A Brief View of Our Program
An interview by CatholicRadioIndy.org, Jan. 29, 2010
Eucharist Adoration at Bishop Chatard: Sept 3
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is available every first Friday of the month from 7:30am to 3pm in our chapel located in the St. Benedict Center. All members of the Bishop Chatard community are welcome.
To ensure a continual adoration, we ask you to sign up for a half-hour time slot, if possible. Sign-up is available online (a signup code is needed). You can always come, even though you did not signup. Contact Therese Hartley at 432-2059 or queenofhartleys@comcast.net to receive the signup code or with any questions. During the school year, this sign-up page is always avaiable via the link on the right.
Service Newsletter: Aug Issue
The August issue of You Got Served!, the service newsletter from the Campus Ministry department, is now available via the 'Quick Link' on the right. This newsletter is published monthly, and contains service program announcments and information about selected service needs in the community. A complete list of approved service agencies and service needs can also be found via the 'Service Needs' link on the right.
Pro-Life Club News and Opportunities:
The Pro-Life Club will have a call-out meeting during Homeroom Wednesday, August 18. All interested students, faculty, staff, and administrators are welcome to attend and find out ways to get involved in this important movement. For more information, or to participate in the following events, please contact Jennifer Rea at jrea@bishopchatard.org:
- Right To Life Dinner: Tuesday, Sept 28
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BCHS has once again been asked to help at the RTL Dinner. This year the keynote speaker is activist Lila Rose. The cost is waived, and space is limited. We will meet at BCHS and ride by bus. Dress is once again black pants or skirt and white top.
The Dinner is held at the Indianapolis Convention Center
- Respect Life Sunday Mass and Life Chain:
Sunday, October 3, 1:00-3:30
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We will meet at the SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral on Meridian Street for Mass. Please plan to arrive early. The Life Chain is a one-hour prayerful protest after the Mass on Meridian Street (exact location to follow).
- 40 Days for Life:
Saturday, October 16, 1:00-3:00
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40 Days for Life is a 40-day prayer vigil for an end to abortion and greater respect for human life. Bishop Chatard is signed up for a two-hour slot (1:00 to 3:00) on Saturday, October 16. Please come for one or both hours.
This is held outside of Planned Parenthood at 86th and Georgetown Road.
- Other Activity: Life Centers Walk and Run
Sunday, September 26
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Volunteers are needed for this event to benefit Life Centers of Indianapolis. Contact Katie Kennedy at kennedyka@yahoo.com to volunteer.
This will be held at the Indiana State Fairgrounds.
Parish Service Day
The parish service day for BCHS students was held on Thurs, April 8, with students serving the needs of the North Deanery Parishes. View the students at work in the parishes.
SERV Week: Sept. 21 - 25, '09
Prayer, discussion and fun highlighted SERV Week 2009. Student members of SERV (Students Encouraging Religious Vocations) planned various activities to encourage everyone to think about what God has in mind for their lives, what their vocation might be.
Trying on various vocations via cardboard cutouts started off the week. A liturgy for priests and other religious, a rosary for vocations and school liturgy encouraged students to pray for vocations. Sr. Jennifer, originally from Africa, shared her vocation story during the week also.
SERV asks everyone to consider this question:
We all have a vocation.
What's yours?
About Campus Ministry
Mission
The purpose of campus ministry at Bishop Chatard is to provide a true Catholic environment of ministry that empowers the school community, especially students, to grow as Disciples of Christ. The Eucharist is at the heart of everything done in the Campus Ministry Department. Under the direction of the chaplain, with assistance from the director of campus ministry, the campus ministry assistant, and the campus ministry board, the campus ministry program concentrates on the areas of faith formation, Christian leadership, and service. All adult members of the Bishop Chatard community (administrators, teachers, parents and staff) are part of campus ministry.
Faith Life
Campus ministry focuses on aiding individual faith formation through providing weekly class Masses and Reconciliation, daily prayer opportunities, All School Masses, liturgical events, retreats, and individual pastoral guidance for students and faculty. The liturgical seasons of the Catholic Church year are incorporated into all of the school liturgy planning. The importance of individual participation and Christian unity among school community members is promoted. In order to encourage a connection with the wider Catholic community, the north deanery pastoral leaders are invited to all campus ministry events.
Christian Leadership
Campus ministry is designed to encourage students to embrace a role as a leader from the perspective of being a Christian role model. Students are an integral part of all campus ministry activities especially with the school liturgical events. A core team of juniors and seniors are trained to serve as team members for the underclass retreats. Campus Ministry is responsible for organizing and training adults and students to share their faith and gifts in order to create a sense of Christian community at Bishop Chatard.
Service
In conjunction with the entire Bishop Chatard community, campus ministry assists the students in fulfilling the mandatory service requirements by providing information regarding opportunities for service. The true success of the service program rests on the shoulders of the individual adults who are the service group leaders. All adult members of the faculty and staff are given a group of students to ensure that quality service is accomplished throughout the school year.
Retreats
Campus ministry provides a structured retreat program designed to enable students at every grade level to reflect on God's presence in their everyday lives and how they might bring God's presence to others through discipleship. The retreat experiences allow the students an opportunity to make a connection between their knowledge of faith and Christian values with actual life situations. The goal of each retreat is to bring the students to Christ in order to reiterate the importance of having Christ, namely the Eucharist, at the center of one's life.
Freshmen will attend a day of reflection as a class to be held during the school day. Sophomores will attend one of four retreat dates to spend a full school day away at a retreat center. Juniors have the opportunity to attend an overnight retreat held off campus, and the retreat program ends with the Christian Awakening Program, an extended retreat experience that occurs during the senior year.
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