Taco Tuesday
Tacos are best enjoyed with a friend. Bring someone with you!
📍Karol’s Commons
Catholic 201: The Moral Life & Evangelization
When a Catholic received the sacrament of Confirmation, they move from being a member of the Church to being a witness for Christ. St. John Paul II challenges us to be more than mere members but rather to be witnesses through our lives so that, by living the moral life, we can bring others to Christ Jesus.
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Catholic 201: The Nitty Gritty: Moral Applications Part 1
Alright, so where can we start to apply everything that we have learned and studied and discussed in the real world? We will start to look at contemporary applications for living the Christian moral life, and possible responses to objections.
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Catholic 201: Rubber, Meet Your Road: Moral Applications Part 2
Continuing on from the previous week, we apply what we’ve learned to the real world and to moral issues of the day.
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Catholic 201: Social Justice for Reals
The final week, where we can discuss the application of our principles to things like public policy and the Catholic definition of “social justice,” a phrase we invented and first used.
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Catholic 201: Conscience & the Cross
“Lest the Cross Be Emptied…”
This partial quote from St. Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians is the starting point for this lecture during Holy Week. Ultimately, the moral life comes down to this commitment which St. Paul makes to his fellow Christians, a commitment founded upon his love of Jesus. We’ll look at how St. John Paul II uses this passage to make his argument for how we ought to live.
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Catholic 201: Conscience & Truth
We’ve finally come to the question of conscience and the moral life. Often portrayed as a good angel on one shoulder vs. a bad angel on the other, our conscience is sacred. But is it the end-all-be-all of the moral life? We’ll talk about contemporary theories and what the Church’s wisest have to say.
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Spring Open House
All welcome to stop by and hear from current community members about what life at the Newman Center is like! If you are in college in Omaha, considering college in Omaha, or curious about JPII Newman’s mission, you can come by for a tour.
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Spring Break Mission
During our week in Denver, we will enter into life and mission with the Christ in the City missionaries. Our days will include “street walks” to spend time with their friends who experience homelessness, daily Mass and prayer, cooking and cleaning together, and community time. We’ll also have opportunities to learn about homelessness and poverty as well as more about the Christ in the City mission.
Catholic 201: JPII Corrects Errors
Building off of last week’s contextualizing of Veritatis Splendor, we look more closely at the many errors in moral theology that the encyclical was correcting. We’ll look at what they argue and how he addresses them in his encyclical, as well as where we might seem these errors today.
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Friday Mass & Soup
Select Fridays this Lent, join us for noon Mass and a soup meal. All college students welcome!
Catholic 201: JPII’s Veritatis Splendor
We’re going to take a break from the heaviness of virtues and such and talk about the document that inspired this class, Veritatis Splendor. We want to look at why it was written, what Pope John Paul II was trying to do with it, how it was received, and why it matters today.
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Catholic Medical Association Lenten Day of Reflection
For physicians, health care professionals, medical students, and undergraduate students studying for health care professions.
Registration cost: $35
Student cost: $10
Friday Mass & Soup
Select Fridays this Lent, join us for noon Mass and a soup meal. All college students welcome!
Catholic 201: Cardinal Virtues Part 2
Justice is the fourth of the cardinal virtues we’ll discuss, and it requires its own session because it is referenced the most and perhaps the most misunderstood of the four. So what is the classic definition of justice and how ought we apply it from the Christian perspective?
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Friday Mass & Soup
Select Fridays this Lent, join us for noon Mass and a soup meal. All college students welcome!
SPIRITUAL IMPACT BOOTCAMP Retreat
Participants on this retreat will be introduced to the Holy Spirit through a variety of talks, Scripture passages, and prayer periods aimed at inviting this “New Pentecost” into our lives. If you are seeking a way to kindle (or rekindle) the “fire” of your spiritual life, let this retreat show you how to bring the flame of the Holy Spirit with you wherever you go.
Cost: Commuter $50 or Lodging $65
Register: focus.org/retreats
Questions? McKenzi Weber (913)486-1513
Catholic 201: Cardinal Virtues Part 1
The classic virtues are still of importance to the Christian life. So how do we see virtues like Prudence, Temperance, and Fortitude? We’ll look at these three of the four cardinal virtues and apply them.
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Taco Tuesday
Tacos are best enjoyed with a friend. Bring someone with you!
📍Karol’s Commons
Catholic 201: Not the Stoics
What does the modern stoic movement miss? How is it different from the Christian vision of life towards virtue and happiness? We will look at the virtue that didn’t exist in the Greco-Roman World that is crucial the Christian ethos through the three Theological Virtues.
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Community Night: Adoration with Praise & Worship
Bring a friend and come as you are for Eucharistic Adoration worship music and prayer teams. There will be light snacks afterwards!
Sabbatical Sharing with Fr. Andrews
Come hang out, eat some snacks, and hear about the graces Fr. Andrews has to share from his sabbatical in Grand Isle, LA.
Catholic 201: The Stoics
Very popular these days is the stoicism movement, bringing back wisdom from the ancient Greco-Roman World to inspire better living today. The live of virtue is emphasized, and we want to look at what’s right here. How is virtue part of the Christian life from a naturalistic point of view?
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Ministry Fair
Stop by after the 10:30 am and 8:30 pm Masses to learn how to get involved with ministry opportunities such as worship, liturgy, hospitality, and the Knights of Columbus.
Community Night: Pizza and Root Beer Floats Party
First community night of the new year! Bring a friend!
Brrr-B-Q
Kick off the semester with a great meal with friends!
Food served from 6:00pm to 7:30pm