A vibrant community of Ball State University students, faculty and staff, and devoted local parishioners,
St. Francis invites you to discover a more personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and an ever deepening love for His Church and one another. All are welcome to join us to pray, adore, study, eat, or hang out at the Newman Center, your home away from home at Ball State.
St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church & Newman Center | Pursing Jesus Christ: Forming Disciples on Campus & in the Family
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MONDAY
5:00pm Women's Rosary
8:00pm Men's Night
8:00pm Women's Night (1st Monday)
TUESDAY
9-11am Coffee & Donuts (in the Newman house, a social open to all students every Tuesday morning)
5:00pm Men's Rosary
7:00pm COR: Catholic Speaker Series (monthly)
8:00pm Eucharistic Adoration & Confessions
WEDNESDAY
7:00pm St. Francis Youth Retreat Team (SFYRT)
THURSDAY
7:00pm Student Music Ministry Practice
8:00pm Thirsty Thursday: Mass & Social Event
FRIDAY
6:15pm Friday Night Dollar Dinner
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
12-8pm Eucharistic Adoration
OTHER MINISTRIESFOCUS Bible Studies
Students for Life
Newman Center Internships
FALL 2018 EVENTS
(All dates are subject to change. Please sign up for the Flocknote to recieve our weekly email updates. Thank you!)
August
15 Assumption Mass Times: 5:30pm Tues vigil, 12:15pm, 5:30pm
16 8pm Bonfire
18 8-11pm Newman Center House Warming Party
19 8pm Outdoor Mass
20 7:30-11a First Day of Class Coffee & Donuts
21 8pm Open Air Holy Hour
23 8pm Thirsty Thursday Mass
9-11 Ice Cream Social
24 6:30-8p Welcome Cookout
26 1-8pm New Beginnings Retreat
27-31 Normal Weekly Schedule Begins (first events for each ministry)
September
1-3 Labor Day Weekend (many students go home)
3 1pm FOCUS Canoe Trip
7 6:30pm Friday Night Dollar Dinner
9 12:30-8p Eucharistic Adoration Begins (continues weekly)
11 7pm COR (tentative)
22 4:30-8:30p Family Weekend & Parish Fish Fry
28-30 Men’s Weekend & Women’s Weekend
October
4 5:30pm Mass for Feast of St. Francis
All-Parish Dinner
5-9 BSU Fall Break
12-13 5p – 5p BSK Team Retreat
15-20 Homecoming Week
20 10am Homecoming Parade
11am-2pm Alumni Open House
3pm Homecoming Game
27 6:30pm Trunk or Treat (students & families, tentative)
8pm Boo Bash
28 9:15pm BSK Meeting #4
November
1 All Saints Day
9-11 Koinonia Retreat (St. Mary’s Anderson)
18 12:30pm Thanksgiving Dinner
21-25 BSU Thanksgiving Break
30 6:30pm All Parish Friday Night Dinner (with Advent Wreathe making)
December
1 8pm FOCUS Tacky Sweater Party
4 9pm Cardinal Catholic Council Elections
7 11:59pm Midnight Mass for Immaculate Conception
8 Immaculate Conception
8pm Cardinal Catholic Christmas Party
11 7am-11 Exam Breakfast
11-15 Exams