Helping Students Encounter Christ

Helping Students Encounter Christ

If you’ve been around Fr. Xavier lately, you know he gets pretty excited about the topic of Encounter Christ at Stanford:

“Catholics have a tradition of waiting for people to come to them; sort of a ‘we’ll leave the light on for you’ mentality. We want to bring the light to the students and more importantly, we want to teach Catholic students how to bring the light to other students.”

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Sometimes Baptisms can’t happen in the church

Sometimes Baptisms can’t happen in the church

The call comes from a family member. Or it comes through one of the medical team.

This particular time, the call comes from a nurse at Packard’s Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. There are conjoined twins in the PICU, born several months earlier. The family lives outside the Bay Area and although the mother is staying nearby in the Ronald McDonald House, the rest of the family is back home for work. Friends, church and other support systems are far away.

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