Newman Club @ UE’s Neu Chapel

• “Spy” Wednesday – 9:30 p.m. (Fr. Alex)

St. Benedict Cathedral (530 S. Harlan)

• Palm Sunday Vespers – 5:30 p.m.
• Chrism Mass, Tuesday, April 3 – 5:30 p.m.
• Holy Thursday – 7:00 p.m.
• Good Friday Morning Prayer – 9:00 a.m.
• Good Friday Liturgy – 12:30 p.m.
• Good Friday Burial Service – 7:00 p.m.
• Holy Saturday Morning Prayer – 9:00 a.m.
• Easter Vigil – 8:30 p.m.
• Easter Sunday – 6 a.m., 8:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m. (with Bishop)

Little Sisters of the Poor (1236 Lincoln)

• Holy Thursday – 4:30 p.m.
• Good Friday Way of the Cross – 11:00 a.m.
• Good Friday Service – 3:00 p.m.
• Easter Vigil – 7:30 p.m.
• Easter Sunday – 10:30 a.m.

Christ the King Catholic Church (3010 E. Chandler)

• Spy Wednesday Mass – 8:30 a.m.
• Spy Wednesday Way of the Cross – 5:30 p.m.
• Holy Thursday – 5:30 p.m.
• Good Friday – 5:30 p.m.
• Easter Vigil – 8:00 p.m.
• Easter Sunday – 8:00 a.m., 10:30 a.m.

Holy Spirit Catholic Church (1800 S. Lodge)

• Holy Thursday – 6:00 p.m. (adoration at St. Michael Shrine until midnight)
• Good Friday Rosary – 12:00 p.m.
• Good Friday Chaplet of Divine Mercy – 3:00 p.m.
• Good Friday Confession – 3:30 p.m.
• Good Friday Liturgy – 6:00 p.m.
• Good Friday Tenebrae – 7:00 p.m.
• Easter Vigil – 8:00 p.m.
• Easter Sunday – 9:00 a.m., 10:30 a.m.

Holy Rosary Catholic Church (1301 S. Green River)

• Holy Thursday – 7:00 p.m.
• Good Friday – 7:00 p.m.
• Easter Vigil – 8:00 p.m.
• Easter Sunday – 7:30 a.m., 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m.

Nativity Catholic Church (3635 Pollack)

• Holy Thursday – 6:00 p.m. (English), 7:30 p.m. (Spanish)
• Good Friday Way of the Cross – 3:00 p.m.
• Good Friday Liturgy – 6:00 p.m. (English), 7:30 p.m. (Spanish)
• Easter Vigil – 8:00 p.m.
• Easter Sunday – 9:00 a.m. (English), 12:00 p.m. (Spanish)

Video from CAP of our mission trip week this year:

Meatless Lunch at the Newman Center on Fridays – Back by popular demand, Carla and Mike will be serving up a simple meatless meal each Friday at the Newman Center, from about 11:30-1:30. Please RSVP at the Facebook group or by e-mail (mr201) before coming, so that we know we have enough food.

Lenten services (and fish!) at St. Ben’s – St. Benedict Cathedral just down the street has Stations of the Cross twice each Friday during Lent: at 12:50 and at 5:15. They also have their fish fry each Friday from 5:00-7:00. In addition, on the Sundays of Lent and Palm Sunday, they will be having sung Vespers (the Evening Prayer of the Church) at 5:30. Join the Newman Facebook group for more info on when students will be walking down together as a group to any of these activities.

The Newman Challenge – Several students are planning to jointly try to follow Bl. Cardinal Newman’s “Short Road to Perfection” as part of their Lenten prayer discipline this year. Are you up to taking this challenge? Here are the main points, along with some suggestions for how we on the UE campus can fulfill them:

“Do not lie in bed beyond the due time of rising;
give your first thoughts to God;
{A good way to do this is write out a short prayer and place it on the first thing you look at in the morning: mirror, computer screen, etc. The traditional Morning Offering is a good choice, and here are some other samples, including shorter ones such as a nice one by Cardinal Newman}

make a good visit to the Blessed Sacrament;
{Since we unfortunately do not have the Blessed Sacrament reserved at the Newman Center, this is probably the toughest part of the challenge to keep. St. Ben’s is open during the day each day for you to stop in for some time in prayer, with the Blessed Sacrament exposed for adoration in the chapel next to the bishop’s chair Monday through Friday from noon until 5:00. You could also satisfy this requirement by going to weekday Mass; schedules for several area parishes are available on the Newman website. If unable to make a visit to the Blessed Sacrament, you could make a Spiritual Communion.}

say the Angelus devoutly;
{Traditionally prayed at 6:00 a.m., noon, and 6:00 p.m., for those with different schedules I suggest joining the Midnight Angelus Society and shifting the tradition to noon, 6 p.m., and midnight. The text is here.}

eat and drink to God’s glory;
{Even though we are fasting, we remember to thank God and ask him to bless our food, as well as those who do not have enough to eat}

say the Rosary well;
be recollected; keep out bad thoughts;
make your evening meditation well;
{A good place for your own personal prayer, reading the Bible or other spiritual works, etc.}

examine yourself daily;
{Google “examination of conscience” for many different guides to look at your day and see where you have done well in following Christ and where you could improve. A good guide is the Ignatian Daily Examen.}

go to bed in good time, and you are already perfect.”

In sum: (1) Wake up at a decent hour, (2) offer your day to God first thing, (3) visit the Blessed Sacrament or go to Mass, (4) pray the Angelus, (5) praise God at meal times, (6) pray the Rosary, (7) avoid temptation, (8) spend some time with the Lord in the evening, (9) examine your life to see where you can be a better disciple of Christ, and (10) go to bed at a decent hour.

AcesTV did a story on Jerry Seng’s annual Valentine’s Day presentation. Jerry comes each year during Valentine’s week to share with us a chapter from his love story with his late wife, Ann.

Response video from Fr. Dusty Burns, pastor of Holy Spirit Catholic Church south of UE:

There will be NO Masses on campus on the Wednesday or Sunday of Thanksgiving break.

If you will remain on campus and are interested in a Wednesday evening Mass, Holy Spirit Catholic Church southwest of campus (1800 Lodge Ave.) has a 6:00 p.m. Mass on Wednesdays. Tomorrow (Thanksgiving Day), Saint Benedict Cathedral will have its regular 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. daily Masses. The cluster of parishes (Christ the King, Holy Rosary, Holy Spirit, and Nativity) on the east side of Evansville will have one Mass at Holy Rosary at 9:00 a.m.

Sunday Masses at St. Benedict Cathedral are at 6:00 a.m., 8:30 a.m., and 10:30 a.m., with the Saturday evening Mass at 4:30 p.m. You can check out the Mass times for other area parishes at the diocesan website.

We are now an affiliate of Mystic Monk Coffee, a service of the Carmelite Monks of Wyoming. A growing order seeking a way to fund the building of a new monastery, they began to roast and sell coffee – and it has caught on as extremely high quality! They now have a very generous affiliate program, so that you can try out their coffee (including fair trade, organic blends), and the Newman Center will receive 18% of the profit just by you clicking the link from our site. They have great gift baskets for all your Christmas shopping needs as well. The price is comparable to other premium brands, and you’re supporting TWO good causes: the monks and your Newman Center!

We are now only five weeks from fully implementing the new translation of the Roman Missal into English, so it’s time to really step up our preparations! Here at UE in the coming weeks, we will have presentations on the new translation each week just before Sunday Mass begins. We will also have a session at our Monday Night Dinner & Discussion on November 14th to further discuss and answer any questions you have about the coming changes.

One of the biggest questions about this new missal is about the music: the texts of the Gloria and Eucharistic acclamations (the Sanctus and the Memorial Acclamation) will be changing, so our Mass settings will have to change as well. This represents a great chance to both re-energize our musical participation at Mass and enhance the beauty of our celebration. There has been an artistic explosion with the new Mass translation, and there are several dozen new settings from which to choose.

Our plan at UE is to first learn a simple plainchant setting that will help us to learn the new words without worrying too much about the music. This will also gel well with the Church’s preference for simpler music during the seasons of Advent and Lent. We have already begun testing some simple settings at our Wednesday night Masses, and will be introducing the setting we choose on Sundays in the coming weeks. By this time next year, we hope to have learned a couple more settings as well, though the whole English-speaking Church must be open to continuing change and adaptation as we try different things to see what catches on.

Let us all pray that we are open to these changes, and that they will ultimately help us to pray better the same reality of the Mass that we always have.

Here are some good online resources for learning about the new Mass translation:

US Catholic Bishops Roman Missal website
New Roman Missal video by Life Teen – a humorous look at the reasons behind the new Missal
The New Roman Missal: An Opportunity in Sacred Music – co-written by Newman Center director Mike Roesch
Series of bulletin handouts – from the Eastern Province Dominican friars
Series of bulletin handouts – from the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend
Tutorial videos on the chants of the new Missal – from the Church Music Association of America
Videos on the new translation – from the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy
Catholic Answers Youtube channel on the Mass revision

Newman Promo Video from UIUC Newman on Vimeo.