Fr. Fiorillo is leading an initiative to add annual fall and spring retreats for Harvard Catholic undergraduates. He and the Catholic Students Association (CSA) are working together to make sure that directed retreats are consistently part of each fall and spring term. Please consider making a Giving Tuesday gift to help us meet our goal to raise $5,000 to send 30 faith-filled students on retreat next spring. Thank you and God Bless!

Please donate your favorite book from elementary, middle, or high school, and include an inscription to spread that love to a young student. Inspire a love of reading, and a love of books! Drop-off is at the Harvard Catholic Center; 29 Mt. Auburn St. entrance. Contact Nam Kim for more information. This effort in partnership with Harvard CSA and the Tufts Catholic Chaplaincy. All donations are much appreciated.

The Harvard Knights of Columbus invites you to celebrate Advent with Mass and a special shopping trip. We will gather for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception Mass at 9a. After Mass, we will meet in the vestibule to select gift tags from the St. Vincent de Paul Giving Tree and then head off to Assembly Row together. Bring your own Christmas shopping lists, too! Lunch to follow shopping. Questions? Send an email, or post a comment on the Facebook event.

Join us in Emerson Hall 210 when we welcome moral theologian, Dr. Janet Smith. She will be speaking about what has made sex so complicated today, and how the Church's wisdom can help us to reclaim the meaning, intimacy, and joy that sex is meant provide.

We are pleased to welcome Sister Caterina from the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy. She will offer a brief meditation on Divine Mercy for the Holy Hour, and then join the undergraduates for the Super Tuesday social hour. Holy Hour runs 8:00-9:00p; meditation at 8:30p.

Volunteers needed over Thanksgiving and Winter Break at the Y2Y Harvard Square Shelter and Harvard Square Homeless Shelter. Sign up for open slots. No experience needed; all are welcome! Contact Mary Broker for more information.

October 19-20, Harvard Law School. A 2-day conference featuring speakers and panelists, and keynote Neil Gorsuch, US Supreme Court Justice. Registration required.

If you would like your dorm room blessed by one of our priest chaplains, contact Fr. Patrick Fiorillo.

American Catholic Theologian, Dr. Scott Hahn, will give a talk on Creed and Communion: Coming Home to the Father's Mercy. A reception immediately follows in DiGiovanni Hall. Don't miss this powerful presentation on the riches of our Catholic faith. Click here for full details.

The HCC and the St. Paul Choir School invite you to join us as His Eminence Cardinal Sean O'Malley, OFM Cap celebrates this special mass to bless the start of the academic year.

We look forward to celebrating the Eucharist with new and returning Harvard Catholic students and with all members of our faith-filled community. Hope to see you there!

The Harvard Catholic Center is pleased to announce a monthly celebration of a Spanish Mass at St. Paul's. All are invited to attend. Please visit the link above for all the details, and to volunteer for music and/or to serve as lectors or ushers. Vaya con Dios!

Join a unique tutoring/mentoring program that has partnered with Cambridge/Boston area college students since 1985. EVkids pairs college tutors with inner city youth for weekly tutoring. Harvard Catholic students...you can make a difference! Visit our EVkids page to learn more and/or to contact Heather Angell, Tutor Director/Chaplain.

"Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom." - 2 Corinthians 3:17

Fr. Jason LaLonde will officiate the Vigil of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist on Saturday, June 23 at 5:00p. Please celebrate with us.

All students are invited to a weekly Holy Hour and social to include: exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, a brief meditation, opportunity for confession, and benediction. After Holy Hour...pizza in the 2nd floor Student Lounge. Students from other colleges, here for the summer, especially invited; we would love to get to know you!

For any GS/YPs who would like to see the Boston Red Sox vs. the Texas Rangers on 7/10/18 please contact James Rowe asap. Only 5 seats left @ $30/ticket.

The commencement address at DeSales University that is. See the video and transcript, from May 19, that are filled with Fr. George's love for God and inimitable humor, and peppered, of course, with references to Sir Winston Churchill.

All Harvard graduating students, Class of 2018, are invited, along with their families and friends, to celebrate this special Mass. The blessing and official naming of The Chapel of the Women Doctors of The Church will take place after Mass. A reception immediately following, in DiGiovanni Hall, will complete they day's festivities. Please rsvp to info@harvardcatholic.org.

Verbum Dei will not meet this Sunday, May 20 due to the Baccalaureate Mass, the blessing and official naming of The Chapel of the Women Doctors of the Church, and the reception that follows. It will resume on Sunday, May 27.