Week 1 Announcements – Sept 16th – 23rd – Newman Catholic Students' Society of McGill University

Faith Studies

If you’re interested in doing a faith study or being a leader, we still need both of you. Also if you haven’t sent in your schedules/free times send them in to faithstudiesmcgill@gmail.com

Liturgy of the Hours

Do you know what this is about because I don’t If you do know you can sign up for a time on the chapel doors. If not and you want to learn join us for Vespers at 5:15 PM.

Clothing Drive

Clothing drive is still going on. Drop off your donations to the Benedict Labre House in the Bagelounge. It’s going on until mid October.

NCSS Mass

Join the executives as we offer up a Mass for the NCSS. Prayer is best done in the presence of a community.
Fridays at 4:00PM

Sandwiches for the Homeless

Next week (Saturday) this time (12PM) we’ll be feeding those who can’t feed themselves. Join us as we make sandwiches and then distribute them to the homeless (around 1 PM). Acts of kindness should touch everyone.

YOUCAT on Tap: The Battle of Prayer

Having a prayer life, whether personal or communal, is difficult. The “battle of prayer”, as the catechism describes it, manifests itself in a variety of ways. Sometimes it’s laziness. Sometimes it’s the feeling that praying isn’t helping. Sometimes its distractions. Sometimes it’s discouragement from the dry periods. Sometimes it’s questioning whether God even exists and if he does exist whether he is listening.This Friday at YOUCAT on Tap we will be exploring some of the most common struggles with prayer. Beer and pizza starts at 5pm, and YOUCAT begins at 5:30pm. All are welcome!

What is YOUCAT on Tap?

YOUCAT on Tap is a faith/ethics/theology/life discussion group that meets every Friday from 5:30 to 7pm. YOUCAT is open to everyone who has questions about faith and life. Using the YOUCAT, video resources, and group discussion we address your questions using a Catholic lens. YOUCAT is open to Catholics and non-Catholics, believers and the spiritually curious.

Mass this week

This week’s Mass is the Commissioning Mass for the NCSS. Help welcome in the new execs with your prayers and help us ask God to guide us in our leadership of your club.

Duc in Altum “A year for your future”

Info session: Sunday September 21 @ 6:30pm<

“And Jesus turned to Simon and said, put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch” (Luke 5:4). Duc in Altum (DIA) is a discernment experienced for young adults. Over a series of 6 day long encounter and two weekend retreats spread across the year, participants “put out into the deep” learning more about themselves and about the Catholic faith. For more information, join us for the information session on Sunday Sept 21 @ 6:30pm

Challenge Weekend

September 26th-28th

The Challenge Weekend is a Catholic young adults retreat organized by other young adults. Challenge is a weekend centered around the “challenge” (pun intended) of living the christian life in today’s culture, spoken through the personal testimony of other young people. The weekend includes a number of talks, as well as, group discussion, prayer, games, food, and fellowship. Both practicing Catholics and people re-discovering their faith find the Challenge weekend to be an enriching experience. For more info, or to register, please visit: http://montrealchallenge.ca/index.html

Ecumenical Prayer on Sunday Nights!

“I ask…on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them as you have loved me.” (John 17:20-23)

Would you like to come together with other Christian groups on campus to celebrate unity and ask more for the love and power of God in his ministry in McGill through us? Come join us each Sunday at 7:00 pm in the Presbyterian College auditorium (basement) for praise and worship, testimonies as to how God is working in the different groups and individuals, and to PRAY PRAY PRAY – for this city, this campus, and one another. If you’re interested in going, feel free to head on over, invite your friends, or contact VP Outreach Katie at katie_hayman@yahoo.ca for more details (or to be your personal buddy to tag along with you!). Peace to you!