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March 2020
1219 ELMWOOD AVENUE • BUFFALO, NEW YORK 14222
Phone: 882-1080 • Fax: 882-6914
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.newmancenterbuffalostate.org
Catholic Campus Ministry at Buffalo State
Grow Your Spirit in the Elmwood Village
Everyone Welcome - No Exceptions
NEWMAN CENTER FAITH COMMUNITY
CHAPEL MASS TIMES Sundays
September–May at 9:30 & 11:30 AM June-August at 9:30 AM Only
Thursdays September–May at 6:00 PM
OFFICE HOURS Monday and Wednesday
9:00 AM-2:00 PM Tuesday
9:00 AM-1:00 PM
SERVED BY
Campus Minister: Austin Reinhart
Peer Ministers: Janinna Farragher Alexander Kolasny
Campus Ministry Steward: Jeannie Kornacki
Music Ministers: Lindsey Holland Mark Niewiemski Joshua Stead-Dorval
Director: Rev. Patrick J. Zengierski, Ph.D.
Debbie Barry Alex Bitterman Dot Biondi Peter Biondi Rebecca Hoffman Angela LaPaglia Barbara Mierzwa Linda O’Donnell Carolann Schwartz Beverly Thomas
Finance Committee: Bill Baco Michael Flaherty Dick Hitzges Joan Murray
WELCOME! We extend a warm welcome to all
who come to our Chapel. We hope that you find our community
a place where your life of faith will be nourished. Please join us
for refreshments and friendly conversation upstairs after Mass.
NEWMAN CENTER AT SUNY BUFFALO STATE MARCH 2020
Liturgy of the Eucharist Our Source and Summit
Sunday, March 1 First Sunday of Lent 9:30 AM † (Chapel) Intentions of Karen Sharp-Price 11:30 AM † (Chapel) Dr. Julian Ambrus
Thursday, March 5 Lenten Weekday 6:00 PM † (Chapel) Students, Faculty, and Staff at SUNY Buffalo State
Friday, March 6 Lenten Weekday 8:00 AM † (Chapel) Deceased Members of the Niemiec Family
Sunday, March 8 Second Sunday of Lent 9:30 PM † (Chapel) James F. Collins 11:30 AM † (Chapel) Lourdes Collins Kelly
Thursday, March 12 Weekday 6:00 PM † (Chapel) Students, Faculty, and Staff at SUNY Buffalo State
Sunday, March 15 Third Sunday of Lent 9:30 AM † (Chapel) Giuseppa Pizzuto 11:30 AM † (Chapel) Ethel Kelly
Thursday, March 19 Solemnity of St. Joseph 6:00 PM † (Chapel) Daniel Collins, Sr.
Sunday, March 22 Fourth Sunday of Lent 9:30 AM † (Chapel) Kathleen Miles 11:30 AM † (Chapel) Martha Shearer
Sunday, March 29 Fifth Sunday of Lent 9:30 AM † (Chapel) 11:30 AM † (Chapel) Mark Collins
Sacrament of Reconciliation Available Upon Request and on Thursdays, 5:00-6:00 PM, During the School Semester
Mass Intentions: March 1 - March 29
Do you shop at Dash’s? Save your receipts! For every $100, the Newman Center earns $2.50. Receipts must be from the current calendar year; just bring them to Newman and we'll take care of the rest. Thank you!
Dash’s Dollars for Newman
Join the Newman Center at Anderson’s Custard, located at 2634 Delaware Avenue, on Wednesday, March 18, from 4 p.m. – 8 p.m. for some great food and incredible ice cream. For every item pur-chased with a donation ticket, the Newman Center will receive 20% of the sales. All proceeds will help offset the costs of the stu-dent Alternate Spring Break trip to Cleveland. You can pick up donation tickets in advance from Austin. There will also be dona-tion tickets available at the door on the night of the event.
Scoop Up The Fun!d Night History is continually graced with people who somehow learned to act beyond and outside their self-interest and for the good of the world, people who clearly operated by a power larger than their own. - Richard Rohr, OFM
Upon This Rock Update
Your support and contributions towards the Upon This Rock Campaign has enabled us to receive $186.76 for the third round of distribution. The funds are helping us boost our student programing and campus ministry needs as we dive into the semester with exciting programs and opportunity for our Buffalo State students. We thank you for all you have done for Newman and for being here!
A Noble Custom
Catholic tradition teaches that individuals can be assisted by the prayers of others, a belief that goes back to Old Testament times and also finds expression in the New Testament. A celebration of a particular Mass intention is among one of the many expressions of our Catholic tradition and piety. In doing such, one fulfills the beautiful and commendable practice of one of the several spiritual works of mercy, namely, to pray for the living and the dead, certainly a most appropriate act of piety.
Masses can be offered for a number of various intentions:
For a deceased loved one, a family member or a friend who has died, as well as on the anniversary of the death of the deceased;
To invoke the Lord’s special graces and blessings for a friend or loved one;
To petition the Lord for the good health of someone who is ill or to pray for successful surgery and speedy recovery;
To ask the Lord’s blessings for a couple celebrating their wedding anniversary;
In thanksgiving for graces received by an individual.
In this practice of devotion and piety, individuals provide an offering for particular Mass intentions. In the Diocese of Buffalo, $15. is the recommended offering per Mass intention. Any individual requesting a Mass intention can contact Jeannie at 882-1080 to schedule a particular Mass or use the envelopes provided on the table in the vestibule. Cards to send to the recipient of the intention or their family are available.
Geraldine Erokwu is a former student at Buffalo State College and
has been attending the Newman Center since her freshman year
in 2008. She is part of our Newman Family and Community. She
attained her Masters degree in Social Work at the University at
Buffalo and was previously employed as a Mental Health Coun-
selor at Bestself Behavioral Health. Geraldine recently furthered
her career as she opened up her own private practice located at
the Williamsville Center at 5500 Main Street, Suite 207, Williams-
ville, 14221. If you or a loved one or someone you know have
been struggling with emotional health issues including but not
limited to relationship problems, work stress, familial conflict, or
trauma history that manifests into anxiety or depression, please
do not hesitate to reach out to her at 716-218-0473 for a free phone
consultation. You do not have to go through your struggles alone;
get support now. To learn more check out her website: https://
www.psychologytoday.com/profile/710678
Take A Load Off Your Shoulders
NEWMAN CENTER AT SUNY BUFFALO STATE MARCH 2020
Buffalo State Catholic Campus Ministry at the Newman Center welcomes all who seek spiritual
growth, development, and understanding to foster a more peaceful, compassionate, and just society.
Mission Statement
Lent—A Joyful Season
We all have experienced feelings of helplessness when we encounter suffering and sickness in those whom we love. One of the things we can do is to place them in the hands of Jesus relying on his comfort and healing. Please hold in prayer: Esther Almanzar, Livia Cammarano, Terry Castanza, Judith Cieslinski, Tim
Day, Barbara Faust, Mike Fletcher, Emmett Jakubowski, Jackie Johnson, Mike Kurzdorfer, Mary Lauria, Andrew Mangan, Akimbo Mann, Rafael de Monteverde, Rosalba Mucciarella, Donna Neureuther, Mark Niewiemski, Sr., Theresa Olszewski, Rose Pagano, Sara Rimmler, Courtney Robarge, Michael Schmidt, Bill Slon, Jeannie Snyder-Shevrin, Mark Walsh, Christopher Wenzler, and Mark Zello. (Please notify us when a name should be removed from our list).
Prayerful Notes
Does this title surprise you? Years ago, Lent was considered to be a time of harshness, self-denial (giving up candy or other favorite activity) or experiencing the dryness of “desert” life. Although a penitential theme is still present and important, Vatican II called for renewed emphasis on the baptismal focus of Lent. Once we link Lent with baptism, it is easy to see the season as “joyful.” When we consider that baptism is God’s promise of our future glory and that it gives us a place at the banquet table at the end of time, how can we not be joyful during Lent? The liturgy itself specifically draws our attention to the season in this way. One of the Prefaces to the Eucharistic Prayer in the Lenten liturgy reads as follows: “Father...each year you give us this joyful season when we prepare to celebrate the paschal mystery with mind and heart renewed.” What is the significance of these words? The phrase “paschal mystery” refers to Christ’s death and resurrection as one inseparable event: a mystery because it is a visible sign of an in-visible act of God; paschal because it is Christ’s passing through death to new life. Because of Christ’s sacrifice, we can die to sin and pass over into divine life on earth and eventually in heaven. Each Lent, we celebrate this mystery in a special way by prepar-ing to arrive at Easter “with mind and heart renewed.”
How are we to approach our Lenten preparation? We listen in-tently to the Word of God and devote ourselves to prayer and repentance. This can be done in a joyful way. In everyday life, isn’t the preparation for a wedding, a trip, or an anniversary par-ty, half the joy of the event itself? Although there is much time and work involved, the anticipation of the outcome keeps us fo-cused and enthusiastic until the “big day” arrives. Having an attitude of excitement as we enter the Lenten season makes sense. It will help us to immerse ourselves in our journey to Easter. We will take seriously our need for reconciliation and penance, self-denial, prayer, fasting and almsgiving. But, in doing so, we should remember all the while that it is God’s great mercy that allows us to be made anew. And we can certainly be joyful about that!
Let us remember each other in prayer during this joyful season, asking God for the grace to come to Easter with our minds and hearts renewed!
We may all seem to be going in the same direction, but when we
get to the crossroads of a world in flux the human parade splits:
Some emphasize the need to preserve the values and structures
that brought us to this point. Others warn that standing still while
the world goes on will be our downfall. So we wander in a world
of expectations we can neither see nor embrace. Breaking news:
the world is a landmine of differences.
No doubt about it. The direction we take at this new crossroad in
time will not simply affect the future of the United States. It will
determine the history of the world. The future depends on wheth-
er we make serious decisions about our own roles in shaping a
future that fulfills God’s will for the world, or simply choose to
suffer the decisions made by others intent on imposing their own
vision of tomorrow.
This moment is a daunting one. At every crossroad, every one of
us has three possible options: The first choice is to quit a road that
is going somewhere we do not want to go. We can move in anoth-
er direction. We can distance ourselves from the difficulties of it
all. We can leave the mission unfinished. The second alternative is
to surrender to the forces of resistance that obstruct our every step
toward wholeness. We can succumb to the fatigue of the journey
that comes from years of being ignored, ridiculed, or dismissed
for our ideas. We can go quietly into oblivion, taking on the val-
ues of the day or going silent in the face of them. This choice, in
other words, is to crawl into a comfortable cave with nice people
and become a church, a culture, a society within a society. We can
just hunker down together and wait for the storm to calm down,
go by, and become again the nice warm womb of our beginnings.
The third choice is to refuse to accept a moral deterioration of the
present and insist on celebrating the coming of an unknown, but
surely holier, future. The third choice is to go on steadfastly, even
if we are not sure what we will find at the end of it. The third
choice is to follow the path of the prophets of old. It is to echo
those who came before us who spoke the voice and vision of God
for the world. It is to risk, as the prophets did, not really being
heard at all—at least not until long after the fact.
The third choice is a choice that demands great courage. But cour-
age, however apparently fruitless, is not without its own reward.
Anaïs Nin wrote once, “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to
one’s courage.” And courage is a prophet’s road. The prophets
had a choice. So do we.
-Joan Chittister, O.S.B.
The Direction We Take
Here is an opportunity to join with Newman friends to read aloud and share your thoughts on our book selection, “The Universal Christ” by Richard Rohr. We gather weekly in the first floor meeting room between Sunday masses from 10:45 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Should you have any questions, ask Dennis Galucki or Ann Angelo.
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