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Divine Mercy Novena

Join with the entire Christendom Community (alumni, faculty, staff, students, parents, friends and benefactors)

Specific novena prayers will be shared via FB and email.

Stay tuned for more information!

Come out to cheer on the Crusaders as they meet in a three way tournament with Ave Maria University and Franciscan University of Steubenville.

This family friendly event will have food, moon bounce for the kids ... and MORE!

More info coming soon ....

Come out to watch the 3rd annual Alumni vs Student soccer games.

Women at 1pm.  men at 2pm.  Moon bounce for kids on site.

If you are an alumnus/a and want to play, send an email to vince.criste@christendom.edu

Christendom Alumni Summer "Grill'n & Chill'n" BBQ - Davidsonville, MD
Saturday, July 1, 2016 at 4:00pm

Home of Rob and Anne Marie Scrivener
151 Brick Church Road, Davidsonville, MD 21035

Join us for a summer BBQ for Christendom alumni and their families. Enjoy food, drinks, kids games and a chance to meet fellow alumni from your area. Feel free to bring a side dish, dessert or drinks to share.  Click here for more information and to register.

Christendom Alumni Summer "Grill'n & Chill'n" BBQ - Mesa, AZ
Saturday, July 22, 2016 at 4:00pm

Home of Nick & Jackie Akhurst
767 E Hillview St, Mesa, AZ 85203

Join us for a summer BBQ for Christendom alumni and their families. Enjoy food, drinks, kids games and a chance to meet fellow alumni from your area. Feel free to bring a side dish, dessert or drinks to share.  Click here for more information and to register.

Christendom Alumni Summer "Grill'n & Chill'n" BBQ - Omaha, NE
Sunday, July 23, 2016 at 3:00pm

Home of Tim & Leah Coffey
5033 S 95th Circle, Omaha, NE

Join us for a summer BBQ for Christendom alumni and their families. Enjoy food, drinks, kids games and a chance to meet fellow alumni from your area. Feel free to bring a side dish, dessert or drinks to share.  Click here for more information and to register.

Sunday July 23, starting at 7 p.m. in the Chester-Belloc Room (Regina Coeli Building) there will be a "quodlibet."

In the medieval university, teaching masters would occasionally do public quodlibet’s. 

In a quodlibet, the teacher would field and respond to a wide variety of questions raised by his students.  Students were free to ask any question they wished (within certain limits). 

Our quodlibet will be structured the same way.  It will be almost like a "theology on tap" but without a formal talk and without the subject matter be strictly limited to theology. 

Christendom College Professors Bracy Bersnak (Political Science and Economics), Joseph Arias (Theology), and Mike Brown and John Cuddeback (Philosophy) will be fielding questions from the crowd.

Should be a lot of fun.

You will be free to ask any questions you wish (again within certain restraints). 

This event is open to anyone/everyone - students, alumni, parents, cousins, neighbors, etc.

Hors d'oeuvres and beverages will be served.  If you don't have any questions, at least come for the conversation which we hope will be vibrant and stimulating.

If you wish to come, please email Mike Brown at mbrown@christendom.edu to make sure there is sufficient food and drinks.

Christendom Alumni Summer "Grill'n & Chill'n" BBQ - Malvern, PA
Thursday July 27, 2017 at 7pm

Home of Andrew Youngblood
2000 Well Springs Lane
Malvern, PA 19355

Join us for a summer BBQ for Christendom alumni and their families. Enjoy food, drinks, kids games and a chance to meet fellow alumni from your area. Feel free to bring a side dish, dessert or drinks to share.  Registration link coming soon.

Christendom Alumni Summer "Grill'n & Chill'n" BBQ - Prairie Village, KS
Sunday August 13, 2017 from 1pm to 4pm

Hosted by Bernadine "Bunny" Cerny
Franklin Park
8700 Roe Ave
Prairie, Village, KS 66208

Join us for a summer BBQ for Christendom alumni and their families. Enjoy food, drinks, kids games and a chance to meet fellow alumni from your area. Feel free to bring a side dish, dessert or drinks to share.  Register Here

We all have some “knots” in our lives… and Mary can untie them!

The devotion to Mary, Undoer of Knots has become more popular ever since Pope Francis encouraged the devotion in Argentina, and then spoke about it during his first year as pontiff.

The theology of the devotion actually goes back to the second century. Saint Irenaeus wrote that, “The knot of Eve’s disobedience was untied by the obedience of Mary; what the virgin Eve bound by her unbelief, the Virgin Mary loosened by her faith.”

Mary’s faith unties the knot of sin!

So we will pray that the Blessed Virgin Mary will intercede for us all, to untie the knots of sin in our lives – so that we may be purified and ever closer to God.

We will start praying this novena on August 14 (eve of the Assumption) through August 22 (Queenship of Mary)!

Christendom Alumni Summer "Grill'n & Chill'n" BBQ -Atlanta, GA
Saturday, August 19, 2016 at 3:00pm

Home of Andrea (Jaramillo) Fricano
7265 Wyngate Dr
Cumming, GA 30040

Join us for a summer BBQ for Christendom alumni and their families. Enjoy food, drinks, kids games and a chance to meet fellow alumni from your area. Feel free to bring a side dish, dessert or drinks to share.  Click here for more information and to register.

Christendom Alumni Summer "Grill'n & Chill'n" BBQ -Bardstown, KY
Saturday, August 19, 2016 at 3:00pm

Home of Laura (O'Herron) Ebelhar
102 Southfork Drive Bardstown, KY 40004

Join us for a summer BBQ for Christendom alumni and their families. Enjoy food, drinks, kids games and a chance to meet fellow alumni from your area. Please bring a side dish, dessert or drinks to share.  Click here for more information and to register.

Christendom Alumni Summer "Grill'n & Chill'n" BBQ - Dallas, TX
Saturday, August 19, 2016 at 4:00pm

Location is still being determined but it will be in Irving, TX at either Mater Dei Parish Hall, The Hester Residence or an Irving park. Location will be finalized by July 1

Join us for a summer BBQ for Christendom alumni and their families. Enjoy food, drinks, kids games and a chance to meet fellow alumni from your area. Please bring a side dish, dessert or drinks to share.  Click here for more information and to register.

Christendom Alumni Summer "Grill'n & Chill'n" BBQ - Raleigh, NC
Saturday, August 26, 2017 at 4:00pm

Peter McNeely
5312 Seaspray Lane
Raleigh, NC  27610

Join us for a summer BBQ for Christendom alumni and their families. Enjoy food, drinks, kids games and a chance to meet fellow alumni from your area. Please bring a side dish, dessert or drinks to share.  There will be a hose and a little baby pool to splash around in so bring the kids bathing suits.  Registration coming soon.

Below is the schedule for the Fortieth Anniversary Forty Hours Devotion to be held in Christ the King Chapel from Friday Sep 1 through Sunday Sep 3, 2017.

All alumni and members of the Front Royal Community are welcome to participate in the 40 Hours Devotion at any time.

What is the FORTY HOURS DEVOTION??? Fr. William Saunders, formerly dean of the Christendom Graduate School, explains here:
http://www.catholiceducation.org/en/culture/catholic-contributions/40-hours-with-jesus-christ.html

FORTY HOURS DEVOTION SCHEDULE

Friday 9/1

7:30 PM: Opening Mass & Exposition (Celebrant: Fr John Baptist Ku, OP)

9:00 PM: Laudamus Te Holy Hour (Preacher: Fr John Baptist Ku, OP)

ALL NIGHT EXPOSITION/ADORATION

Saturday 9/2

7:30 AM Mass (Celebrant: Fr John Baptist Ku, OP)

11:30 AM Mass & Sermon (Celebrant: Fr. John Corbett, OP)

4:15 PM Vespers & Sermon (Fr. John Corbett, OP)

7:30 PM Compline and Reposition of the Blessed Sacrament

Sunday 9/3

10:00 AM Mass and Sermon (Celebrant: Fr. Basil Cole, OP)

3:00 PM Divine Mercy Chaplet, Sermon, and Benediction/Reposition of the Blessed Sacrament (Fr. Marcus Pollard)

Each day exposition of the Blessed Sacrament will resume after Masses.

Fatima Holy Card

Immaculate Heart of Mary, my Mother,I come to you this day as a little child in prayer. I beg to make this offering of my heart as simple and childlike as I can. The three little ones of Fatima have taught us what it is that pleases your maternal heart.

I earnestly desire that all the people of the world be brought back to a humble knowledge and love of the Sacred Heart of your dear Son. I pray, dear Mother of my God, that the indescribable beauty and the glow-white purity of your own Immaculate Heart may so captivate our souls that we will detest all sin and dedicate our lives to the honor and glory of the God Who created us. As much as I feel the need of many things, I do not dare in this novena, Mother Mary, to ask one selfish petition for myself. You revealed the secrets of your own sad heart at Fatima and begged for the restoration of the world to God. What can I ask of greater good than to unite my heart to yours in this great yearning? What can I add but the fervent prayer that all the world may listen to your pleading?

I give my heart to you, my heavenly Queen, and in utmost confidence I leave to you the choice of what is best for me in answer to my prayer of love and reparation. Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima, I give you my heart. Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima, I put my trust entirely in you.

Immaculate Heart of the Mother of my God, we implore, through your powerful intercession, the conversion of the hearts of men, complete victory over sin, and the return of peace which you have promised. Amen.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, Pray for us.
Our Lady Queen of Christendom, Pray for us.
Sacred Heart of Jesus, Have mercy on us.

40th Anniversary Homecoming with Reunions for Class of 1987, 19997 and 2007!

Special dinner dance, fireworks and more!

Click here for more information!

Join with the entire Christendom Community for the Annual All Souls Novena.

Official enrollment form coming soon!

The members of the Alumni Advisory Council would like to request that ALL Christendom alumni and friends join us for a day of Prayer and Fasting on January 26th. We pray and fast for all victims, for the accused, for the administration, for current students, for ourselves, and for anyone affected by recent events. We pray for the gift of clarity. Most of all we pray that Christendom College will continue to be a guiding force for good in the world.
We ask that these masses be offered next Friday, January 26th in your home parishes, missions, and shrines. Below is a growing list of organized events on Jan 26, 2018

https://christendomalumni.com/2018/01/21/day-of-prayer-and-fasting-for-christendom-community/

Alumni Lenten Retreat (with Fr. Fran Peffley, '86)

Date: Saturday February 24, 2018

Time:  8:30am - 12pm

Registration opens Jan 15, 2018 (details to be shared on FB and via email)

Schedule:

8:30am - continental breakfast in chapel crypt

9:00am – first talk in chapel on “The Call to Holiness in the Modern World”

9:30am – break - confessions/spiritual direction/browse items for sale

10:00am – second talk on “Living the Message of Fatima in the Lenten Season”

10:30 – break - confessions/spiritual direction/browse items for sale

11:00 – rosary in chapel while confessions are being heard

11:30am – campus Mass (Fr. Peffley)

12:00 – optional brunch in St. Lawrence Commons

Join the entire Christendom Community in praying the Divine Mercy Novena from March 30 (Good Friday) through April 7 (holy Saturday).

Enroll your loved ones (living or deceased) here.

Find the Divine Mercy Chaplet and daily intentions here.

Alumni vs Student Soccer Games (April 8, 2018)

Crusader Fields

1pm - Women

3pm - Men

Mystery Dinner Theatre (April 6-8, 2018)

Exact Times and location TBD

First Annual Alumni & Friends Giving Day

4-24-18

"One Man Can Make A Difference"

Save the Date!

More details coming soon!

Summer 2018 Grill'n & Chill'n Alumni BBQ's

This is our third annual alumni summer BBQ event,

Interested in hosting an event at your home or local parish or park?

Contact the alumni office for more info!

vince.criste@christendom.edu

5th Annual Novena to Our Lady Undoer of Knots

Join the alumni community as we pray for all the "knots" in our lives and entrust our work, our families and our very lives in Mother Mary's hands.

Prayers to be shared via FB and email.

Homecoming 2018

Come home and celebrate with your family!

Special reunions for the Class of 1988, 1998 and 2008.

Annual All Souls Novena

Enroll your deceased family and friends in the annual All Souls Novena and pray for the repose of their souls and for all the Christendom family!

Enrollment will be announced via snail mail, FB post and email.

Alumni Advisory Council Members and Class Representatives meet each year to discuss key alumni initiatives and set an agenda for the upcoming year.

Details forthcoming.  Stay tuned.

Alumni Lenten Half Day Retreat (with Fr. Noah Morey, ’08)

Bring the family and have some fun watching the alumni vs student soccer games.

Women play at 1pm.

Men play at 3pm.

Join the Christendom family in praying the Diving Mercy Novena starting on Good Friday and continuing through Easter Saturday, the eve of Divine Mercy Sunday.

Join in on the fun and participate in Giving Day 2019.  All funds go to support one of the five Caroll Fund areas:  Athletics, Counseling and Spiritual Development, Financial Aid, Faculty and Staff Salaries and Career Development.

6th Annual Novena to Our Lady Undoer of Knots

Pray for the needs of our alumni family.

Homecoming 2019 with special Reunions for Class of 1989, 1999, and 2009.

Click here for more info.

Pray with the entire Christendom family.

Annual Alumni Advisory Council & Class Representatives Meeting

CANCELLED

Saturday March 28

Alumni Half-Day Lenten Retreat with Fr. Noah Morey (’08)

Rejoice in Hope, Endure in Affliction, Persevere in Prayer

RSVP by 03/23/2020

Cost:  retreat is free; there is a small fee for meals

To register, go to:  AlumniLent2020.eventbrite.com

Divine Mercy Novena

If you prefer to enroll online,

go to christendom.edu/divinemercy 

CANCELLED due to Coronavirus COVID-19

Alumni vs. Student Soccer Games

Third Annual Alumni Giving Day

Cancelled until further notice

Dear Alumni,

Peace be with you.

I hope you and your extended families are doing well in these days of grace.

Mid-August is upon us and typically at this time of year, we are heavily promoting Homecoming and registering alumni for the various reunion and alumni receptions.

But as you well know, this is NOT a typical year.

In conjunction with key alumni advisors and the college administration, the Homecoming Committee has decided that the best thing to do (for alumni, students and the college itself) is to postpone Homecoming until the Fall of 2021.

In a nutshell, Homecoming would not be Homecoming given the concerns expressed by a growing number of alumni regarding travel and other coronavirus challenges, the prudent policies being implemented on campus, and the highly uncertain environment due to the fluid and varying state mandates around the country.

In particular, a number of alumni have expressed disappointment that they will not be able to attend their class reunions.  To ensure that all alumni have the opportunity to attend their reunions, all 2020 class reunions will be postponed and officially celebrated in October of 2021 along with the normal 2021 reunions.

Where possible, I want to encourage you to connect in person with other alumni in your area, based on your own comfort level and particular circumstances.

In the short term, the alumni advisory council and the alumni office will be investing their energies in serving our alumni community in other ways during this time. You will be invited to participate in several virtual events planned for this fall and next spring.  (Details forthcoming.)

In addition, we will have some exciting alumni news to share with you in the coming months that will engage alumni on a whole new level.  (Stay tuned!)

Thank you in advance for your understanding and cooperation.

Please do not hesitate to reach out to me with any questions, comments, suggestions, or concerns.

Until the next update, may God bless you and your family!

Sincerely,

Vince

Vincent T. Criste ('98)
Director of Alumni & Donor Relations
Christendom College
134 Christendom Dr
Front Royal, VA 22630
540-551-9180 - office
vince.criste@christendom.edu

All Souls Novena

Details to follow.

Alumni Lenten Retreat
Saturday, March 6
Fr. John Riley
Topic: Embracing Lent

Schedule:

8:30am – Optional continental breakfast and coffee in the chapel crypt
9:00am – Talk #1 in the chapel: ENDURING LENT?
9:30am – Quiet Time; opportunity for confession
9:50am – Chaplet of Divine Mercy
10:00am – Talk #2 in the chapel: EMBRACING LENT!
10:30am – Quiet Time; opportunity for confession
11:00am – Rosary; opportunity for confession
11:30am – Retreat Mass (Fr. Riley)

Registration is now closed.

Join your Christendom family in praying the Divine Mercy Novena and enroll your loved ones (living or deceased) in the novena.

You can enroll your loved ones here:  https://www.christendom.edu/landing-pages/divine-mercy-novena/

See HERE for more details.

Alumni Lenten Retreat

Retreat Date:
March 26, 2022
Saturday of the 3rd week of Lent
Chapel of Christ the King
Christendom College

Retreat Master:
Alumnus Fr. Joseph Mary Brown, CSJ, ’85

Retreat Topic:
"Human Suffering: A grace-filled opportunity to unite with Jesus in the saving work of the Cross."

Retreat Cost:
Retreat Only: FREE*
Breakfast: $5.00/person
Lunch: $10.00/person**

*Free-will donations will be accepted throughout the day.
**Meal tickets are separate from normal retreat registration tickets. Please purchase each meal ticket individually (i.e., if you wish to enjoy both breakfast and lunch, you will need to purchase a breakfast ticket AND a lunch ticket).

Retreat Schedule:
8:30am - Continental Breakfast  (chapel crypt)
9:30am – Talk #1 (chapel) - "Why do good people suffer?"
10:00 am - Rosary (chapel)
10:30am – Talk #2 (chapel) - "Is there a purpose to suffering, or is it completely meaningless?"
11:00am - Confessions
11:30am - Mass
12:15pm – Chapel Tour (tentative – depends on status of construction that day)
1:15pm – Lunch (chapel crypt)
2:30pm – Talk #3 (chapel) -  "Jesus Christ Crucified: the definitive light on human suffering"
3:00pm - Chaplet of Divine Mercy (chapel)
3:15pm – Talk #4 (Chapel) - "'I fill up what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ': Redemptive suffering, a royal path to holiness"
3:45pm – Retreat Ends (confession available)

Questions:
Please Contact the Alumni Relations Office at (540) 551-9180 or aidan.fletcher@christendom.edu

Schedule for the Weekend:

SATURDAY, APRIL 9

11:00 am Soccer Alumnae vs. Lady Crusaders
Crusader Fields
12:00 pm Volleyball Alumnae vs. Lady Crusaders
Crusader Gymnasium
12:30 pm Soccer Alumni vs. Crusaders
Crusader Fields
2:00 pm Rugby Alumni vs. Crusaders (Unveiling of National Championship Banner)
Crusader Fields
5:00 pm Crusader Network Reception
Shenandoah Valley Golf Club

SUNDAY, APRIL 10

1:00 pm Baseball Alumni vs. Crusaders
Bing Crosby Fields
1:30 pm Softball Alumnae vs. Lady Crusaders
Bing Crosby Fields

Questions?  Call 540-551-9212 or email patrick.quest@christendom.edu

Divine Mercy Novena - Christendom College

The remembrance of your living and deceased loved ones in the Divine Mercy Novena will be offered by the Christendom Community from April 15, 2022 (Good Friday) through April 23, 2022 (Eve of Divine Mercy Sunday). The names of your loved ones will be placed on the altar of Christ the King Chapel during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass on Divine Mercy Sunday.

How to Pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet
1. Using rosary beads, begin with the Sign of the Cross, say one “Our Father,” one “Hail Mary,” and “The Apostles’ Creed.”

2. Then on the “Our Father” beads say the following: Eternal Father, I offer You the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your dearly beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world.

3. On the ten “Hail Mary” beads say the following:
For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world. (Repeat step 2 and 3 for all five decades.)

4. Conclude with (three times):
Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us and on the whole world.

Closing prayer: O Blood and water, which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a Fount of Mercy for us, I Trust in You!

St. Faustina, pray for us!
St. John Paul II, pray for us!

Excerpts taken from the Diary of St. Faustina Kowalska – Divine Mercy in My Soul:

“Souls that make an appeal to My mercy delight Me. To such souls I grant even more graces than they ask… before I come as a just Judge, I first open wide the door of My mercy."
- Notebook III, #1146

“My daughter, encourage souls to say the chaplet which I have given to you. It pleases Me to grant everything they ask of Me by saying the chaplet. When hardened sinners say it, I will fill their souls with peace and the hour of their death will be a happy one.
- Notebook V, #1541

“Write this for the benefit of distressed souls; when a soul sees and realizes the gravity of its sins, when the whole abyss of the misery into which it immersed itself is displayed before its eyes, let it not despair, but with trust let it throw itself into the arms of My mercy, as a child into the arms of its beloved mother.
- Notebook V, #1541

Details Coming Soon . . .