Campus Ministry

While the new faculty were receiving their intiation into the Central Catholic Community yesterday, more than 30 students spent the day with the Campus Ministry Team, Sr. Terry and Ms. Betty Desjardins, assisted by Mr. Ron Russo, Ms. Kristin Campbell, and me, along with cameo appearances from Mrs. Keller, Principal, and Bro. Tom Long, President, to train in the prayerful context of a retreat to become spritual leaders leaders in the Central Catholic Community. At the end of the day, the large group divided into four committees, Liturgy, Prayer, Service, and Missions which brainstormed goals and objectives for the year.
That Campus Ministry is at the heart of Central's mission "to make Jesus known and loved", was stressed by the team and embraced by the students. How refreshing it was to see them take on this mission and translate it into ways that peer to peer will spread thoughout the community and enhance our Catholic and Marist identity!
And today, the Campus Ministers will address the new faculty, leading them in prayer, and explaining to them how the campus ministry program is integral to our mission, as well as engaging their support and participation. In this day and age when the encroachment of materialism, relativism and secularsim is the modern day equivalent of the invasion of the Visigoths of the Roman Empire, the strenghtening of our purpose and mission as a Catholic Marist school is not an option but a necessity. Again, I ask your prayers for fidelity to this mission and success in its accomplishment.
Br. Rene