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Father Brian, Seminary grad, returns to his 'dream job' Archbishop sets goals for Baltimore Diocese Campus Ministry adds FOCUS New FOCUS group comes to Mount with mission in mind

Katie Sechrist of Mount Saint Mary's reported April 30th in " The Mountain Echo " that FOCUS is coming to campus this coming Fall . Here is a snippet from Katie's article: "FOCUS will be coming at the invitation of the archbishop of Baltimore and President Powell, there is a great desire for scripture and FOCUS provides trained individuals for that, they will also reach out to others. This will supplement what Campus Ministry is doing," said Msgr. Swetland, who is the East Coast chaplain for FOCUS and will be involved with their training as well as newly appointed Chaplain and Director of Campus Ministry, Fr. Brian Nolan. In order for a team from FOCUS to come to a university, the bishop of that diocese must approve. Since there has been a transition within the diocese, one of the first things that Archbishop Edwin O'Brian did was approve for the group to come to the Mount at the request of President Powell. Please read the article linked here ! Here...

Katie Sechrist has posted a story on Mount Saint Mary's as the site for a series to be aired on EWTN next year . Monsignor Stuart Swetland will be the moderator on the 13-part series of thirty-minute TV shows. Here is a short snippet from her article: "I pitched the initial idea and I believed it was best to demonstrate the idea of campus with students on the stage, it gives a sense of the atmosphere. This will also enhance Catholic Identity...this can also be used for educational purposes," said Interim Chaplain Msgr. Stuart Swetland . Msgr. Swetland is in his fourth season of hosting shows on EWTN . A series consists of 13 different shows on a topic. The first was a mini-course Catholic Social Teaching, the second was Catholicism on Campus- Questions College Students Ask from the University of Illinois, and the third was a show on seminarians which is scheduled to air later this year. The fourth season which is filming this week is Ex Corde Ecclesiae . Please g...

The Mountain Echo is the campus newspaper for Mount Saint Mary's University . Mount Saint Mary's is fairly unique in being both a University and also the location of a major Seminary of the Archdiocese of Baltimore . On March 13th, the Seminary at "the Mount" opened its doors to interested students. Irina Kuchevski posted this story today . Here is a brief snippet: Fr. Leo also discussed finding an order to prayers and the four pillars that are followed by the seminarians. The four pillars are spiritual, pastoral, human and intellectual. A question that seemed to be on everyone's minds was how a man learns to be a parish priest. The process of becoming a parish priest requires being sent on location. Monsignor Swetland emphasized the importance of forming priests that are well trained in the understanding of human nature. Each person gets further, beyond justice to mercy. Swetland also mentioned the process of intellectual formation that encompasses languages...