Pray-a-thon 2022

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Join us for the official kickoff of Pray-a-thon on Sunday, March 20, 2022!

The day will consist of 11 a.m. Mass in Our Lady's Chapel, followed by a time of fellowship with food, music, and performances from our UIW Community (about 12:30 p.m., lot at Burr entrance). The event will be located at the Admin. Parking Lot located closest to the Burr Rd. entrance to the Broadway campus.

To register for in-person Mass please visit our Events Registration Page

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Evening Mass in Our Lady's Chapel at 7 p.m. Use the link below to register.

Events Registration Page

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Join us for daily Mass in Our Lady's Chapel found on the 1st floor of the Administration Building (Broadway campus). For more information, please contact Lena Gokelman or Carmen Aguilera at ministry@uiwtx.edu

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Lent (from the Anglo-Saxon word lencten, meaning “Spring”) is a season marked by two important characteristics: baptism and penance. Through these elements we have the opportunity not only to renew ourselves, but also our relationship with God and one another as we prepare for the celebration of Easter. Think of it as a spiritual “spring cleaning” – a renewal and recommitment to live according to the Gospel. As we approach the celebration of Holy Week and Easter, we invite you to a prayerful celebration of the sacrament of reconciliation where you will have an opportunity to spend time in prayer and reflection as we open our hearts to God for reconciliation and healing. “A clean heart create for me, God; renew within me a steadfast spirit.” (Psalm 51: 12)

No registration is necessary for this service. Masks are required.

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Experience a guided tour of the exhibit, “A Life for God and a Heart for Others” in the Heritage Center. The exhibit tells the story of the Congregation, through the stories of the Sisters and their collaborators. See and read about the women pioneers who founded the grew the Congregation through its ministries of health care, education, and pastoral and social services. Visitors are invited to take a journey, a pilgrimage of sorts, and enter into the story of the Congregation, and ponder how your story is being written into the story of the Congregation.

The tour lasts approximately 1 hour, and includes a tour of the Chapel of the Incarnate Word. Tours are limited to 12 persons and everyone must be masked at all times.

The tour for Tuesday, March 22 has been cancelled. We hope you can attend the tour on Thursday. Please accept our apologies.

The tour repeats on Thursday, March 24, at the same time.

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You are cordially invited to participate in a service of contemplative worship in the tradition of Taizé on Tuesday, March 22nd at 6:30 p.m. in the Chapel of the Incarnate Word. Additional information on the history, community, and current events of Taizé, may be found at: Taize.fr.

Taizé Prayer has been held in a number of venues on the Incarnate Word campus, and this year we are pleased that the Chapel of the Incarnate Word will serve as the prayer space.

For information regarding the service, please contact: Lena Gokelman, mgokelma@uiwtx.edu

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Join us for daily Mass in Our Lady's Chapel found on the 1st floor of the Administration Building. For more information, please contact Lena Gokelman or Carmen Aguilera at ministry@uiwtx.edu

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Join us for daily Mass in Our Lady's Chapel found on the 1st floor of the Administration Building. For more information, please contact Lena Gokelman or Carmen Aguilera at ministry@uiwtx.edu

UIW Community

UIW’s Festival of Colors will be held on Wednesday, March 23, and will include an international fair from 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. at West Gate Circle. The annual color throw will begin at 4 p.m. For more information see the UIW's Festival of Colors web page.

Holi is a Hindu festival that marks the start of spring. Celebrated across India, it's an ancient festival with the first mentions of it dating all the way back to a 4th century poem. It was even described in detail in a 7th century Sanskrit play called "Ratnavali," written by the Indian emperor Harsha. "Witness the beauty of the great cupid festival which excites curiosity as the townsfolk are dancing at the touch of brownish water thrown ... Everything is colored yellowish red and rendered dusty by the heaps of scented powder blown all over," wrote Harsha. A national holiday in India, it takes place on the last full moon day of the Hindu lunisolar calendar month, which is usually March. This year's national holiday falls on Friday, March 18. Celebrations can last up to a week.

Join Breathe Young Adult group for a Poverty Meal at 7 p.m. in SEC 3140 followed by Adoration with the CCVI Sisters at the Chapel of the Incarnate Word.

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Join Breathe and the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word for Adoration at 8 p.m.

This past year, a local community of Incarnate Word Sisters has hosted, via Facebook, 20 minutes of contemplative prayer for the needs of the world. The week of Pray-a-thon, the prayer moves to the Chapel of the Incarnate Word. From 8 to 8:20 p.m., the Facebook community will be welcomed to join the local community for Eucharistic Adoration. Adoration will continue in-person in the Chapel of the Incarnate Word until 10 p.m..

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Experience a guided tour of the exhibit, “A Life for God and a Heart for Others” in the Heritage Center. The exhibit tells the story of the Congregation, through the stories of the Sisters and their collaborators. See and read about the women pioneers who founded the grew the Congregation through its ministries of health care, education, and pastoral and social services. Visitors are invited to take a journey, a pilgrimage of sorts, and enter into the story of the Congregation, and ponder how your story is being written into the story of the Congregation.

The tour lasts approximately 1 hour, and includes a tour of the Chapel of the Incarnate Word. Tours are limited to 12 persons and everyone must be masked at all times.

Heritage Center Tour Sign Up

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Prayer Service at noon (Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes; next to the roadway behind Dubuis Hall). Co-sponsored by the Latinx Heritage Committee.

Óscar Romero was appointed Archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador in 1977, during a period of widespread human rights violations and political unrest. He became an outspoken advocate for the marginalized following the murder of his friend and fellow priest, Fr. Rutilio Grande, also an outspoken advocate for the poor and oppressed. Archbishop Romero was well known for his radio homilies to the people and was considered by many to be the “voice of the voiceless,” encouraging others to become advocates, as well. Archbishop Romero was shot while celebrating Mass March 24, 1980.

Pope Francis declared Archbishop Romero a martyr February 2015 and beatified him later that year on May 23. Blessed Óscar Romero was canonized a saint on October 14, 2018 alongside Pope Paul VI.

On this feast day of St. Óscar Romero, let us remember these words:

“We might be left without a radio station: God’s best microphone is Christ, and Christ’s best microphone is the Church, and the Church is all of you. Let each one of you, in your own job, in your own vocation—nun, married person, bishop, priest, high school or university student, day laborer, wage earner, market woman—one in your own place … live the faith intensely and feel that in your surroundings you are a true microphone of God our Lord.”

For more information, please contact ministry@uiwtx.edu

Location: Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes; next to the roadway behind Dubuis Hall)

The grotto was built in 1904, to mark the 50th anniversary of the promulgation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is a replica of the grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes in France. Being for many years a place of destination of Sisters’ processions for Marian feasts, it is a special spot available to everyone for private and communal prayer and reflection.

UIW Psychology Department, Latino Heritage Committee, and Mission and Ministry presents:

Mass Protest: How St. Oscar Romero's “Misa Unica” (One Single Mass) Sparked A Revolution.

Thursday March 24, 1 - 3 p.m. in the Library Auditorium

Come watch “The Last Journey of Oscar Romero” and learn about how the cancellation of all the masses except for one became a “mass protest” one Sunday in El Salvador. The film will be followed by a moment of silence as names of all the murdered priests, nuns, and lay religious people are read aloud. They were brutally murdered as part of the government-supported repression of the coffee workers. A discussion of the film will follow.

Coffee and Salvadorian sweet treats after the event.

UIW Community

The UIW community is invited to join in reciting the Chapel of Divine Mercy with IWHS at Mt. Erin House located between the Feik School of Pharmacy and Incarnate Word High School.

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Incarnate Word Day celebrates the Feast of the Annunciation, Mary's "YES" to God's call, and is the major feast of the Congregation of Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, as well as our university. We join together as one Incarnate Word family - students, faculty, staff, Incarnate Word Sisters, and alumni - to celebrate gifts given and received.

This year, we anticipate the Feast with Mass (Vigil) at 5:00 pm in the Chapel of the Incarnate Word. Auxiliary Bishop Gary Janak is presiding, and this Mass is Bishop Janak’s first visit as Bishop to the Chapel of the Incarnate Word. The entire Incarnate Word community gathers today to celebrate the Incarnate Word, and give thanks for the ministries, Sisters, associates, collaborators, and students who has been part of the Incarnate Word mission since its founding in San Antonio in 1869.

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The Incarnate Word community is invited to gather for Morning Prayer on the Feast of the Annunciation. Traditional Morning Prayer, including the antiphonal recitation of the psalms of the day, will be celebrated.

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Join the community of The Village at Incarnate Word in a prayer service remembering those Sisters who have gone before us. The service will take place at the CCVI Cemetery on the north side of the Chapel of the Incarnate Word (between the chapel and Central Market).

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The Stations of the Cross, also known as the Way of the Cross or Via Crucis, commemorate Jesus's passion and death on the cross, and were the way pilgrims traced his path through Jerusalem on the via Dolorosa. Today’s celebration will be a traditional recitation of the stations with musical response.

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Join University Mission and Ministry and presenter, Fr. David Munoz, OMI, for a special Incarnate Word Day presentation, “A charism is a gift of the spirit through a person or group for the good of the church”

The CCVI Spirit Award will be presented immediately following the presentation.

About Fr. David Muñoz OMI:

Fr. David Muñoz-López, OMI was born in Puerto Rico in 1982. He grew up in South Florida, USA, where he met the Oblates and after high school entered formation. He professed first vows in 2005 and was ordained in 2010 after finishing his studies in Rome. Currently he serves as Pastor of Our Lady of San Juan de Los Lagos Parish and Shrine in San Antonio, Texas. He also serves as the assistant to the Kusenberger Chair of Oblate Studies at Oblate School of Theology and is on the US Province committee for the Mazenodian Family.

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Mission and Purpose

The Cesar E. Chavez Legacy and Educational Foundation (CECLEF) continues to impact our San Antonio community and fulfill a mission started by our founder, the late Jaime P. Martinez, who was mentored and inspired by Cesar E. Chavez. The 26th annual Cesar E. Chavez March for Justice pays tribute to the life and legacy of Cesar E. Chavez and Dolores Huerta.

The Yes We Can Food Drive Campaign

The March also honors The Farm Worker who toil in the field to feed a nation. In that spirit, we ask that you join in helping feed those in our city impacted by food insecurity. Bring your canned goods to the March and we will donate them to the San Antonio Food Bank. Drop off bins will be available at the beginning of the March route and volunteers will be ready to receive your canned goods.

Why We March - La Causa Sigue

Andres Chavez, grandson of Cesar Chavez, reminds us that when we hear three powerful words, “Si Se Puede,” it is not only the rallying cry for social justice of the 1960's; rather, la causa sigue—even today. This year’s March theme, La Causa Sigue (The Cause Continues) gives us purpose for uniting and lending our voices at the March. Today, almost 50 years from when La Causa first began, the issues are eerily similar to what erupted during the 1960s and 1970s.

Join us for the 26th annual Cesar E. Chavez March for Justice on Saturday, March 26, 2022.

• 8:30 a.m.: DJ Plata kicks off the morning with San Antonio music and a morning rally. Complimentary coffee and refreshments will be provided.
• 10 a.m.: March steps off at the intersection of Guadalupe and Brazos streets and ends at Hemisfair Plaza.
• 12 -3 p.m.: Afternoon program, music and entertainment with performances by Little Joe y La Familia and Piñata Protest.

For Details and More Information about the March for Justice

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We regularly celebrate the Eucharist at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. (every Sunday). End Pray-a-thon week with your faith community in Our Lady's Chapel. To register for in person and virtual Mass, please visit our Events Registration Page

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Our next memorial Mass will be held Sunday, March 27 @ 11 a.m. in Our Lady’s Chapel. If you would like to submit the name of a loved one or friend who is recently deceased or for whom the anniversary of death is approaching, please add their information here, UIW Monthly Memorial Mass by the close of the day, Thursday, March 24. Names provided by this date will also be included in the digital worship aid for that weekend. Registration links for in-person or virtual attendance (via ZOOM) for this liturgy may be found on our UMM Events Registration Page. For more information, please contact Lena Gokelman or Carmen Aguilera at ministry@uiwtx.edu