Household Life Mass
Households awarded for outstanding coordinators, service
By Lauren Hunter Staff Writer Several men’s and women’s households won awards at the final Household Life Mass of the school year in the Finnegan Fieldhouse on April 21. Mass started with the procession of the household banners. Congregants cheered and sang “Lift High the Banners of Love” by Graham Kendrick as each household’s banner […]
Households encouraged in spiritual life at Household Life Mass
By Lauren Hunter Staff Writer The Rev. Rufino Corona, TOR, encouraged household members to bring each other to heaven at the fall 2022 Household Life Mass at 4:45 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 9, in Finnegan Fieldhouse. The Fieldhouse was tightly packed, with almost every seat in the building filled. Brothers and sisters from the different […]
Campus celebrates household life, strength of community
THERESA BALICK AND JEN HANTZ STAFF WRITER AND DISTRIBUTION MANAGER Students across campus cleared their schedules for Household Life Week, an annual event dedicated to celebrating the community offered to all by households. The festivities and excitement commenced Thursday, Sept. 5 at 10 a.m. with the Household Fair outside of the Finnegan Fieldhouse.
New household welcomed and inducted into the Franciscan family
FLANNERY MCGOVERN STAFF WRITER On Jan. 27, the spring semester Household Life Mass was held in the Finnegan Fieldhouse at 4:45 p.m. The room was packed as people excitedly gathered together with their household brothers and sisters. Along with the general excitement that always accompanies the Mass, there was reason for added excitement, which was […]
Household life week encourages students to overcome fear
KENDAL HUNTSMAN STAFF WRITER Household life dominated this past weekend, kicking off the semester’s household commitments with reverence, fun and games. The Household Life Mass was held in the Finnegan Fieldhouse on Friday with Father Rick Martignetti, OFM, pastoral associate to households, as the main celebrant. All of the campus’s households processed down the main isle […]
Household Life Mass and awards, focus on theme of outreach and evangelization
HANNAH CRITES EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Outreach and evangelization was the theme of the household awards and final Household Life Mass of the semester on April 21. The pastoral associate to households, the Rev. Rick Martignetti, OFM, presided over the Mass while the Rev. Gregory Plow, TOR, director of the Priestly Discernment Program, read the gospel. Martignetti began […]
Household Life Week kicks off school year with Mass, Olympics
KELSEY SLEMP STAFF WRITER The semesterly Household Life Week kicked off the year for household commitments. As usual, it began with the men’s and women’s household fairs, on September 7 and 8, respectively. Each of the many households on campus set up their tables in the J.C. Williams Center from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. […]
Homily at Household Life Mass focuses on theme of ‘growth’
MICHELLE FORTUNATO STAFF WRITER “You are not mushrooms, you are oak trees,” the Rev. Gregory Plow, TOR, told students at the beginning-of-the-semester Household Life Mass on Jan 29. Tradition holds that before each household Mass, all the households process in with their individual banners while a song about the walls of Jericho is sung enthusiastically. […]
Guest celebrant draws on Gospel parable of new wines, wineskins at household life Mass
BY KAREN BISGES STAFF WRITER The Rev. David Tickerhoof, TOR encouraged household members to be evangelizers and to show mercy in remembrance of Christ on the cross during Franciscan University’s household life Mass held Friday in Finnegan Fieldhouse. The Mass also celebrated the return of families and friends and the 40th year of household life. […]