Category: Campus Ministry

Annual Thanksgiving Food Drive

We invite you to join
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY’S ANNUAL
THANKSGIVING FOOD DRIVE

Monetary donations will be accepted through the end of November.


Your monetary donation will help Fordham’s community partners provide food for struggling families in the New York area.

Please donate today. 

Your donation will support these partner organizations:

ROSE HILL — THE CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF MERCY, PART OF THE SOLUTION, CRESTON AVENUE BAPTIST SOUP KITCHEN, BRONX, NY 
             
LINCOLN CENTER — THE CHURCH OF ST. PAUL THE APOSTLE SOUP KITCHEN and XAVIER MISSION, NEW YORK, NY

WESTCHESTER — CARVER CENTER, PORT CHESTER, NY

Please Note: This is not a donation to Fordham University. All funds will be distributed as described above.

HELP END STUDENT HUNGER ON CAMPUS!

Students with meal plans can donate guest meal swipes to students experiencing hunger on campus. Guest meal swipes are added to meal plans at no cost, and never expire once they are donated.

 Swipe out Hunger

Happy Thanksgiving to All!

“Whoever cares for the poor lends to the LORD,
who will pay back the sum in full.”
– Proverbs 19:17

Gaudete Sunday

Sunday, December 12 at 5 PM

Rose Hill: University Church

Principal Celebrant: Joseph M. McShane, S.J.

A tree blessing and reception will follow at 6 PM in the new Campus Student Center.

Lincoln Center: Chapel (LL 221)

Join for Mass and stick around after Mass for much celebration!

Christmas party to follow after Mass at Lincoln Center in LL 206. Come for food, free t-shirts, and festivities!

A hallmark of the Fordham Advent season is our annual Gaudete Sunday celebration. Gaudete means “rejoice” in Latin, and our Gaudete Sunday Mass and Tree Lighting is the perfect time to rejoice before settling into finals period.

Swipe Out Hunger

Let’s End Student Hunger On Campus!

Donate your guest meal swipes to students experience hunger on campus.

Wondering how many guest meal swipes you have?

Meal Plans and Number of Guest Swipes:

Rose Hill

Unlimited Platinum & Unlimited Silver: 8 Swipes

Block 250: 5 Swipes

Block 225: 4 Swipes

Block 200: 4 Swipes

Lincoln Center

Unlimited: 8 Swipes

Block 225 Plus: 6 Swipes

Block 225: 5 Swipes

Block 200: 3 Swipes

Donate your swipes here!

Calendar & Events

Explore upcoming offerings from the Office of Campus Ministry

Seasonal Special Events, Liturgies, & Concert

Upcoming Events –

Weekly Events

Fall 2021

Weekday Masses (Monday – Friday):

Rose Hill

University Church at 12:15 PM

Lincoln Center

Bl. Rupert Mayer Chapel, LL221, at 12 PM

Ignatian Spirituality & Yoga:

Tuesdays at LC in the Bl. Rupert Mayer Chapel, LL221, at 1 PM

Wednesdays at RH in Our Lady’s Chapel at 7 PM

Zoom ID:

829 7864 8240

Praise and Worship

Mondays at RH beginning 9/13 in Our Lady’s Chapel (lower level of the University Church) 8 – 9 PM

Adoration and Night Prayer

Take a break from study and work with some quiet, peaceful prayer!

Thursdays, starting October 7 in the University Church


Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament from 8:00-9:00 PM, with night prayer beginning at 8:45

Whether you stay the whole time or only have a few minutes to pray, all are welcome.

Service Opportunities

Pedro Arrupe Volunteers Service Opportunities

PAV has adapted our programming to meet the needs of our community partners within safety guidelines. Read to a child weekly, offer housing application support, clean up a local park, teach a citizenship or ESL class.  Support our communities remotely and in person!

PAV Fall 2021 Sign Up

Become a Reading Buddy with StriveHigher and read with a child weekly by zoom.

Help Bronx families apply for Housing Connect, a housing lottery, with University Neighborhood Housing Program remotely.

More opportunities available on the sign up.

Additional Information: contact cm@fordham.edu

Retreats

Learn more about Retreat Ministry

Catholic Mass Schedule

Religious Holidays

Fordham University Church: Altarpiece

Main Altarpiece, Fordham University Church

During the restoration of the Fordham University Church in 1942, Hildreth Meière painted this main altarpiece. Every figure in the work pertains to a specific aspect of the university, including Fordham’s motto Sapientia et Doctrina, for which Meière presented “holy men and women from East and West who are role models for students in the pursuit of wisdom and learning.”

In the center of the piece, is Our Lady Mediatrix of All Graces, patroness of the University Church.

Click here to read more about the piece and the other figures in the painting.

Magis Minute

To help us celebrate Jubilee weekend, this week’s Magis Minute features John Reddy, FCRH ’76, who is celebrating his 45th reunion year. John reflects on a lesson he learned from John Edgar, FCRH ’36, about the value of a Fordham education—and calls on our most recent graduates to do the same.

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Click here for additional Magis Minute content.

Ignatian Spirituality and Yoga in June!

Join Carol Gibney and guest teachers this June for movement, breath, prayer, and community!

Mondays and Tuesdays at 5 PM EST

Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7 PM EST

Zoom Meeting ID: 649 961 650

Come one day a week or every day and track your progress! Class are open to all levels and all are welcome!

Meet our Guest Teachers:

Maddie is a rising junior at Rose Hill, a yogi of 5 years, an Ignatian yogi of 2 years, and a newly certified yoga teacher! She is so excited to be sharing gentle, restorative yoga and the practices of gratitude, self-care, compassion, and inner strength through the 30 Day Ignatian Yoga Challenge! Come join!!

Kristen is a rising senior at Lincoln Center and discovered Ignatian Spirituality and Yoga in the Chapel her freshman year. Kristen has been practicing yoga for over 8 years now and is certified in Hatha Yoga, Kidding Around Yoga for children, and Yin Yoga. She is grateful for the gift of presence, peace, and community that all forms of yoga provide her and is happy to share these gifts with others.

Email cgibney@fordham.edu with any questions.

Thank You! Sunday Mass Alms Collections

On the behalf of the following organizations, we thank you for your generosity.

Abbot House 

African Jesuit AIDS Network

Annunciation House

Archdiocese of NY Campaign for Charity and Justice

Black and Indian Missions

Bread for the World

Breaking Ground

Bronx is Blooming

Campus MInistry Food Drive

Cardinals Appeal

Catholic Charities USA

Catholic Climate Covenant

Coalition for the Homeless

Concourse House

Crispaz El Salvador

Catholic Relief Services

Fr. McKenna Center

Harry Tompson Center

Homeboy Industries

Ignatian Solidarity Network

Ignatian Spirituality Project

Jesuit Restorative Justice Initiative

Jesuit Refugee Services

Kino Border Initiative

Mary’s Pence

Mexican Coalition

MIdnight Run

Nativity Miguel Network

Peter’s Pence

Part of the Solution

Proyecto Pastoral – Dolores Mission

Respect for Life Baby Supplies Drive for Concourse House

Rosebud – St. Francis Mission

Songcatchers

The Bronx Community Relief Effort

University Neighborhood Housing Program

Union Community Health Center

Xavier High School Chuuk

Baccalaureate Mass and Senior Blessing

All Seniors are invited to attend the Baccalaureate Mass with your fellow graduates of the Class of 2021.

The Mass will be held on Sunday, May 16th at 5:00 PM in the University Church. Seating is limited and registration is required. (Class of 2021 students only.) Transportation will be provided from Lincoln Center.

Register Here!

There will also be a Blessing for Seniors at the Lincoln Center Mass this Sunday, May 9th at 5 PM. All are welcome!

For the Class of 2021

A Prayer for a New Beginning

From: To Bless the Space Between Us by John O’Donohue

In out-of-the-way places of your heart,

Where your thoughts never think to wander,

This beginning has been quietly forming,

Waiting until you were ready to emerge.

For a long time it has watched your desire,

Feeling the newness growing inside you,

Noticing how you willed yourself on,

Still unable to leave what you had outgrown

It watched you play with the seduction of safety

And the grey promises that sameness whispered

Heard the waves of turmoil rise and relent

Wondered if you would always live like this.

Then the delight, when your courage kindled

And out you stepped onto new ground,

Your eyes young again with energy and dream

A path of plentitude opening before you

Though your destination is not yet clear

You can trust the promise of this opening;

Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning

That is at one with your life’s desire

Awaken your spirit to adventure;

Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk;

Soon you will be home in a new rhythm

For your soul senses the world that awaits you.

AMEN!

COVID Response in India with Catholic Near East Welfare Association

“CNEWA is rushing aid to our partners on the ground, to help distribute vaccines, PPE equipment, food and health care. But it is impossible to keep up with the demand. Please give whatever you can to our brothers and sisters in India.  

And we ask that you join us in prayer. The Indian Conference of Catholic Bishops has declared Friday, 7 May 2021, to be a day of prayer and fasting, to seek divine intervention and protection against COVID-19.  

In addition, Pope Francis has called on Catholics around the world to join in praying the rosary during May, asking Our Lady to intercede to bring an end to the pandemic. Our Lady of Good Health, pray for us!”

Click the following link to donate: https://cnewa.org/where-we-work/india/