College Students: Come to Mass a half-hour early and help out at the Information Desk. The Information Desk is looking for volunteers to assist once or twice a month. If you come to the Cathedral for Mass, let us know if you can come early and help out. You will be trained to respond to the situations usually brought to the attention of volunteers at the Information Desk. Email kiel@duq.edu for more information or to sign up.

The Newman Center at the Pittsburgh Oratory
http://www.pittsburghoratory.org/campusministry

Campus Ministry and Newman Club Events & Programs
Pitt, CMU, Chatham

•    Volunteers Needed
Desk volunteers can sign up at the Newman Center front desk. Adoration sign-ups can be found on the table by the photo board. Please consider signing up!
Desk Volunteers needed: Mondays 7-10pm
               Monday, August 13 1-4:30 pm

•    Mass Schedule at the Oratory Chapel - During terms
The schedule below is effective January 3 through May 13, 2007.

Saturday/Anticipated         4pm & 5:15 pm
Sunday                           11am, 4pm & 9 pm
Monday-Thursday         5:15pm & 9:30pm
Friday                            5:15pm
Saturday                          10am

•    Eucharistic Adoration

***SUMMER ADORATION SCHEDULE****

Monday-Friday:                1pm-5pm

Monday,
Wednesday,
Friday:                              6:30pm-9:30pm

In the interest of encouraging greater devotion to the Holy Eucharist, the Newman Center will continue to offer extended hours of Eucharistic Adoration. We invite you to participate in this work of devotion by committing yourself to spend one hour a week in adoration before the Blessed Sacrament.

Enrollment forms will be available at all of the Masses. You may also register immediately by email to Fr. David at dsa@pittsburghoratory.org or call 412-681-3181.

•    The Fellowship of Catholic University Students FOCUS staff will be returning to Pittsburgh mid-August. In the meantime, please direct any questions about the program to Jared or Meghan. Have a great summer! Jared: jsmyth@focusonline.org or Meghan: megmccartney@focusonline.org

•     Ultimate Frisbee - Come join us for Ultimate Frisbee at Flagstaff Hill (across from Phipp's Conservatory) every Sunday at 2pm weather permitting. No experience needed! Come have fun, bring friends and make new ones. For more information, contact Eric Williams at eric@thewilliamses.info. (Open to Students)

•     Volleyball Night - Every Wednesday at 7pm on the Cathedral of Learning lawn there will be a game night for students! Come out to play volleyball in the cool part of the day. The other games, chosen based on public opinion, could be whiffleball or kickball. Email pittnewmanclub@gmail.com if you have questions or suggestions!

•     Quiet Prayer, Vespers & Benediction - Held Sundays at 6pm through the Feast of Corpus Christi on June 10 at the Catholic Newman Center. (Open to All)

•    Stump the Priests has concluded for this school year!

•    Theology of the Body is a bi-weekly discussion group for graduate students and young professionals. This group has been concluded until further notice. Thank you for attending!

•    R.C.I.A.  -  Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults is for those interested in joining the Catholic Church or in learning more about it. Also welcome are those who are baptized and are interested in receiving the sacraments of First Communion and/or Confirmation. Meets on Tuesdays at 7:30pm now in Saint Paul's Cathedral Rectory. For more information, contact the director, Nancy Kelly at nkelly3899@msn.com.

•    Bagels & Bible  -   For those students or others with lighter mornings, one of the Oratorian Fathers leads a study of the readings for the upcoming Sunday, served up with hot coffee and fresh bagels. A great way to prepare for every Sunday, making it the center of our weekly focus. Wednesday mornings at 9:00. (Open to All)

•    Communion & Liberation holds "School of Community" meetings at the Oratory Wednesdays at 7:30pm. CL is a group for ordinary Catholic adults trying to learn new ways to make Christ, "yesterday, today, and forever," the cornerstone of their lives. Meetings are open to graduate students, faculty, and young families; come see what they're all about. For more information, contact Joe Milburn at milburn.joe@gmail.com.

•    Summer Discussion Group - Join us this summer on Thursday evenings from 7:30 -8:30pm to reflect upon Raniero Cantalamessa's book "The Mystery of God's Word". While there is no specific feast that celebrates the preaching of Jesus, the Liturgy of the Word each day recalls Christ's preaching. Following Canatalmessa (preacher to the papal household), we will discuss why and how the Liturgy of the Word is nothing other than the liturgical actualization of the preaching of Christ and what this means for us as hearers and proclaimers of God's Word. The following topics will be considered: The mystery of the Word of God in salvation history; The Word of God in the Church; the Word in the life of the proclaimer; the content of Christian preaching; Word of God and word of ours; the Holy Spirit and the proclamation of the Word; The Word of God in the personal life of the Christian; the spiritual interpretation of the Bible. Our first meeting will be May 17th. For more information, contact Fr. David at frdavid@pittsburghoratory.org.

•    Classics of Western Spirituality Study Group is a bi-weekly group for those interested in developing a deeper understanding of the spiritual life and prayer through considering the writings of the great spiritual masters of the Catholic tradition. This group is completed for this school year and we will begin meeting again in the fall.

•    Student Bible Study - Summer student Bible Study covering the gospel of John and the Acts of the Apostles is held Thursdays at 6pm at the Newman Center. For more information, e-mail Chad Kimmel at cpk5@pitt.edu.

•    Men's Lectio meets Saturdays from 11:30am-1pm. We are covering excerpts from the Summa Theologiae of St. Thomas Aquinas, on anthropology; this week's concerns epistemology and Psychology. Please call Br. Joshua at the Newman Center or check the website for more information.

•    The Witness for Life Group meets every Saturday. Weekly Prayer for the Unborn - A group meets at the Newman Center, Saturdays at 7:30am to pray at the abortion clinic in E. Liberty for the souls of the unborn children killed there, and for the conversion of the mothers and clinic staff. Much more a spiritual work of mercy than a political rally, the intention is to be a presence of divine love and joy to the mothers and children, who could otherwise feel "left alone" in their suffering. For more information, please email Nichole McPherson at nichole.mcpherson@gmail.com. (Students only)