News from Carroll Campus Ministry

Eucharistic adoration expanded
By Alex Woelkers

Last spring, Carroll students led the Helena Catholic community in a vigil of prayer before the exposed Blessed Sacrament. Over 100 Helena parishioners and approximately 40 Carroll students committed at least one hour a week for eight weeks to adoration in the Trinity Hall adoration chapel.

Community members and students alike expressed a sense of deepened unity between Carroll College and the diocesan Catholic community as a result of adoration.

In light of last year’s success and community support, adoration hours will be expanded to round-the-clock, from 7 a.m. Monday through 11 p.m. Friday.

As our Carroll community works to realize our identity and mission of learning and living through, with and in Christ, Eucharistic Adoration remains an indispensable and foundational piece of a clear spiritual vision, which Bishop George Thomas, Father Dougald McCallum, the campus ministry team and the students of the college have created and seek to live out.

Freshmen welcomed by CCM
By Alex Woelkers

The school year is off to a great start, as upperclass volunteers teamed up with student life and campus ministry staff to welcome over 300 new freshmen students to Carroll College during orientation weekend.

New student-living director Bennett MacIntyre, new Guadalupe Hall director Jim Carney, and seven new community advisers have teamed up with Kirchen ministers to create a positive, fun, community-minded attitude among the new freshmen. The new freshmen community advisers and Kirchen ministers are working to build a student family focused on our Catholic Christian values in which every student can find a new home.

The end of the first week of classes was celebrated with a barbeque/ rock concert/slip and slide party outside Guadalupe Hall. This event, along with strong freshmen attendance at the Mass of the Holy Spirit and campus Masses, highlighted the positive spirit this group of freshmen has already embraced.

Campus Ministry looks forward to fostering the atmosphere of excitement about Carroll College and its Catholic values among the new freshmen through this weekend’s freshman retreat at Legendary Lodge.

Faith formation, community involvement key
By Cole Mannix

As the 2006-2007 Carroll school year begins to pick up steam, there is a wide range of exciting activities and opportunities for students looking to deepen their faith and grow as integral members both of the Carroll and Helena communities. The Carroll Campus Ministry Kirchen team includes area groups responsible for:
• Liturgical organization
• Communication and public relations
• Bible study coordination
• Events and evangelization
• RCIA and Confirmation
• Ecumenical and community outreach.
As another group within Campus Ministry, Carroll Core team members along with other student volunteers:
• Have created Saints for Life, an organization to foster respect for human life
• Assist with Search, a twice-a-year spiritual retreat offered to Carroll students
• Through Headlights, are planning to serve the broader community with a planned trip to New York this spring, along with a possible visit to the diocesan mission in Guatemala in May.

The campus ministry team will again work with local parishes to organize perpetual Eucharistic Adoration in Carroll’s Trinity Hall chapel, and is also actively fundraising in hopes of sending students to the 2008 World Youth Day in Sydney, Australia.

From the director
Colleen Dunne and I are pleased to provide information to the readers of the Montana Catholic with updates about the happenings of campus ministry at Carroll College. As your diocesan college, Carroll plays a very important role in educating and forming young adults, many from our own diocese, to live as Christ has taught and become future leaders in our Catholic communities.

Through these articles, we hope to keep the diocese appraised of our students and excited about what they will offer for the future of our Church.

We are grateful for the support we receive from the people of our diocese and invite you to contact us with any questions or suggestions that may help you to know more about our ministry at Carroll College.

Father Dougald McCallum, Director of Campus Ministry, 447-4869
dmccallu@carroll.edu

Colleen Dunne, Associate Director of Campus Ministry, 447-4333
cdunne@carroll.edu

Published in The Montana Catholic, Vol. 22, No. 9, September 18, 2006.