Holy Week – Happy Easter!
Yesterday, Palm Sunday, began Holy Week, the most solemn week of the year for Christians around the world. The week began with a remembrance of Jesus’ triumphant entrance into Jerusalem with crowds waving palm branches. We have blessed palm branches in vases in our chapel and in the Community Center lobby. Please take a piece if you would like.
Lent ends on Thursday evening when the Mass of the Last Supper and the Triduum begin. We commemorate Jesus’ death on Good Friday, his time in the tomb on Holy Saturday and celebrate his rising to new life on Easter Sunday. We begin the Easter season on 50 days. And we join many other colleges and universities in celebrating an age old European custom of a holiday on Easter Monday!
Women’s History Month
March is Women’s History Month. Campus Ministry will feature a slide on the tv screen in the lobby of the Sharon Latchaw Hirsh Community Center each week this month. Explore more in the Cultural Heritage Gallery.
This week, we honor Beatrix Farrand: Acclaimed American landscape gardener and landscape architect; early adopter of “rewilding”; worked with Grosvenor Atterbury (the famous architect of Connelly Hall); designed a First Lady’s Garden for the East Wing of the White House; only femail founding member of the American Academy of Landscape Architects.
Service Opportunity
We have a service opportunity at St. Francis Inn on Tuesday, March 31st from 3:00 to 7:00pm. Email [email protected] by tomorrow noon if you would like to participate.
Five Luminous Women of God
Be sure to stop in the chapel by March 31, 2026 see the exhibit of American women being considered for sainthood in the Catholic Church.
The exhibit celebrates Women’s History Month.
The chapel is open from 6:00am to 9:00pm daily and from 10:00am – 6:00pm on weekends.
Passover
Passover begins this Wednesday, April 1 and ends on Thursday, April 9. We wish a Happy Passover to the members of our community who celebrate this significant holiday.
Sunday Mass – Easter Sunday
Meet for Easter Sunday Mass at Our Mother of Good Counsel Church on April 5th at 11:15am in front of our Rosemont College chapel.
Friendly Reminders…
Please review the Food Pantry hours below that can also be found at the bottom of every Connections newsletter next to the Prayer Room in the library.
- Food Pantry: A resource for all community members. Open daily 6:00am – 9:00pm and from 10:00am – 6:00pm on weekends. (Lower level of the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception).
- Prayer Room: Located on the second floor of the Gertrude Kistler Memorial Library
