Purpose
To provide encounters with God’s love that invite conversion and renewal so as to empower joyful disciples

Core Values

  • Leadership through Passionate Witness
  • Rooted in Prayer
  • Constant Desire for Conversion
  • United in Shared Mission
  • Embrace and Risk Authenticity, Intimacy, and Greatness
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Festivals of Praise

Please come and join us every month for our Festival of Praise! The night includes adoration, lively praise and worship music, a talk and allowing the Holy Spirit to work in and among us. Prayer team ministry follows every Festival of Praise in Finnegan Fieldhouse on campus; this allows God to continue to bless and work in His children. The Festivals of Praise are on one Saturday a month at 7:00 p.m. in Christ the King Chapel. These are coordinated by the Steubenville Conference Office and Office of Evangelization. All are welcome – especially youth and young adult groups! Please check the Chapel Ministries schedule for updated dates and times.

Schedule

Weekly Praise and Worship

Every Tuesday night from 9 – 10 pm you’ll find up to 250 students gathered in Finnegan Fieldhouse for a time of communal praise and worship. Student teams lead the worship and music, as well as teams of intercession, discernment, and prayer ministry. We strive as a community to be open to the gifts of the Holy Spirit throughout the night – including prophecy, tongues, and the sharing of words, images and Scriptures. Prayer team ministry may follow the time of weekly praise in Finnegan Fieldhouse. Please come and join us!

FUS Men's Ministry

Heeding the Second Vatican Council’s declaration that “whoever follows Christ the perfect man becomes himself more a man” FUS Men’s Ministry strives to foster Christian discipleship among the men of Franciscan University of Steubenville by pursuing the following goals:

  • Empower men to live an adult Christian life through instruction in the Catholic faith and practical life skills
  • Encourage men in their commitment to Jesus Christ and his Church through group fellowship and prayer
  • Exhort men to live a life of ongoing conversion, growth in Christian virtue, and missionary zeal

FUS Women's Ministry

FUS Women’s Ministry believes every woman has inherent gifts of receptivity, sensitivity, and motherhood. We aim to support women on their journey to holiness, fostering personal growth in areas like intellect, emotional harmony, healthy relationships, and understanding their prophetic role. Our hope is that through our ministry the women of Franciscan University of Steubenville will truly become “a shelter in which other souls may unfold” as they bear the light of Christ to the world.

Watch the trailer for Speaking to Sparrows – A documentary on what it means to be a woman.

Capture My Heart Retreat

Capture My Heart is a once-a-semester, off-campus, student-led retreat designed to help women embrace the invitation to fall more in love with Jesus Christ. Throughout the course of the weekend women have the opportunity to learn more about the feminine genius, pray together, and receive the love of Christ through times of prayer, praise, and especially the sacraments.


Chastity Resources 

Here are a variety of resources that can be helpful for those seeking greater freedom and chastity. You are not alone! There is hope in Christ.

If you’ve been trying the above resources and continue to habitually fall into pornography, there’s a chance you have a pornography addiction. You’re not alone and there are groups, spiritual directors, and counselors here to help men and women with pornography addiction.

 

Freedom from Pornography Addiction 

3-Legged Stool – If you’re serious about healing from addiction, follow the 3-legged stool: spiritual direction, recovery groups, and professional counseling

  1. Sacrament of Reconciliation:  On campus confession times can be located by calling Switchboard (740-283-3771) or visiting chapel.franciscan.edu.
  2. Recovery Group: Confidential men and women pornography recovery groups: get in touch with Bob Lesnefsky to get connected with one of our Men’s Purity Groups. Another helpful group is Households, where students can encounter authentic Catholic community.
  3. Professional Counseling: there is free, confidential counseling available for students in our Wellness Center

Capture My Heart Retreat

Capture My Heart is a once-a-semester, off-campus, student-led retreat designed to help women embrace the invitation to fall more in love with Jesus Christ. Throughout the course of the weekend women have the opportunity to learn more about the feminine genius, pray together, and receive the love of Christ through times of prayer, praise, and especially the sacraments.




Robert Lesnefsky

Director of the Office of Evangelization

740-283-6335
[email protected]

Fr. Rufino Corona T.O.R.

Pastoral Associate for Household Life and the Office of Evangelization: Festivals of Praise, Praise and Worship Ministries

740-284-7029
[email protected]

Margaret McKee

Coordinator of Household Life

[email protected]