Dear University community,
I write to prayerfully wish you all great blessings during this Holy Week, and great joy as we approach Easter Sunday. It is my hope that you are all able to devote yourselves to commemorating the great love Our Lord has for us in sacrificing Himself for us and all of humankind.
On Holy Thursday, we celebrate the institution of the sacrament of the Eucharist. In this stretch run of the three year National Eucharistic Revival, it is good to remember that the Eucharist – giving great thanks for the gift of Jesus to us – is at the very heart and center of our Faith (the source and summit as Vatican II writes). I should note also that The Catholic University of America will be present in great numbers at the National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis this July.
Finally, I want to wish well to our 10 students here at Catholic University who will be entering the Church at St Anthony’s parish here in Brookland this coming Saturday evening, March 30, at the Easter Vigil. Both graduate and undergraduate students will be received into the Church with full sacraments. Additionally, eight Catholic University students will be confirmed at the 11 a.m. Mass at St. Vincent’s on Sunday, April 7. Please keep them in your prayers.
Wishing you great blessings this Holy Week, Easter, and always.
Sincerely,
Peter Kilpatrick
President