Campus Ministry
Lenten Mission - March 16 - 18
Aquinas College presents a Lenten mission to be led by Fordham University professor of philosophy Father Joseph Koterski, S.J. and hosted by the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The retreat is free and open to the public. No registration is required.
Assumption is located at the corner of 7th Avenue and Monroe St in the historic Germantown neighborhood near downtown Nashville. Click here for directions.
Friday, March 16
5:30pm: conference
Saturday, March 17
5:30pm: conference
6:30pm: vigil night of prayer
Sunday, March 18
3:00pm: conference
6:30pm: concluding Mass
Father Koterski will discuss the ways in which Lenten practices help us fully live the new life Christ gives us through His death and resurrection. He will specifically discuss the following questions:
How do we know that we need new life from Him? Can we know by ourselves or does Church needs to remind us of that need every year?
How specifically do prayers, fasting, and almsgiving help us understand that need for new life? Does this pertain to everybody in the same way or can we just choose which one are going to be good for us? Isn't it enough that we simply stop committing sins or do we all have to go through 40 days of Lent every year?
How do prayer, fasting, and almsgiving prepare us for receiving Christ's new life? How do those practices change our attitude towards God? Do they make us see Him in a different light?
Biography
Father Joseph W. Koterski, S.J. is a Jesuit Priest of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus. He has been a member of the Philosophy Department of Fordham University since 1992 and is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Philosophical Quarterly. In 2008 he was elected president of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars. Among his recent publications is An Introduction to Medieval Philosophy: Some Basic Concepts (2009). On the Fordham campus he serves as Master of Queens Court Residential College for Freshmen. For The Teaching Company he has produced lecture courses on Aristotle's Ethics, on Natural Law and Human Nature, and most recently on Biblical Wisdom Literature.
Saturday January 21st
Cemetery of the Innocent
January is Respect for Life Month, and Campus Ministry has a variety of things planned. To increase awareness of what abortion does to our community, we will be setting up a display of white crosses on the front lawn, as we do each year. The front lawn of the campus will represent one day of abortion fatalities in the United States alone - each cross represents a child that dies from abortion. On an average day, 3,288 of your fellow Americans die in the womb.
We will be setting up the crosses this Saturday, January 21st at 9:00 am. We will meet on the front lawn of the Dominican Campus (on the left side past the main gate). Please come out and help this effort!!!
Saturday December 10th
Hey guys,
This is just a brief reminder and also an invitation to all of you to join us for an evening of fun (especially for those who have never been ice skating before:-)), which is a combination of great Indian food and a bit of excersising, which I bet you find extremely helpful in the face of approaching finals. We'll meet at 6:00 pm at Sitar for dinner. For location and additional info go to:http://www.sitarnashville.com/ After that we'll head to Centennial Sportsplex. Please read all the information on their website, especially when you are new to ice skating:
http://www.nashville.gov/sportsplex/ice_pubskate_sched.asp
Have a great weekend and see you on Saturday!
FR. Jacek Kopera O.P.
Thursday December 8th
Dear Friends,
On behalf of Aquinas College Campus Ministry, I would like to remind you all that because our College will be closed onThursday Dec. 8th for
the celebration of the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception there will be no 12:20 Holy Mass at St. Jude’s Chapel on that day. However, I wish to invite you all for 6:30 PM Holy Mass at the church of the Assumption (http://www.assumptionchurchnashville.org/), which I will celebrate in honor of Blessed Virgin Mary and in gratitude for all the graces which we have received during the Fall semester through Her intercession. Please join tomorrow, praying that Mary continues to protect all of us and commending all our plans to Her motherly care.
May She guide us through the rest of Advent and prepare our hearts for celebrating the Nativity of Her Son.
Fr. Jacek Kopera O.P.
Tuesday September 13th
Please note that this coming Tuesday Frassati Society will meet exceptionally at 5:00 PM at St. Jude's Chapel for a traditional Holy Hour and afterwards we will attend "Secular Science and Sacred Scripture", a panel of Aquinas College faculty members to discuss what modern science can (and can't) tell us about the world, what is the proper way to approach the interpretation of sacred Scripture, and whether modern science and sacred Scripture are compatible?
As a form of introduction and preparation for those questions I suggest reading this: whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/adam-and-eve-the-ultimate-standoff-between-science-and-faith-and-a-contest/ and listening to that:
http://www.npr.org/2011/08/09/138957812/evangelicals-question-the-existence-of-adam-and-eve
Date: Tuesday, September 13
Time: 6:00–7:45 p.m.
Location: Aquinas College, Room 103
PANELISTS:
Peter A. Pagan Aguiar
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., Fordham University
M.A., Fordham University
B.A., University
of California at Berkeley
A.A., East Los Angeles College
William C. Smart
Director of the Liberal Arts
Program
Associate Professor of Biology
Ph.D., University of Tennessee -
Memphis
B.A., University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Sister
Mary Dominic Pitts, O.P.
Associate Professor of English and
Theology
Ph.D., University of Michigan
M.A., University of Michigan
B.A., Birmingham-Southern College
For more information, please contact Fr. Jacek at frkopera@aquinascollege.edu.
or our wonderful PR Director Grace Robinson at
GIRobinson57@aquinascollege.edu
Mass is offered daily in St. Jude Chapel during the fall and spring semesters, and during the summer session depending on the availability of a priest. Dates and times for Mass are regularly posted. The chapel is open daily from 7:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. for personal prayer.
Two campus-wide masses are celebrated during the school year: the Holy Spirit Mass during the fall semester and the St. Thomas Aquinas Mass in the spring. While attendance is not mandatory, all students are encouraged to participate.
All classes at Aquinas begin with a prayer or spiritual reading. We also begin each meeting and event with a prayer. Many other opportunities for communal prayer are available, including an annual Living Rosary, weekly rosary recitations, biannual penance services, weekly Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and Stations of the Cross during Lent.
The Frassati Society is a student religious organization dedicated to living out the Beatitudes. They host several weekly and annual events.
Fr. Jacek Kopera O.P.
Tel: 615.297.7545 x451
Email: frkopera@aquinascollege.edu
Quoting . . .
Aquinas College endeavors to nourish the intellectual gifts of its students and to develop their spiritual and physical potential in view of their final end and the good of society. (School catalog)