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December 2025
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…
Find out more »February 2026
Come to the Quiet Overnight
Come to the Mountain for a Quiet Overnight. As you are already a month into the new semester, give yourself the gift of an overnight away to quiet your mind and find more silence! If you would like a ride, please be at Cafe La Verna by 4 pm on Friday, February 20 and you will return on Saturday, about 11 am. If you'd like to drive yourself, please use the directions you will find on our website under the…
Find out more »SBU Men’s Overnight at the Mountain
SBU men - do you need a break? Just some time away with other men? Join us on Saturday, February 21 for an overnight of good conversation and good food! If you need a ride, we will be leaving campus from Café LaVerna at 2 p.m. If you are driving yourself, directions can be found under the Visit Us tab above - or click HERE. All you will need to bring are your personal items and clothing. Sturdy shoes are…
Find out more »March 2026
Fireside Chat – Clare and Company: Early Franciscan Women
Please join us at the Mountain on Sunday, March 1 from 2 pm to 4 pm for a Fireside Chat presented by Sr. Margaret Carney, OSF, STD and Jean-Francois Godet-Calogeras, moderated by Br. Joe Kotula. This chat is an informal gathering to discuss St. Clare and other early Franciscan women. You are very welcome to join us for Mass at 11 am with a dish-to-pass brunch after Mass if you would like. This presentation will take place after brunch. While…
Find out more »Volunteer Service Program Meet and Greet with Franciscan Volunteer Ministries
Are you weighing the idea of doing a year (or more) of volunteer service after graduation? Would meeting some other young people currently doing the same help your decision? Meet, eat, reflect and pray with members of the Franciscan Volunteer Ministry (FVM) on Tuesday, March 10. Franciscan Volunteer Ministers "live in community and live a life of simplicity, expressed prayer and ministry." Currently FVMs serve in Philadelphia, PA and Durham, NC. Transportation leaves Café LaVerna at 4 pm and return…
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