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College Roll Call

Who's going where? Adopt a college kid to pray for today!

I’ve been majorly preoccupied the past few days with the launching of my son Eric off to college.  I’ll be sure to continue to share insights on that during the next few days here on the blog - we leave tonight to drive to San Francisco.  Early tomorrow morning, we’ll put Eric on a plane to Boston, where he’ll be attending pre-orientation at Harvard.  Then next Tuesday, Greg and I will fly out to help him move into his dorm room.  Stay tuned for more on those developments.

One of the things that has helped me feel more comfortable with sending my kid thousands of miles away are the number of very kind folks living in the vicinity of Cambridge who have offered to be of support to Eric if he has any need for help.  It’s unlikely that we’ll call on them, but it’s great to know that we have people who care and who would “be there” in the event of an emergency.  Another happy coincidence happened recently when my good friend Pat Gohn shared the name of a student she knows who will be attending Harvard.  Pat’s friend comes from a great family and she’s another strongly Catholic student heading into an environment that could be challenging.  God is good and is watching over us - Eric and this student became Facebook friends, and now have learned that they will be living in the same dorm and probably sharing a major.  They’ve never met, but I’m happy that this young lady will be one of the first friends he finds in his new home.  All thanks to Pat’s mention of knowing someone who will be at the same university.

I know many of you are sending your children to college - I thought it would be fun for anyone who’s doing so to list their student’s school (please don’t list children’s full names for security reasons) and then for those of us living near the colleges, maybe we can connect via email or here on the site to offer support and prayers.  I’d love for each of our future college students to have a whole army of Catholic moms praying for them as they begin this next phase of life.  So if you have a college student in your home, please list their first name and if you’d like to list their school too that would be great. If you’re more comfortable not listing the school, just give us a name any know we’ll be praying for them.

For anyone who’d like to “adopt” a student to pray for, please leave a comment here or simply keep these young men and women in your prayers.  And if you have a close family friend, neice, nephew, cousin or fellow parishioner you’d like to list feel free to add them too.  Let’s make this big - I’d love to have our entire online “virtual church” covering the future leaders of our church in prayer!


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I’ll start things off - please pray for Eric, who will be a freshman at Harvard this year and for all of his classmates.  Also, please pray for all students who will be beginning college this year - and for their parents as well!

 

Please pray for Steve, starting next week at LaSalle University.  Special prayers for his companions in the Service Scholarship program and University Ministry.

 

Please pray for Laura going to TX A&M College Station, TX and Valeria, a freshman going to TX Christian U. Thank you!

 

Will be praying for Valeria, I am a TCU grad, class of ‘85.

 

I pray that all entering freshmen (and returning students) continue to build upon the work God has begun in them as they begin their new lives (or continue their life) in college.

I humbly ask that you please pray for me as well as I enter the second year of studying for my PhD at Ohio University in Athens, OH. I am studying how the Church is represented in the Media and will be leading one of the Catholic Student groups on campus. Thank you!

 

Mary Catherine, it would be an honor to pray for you and your work!  What an important topic - please know that we’re behind you 100% and will pray for you this year!  If you’d like to share updates on your work, I’d love to hear from you. Email me any time at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) - blessings!

 

I humbly ask for prayers for myself as I pursue my Pre-Law Degree and begin applying for graduate schools at the end of this school year.
I will also be praying for all students, college and lower, to have a good year with God guiding them every moment of the way.

 

Jennifer - what a wonderful time in your life!  Our family will be praying for you this year.  Good luck with those applications!

 

I ask for prayers for those who will be educating these young minds in the classroom, myself included, that we will inspire them in some way.

 

Please pray for Tim attending Stetson University in Florida.

 

Awesome idea! I will definitely spread the word about this prayer effort.

Also, here is a post that might help any new college students heading away to school: http://www.fallibleblogma.com/index.php/15-tips-for-catholics-going-away-to-college/

 

Lisa I’ve enjoyed your college countdown series. I sent my oldest son Patrick off to college last year. It was hard to let go but I tried to remind myself this is what we are working towards as mothers. We want our children to become independent adults.
At any rate please pray for Patrick as he returns for his second year of college seminary at The Pontifical College Josephinum. Please pray for all seminarians discerning a vocation to the priesthood.

 

Please pray for my sister Julie as she heads to St. John Fischer College in NY.

 

Good stuff Lisa. Please pray for all of our new Aggie Catholics. We are expecting another record-breaking attendance this year and our church is already too small. We will have over 5,000 students in Masses starting in a couple of weekends, including over-flow Masses and spilling into our adoration chapel to watch on closed-circuit TV.
http://marysaggies.blogspot.com/2010/08/how-to-succeed-in-college.html

 

Please pray for my daughter Maria who will be a freshman at Mount St. Mary’s Univ. in Maryland.  May God bless and guide all college students this year.

 

Michele,

I am a 2006 grad of the Mount, and I am always praying for “our family”. I hope your daughter loves her time there! God bless.

 

Please pray for my husband, James, who is working on his dissertation for his S.T.D. and will also be teaching at Catholic University of America this year, and also for his students.

 

Please pray for my son Jack who will be a junior at Vanderbilt in the fall. Please pray for my twin girls who are heading off to separate colleges as freshmen this fall.
Kellyann will be at Miami University of Ohio and Dianne will attend Boston College. My prayer for all college students is that God will guide them in all they do and keep them safe and that they will turn to Mary, their heavenly Mother, in prayer.

 

Please pray for my son, Matt, who is returning to Texas Tech this year. He will be in an appartment this year, not the dorms.

 

You have no idea how important and timely this post is!  Please pray for Brian who we dropped off at University of IL-Urbana-Champaign, Newman Hall (awesome reception by Priests, Catholic students living there I might add).  We also have Brother Joseph in Rome who is discerning the Priesthood to keep in your prayers.  I promise to pray for all the post-ers students and families.
God Bless

 

Please pray for my son, Kevin, who will soon start his senior year at Ohio State University.

 

Prayers for your son.

But I can’t promise to cheer for the football team. wink GO MICHIGAN!

 

Please keep those prayer requests and promises coming, and please help us to spread the word.  I want our kids to know that we have an army of Catholic moms praying for them!  Thanks!

 

For all my former CYO students studying at Benedictine, KU and KState!

 

My son Daniel is at St. John Neuman Seminary at Dunwoodie in NYC.  It is his first year….it begins his 9 year journey, God willing, to the priesthood.  He will be taking college classes at St. John’s college.

 

Praise God for your young seminarian!  My son is still open to discerning the priesthood, he is going to Franciscan University for Theology and Catechetics.  I will pray for your son!

 

Please pray for my baby brother Chase, a freshman at Franciscan University. Thank you and God bless all students!

 

My son Zack is at Franciscan!  He got there yesterday for soccer practice and lives in Francis!  Hopefully they will meet!

 

Please pray for my daughter, Cate, who is continuing her graduate studies at Catholic and assisting as a teacher, my daughter, Joan, who will be a senior at York College, John, who will be a sophomore at Franciscan(and had a rough first year) and Matthew, who will be a freshman at Penn State York. And pray I find a job as I have been looking to rejoin the work force after20 years( as you can see we need it!). I will pray for all of our students. What a great idea!

 

I have entrusted my daughter Claire to the Blessed Mother as she starts her freshman year at a state university.  She stopped attending Mass when she turned 18 last spring, and asked that the parish NOT send her name to the diocesan college ministry, as she does not want to be contacted.  Knowing her irritation with the church, and especially with my practice of it, I hesitated to do my normal blessing before leaving her at the dorm.  Surprisingly, she was glad that I brought Holy Water and blessed all the corners of her room, and her, before leaving for my 3 hour drive home.  Can’t figure these kids out!  I recommend bringing Holy Water, (and/or blessed salt, if you are going by plane,) to bless your children’s dorm rooms.

 

I love this idea! Prayers for Maria who is going to Cornell College in Mt. Vernon. I will pray for all students and their proud, but a little bit sad mamas.

 

I’ll be going to my second year at UT. Please pray for me!
If you’d like be to pray for any of our brothers and sisters, I’m ready and willing.
Thank you so much!! and God bless!!
-Wayne
(ps this is really cool)

 

Please pray for Matt who will be returning to San Francisco State this fall as a Sophomore. He is now in an apartment and out of the dorms. Please pray that he will be able to add the additional classes he needs this semester. Budget tightening and furloughs have reduced the number of classes being offered.

 

First for Melissa at Assumption in Worcester, MA

Second my my oldest Jeff, Last semester at Westfield State College(now University) in MA. (Have them do summer work—they’ll be done early and for less money!)

Third for Cameron, possibly my first DIL- also at WSC. She may add a year to her work so she can teach Special Ed kids.

 

Mary B.  My son, Zachary, will be starting his Junior yr. at Assumption. He has loved it. The relatively new president seems very committed to the college’s Catholic identity. I’ll never forget his opening address to the parents….“we at Assumption are not only responsible for their minds but also for their very souls.” Now that’s what a mother wants to hear! We’ll be praying for your daughter!

 

Whoa, late to the party…what a lovely idea. My son, Jonathan, is off to Georgia Tech this morning, my daughter, Christy, is in her third year at Middle Georgia, and my daughter Vicky is studying at the Defense Language Institute in CA (additional prayers for her health and recovery from an injury sustained in military training)

 

Please include our daughter, Kelsey, in your prayers.  She is entering her senior year at D’Youville College in Buffalo.  Immediately upon gradauation, she enters her doctorate program for physical therapy.  God bless all of our students, parents and educators!

 

Please pray for my brother, Kevin, who will begin his first year at the University of Cincinnati in September, as well as my sister, Casey, who begins her final year at the University of Dayton in a few days.

 

I am so happy to see the additional acknowledgements for those entering ministry, etc and those that are attending well-publicized University’s…  I am asking for prayers for my adopted daughter who will be returning to MSU at Bozeman, Mt in January “11”....she has had a difficult time in her junior year partially because her mother was an alcoholic during her pregnancy with Allie….however, she is a miracle because she made it this far…..  My prayers will be for those that work so hard in the face of life’s challenges and find University to be a little more challenging that most students… God is proud of you Allie… Blessings….

 

Please pray for my nieces,  C. and E. who will be studying in St. Louis, and K. who will be studying in Fredericksburg.  Thank you!

 

Following a freshman year that was one of the most blessed years of her life, our daughter Allie will soon be making the trek back to Steubenville, Ohio for Year 2 at Franciscan. Please pray for her and for all students, studying both here and abroad this year.

 

Please pray for my daughter, E, who will be returning to Princeton University next month. Last year was a very difficult adjustment for her; pray that she will do better this time around. Please also pray for a young man from our parish, N, who is entering his freshman year at Harvard.  And prayers for my second daughter, S, as she applies to colleges this year.  She really wants to go to Thomas Aquinas College in California, but we live on the east coast, and it’s so far!!!!

 

Please pray for our daughter, Liz, who will be a freshman at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul.  She is undecided on a major but will be minoring in Catholic Studies.  Also please pray for two of her friends, Nick and John, who left today for NET Ministries.

 

Please pray for Sarah who just left for Adelphi Univ. I pray for all these students that their faith will stay strong and they will be wrapped in God’s mantel.

 

Please pray for my daughter Lillian who just today flew all the way from our home here in Seattle to attend Belmont Abbey in North Carolina! It is along way from home but we expect and pray for great things for her at Belmont.

 

Please pray for my son R.J. who will be attending Grand Valley State University in Allendale/Grand Rapids, MI.  Pray that he will find a community of believers on campus or in the area in which he will bond with in the Spirit and worship with in The Spirit and in Truth.

 

Please add Andrew to your prayers. He will begin his college years at Knox College this fall.

 

Prayers for Brendan, living at home and attending community college, for a better 2nd year (he has always struggled with school) and for Maura, who is beginning freshman year at USC - Columbia and says she no longer believes -heartbreaking.

 

Please pray for my daughter, Cecilia, who will be starting her freshman year at George Washington University in DC.

 

Three of my own are heading off: Chris to Miami of Ohio, Stephanie at Ashland and Brian at Otterbein. Please pray for them and the three nephews who are also heading off!


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