The Newman Center at the Pittsburgh Oratory

We are a fun and relaxed group for students who desire to form a faith community that exudes the peace and joy that only Christ can bring in the midst of our turbulent lives. Activities include praise and worship music, Bible study with faith sharing, small group discussions and more. Meetings are on Saturdays at 5:00pm in the downstairs lounge of the Newman Center. If interested, please contact Jose A. Baiocchi Paredes.

PLEASE NOTE: This talk has been canceled. Dave Chodorowski will return in the fall to give this presentation

Are you a little nervous about sitting down and interviewing with future employers? Come join us on April 19 at 1:00pm for a one hour talk titled Interviewing with Integrity and Purpose. The speaker will be Dave Chodorowski who is the President and Career Coach of the Catholic and Christian company Conversion Consulting Inc. With years of hiring experience and implementing successful interviewing techniques Dave will put the interviewing process at ease and give you some practical tools to prepare for your interviews.

Join us for a special Graduate Student Bible study on Monday, April 14 at 7:30pm. Nicole Shirilla will be giving a slideshow and presentation about the Spring Break mission trip she took to Haiti with her fellow med students. Don’t miss it!

Thomas McKenna, founder of the Saint Gianna Physicians Guild and personal friend of the family of Saint Gianna Beretta Molla, will give a presentation on the life of the Italian saint on Friday, April 18 at the Ryan Catholic Newman Center after the 5:15pm mass. McKenna will speak on “Saint Gianna Beretta Molla: A Modern Day Saint and Messenger of Divine Love.” The event, open to the public, is sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Beautiful Choice group. As an Italian physician, wife and mother, Saint Gianna was best known for her refusal to have a medical procedure after being diagnosed with a uterine tumor, which would have resulted in the loss of her unborn child. Her death has been called a testament to the value of the unborn. The saint, who died in 1962, was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2004. McKenna, of San Diego, also is president of the newly formed Catholic Action for Faith and Family, a movement with a goal “to promote and defend the values of our Catholic faith through the doctrines of the Church.” Talk will be held following the Friday Spaghetti Social meal.

Join your fellow students in the Peter/Wright/McKenna rooms at CMU University Center on Saturday, April 5 at 5:30pm. Brother Stephen of the Pittsburgh Oratory will be giving a talk entitled, “Body, Soul, and the Human Person.” In this brief talk, we will take an introductory look at Saint Thomas Aquinas’ understanding of how our spiritual falculties of the intellect and will direct, interact with, and at times even depend on the bodily aspects of our human nature. From his insights, we can draw some practical conclusions on how to reasonably approach some difficult aspects in our life of Christian discipleship.

The Worldwide Adoration Project is promoting an hour of Eucharistic adoration beginning at 7:00 pm on April 2, 2008, this day being the third anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s death. The Fathers of the Oratory and the Eucharistic Adoration Committee invite you join us in the Oratory chapel for a holy hour from 7:00 to 8:00 pm as we commemorate the life and witness of Pope John Paul II. The holy hour will include readings from John Paul II on Eucharistic adoration, a homily (guest speaker: Fr. Brian Welding), chanting of the Divine Mercy Chaplet, and Benediction. Following the holy hour there will be a light reception with a viewing of the documentary John Paul the Great: A Pope Who Made History.