Newman Center?

Windlord said:

I'll hopefully be going to college next year at a state university, and they have a Newman Center. I've never been to one before, so I figured I'd ask if anyone has and what should I expect from it?

Peace

Windlord

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You should expect a structured religous community on the campus you can turn to with lots of opportunities to get involved. Depending on the campus a lot of school admin. and instrutors may be involved. Hopefully, yours will have its own Priest. The Newman center is a good place to "Name the Dog" so to speak for freshman coming in.

Reno is small and the Newman community at UNR is very active with programs in the community.

I've been to some of their masses, at the Newman Center at Slippery Rock university; I highly doubt that guitars, flutes, and the jumble of profane instruments and tamborines(instruments for secular musical usage) and the banal singing was that pleasing to our Lord. (I know, my singing's crappy, hence why I'm not in the choir. ) But whether Mass was celebrated correctly I don't know, I was just happy folks went to mass at college: no how crappy the music was.

Ravenonthecross said:

I've been to some of their masses, at the Newman Center at Slippery Rock university; I highly doubt that guitars, flutes, and the jumble of profane instruments and tamborines(instruments for secular musical usage) and the banal singing was that pleasing to our Lord. (I know, my singing's crappy, hence why I'm not in the choir. ) But whether Mass was celebrated correctly I don't know, I was just happy folks went to mass at college: no how crappy the music was.

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At this point, I'm just grateful that there is a Mass on a college campus. I pray that windlord will visit the NewMan center on his college/university. I'm sure you will find good support while you are adjusting to being on your own at college.

God be with you and bless you.

Ravenonthecross said:

I've been to some of their masses, at the Newman Center at Slippery Rock university; I highly doubt that guitars, flutes, and the jumble of profane instruments and tamborines(instruments for secular musical usage) and the banal singing was that pleasing to our Lord. (I know, my singing's crappy, hence why I'm not in the choir. ) But whether Mass was celebrated correctly I don't know, I was just happy folks went to mass at college: no how crappy the music was.

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Now, you know why CCR has its orgins on the college campus.

Windlord said:

I guess I'll just have to go in and find out for myself. I don't really have to much of a problem with Guitars, but then I guess that's because I figure every instrument was considered profane at some point in time. I suppose some day people will think of a Guitar as sacred, and whatever show's up in the future will be the new profane. As long as the music is focused on worship and not on trying to mimic a Concert I don't have a problem with it.

Peace,

Windlord

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We did have guitars for over a decade, recently.

Don't judge what to expect by other's experiences here.

D'Ann said:

At this point, I'm just grateful that there is a Mass on a college campus. I pray that windlord will visit the NewMan center on his college/university. I'm sure you will find good support while you are adjusting to being on your own at college.

God be with you and bless you.

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Ja ,prayers all around; Me being me as many folks here know: I'm Traditionalist who'd prefer a Tridentine Mass: I'd like for there to be one near SRU, but being as I only have ever been to/have had access has been the English Novus Ordo Mass, I'm used to the NO, but I know, that I'm a bit odd in this forum being a Trad. I'll live, but I'll just suck up my being irritated by banal music and hope for better days, all the while laying it at the hands of Christ, and praying that whatever I do----that I do his Holy Will.
I'll shut up now.
God bless,
Matthew

When I lived in a small college town I went to the Newman Center quite a bit.

The parish priest there would give homilies that would relate how his mother never took Novocaine at the dentist and offered it up for the poor souls in Purgatory, so he did, too.

He'd tell the schoolchildren about how the little Roman slave children were eaten up by the lions, but how they sang because they knew they were going straight to Jesus.

The priest at the Newman Center, however, looked like Jesus. Children would flock to him like they did to Jesus in the Gospels. He had the wonderful gift of relating the Word to real life and touching hearts. Students and professors and whoever else was there would always hang out afterwards for coffee and donuts and foosball and games. I wasn't a student, although some of my best friends worked at the university, but it was the most homey and comfortable church I ever attended.

It was a real community, very "early Church" in atmosphere.

The parish priest tried to recreate "early Church" by telling the children horror stories about the early martyrs (so 1950!)

The Newman Center priest created early Church by creating an atmosphere of love and community.

Go!