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February 12, 2024

Leading the charge

Doug Oliver, M.A. ’02, MBA, is utilizing his La Salle education as the senior vice president of government, regulatory, and external affairs at PECO. Read more.  

Write on

The University’s Sacred Writing Series will bring noted calligraphers and an iconographer to campus to educate audiences on ancient writing traditions as pathways to dialogue between the three Abrahamic faiths. Check out the schedule.  

Featured events

Black History Month 

Stay up to date on events honoring Black History Month. Check out the full schedule. 

Men’s Basketball vs. Massachusetts 

Saturday, 2 p.m.

The Explorers continue A-10 conference play against the Minutemen at TruMark Financial Center. 

Women’s Basketball vs. Saint Joseph’s University 

Sunday, 2 p.m.  

The Hawks visit TruMark Financial Center to face the Explorers in an A-10 conference game. 

Mass  

Sunday, 5 p.m.

Celebrate Mass on the first Sunday of Lent at De La Salle Chapel. 

Observing Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday marks the start of Lent, a 40-day season of prayer, feasting, and almsgiving. Lent commemorates the 40 days Jesus Christ spent fasting in the desert and enduring temptation by Satan. It is a period of preparation to celebrate Jesus’ Resurrection at Easter. In the Catholic tradition during Lent, Catholics seek the Lord in prayer by reading Sacred Scripture, serving by giving alms, and practicing self-control through fasting. Catholics are called to abstain from certain luxuries during Lent and have a true inner conversation of heart as they seek to follow Christ’s will more faithfully. Lent is practiced by many Christian groups, such as Roman Catholic, Eastern orthodox, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Methodists, Anglicans, and Lutherans.

As the Lenten season begins, members of the La Salle community can receive ashes on Feb. 14 at the following locations and times: 

• 9 a.m. St. Benilde Tower lobby 

• 10:30 a.m. De La Salle Chapel

• 10:45 a.m. Communication Center

• 12 p.m. Founders’ Hall atrium 

• 1 p.m. Mass De la Salle Chapel

• 3 p.m. De La Salle Chapel 

• 4:30 p.m. De La Salle Chapel

• 6 p.m. De La Salle Chapel 

Click here for weekly Lenten reflections and week one of Lent beginning the week of Feb. 18.

Feast of the Blessed Brother James Miller, F.S.C.

In the afternoon of Feb. 13, 1982, Christian Brother James (Santiago) Miller, F.S.C., was shot and killed by three men in Huehuetenango, Guatemala. Brother James was a missionary serving indigenous youth. Attempts to identify the assassins were unsuccessful. On Dec. 7, 2019, Brother Miller became the first De La Salle Christian Brother from the U.S. to be beatified by the Catholic Church. Beatification is the second of three stages in the process of proclaiming a person a saint. For the beatification, a miracle, attributed to the person’s intercession, is necessary. With beatification the candidate receives the titled of Blessed.