Campus Ministry Team

Liturgical Life
Sr. Barbara Matasci
831/751-1850, Ext 225
bmastasci@notredamesalinas.org

Liturgical Choir
Ms. Patty Madrigal

Off Campus Service
Mr. Edmund Ibarra
831/751-1850, Ext 257
eibarra@notredamesalinas.org

Senior Retreat Team
Ms.Sara England
831/751-1850, Ext 273
sengland@notredamesalinas.org

Theology Department Chair
Mrs. Megan Morais
831/751-1850, Ext 525
mmorais@notredamesalinas.org


Faith & Service

Welcome to Campus Ministry. Our mission is best expressed in our school mission statement and the seven Hallmarks of a Notre Dame Learning Community.

Campus Ministry embodies these Hallmarks by:

    • Planning monthly liturgies and prayer services
    • Weekly prayer for staff
    • Using the chapel for class prayer
    • Offering the Sacrament of Reconciliation after each school liturgy
    • Providing student planned prayer time daily in each class
    • Keeping a community prayer book for special intentions
    • Maintaining a library of theology texts
    • Offering spiritual direction for students
    • Supporting and assisting a Liturgical Life Team
    • Supporting and assisting a Senior Retreat Team
    • Coordinating Service Learning 

Prayer

Campus Ministry prays for the needs of our families.  There is a prayer book at the entrance of Billiart Hall where prayer requests are recorded.  If this is not convenient, please email your prayer intentions to bmatasci@notredamesalinas.org.

 

Service Learning

In Service Learning, we strive to “become what we receive” at Mass -- the total love of Christ in solidarity with others and all of creation.

In the Theology curriculum, students are required to complete 20 hours of a Service Learning Project in each grade.  The student selected Service Learning commitment culminates each year in a final presentation on one's chosen praxis (action-reflection-action).

There are a number of service opportunities offered on and off campus with the Diocese through Campus Ministry.   Note:  There is a steady stream of service opportunities presented all year.  Please visit Campus Ministry and/or contact Mr. Ed Ibarra (phone and email listed in left column) for details.

Notre Dame sponsored services on weekly, monthly, and yearly basis:

    • Red Rhino Orphanage in Kenya, Africa
    • Ag Against Hunger
    • Center for Life in East Salinas
    • Bitten-Falge Farm Workers Food Delivery
    • Yearly blood drive, coat drive, food drive, and Walk for Life
    • Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur
    • Madonna Manor
    • Monitoring of campus life through anonymous "I Care" boxes 

 

"Our charity must not be limited by the love we have for one another.   It must make our hearts as wide as the world." ~ St. Julie Billiart, Foundress of the Sisters of Notre Dame