Santa Clara University

The meditation room, located adjacent to the Info Desk in Benson Center and open to people of all faiths, is open whenever the building is open. Please feel stop by for a moment of peace and connection.

In the final Reaching Within blog entry of the year, Senior Kate Flannery describes her growth while at SCU through the lens of her experience on Campus Ministry's Ignatian 5-Day Retreat.

We are looking for musicians, ushers, people for the procession, and trained Eucharistic ministers for the Welcome Weekend Liturgy, which will happen on Sunday, September 16. Please fill out the linked form in order to sign up. We encourage all who are interested to let us know.

We are looking for dozens (literally!) of students, faculty, staff, and others to help us out with the June 15 commencement liturgy. We are looking for hospitality, music, and Eucharistic ministers. If you are interested, please let us know by completing a short online form.

Join us on Thursday, May 24 at 8 pm for this monthly mass in Spanish. All members of the university community, family, and friends are welcomed. That's just about everyone, so we hope to see you there!

31 members of the SCU community will celebrate the Sacrament of Confirmation on Sunday, May 20 at the 6 p.m. liturgy in the Mission Church. Fr. Jack Treacy, SJ will preside. We hope you can join us in supporting these students.

Interested in learning about different Christian denominations? Bring your lunch to Campus Ministry on Fridays at noon for presentations/conversations about Christian denominations, what they believe and how they formed. Through May 25.

This spirituality series will highlight Katherine Flannery '12, who will reflect on her faith journey through her college years. Wednesday, May 9 at 8 pm in the St. Francis Chapel.

From the Pillars of the Community program:

Reverend Aimee Moiso arrived at Santa Clara University in 2008 to head the university's newly created Interfaith Ministries. From the beginning, Aimee, a Presbyterian minister, embraced Santa Clara's Jewish Student Union (JSU) with active and thoughtful support. As a private jesuit university, Santa Clara's jewish student population is not large, but Aimee's interest in people and diversity impel her to reach out.

She provides logistical and spiritual support for annual JSU events such as the Passover seder and the Welcome Weekend Havdallah dinner. She encourages Jewish students to take part in the Interfaith Ministries Council. And she always gives JSU students a voice in Interfaith events, such as Thanksgiving and the 9/11 memorial services.

Aimee's creativity, energy, and irresistible good nature are as important to her work as her love of intellectual exploration.
All of this came into play when an anti-Semitic speaker was scheduled to speak on campus. She urged students and departments involved to take a deeper look. [Official university support] was rescinded.

"Campus Ministry tries to be transparent about tough issues," says Aimee. "We want to honor free speech but not hate speech. Sometimes students are so passionate they don't understand-or care-what the consequences of their actions are. So we try to honor passion, but model how to respect each other. It's a tricky balance:'

Aimee grew up in Portland, Oregon, the daughter of a minister. Initially, she had no interest in following in her father's footsteps. But her interest in the intersection of faith and "how we live our lives" eventually drew her to the ministry and, then, to campus life. As Aimee says, "These are the issues college students struggle with."

As Hillel appreciates the support that Aimee and Interfaith Ministries provides, so she appreciates Hillel's support, saying "I wish every religious group had an organization that helps as much as Hillel:'