We especially encourage you to arrive at 10pm for the reciting of the rosary. Join the Catholic Relay for Life Team: We will be forming a Catholic Team for the Stanford Relay for Life on May We will have at least 10 members of the team, and we walk for 24 hours (as a team) around the Stanford track in order to raise money and awareness for cancer research. If you are interested in joining the team or being the captain, please Matt (mtmcevoy@stanford.edu).

4 Monday, March 15 Is 65:17-21 Ps 30:2,4-6,11-12a,13b Jn 4:43-54 Tuesday, March 16 Ez 47:1-9,12 Ps 46:2-3,5-6,8-9 Jn 5:1-16 Wednesday, March 17 Is 49:8-15 Ps 145:8-9,13c-14,17-18 Jn 5:17-30 Thursday, March 18 Ex 32:7-14 Ps 106:19-23 Jn 5:31-47 Weekly Readings Friday, March 19 Feast of St. Joseph 2 Sam 7:4-5a, 12-14a,16 Ps 89:2-5,27-29 Rom 4:13,16-18,22 Mt 1:16,18-21,24a Saturday, March 20 Jer 11:18-20 Ps 7:2-3,9b-12 Jn 7:40-53 Sunday, March 21 Is 43:16-21 Ps 126:1-6 Phil 3:8-14 Jn 8:1-11 Week at a Glance Sunday, March 14 10:30 am - Tresidder Oak Room 3 pm - misa en español en Memorial Church 4:30 pm - Mass in Memorial Church 10 pm - Mass in Memorial Church Monday - Friday, March 15 - March 19 Office hours (Tues - Fri) 10:00 am - 4:00 pm Confessions Tuesday 1:30-2:30 and 7:30-9pm or by appointment. Monday 12:20 pm Mass in Memorial Church Tuesday 12:20 pm Mass in Old Union Sanctuary 9pm Eucharistic Adoration/Rosary Wednesday 12:20 pm Mass in Memorial Church Thursday 12:20 pm Mass in Old Union Sanctuary Friday 12:20 pm Mass in Memorial Church Eucharistic Adoration: Join us for Eucharistic Adoration every Tuesday in the Sanctuary on the third floor of Old Union. Spend some time with Jesus, bring to Him your cares and concerns or just rest in His presence and adore Him. Adoration begins at 9. Rosary will start at 10. For more information contact Michael Davenport at mdavenpo@stanford.edu, or Andreina Parisi-Amon at andreina@stanford.edu Daily Rosary: Students meet daily to pray the rosary in the Sanctuary on the third floor of Old Union: Mon-Sat at 10pm, Sun at 9pm. All are welcome; no experience with the rosary is necessary. For more information contact Charlie Capps (ccapps@stanford.edu). More Announcements GRADS Catholicism 101: Open Forum Monday Mar. 15, 7-9pm, GCC 2nd Floor, Bogotá Room As this is our last official meeting of the quarter, we re having an open discussion between grad students, post-docs, and their families and friends about any relevant topics about the Catholic faith. Come prepared with your most puzzling questions about Catholicism, or just show up for a lively discussion. We ll do our best to use our collective knowledge and the resources available to us to answer you. Newcomers are always welcome, and dinner s provided. ireneo@stanford.edu for more information. Catholicism 101: Pizza and Games Night! Monday Mar. 22 7pm. If anyone s around during Spring Break, stop by 17 Comstock Cir. Apt. 102 (EV) for a pizza and games night. We ll be making some hot-outof-the-oven homemade pizza so if you ve got any favorite toppings, feel free to bring some. If you ve got any favorite games to share, bring those too. Stop by even if you haven t been able to come to one yet this year--everyone s welcome! Contact ireneo@stanford.edu for more info. Grad Easter Brunch: Save the Date! Join grad students, family and friends for an Easter Brunch Potluck on Easter Sunday after the morning Mass. There will be food and possibly Easter Egg hunts for both children and grad students. Location and approximate start time TBA. contact ireneo@stanford.edu for more information. YOUNG ADULTS Dinner at Jeffrey s Hamburgers, Tues. Mar. 16th at 7:30pm, 241 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. The Young Adult group meets for its monthly social gathering. Young Adult Mass, Tues. Mar. 30th, 7:30pm, St. Simon Church, 1860 Grant Rd, Los Altos. We will be holding the Mass in the Small Chapel at St. Simon Church in Los Altos. Celebrate the Eucharist with young adults (20 s and 30 s, single or married) from this and neighboring parishes with fellowship to follow. For more info, see our website, org, check the Facebook group Young Adult Circle, or contact Scott at scott.a.harrison@gmail.com. COMMUNITY AT LARGE Marriage is a journey!! A Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend can help you enrich your marriage and revitalize your relationship during this journey. Whether you ve been married 1 year or 50, a Marriage Encounter Weekend may be just the thing you need to renew your relationship. The next local Catholic Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend is: June 4-6, 2010 (Mountain View). For more information or to register, please visit our website at: or contact Paul & Stephanie Francois, or PaulandSteph@pacbell.net.

5 The Catholic Community at Stanford University FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT MARCH 14, 2010 Gathering Lead Me, Guide Me (D. Akers) Psalm Ps. 34 Taste and See (Tony Eiras) Second Reading 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 We are ambassadors for Christ and ministers of reconciliation to one another. We must all be reconciled to God so that we might become the righteousness of God in him. Gospel Acclamation Missa Oecumenica (Proulx) Gospel Luke 15:1-3, Jesus told his followers the parable of the prodigal son. It is never too late to repent, to be received back by a loving parent, and to enjoy God s presence forever. Preparation of Gifts I Will Arise (T. Booth) Kyrie (Bob Hurd) Sanctus Missa Oecumenica (Proulx) First Reading Joshua 5:9, God delivered Israel from Egypt. All the people celebrated Passover with unleavened cakes and parched grain in their new land, the promised land flowing with milk and honey. Memorial Acclamation: Missa Oecumenica

6 Amen Missa Oecumenica (Proulx) Amazing Grace (traditional) Lamb of God Missa Oecumenica (Proulx) Communion Oh Dios, Crea en Mí (Eleazar Cortés) Recessional Kyrie instrumental Music reprinted under: Reprint license #40882, New Dawn Music, Portland, OR; Reprint license #A706411,OneLicense Corp., Chicago, IL. 1) Have mercy on me, oh God in your kindness blot out my offenses, wash me, wash away my guilt, cleanse me completely of my sin. Piedad de mí, Señor, por tu bondad, Por tu inmensa compasión borra mi culpa; Lava del todo mi delito, Purifícame Tú de mi pecado. 2) Create in me, God, a pure heart, And give me a steadfast spirit; do not cast me out from your presence, nor remove your holy spirit. Oh Dios, crea en mí en corazón puro, Pon en mí un espíritu firme; No me arrojes lejos de tu rostro, No me quites tu Santo Espíritu. 3) Give me back the joy of your salvation. Sustain in me a willing spirit. Open my lips, oh lord, and I shall proclaim your praise. Dame la alegría de tu salvación, Mantén en mí un alma generosa. Enseñaré a los malvados tus caminos, Se volverán a ti los pecadores. Rice Bowl Guatemala Haiti Chile ADA Living Faith Society The Annual Diocesan Appeal (ADA) Campaign, Growing in Faith Together is the 2010 annual fund-raising drive for the Diocese of San Jose, California. Every year, faithful Catholics from 53 parishes and missions within Santa Clara County, contribute generously to support the myriad ministries and centralized services operated by the Diocese. Because of you... * We have the resources to train another generation of priests for service in our Diocese. * Our 22 seminarians are preparing for their future ministry among you through summer hospital work, language immersion programs and spiritual formation. * The parish pastoral and finance councils in each parish of the Diocese have access to initial training and ongoing formation multiple times each year. * Lay leaders in parishes anticipating a change of pastor receive the support they need to exercise their leadership role in the transition process. * Parishes have access to continually updated demographic information about the communities in which they are located. * Over 400 individuals have graduated from the Institute for Leadership in Ministry (ILM) program and have returned to their parishes better prepared for ministry. Seven graduates have been ordained as Permanent Deacons and three are currently studying for the priesthood. * The marriage tribunal facilitates pastoral and canonical resolutions that allow the possibility of entering into a second marriage.

7 Vallombrosa Retreat Center Join us at Vallombrosa Retreat Center: 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park, for the following Lenten events: The Catholic Church in the World Health Care: To Reform or Not to Reform presented by: Alain Enthoven Sunday, March 21, 2pm. Admission is free. Open to the Public Alain Enthoven is the Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management (Emeritus) in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He holds degrees in Economics from Stanford, Oxford and MIT. Enthoven has served as an economist in both private and public sectors. As a consultant to the Carter Administration, Enthoven designed and proposed Consumer Choice Health Plan, a plan for universal health insurance based on managed competition in the private sector. Under California Governor Wilson he served as Chair of the California Managed Health Care Improvement Task Force that addressed healthcare issues raised by managed care. He is the former Chair of the Health Benefits Advisory Council, and currently serves on the Research Advisory Board of the Committee for Economic Development, as Chair of Stanford University s Committee on Faculty/Staff Human Resources, and as consultant to Kaiser Permanente. Enthoven s recent publications include Toward a 21st Century Health System: The Contributions and Promise of Prepaid Group Practice, edited Laura Tollen (Jossey Bass, San Francisco, 2004). Alain Enthoven s awards include the 1963 President s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service, the 1994 Baxter Prize for Health Services Research, and the 1995 Board of Directors Award, Healthcare Financial Management Association. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. More Announcements GC-Ed An ongoing formation element to complement the development of leadership skills and knowledge Assessment tools to help student leaders identify personality- (e.g. DiSC) and spiritual perspective preferences (e.g. Spiritual Gifts Inventory) in the various leadership contexts. A project-oriented application element for local, national or global leadership A vision for an alumni network post-graduation Staffing and other resources needed to establish and fund the Institute for three years An annual conference (phase I or II) 1.3 Establish the Institute for Student Leadership Development by March 2011 (phase I). 1.4 Based on the feasibility and funding opportunities, offer a long-term vision for the design and establishment of subsequent phases. Footnotes: Italicized text indicates pending proposed revisions. 1 Empowered by the Spirit, US Conference of Catholic Bishops Pastoral Letter on Campus Ministry 2 Office of Religious Life/Stanford University brochure, p.3 3 ESTEEM is focused on solving the problem of the loss of high school and college Catholic leaders when they hit the parishes after graduation. More to come in next week s bulletin. Feel free to me your comments. Love, Father Nathan, OP...Religious Ramblings continued