The Newman Center at the Pittsburgh Oratory

FOCUS Ladies Night Wednesday, November 11, 8:00pm
Painting with prayer, being held at the focus ladies home, 237 Dithridge Street
All ladies welcome!

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FOCUS Men’s Night Friday November 13 8:00pm
We will be meeting (after the Pasta Dinner) at the Newman Center  to go bowling!  The following morning we will be having our first 2:42 starting with the 10 a.m. Mass and a short formational talk downstairs in the Newman Center.
All men are welcome!

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This past week the girls of the team (Anne, Danni, and Ashton) decided to try someting new.  They set up outside of their house on a Thursday night and gave away smores.  They live on a big party street between a couple of frat house and so plenty of people stopped by seeing young people [...]

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Sorry for the missing weekly posts, but it has been a very busy couple of weeks on campus!
One of the great stories from the past few weeks has been the success of the Men’s Night two Thursdays ago!  We had 16 men praying outside the rosary outside of a strip club.  One of the guys [...]

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This week’s story is from Jack.  After Bible study on Tuesday night he was walking home from the Cathedral of Learning, the main building on University of Pittsburgh’s campus.  On his way home a young man was sitting on the bench looking lonely.  Jack approached him and asked the student if he could sit down [...]

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Students have been on campus for almost a month now and FOCUS wants to share with you stories from all of its campuses.  The FOCUS missionaries and student leaders have been able to do great work towards building a Catholic culture on campus.  We have been a part of all the activity fairs, Catholic Rush [...]

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