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Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
  • RECONCILIATION | Goodson Prayer Room | 10:00 a.m.
  • SUNDAY MASS | Goodson Chapel | 11:00 a.m.
  • RECONCILIATION | Duke Chapel | 7:00 p.m.
  • SUNDAY MASS | Duke Chapel | 8:00 p.m.
 
Be sure to check our Google Calendar and/or GroupMe/WhatsApp messages for events throughout the week.

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THERE WILL BE NO CONFESSION OPPORTUNITIES BEFORE MASSES JULY 5 and JULY 12. 


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If you are studying abroad this fall, spring, or for the full academic year, take a moment to let us know where you'll be studying and the best way to reach you while you're abroad. Keeping in touch helps us share updates from the Duke Catholic Center, pray for you during your travels, and ensure you remain part of our community no matter where you are in the world.

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Now is the time to make plans to join us for Ignite 2026! This weekend is a welcome retreat from the start of the academic year - a beautiful opportunity to grow in community and faith. Save the date and plan to join us September 4-6, 2026, on the beautiful coast of North Carolina!

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Interested in having an AMAZING tour guide in the Eternal City? Our very own Fr. Juan José will be in Rome during Fall Break (Oct. 9-13, 2026) and you are invited to join him! If you're studying abroad this fall or want to use the break in classes to travel, this is a wonderful opportunity to experience Rome with an 'expert.' 

Interested? Let us know so we can get some preliminary plans in place! 

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Come with the Duke Catholic Center to Seoul for World Youth Day 2027!

Experience the global Church firsthand amidst the unique and vibrant story of Catholicism in Korea. From remarkable saints, bustling markets, and moving shrines to Mass with the Pope, join millions of Catholic young people at World Youth Day.


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Make your first-year a Transformational Experience at Duke! 

 As you begin your journey at Duke, you don't have to navigate it alone. At the Duke Catholic Center, you'll find a community rooted in faith, friendship, and belonging—a place where you can grow spiritually while building meaningful relationships that will support you throughout your college years.

There are a few opportunities during O-Week where students can learn more about the DCC and meet with the ministry team.

Learn more about these events and register at catholic.duke.edu/first-year.

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Eucharist transforms believers into Christ's body and counters division, pope says

By: Josephine Peterson, CNS

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Participation in the Eucharist transforms believers into the Body of Christ and offers a remedy to the divisions affecting families and communities, Pope Leo XIV said during his weekly general audience June 24.

In his final general audience until Aug. 5, Pope Leo also encouraged young people to use the downtime of summer vacation to attend Mass, go to confession frequently, reflect on Scripture, go on spiritual retreats and pilgrimages and spend time with loved ones. 

"Vacation is a time for rest and to seek signs of God in the beauty of creation," he said in his remarks to Polish-speaking visitors. He also asked people to pray for students so that they may "choose wisely" the schools and universities they will attend and "discern with prudence their vocation."

Continuing his series on the documents of the Second Vatican Council, the pope focused on "Sacrosanctum Concilium," the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, explaining how the Eucharist draws the faithful into deeper communion with God and one another.

Receiving Christ in the Eucharist transforms believers into the Body of Christ, whose head is the risen Lord seated at the right hand of the Father, the pope said.

"Thus, the Eucharist is the sacrament of the Kingdom that is to come," Pope Leo said.

The Eucharist teaches Catholics to adopt Christ's way of self-giving love and to be "drawn day by day into ever more perfect union with God and with each other," he said.

"This gift draws us into the dynamic of unity, offering a powerful antidote to the forces of division that undermine our world, our communities, our families, and our hearts," he said.

The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy teaches that the faithful are called to "offer themselves in union with Jesus Christ" to the Father "through the hands of the priest and together with him," the pope said. Participation in the Eucharist also means being formed by God's word and "nourished at the table of the Lord's body."

The Eucharist cannot be separated from the Word of God, the pope said, noting that the liturgy and the Eucharist form "one single act of worship." Quoting Pope Benedict XVI, he said Scripture illuminates and explains the mystery of the Eucharist, while the Eucharist opens believers to a deeper understanding of Scripture.

"This Word nourishes and sustains us together with the Eucharistic bread and leads us from the decay of sin to new life in Christ," Pope Leo said.

Referring to the Second Vatican Council's focus on giving Catholics greater access to Scripture, the pope pointed to the Lectionary -- the book containing the biblical readings proclaimed at Mass -- as a result of the council's liturgical reform. The expanded collection of readings used in the Church's liturgies today, he said, reflects the richness of the Church's living tradition, combining "fidelity to tradition with openness to legitimate progress."

"Dear brothers and sisters, let us draw with faith from this source of divine life and allow ourselves to be transformed by the mystery we celebrate," he said.

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This year, a student walked into the Duke Catholic Center carrying a question she had been afraid to ask anywhere else. 

She left having found not only an answer, but a community — people who prayed with her, walked alongside her, and reminded her that she was never alone.

Moments like that are the reason we exist. And in just a few days, on June 30, we close the books on Fiscal Year 2026 — which makes this a very important week for us.

Your generosity gives a student a place to pray when life feels heavy, to wrestle with the hardest questions of faith, to build friendships that outlast college, and to draw closer to Christ. It sustains the retreats, the liturgies, the discipleship, and the opportunities to serve — the countless quiet moments of accompaniment that form young Catholics into the leaders the Church and the world so deeply needs.

No gift is too small. Every gift is an act of faith in the next generation of the Church, and an investment in the mission we share.

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