{"id":27403,"date":"2013-01-15T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/01\/charles-j-chaput-to-campus-min\/"},"modified":"2013-10-10T20:23:34","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T00:23:34","slug":"charles-j-chaput-to-campus-min","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/01\/charles-j-chaput-to-campus-min\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles J. Chaput to Campus Ministers: enable students to hear God"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Speaking to Catholic campus ministers on January 10, 2013 in Florida, Capuchin Archbishop Charles J. Chaput addresses the urgent need to give good, authentic formation to college students in the ways of God. As he says, the\u00a0<i>status quo<\/i>\u00a0is not good enough. Chessy programs are not satisfying.<\/p>\n<p>The frequent question is how do we evangelize and give good formation to our college students today? I think we know what needs to be done. SO, let&#8217;s get to work; let&#8217;s teach, lead and pray. Campus ministry has an objective: seek the face of God; to enable one to hear the voice of God in the still small whisper. Of course, the issues of formation are not germane only to the college aged.<\/p>\n<p>An excerpt:\u00a0<em>Campus ministry needs to lead young adults\u00a0not just to good\u00a0religious activities that keep them busy,\u00a0but also\u00a0to the beauty of interior silence that enables a person to hear the will of God and entrust his or her life to Jesus Christ.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The whole text:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Charles%20J.%20Chaput%20on%20Catholic%20Campus%20Ministry%20Association%202013.pdf\">Charles J. Chaput on Catholic Campus Ministry Association 2013.pdf<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to Catholic campus ministers on January 10, 2013 in Florida, Capuchin Archbishop Charles J. Chaput addresses the urgent need to give good, authentic formation to college students in the ways of God. As he says, the\u00a0status quo\u00a0is not good enough. Chessy programs are not satisfying. The frequent question is how do we evangelize and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/01\/charles-j-chaput-to-campus-min\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Charles J. Chaput to Campus Ministers: enable students to hear God<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[3080,2306,1968,1922],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27403"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28747,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27403\/revisions\/28747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}