Catholic Liturgy and Worship

Join us in sharing the mystery of faith through our many prayer and worship opportunities. We welcome all and pray that everyone may find a place of peace and transcendence in our prayer and worship.

Whether for Sunday Eucharist or Opening Year Celebration, we seek to foster and promote worship that “draws the faithful into the compelling love of Christ and sets them on fire” (Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy §10).

Together, the worship and prayer life at the university is both rich in its heritage and diversity.

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Seasonal Reflections

• April 12, 2026

  Divine Mercy Sunday

  Readings: Second Sunday of Easter (or Sunday of Divine Mercy) | USCCB  Peace be with you. “Trees Die Standing…”  Pope Leo recently encouraged disciples to cultivate a personal friendship with Jesus. A relationship not content with measuring the intensity of external activities but centered on the fruitfulness of friendship with Him. He used a powerful image: “Trees die standing,” he said referring to the reality that a tree can appear strong and healthy on the outside, while inwardly decaying.  The Gospel scene is in the upper room. Just three days after the most devastating experience of their lives – the suffering and death of their Friend and Lord – the Apostles are locked in fear. The same men who fled, denied, and abandoned Jesus now sit under the burden of shame, and regret in the very place where they promised their fidelity to Him at the Last Supper.  Into that space, He appears. He does not rebuke them nor remind them of their failures. Instead, He speaks: “Peace be with you.” And He says it again.   He not only offers them forgiveness but entrusts them with it. He sends them forth to extend that same mercy to others. The mercy that […]

• April 5, 2026

  Easter Sunday

  Readings: The Resurrection of the Lord | USCCB  For Christians, the hope of Easter is not a fragile hope. It is not contingent on the peaceful resolution of our raging wars, or the curing of a terrible disease, or a positive economic outlook, or the restoration of long-frayed family relations. The hope of Easter does not depend on how things are going in our lives or in our world.    The hope of Easter emerges from Christ’s victory over death – an event that revealed a reality that extends for all eternity, never to be dislodged by whatever tumult or travail may come. The truth of Easter is a reason for hope, now and forever.  Keeping our eyes on eternity doesn’t mean we ignore the present world, of course. As C.S. Lewis observes, “If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were . . . those who thought most of the next.” But as we work for a more just here-and-now, the crosses we bear must never obscure the ultimate hope that sustains us.  As Pope Leo has explained, “Easter does not eliminate the cross, but defeats it in the miraculous duel that changed our human history.” And in our time, which is “marked by so many crosses,” the Risen Christ, through the Holy Spirit, “continues to remind us of this, so that we can be His […]

• March 29, 2026

  Palm Sunday

  Readings: Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion | USCCB  The theme of these readings is abandonment. In less than a week, the crowds that cheered Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem are calling for his crucifixion. Judas, one of the twelve apostles, betrays his teacher for 30 pieces of silver. Simon Peter pledges unshakeable faith, but the same night denies Jesus three times. At Gethsemane, Jesus asks his disciples, “Remain here and keep watch with me.” Yet when Jesus returns from his agonizing prayers, he finds his disciples asleep—not once, not twice, but three times. When Jesus is arrested later that evening, Matthew tells us, “all the disciples left him and fled.” Christ’s lament from the cross, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” is haunted by these betrayals.  God sent his only son, and we abandoned him, turned on him, and murdered him.  In the face of this awful reality, I am moved by the image at the end of the Passion narrative. Joseph of Arimathea has gone to Pilate to ask for the body of Jesus. He wrapped it in clean linen and placed it in a new tomb. “Then he rolled a huge stone across the entrance of the tomb and departed. But […]

• March 22, 2026

  Fifth Sunday of Lent

  Readings: Fifth Sunday of Lent | USCCB  In this fifth week of the Lenten season, the readings focus on resurrection, from the story of the resurrection of Lazarus to how the indwelling spirit lives within us, and how the Lord transforms us in his infinite Mercy.   For many of us in life we experience moments that feel like the tomb of Lazarus, places of sadness, fear, shame, failure, or apathy. These feelings can become a trap, and we can define ourselves on who we are by these negative emotions. In the Gospel the story of Lazarus provides a clear example of how Jesus saves us from these moments. Jesus declares “I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die” (John 11:25), meaning that our faith in Jesus frees us from the grave and shackles of spiritual death and sin. Even before the death of Lazarus, when he was struck with illness, Jesus says that “This illness is not to end in death, but is for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” (John 11:4). These trials and tribulations, the tests in our life, are […]

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