DO THIS IN MEMORY OF ME
Campus Ministry was originally located in Merritty Hall. Staff included (left to right) Jim Ewens, S.J.; Vern Gregson; Maureen (Lynch) Fuechtmann; Jean (Cowles) Jaeck; Alan Davis; and the Rev. Bob Doran, S.J., then director of the department.
and eternal covenant. …” The familiar
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providential dispositions of God in our
Mass with Rev. John Naus, S.J., began in
English words flowed from his lips.
time, as a movement of the Holy
the 1980s and became a campus staple.
“... it will be shed for you and for all
Spirit in His Church.”
— Sancrosanctum Concilium 43
Grad ’88, ’98, remembers arranging a
dining room for Mass in the early 1980s.
“This is the cup of my blood …”
proclaimed the presider during the revised Eucharistic Prayer, “of the new
men so that sins may be forgiven,” he prayed. “Do this in memory of me.”
As he grasped the chalice, the pre-
sider gazed upon the congregation of students and community members ready to be nourished at the Eucharistic table.
At the moment of consecration, the
presider lifted the chalice high for all to see. The scene was familiar, but the feeling was different for many who had spent their lives hearing “hic est enim calix sanguinis mei.”
Here was the liturgy, ritualized
worship, now celebrated in English. It was jarring, yet unifying. The presider and congregation shared a newfound intimacy.
“There was a mystical, sacramental
eal for the promotion and
restoration of the liturgy is
continued to burn. Chapels sprouted up
rightly held to be a sign of the
in the residence halls. Tuesday night
1960s Marquette was grooving
with political protests, shaggy haircuts and excitement about Vatican II. Bits and pieces of information from the council were dispersed via the technologies of the time — but on campus, the most exciting was human voices.
Years later, the flame of excitement
Dr. Kathy Coffey-Guenther, Arts ’85,
makeshift altar in the McCormick Hall
“It would be loaded with people,”
she says of the dining room. “The 10 p.m. Masses were just part of life.”
Students were excited about the “new”
liturgy, and Mass attendance showed it.
for spiritual conversations and, most
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important, for communal prayer.
tions, which is demanded by the very
nature of the liturgy.”
Students gathered for lectures by theologians, such as Catholic biblical scholar David Stanley. They gathered
Retired philosophy professor
Dr. Thomas Anderson, Grad ’61, ’67, remembers lower Gesu Church rang
other Church earnestly desires that all the faithful should be led to that fully conscious and
active participation in liturgical celebra-
— Sancrosanctum Concilium 14
out daily in spirited song as students
They spoke. They sang. They prayed.
flocked to Mass.
Soon, they could minister, too. Vatican II
overflow that the Latin had,” remembers
redefined the role of the laity in church
Rev. William Kelly, S.J., of post-Vatican II
time,” he recalls.
ministry. Lay people could now serve as
campus Masses. “But the liturgy wasn’t
lectors and Eucharistic ministers. Lay
as gripping as when it was in your
for Mass of the Holy Spirit in October
people could now proclaim the Word of
own language.”
1962 to pray for the success of the
God and touch the body of Christ
council. The community marked the
council’s close with a liturgy in 1965.
embrace the council’s reforms, Marquette
The familiar words had a way of
touching the soul.
“It was a heady time, an exciting The campus community gathered
At a time when many were hesitant to
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