Celebrate Advent With Four Campus Traditions
The Center for Service and Social Justice (CSSJ) invites all to take an ornament from the Mission and Ministry Christmas Giving Tree located on the second floor of the DeNaples Center in order to purchase a gift for a child in need in the area.Vice President for Mission and Ministry Daniel Cosacchi, Ph.D., announces four upcoming campus traditions to celebrate Advent, which began Sunday, Dec. 2.
First, Campus Ministry invites the University community to attend one of Scranton's most cherished traditions: the Advent Mass, which will take place on Sunday, Dec. 7, at 5 p.m. in the Byron Center. Afterward, attendees will process with candles to the Dionne Green to bless and light the University's Christmas Tree. All are welcome at the event. Please feel free to bring family members such as parents, siblings, children, friends.
The Center for Service and Social Justice (CSSJ) invites all to take an ornament from the Mission and Ministry Christmas Giving Tree located on the second floor of the DeNaples Center in order to purchase a gift for a child in need in the area. Unwrapped gifts are due to the CSSJ office, DeNaples Center, room 205 B, by Dec. 12. All donated gifts will support the Gifts for Kids program. The Friends of the Poor and Catherine McAuley Center (FOTP/CMC), in partnership with Catholic Social Services, are once again coordinating this community gift-giving event, hosted at The University of Scranton’s Byron Center. This program serves families living at or below the federal poverty guidelines who have not enrolled in other holiday assistance programs. Families can walk through and select gifts for the children in their household.
The Gifts for Kids event will take place on Tuesday, Dec. 16 and Wednesday, Dec. 17. Families are preregistered.
Questions can be directed to Ellen.Judge@scranton.edu, outreach program coordinator, The Center for Service and Social Justice.
Also, CSSJ is partnering with Performance Music for the annual Empty Stocking Fund Benefit Concert at 7:30 p.m, on Dec. 14 in Houlihan-Mclean Center. The admission charge is one new, unwrapped toy, a new toiletry item, or a cash donation. All proceeds will directly benefit local families in need.
Finally, continuing with a longstanding tradition, The Jesuit Center continues offering the daily Advent Devotional, which provides fruitful reflections on the scripture readings and feasts of the day. Sign up for these reflections.
