"Run So As To Win"
Since returning to Champaign I hear the Illini drumline practicing across the street almost daily. It gets me hyped for our upcoming football games! As an Illini fan, I often think about how our teams, especially our coaches, prepare for the season and their games. I am confident that if I asked our coaches what their mission is they would hopefully all respond, “To win a National Championship!” This is their goal, their focus, the reason they practice, recruit, plan, and work hard. They are intentional about this every day!
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Since arriving to St. John’s Catholic Newman Center I pray about our mission daily. While my official role is Director and Head Chaplain, I more so see myself as the CRO, the “Chief Reminding Officer”. My goal is to remind everyone I am blessed to serve alongside of the mission Jesus entrusts to us. |
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Everything Jesus said and did was intentional. Everything. Before Jesus ascended to the Father, he was very clear about our role, our invitation, and our mission: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and behold, I am with you always, to the close of the age.” This is what Jesus was about. This is our mission here at St. John’s Catholic Newman Center.
Everything we do, all our activity and efforts, aim to achieve the one goal given to us by Jesus: to invite our students to know Him personally, to invite them to surrender their lives to him in faith, and to be mobilized to go on mission with and for him the rest of their lives. This is what it means to be a Catholic Illini!
I want to sincerely thank all of you for your steadfast support! Please know of our gratitude and prayers.
In the Heart of Christ,
