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Eric Clayton - Contemporary Culture as an Avenue to Prayer (AM)
May
18
9:00 AM09:00

Eric Clayton - Contemporary Culture as an Avenue to Prayer (AM)

updated 2024-05-12

He’s Back! “Eric Clayton: The Sequel!” This time Eric will accompany us down a different way of approaching God: Contemporary Culture as an Avenue to Prayer, a Conduit to Finding God in All Things. Stories can be an escape. Novels, movies, plays and comics take us beyond our ordinary lives and into something epic. But what if instead of providing an escape, the stories of contemporary culture helped us expand our imagination? St. Ignatius of Loyola reminds us that we can and should find God present in all things.

Register by Wednesday, May 15 >> for either the morning or afternoon session. [ccas.ccbchurch.com]

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Volunteer @ Common Roots Farm
May
18
9:30 AM09:30

Volunteer @ Common Roots Farm

Join fellow community members from Catholic Community at Stanford as we head to Common Roots Farm in Santa Cruz for a morning of volunteering. Work may include planting, harvesting, working soil, clearing beds, petting chickens, feeding sheep, or whatever needs to be done on the farm that day. The morning will begin at 9:30am and end around 12:30pm. We will provide lunch to those who wish to stay. We are unable to provide rides to the farm but will help volunteers coordinate carpooling.

Sign-up by May 16 at noon >> [Google Forms] to allow us time to plan lunch and coordinate rides. Sign ups after this date are ok if you plan to arrange your own transportation.

Contact Eric Lebel (elebel@stanford.edu) with any questions.

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Eric Clayton - Contemporary Culture as an Avenue to Prayer (PM)
May
18
1:00 PM13:00

Eric Clayton - Contemporary Culture as an Avenue to Prayer (PM)

updated 2024-05-12

He’s Back! “Eric Clayton: The Sequel!” This time Eric will accompany us down a different way of approaching God: Contemporary Culture as an Avenue to Prayer, a Conduit to Finding God in All Things. Stories can be an escape. Novels, movies, plays and comics take us beyond our ordinary lives and into something epic. But what if instead of providing an escape, the stories of contemporary culture helped us expand our imagination? St. Ignatius of Loyola reminds us that we can and should find God present in all things.

Register by Wednesday, May 15 >> for either the morning or afternoon session. [ccas.ccbchurch.com]

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Design Spirituality – Living the Mystery
May
7
7:00 PM19:00

Design Spirituality – Living the Mystery

All are invited to join the newly Baptized, Received and Confirmed in our Mystagogy called Design Spirituality. The group meets on Tuesdays, April 2–May 14 at 7 PM in Old Union, Room 302. Our lives should be our work of art responding to the Spirit’s presence. We will explore prayer and personality, sacrament and service, and your talents and charisms to discern and design your response to God in your life. Your life should be a spiritual adventure.
RSVP appreciated >> [ccas.ccbchurch.com]

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Film Study Group - Of Gods and Men
May
6
7:30 PM19:30

Film Study Group - Of Gods and Men

Online via Zoom.
The next film will be Of Gods and Men. This moving 2010 film was the true story of nine Cistercian monks living in Algeria, which was caught up in a civil war in 1996. If you want to join us, please watch the film between now and May 6 (See https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/of-gods-and-men for a list of platforms where you can watch—you don’t want to miss it). If you haven’t joined the group yet, please also send an email to stanfordyrcfilm@gmail.com, with message “I’m interested”. The ZOOM link will be sent to the group the day before by email.

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Retreat: “Discerning to Decide with the Lord”
Apr
26
to Apr 28

Retreat: “Discerning to Decide with the Lord”

  • Jesuit Retreat Center (El Retiro) (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

The original and the sequel together at one retreat house near you! A mostly silent, directed retreat.

Our Fall Retreat on Discernment and Decision-Making was such a hit that we are bringing it back for another round! Those who could not attend the Fall Retreat have another chance. Those who made the Fall Retreat are invited to participate in the Spring Retreat as well to examine the fruits of the previous discernment. The schedule is flexible, allowing personal time for academic work.

Begins with dinner on Friday and concludes with lunch on Sunday.

Registration is now closed for this retreat

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Introduction to Faith-based Advocacy
Apr
25
7:00 PM19:00

Introduction to Faith-based Advocacy

How does our faith impact the way we participate in political advocacy? Learn how faith can ground us in our advocacy work and help us become stronger advocates and stay motivated when faced with political adversity. Participants will begin the session with a brief overview of racial justice work and terminology before learning about NETWORK’s process of “educate, organize, lobby.”

Register to attend >> [ccas.ccbchurch.com]

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Lamplighters - Fr. Xavier in Conversation with Ted Robinson
Apr
22
6:30 PM18:30

Lamplighters - Fr. Xavier in Conversation with Ted Robinson

Join us in person for dinner at 6:30pm and conversation at 7:00pm or online via Zoom

Enjoy a candid conversation of wisdom and delightful tales from the life of our treasured pastor, Fr. Xavier Lavagetto, OP.

RSVP >> [ccas.ccbchurch.com]
Join on Zoom >> (passcode if needed: 514060)
Contact Alicia Restrepo at restrepo@stanford.edu with any questions.

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Bring a Friend to Mass Sunday
Apr
14
9:00 AM09:00

Bring a Friend to Mass Sunday

Every day is a good day to bring a friend to Mass, but at all the Masses on Sunday, April 14, we’ll go out of our way to make other Christians and people of other faiths feel welcome and comfortable. We’ll have very brief introductions and explanations for each main part of the Mass, and our worship aid now includes all the responses. So bring a friend to Mass!
Note: Tacos for everyone after the 4:30 Mass that day!

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Film Study Group - On the Waterfront
Apr
8
7:30 PM19:30

Film Study Group - On the Waterfront

Online via Zoom.
The next film will be On The Waterfront, a 1954 classic and winner of eight Academy Awards,. If you want to join us, please watch the film between now and April 8 (See https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/on-the-waterfront for a list of platforms where you can watch—you don’t want to miss it). If you haven’t joined the group yet, please also send an email to stanfordyrcfilm@gmail.com, with message “I’m interested”. The ZOOM link will be sent to the group the day before by email.

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Easter Vigil
Mar
30
8:00 PM20:00

Easter Vigil

In-person in Memorial Church

The Easter Vigil features a dramatic, extended Liturgy of the Word and the reception of the sacraments by those who have undergone the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults. One may attend the Easter Vigil instead of a Mass on Easter Sunday.

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Good Friday Stations of the Cross on the Quad
Mar
29
7:00 PM19:00

Good Friday Stations of the Cross on the Quad

The Quad in front of MemChu

We invite you to join us at 7:00 p.m. on Good Friday in the Quad as we pray the Stations of the Cross. We’ll meet in front of Memorial Church.

If you would like to be involved in leading a Station, carrying the cross, sign up at https://ccas.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/190/responses/new Please come 10 minutes early so you can get your specific assignment.

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Palm Sunday
Mar
24
12:00 AM00:00

Palm Sunday

In-person Masses in Memorial Church at:
8:30am*, 4:30pm

*Note early time for morning Mass (changed to avoid interfering with University service that follows.)

The liturgies begin outside (in Main Quad) with a special Gospel reading and the blessing of palms, followed by entrance procession.

Live stream at 4:30pm
For live stream link, see Sunday Mass page >>

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“Your Non-Ideal Self and the Illusion of Optimization”
Mar
12
8:30 PM20:30

“Your Non-Ideal Self and the Illusion of Optimization”

Thomistic Institute Talk: “Your Non-Ideal Self and the Illusion of Optimization - The Christian Tradition on the Virtue of Prudence”

A Talk By Father Gregory Pine (instructor of dogmatic theology at the Dominican House of Studies and an Assistant Director of the Thomistic Institute)
RSVP >> [ccas.ccbchurch.com] (optional but appreciated)

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Workshop: Better Than SoulCycle
Mar
2
9:00 AM09:00

Workshop: Better Than SoulCycle

Two-day workshop—March 2 and March 9, 9am-Noon
Mindfulness, meditation, yoga are excellent spiritual practices proven to improve physical and mental health but there is something more in the Catholic arsenal. In this workshop, we will learn of a variety of Catholic-based approaches for better health and wellness that are receiving more attention and empirical support. The core tenets from Jesuit spirituality we will discuss include seeing God (or the sacred) in all things, attending to the whole person, decision-making using discernment, and ending the Examen.
Register >> [ccas.ccbchurch.com]

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Ash Wednesday
Feb
14
12:00 AM00:00

Ash Wednesday

Consider sharing this prayerful day with our Christian brothers and sisters who aren’t Catholic by coming to the ecumenical service at 12pm in Memorial Church. If you’d like also or instead to celebrate Catholic Mass (not required), come to Memorial Church at 8am, 5pm, or 8pm. Ashes will be given at all of these services. Live stream at 8:00pm >>

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CC@S Mardi Gras Party
Feb
13
6:30 PM18:30

CC@S Mardi Gras Party

  • 607 Gerona Road Stanford, CA, 94305 United States (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Let’s get together to celebrate Mardi Gras at Professors Chiara Sabatti and Emmanuel Candes’ home for a festive dinner of gumbo, jambalaya, red beans & rice, and many delicious sweets and sides! Sign Up to bring food, help with set-up, or help with cleanup. Use the CC@S app to sign up—on the bottom row of the screen, click More (the “three dots” icon) and then Public Needs—or use this link: https://ccas.ccbchurch.com/need_detail.php?need_id=14

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The Accompaniment Project: Help Strengthen the Faith of Others, and of Ourselves (2)
Feb
3
8:30 AM08:30

The Accompaniment Project: Help Strengthen the Faith of Others, and of Ourselves (2)

Please join year-round community members, grads, and undergrads for "The Accompaniment Project: Help Strengthen the Faith of Others, and of Ourselves" this Saturday, February 3, 8:30-12:30. New participants are most welcome! We will assess our commitments, experience how accompaniment connects with growth in faith, and imagine the possibilities flowing from growing into the relationships around us. We will leave the morning with personalized challenges and accountability partners.
[ Learn More / Register >> ]
(info updated January 30)

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The Accompaniment Project: Help Strengthen the Faith of Others, and of Ourselves (1)
Jan
27
8:30 AM08:30

The Accompaniment Project: Help Strengthen the Faith of Others, and of Ourselves (1)

Two Saturday mornings: January 27, 2024 and February 3, 2024
Year round community members, grad students, and undergrads are invited
How are we present for the journeys of the people around us, without telling them what to do? In these mornings, we will practice having conversations about faith in relationships that are comfortable so that we can grow into the accompaniment we are called to do in more challenging situations. On January 27, Sarah-Marie Chan will facilitate an exploration of how to live into our questions about God and how we might find spiritual friendship within the diversity of our community.
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(info updated January 23)

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Midday Confessions
Dec
20
10:00 AM10:00

Midday Confessions

All are welcome, but Fr. Xavier is especially thinking of the year-round-community in hearing confessions Wednesday, December 20, 10am-2pm in Memorial Church. Fr. Dominic will join him 11am-noon then lead the Mass at 12:20, which will also be in Memorial Church (instead of Old Union as usual on Wednesdays.)

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