Newman Center of Oshkosh

Morning Prayer & Breakfast

Join us for Morning Prayer M-F at the Newman Center! Learn how to pray the Liturgy of the Hours, the official prayer of the church!!! It is a great way to begin your day…After we pray, we have breakfast…pancakes every Friday!

Monday 7am
Tuesday 7am
Wednesday 7am
Thursday 8:30am
Friday 7:30am

Small Groups

Men's Small Group

Small groups have 3-12 members that meet regularly for fellowship, encouragement, discussion, and spiritual growth. For, while some are responding to the Gospel with conversion, others are being strengthened in their interior life, and still others are learning invaluable pastoral skills like how to be a group facilitator. Small Groups date back to the earliest Christians communities. In recent years, the Church has witnessed a renewed appreciation for the values and vitality that Small Groups foster.

Women's Small Group

Come and join us every Tuesday evening at 8:09pm at the Newman Center. Both our men’s and women’s small groups meet for an hour…stop on by, we’d love to have ya!

One way of renewing parishes, especially urgent for parishes in large cities, might be to consider the parish as a community of communities and movements…to form ecclesial communities and groups of a size that allows for true human relationships…. In such a human context it will be easier to gather to hear the word of God, to reflect on the range of human problems in the light of this word and gradually to make responsible decisions inspired by the all-embracing love of Christ (Pope John Paul II The Church in America, January 22, 1999).

4 Pillars of FAITH

Do you sometimes get bored at Mass? Tired of feeling intimidated by people who attack your Catholic Faith? Want to have greater confidence as you speak and live out your faith in Jesus?

The Catechism of the Catholic Church is organized into four main pillars.
1. The Creed
2. The Sacraments of Faith
3. The Life of Faith
4. The Prayer of the Believer

NO MORE WIMPY RELIGION
Come and see for yourself how the Catholic Faith is the most dynamic force on earth! Come for PowerPoint presentations, bread out sessions and discussions that will certainly challenge and encourage you. We meet at the Newman Center on Wednesdays from 7-8pm with discussion to follow after. Be there or be square!

The Rosary

The word Rosary means “Crown of Roses”. When we pray the rosary, we are invited to fall more deeply in love with Jesus with His Mother and ours. We get to walk with Mary and meditate on the life, death and resurrection of her Son. “Simple yet profound, it still remains, at the dawn of this third millennium, a prayer of great significance, destined to bring forth a harvest of holiness” (John Paul II, ROSARIUM VIRGINIS MARIA). We pray the Rosary Thursdays at 9pm! We’d love for you to come and pray with us!

“The rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it is the book of the simple, which initiates them into mysteries and knowledge more satisfying than the education of other men; it is the book of the aged, whose eyes close upon the shadow of this world, and open on the substance of the next. The power of the rosary is beyond description.” – Archbishop Fulton Sheen

OTHER RESOURCES
How to Pray the Rosary
http://www.rosary-center.org/howto.htm
I Pray the Rosary – May Feelings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsQeyDZJ_HQ&feature=fvsre1

Adoration

Adoration is an opportunity to come and see Jesus face to face, a time to gaze upon God and allow Him to gaze back at you. Thursdays at 8:30pm & Sundays at 6pm You are welcome to prepare yourself for the Sacrament of Confession, sit quietly or use our prayer booklets to help lead you more fully into the mystery of the Real Presence of Jesus Christ. It’s simple! Just be yourself!  Whatever troubles you bring, doubts you have, all are overcome through the mercy and love of God. It is a deep personal relationship with Christ that allows us to see a glimpse of Heaven on earth.

A consecrated host is taken from the tabernacle and placed in a monstrance. The word monstrance comes from the Latin “monstrare” to show, to expose to view. The monstrance is then placed on the altar for a time of adoration.

OTHER RESOURCES
History of Adoration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u83BBjEHUgw
What does Adoration look like?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr1rAv_XOWk

“Jesus waits for us in this Sacrament of Love.” (Pope John Paul II, Dominicae Canae)

The Sacrament of Reconciliation

Sin weighing you down? Carrying around more baggage than you need? Get rid of it in the Sacrament of Reconciliation! God’s love and mercy await you! Thursdays at 8:30pm & Sundays at 6pm The Sacrament of Reconciliation was established by Jesus Christ to keep us poor sinners close to God by giving us an easy way to turn back to Himself after we have sinned. When we sin, we distance ourselves from the love of God and we impede the action of God’s grace within us. So come on down and get a good cleansing…Fr. Quinn is waiting for ya!

OTHER RESOURCES
Reconciliation & Penance – What the Church says
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_jp-ii_exh_02121984_reconciliatio-et-paenitentia_en.html
Fr. John Corapi – How to make a good confession
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdPWtGVkWQw&feature=related

Mass

Holy Eucharist is the font of life that cleanses and nourishes us with God’s grace to live, not for ourselves but for God, in a communion of love with God and our neighbor. Join us Thursdays at 9:30pm & Sundays at 7pm for Mass at the Newman Center, your home away from home during your stay at UW Oshkosh!Fr. Quinn Mann is our chaplain this year!
Catholics believe that during the Mass which we attend each week (for some of us daily), the priest (during the consecration) speaks these words as he holds the communion host, “…He took bread and gave you thanks. He broke the bread, gave it to his disciples, and said: Take this all of you, and eat it: this is my body which will be given up for you“. When the priest says “this my body“, it is at that instant when, through the miracle of transubstantiation, the bread and wine which we offer as the bloodless sacrifice to our Lord truly become the Body, Blood , Soul and Divinity of Jesus. It is His true Presence in the form of bread and wine. It is Christ.

OTHER RESOURCES
The Mass Revealed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ1IpqlOWpE
History of the Mass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vif5qJgSGr0&feature=related