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October 2025
SBU Women’s Overnight at the Mountain
Calling all Bonaventure Ladies! If you’re looking for a break from campus life, an evening with other ladies, a home-cooked meal and good conversation, come to the Mountain! Join us October 24 at Mt. Irenaeus for the Women’s Overnight – vans leave Café La Verna at 4:00 pm on Friday, October 24, and will return to campus around 11:00 am on October 25. If you're driving yourself, please don't use GPS, follow the directions you will find HERE on…
Find out more »November 2025
2025 Fall Intercollegiate Retreat
Are you a college student? We'd like to invite you to our annual Fall Intercollegiate Retreat at Mt. Irenaeus! We are very excited to host you and other young adults from area colleges and universities for a weekend of reflection, relaxation, fellowship, faith and fun! Our Intercollegiate Retreat will run the weekend of Nov 14-16. Participants are asked to arrive by 5:30 p.m. on Friday and stay until after brunch on Sunday, at approximately 2 p.m. Ready to commit to a…
Find out more »2025 SBU Thanksgiving Dinner at the Mountain
SBU Students, Faculty and Staff - Are you missing a good home-cooked meal yet? You can always find one at the Mountain - but especially on Sunday, November 23! We are planning on a full home-cooked Thanksgiving Dinner and inviting you and all of your friends to join us (but please sign up before Nov 20)! We will give thanks to you and the goodness of God, our family and friends. Sign up below for this Thanksgiving feast! If you’d…
Find out more »December 2025
2025 Advent Overnight
Come help us decorate the tree and make a wreath using real pine boughs! This overnight is an experience that will not disappoint. We will decorate the tree that Br. Joe cut from the property. Learn how to assemble and decorate a wreath that will be hung outside on the House of Peace for all visitors to see. Help make dinner and then enjoy cocoa and cookies with friends while sitting snug around the fireplace. The Mountain vehicles will leave…
Find out more »2025 Winter Reading Day Away
Are you looking for a quiet place to study for finals? Where can be more ideal than the Mountain? With our fiber-optic internet, we can provide you a quiet place to study, get papers written or do work. Need a break from studying? Take a short walk or hike to clear your head. Need to say a prayer for a class that has you totally stressed out? The Chapel is the right place for calm, meditation and prayer. Vans will…
Find out more »Christmas Eve Mass
Join us for Mass at Holy Peace Chapel on Christmas Eve for our annual vigil. This Mass is such a special time as we wait together for the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. Please note: This year Mass will start at 7 pm! Please follow the directions you will find on our website HERE and do NOT use GPS. GPS takes you up seasonal roads that are not maintained.
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January 2026
Young Adult Mountain Advent Zoom Series – Class of 2005-2028
Gather with us on Zoom as we enter into this Advent Season Missed our first Zoom gathering? No problem! We would love to have you join in now. Have you been able to join us at the Mountain, On the Road or virtually this past year? Don’t let another opportunity slip past you! Please join us by Zoom to celebrate the Holy Season of Advent leading up to the celebration of the birth of Jesus. Gather with us at 8:30…
Find out more »SBU Campus Event! Mountain 101
Join us in the Great Room of University Ministries on January 23. The doors open at 6:30 pm and the event will start at 7. Come for food, fun, friendship - and win prizes!! Learn what the Mountain is and who the fabulous people are who live there, work there and visit! Let us know that you're thinking of coming by registering below - we need to plan for food and prizes! <!-- If you embed multiple forms on your…
Find out more »SBU Play in the Snow Day with optional overnight stay
Come to the Mountain on Saturday, January 31 and have some fun in a winter wonderland! Come join us to play in the snow and then warm up in the House of Peace with hot cocoa and help prepare dinner! What are some of the activities we have done in the past? Sledding Snow sculpting Hand-feed the wild birds! Rides leave campus from Café La Verna on Saturday, Jan 31 at 2 pm. Rides back to campus will leave about…
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