Newman Catholic Students' Society of McGill UniversityCelebrate Cardinal Newman’s 213th birthday and the NSS’s 85th anniversary!
When? 21st of February, 2014
Where? The Newman Centre of McGill University
What? To celebrate this special day of our beloved Blessed Cardinal John Henry Newman, we will be hosting a RECEPTION at 6 pm with food, drink, and music, and at 7 pm the wondrous Richard Bernier will be giving a short talk on “WHO IS JOHN HENRY NEWMAN?” to highlight his relevancy and legacy in our community. Followed by CAKE!
Along with our Concordia friends, we are planning an epic Catholic Students Week!
Here’s the schedule:
Sun, Feb 2nd – Opening Mass 5:00pm Loyola Chapel Concordia University (7141 Sherbrooke St), followed by Taize worship
Mon, Feb 3rd – Hugs with the Holy Father 12:30-1:30 (McGill Y-Intersection)
Tues, Feb 4th – Talk on the Joy of Proclaiming the Gospel with Deacon Brian Cordeiro 6:00-8:00 pm (LOCATION CHANGED – Newman Centre 3484 Peel Street!!)
Wed, Feb 5th – Proclamation of the Gospel of Mark at Roddick Gates 12:30-2:00 (Sherbrooke and McGill College) https://www.facebook.com/
Thurs, Feb 6th – Movie Night, “Henry Poole is Here” (Multi-faith Chaplaincy 2090 Mackay)
AND Men’s Night at the Newman Centre third floor apartment + Women’s Night at the Coachhouse, 6:30-8:30 (3484 rue Peel) https://www.facebook.com/
Fri, Feb 7th – Rosary 12:00 at Roddick Gates (Sherbrooke and McGill College)
AND Night Fever 6:00-9:00 pm at Notre Dame de la Salette (3535 Avenue du Parc)https://www.facebook.com/
Sat, Feb 8th – Sisters of Charity (Sign up if you’re interested, spots are limited!)
AND Evening of Prayer, with the Consecrated Sisters of Regnum Christi, followed by social time 5:30-8:30 (Multi-faith Chaplaincy 2090 Rue Mackay
Sun, Feb 9th – Closing Mass 5:00pm Newman Centre (3484 Peel St)
Tues-Fri – Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament 3:00 followed by
Daily Mass 4:00-4:30 (Newman Centre, 3484 rue Peel)
Ongoing throughout the week – Social Justice Bathtub Project AND
Prayer Grams for Valentine’s Day (Newman Centre, 3484 rue Peel)
Want to let your fellow Newmanites know how much you care about them? Write them a Valentine’s Day Prayer-gram! Offer a small prayer or sacrifice for them (ex. a decade of the rosary, an Our Father, hour of your study time) and write them a message on one of the little hearts found at Newman (you don’t even have to sign your name!). Pop in the basket and we will deliver them on Valentine’s Day!
Join us Thursday, February 6th for Men’s and Women’ s Nights!
From February 2 – 14, 2014 the NSS will be collecting personal hygiene items for a local crisis shelter. Help support women and families in
crisis by providing them simple items such as:
All items must be NEW (never used).
Please drop off items in our small ‘bathtub’ in the bagel lounge!
The NSS Winter 2014 Coffeehouse will be happening on Saturday, February 22. Join us to celebrate the talent we have around the Newman Centre and raise money great Social Justice Projects. Also – we’re looking for acts! If you have any talents you would like to share (comedy, music, poetry, skits, whatever you can think of), we’d love to have you. If you have an act, or if you would like more details, email Vanessa a at socialactivities@mcgillnewmanstudents.ca.
Welcome back to school! Our first big Social Justice event at Newman will be making sandwiches for the homeless in Montreal.
It was a great success last semester, so we’re bringing it back more regularly this semester. Please invite your friends to join! All are welcome!
Schedule:
1) Making the sandwiches: from 11 am to noon on Saturday morning at the Newman Centre (3484 Peel St.)
2) Distribution: will be walking around downtown Montreal giving out the sandwiches to the poor and homeless on the streets, from noon until there are no more sandwiches. This will be done in two groups, so nobody will be out there alone.
If you are not comfortable with approaching strangers for the distribution, it is perfectly fine to only help out with making the sandwiches if you so desire. If your schedule is such that you can only attend one of the parts, or only part of a part, we would still love to have you attend for whatever you are available for!
We will also need sandwich materials. We will be accepting donations of bread, jam/jelly, peanut butter, tuna, mayonnaise, mustard, ham, salami, lettuce, etc… Please informAnita, Katie, or Victoria of any donations you are bringing 🙂
Join us every Saturday for a great meal with friends! Dinner is $5, starting at 5:00pm at the Newman Centre.
De-Frosh is January’s Christian Frosh weekend. Contact us if you want to volunteer (or if you’re a new student and want to take part!!!)
Now is the time to sign up for Winter 2014 Faith Studies – simply email faithstudiesmcgill@gmail.com. For more information check out the ‘faith studies’ tab under ‘activities’ on the menu bar