Services & Special Events
On-campus services are offered when the University is in session. Service times and locations are listed below. You'll also find information about special events, Christmas Candlelight and Baccalaureate services.
On-Campus Services
Time: Sundays, 11 a.m.
Location: Rooke Chapel Memorial Grove, or streaming at tinyurl.com/RookeChapel
Contact: Rev. Kurt Nelson
Email: chapel@bucknell.edu
Time: Sundays, 3-4 p.m.
Location: Online and In-Person Modes, contact Adviser
Contact: Deacon Paul Siewers, Adviser
Email: asiewers@bucknell.edu
Time: Thursdays, 8:30 p.m.
Location: Arches Lounge (3rd Floor ELC)
Contact: Anna Rickrode, Liaison
Email: anna.rickrode@intervarsity.org
Time: Thursdays, 8:30 p.m.
Location: Center Room (3rd Floor ELC)
Contact: Zack Gugenheim, Liaison
Email: gugenheimz@dm.org
Time: Sundays, 3:15 p.m. Confession, 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. Mass
Location: Rooke Chapel
Contact: Father Michael Rothan
Email: mwr009@bucknell.edu
Time: Thursdays, 6 p.m.
Location: Newman House, 610 St. George
Contact: Kelsi Chuprinski
Email: kac056@bucknell.edu
Time: Fridays, 5:30 p.m.
Location: Berelson Center, 632 St. George St.
Contact: Rabbi Jessica Goldberg
Email: jsg026@bucknell.edu
Time: Fridays, 2 p.m.
Location: Rooke Meditation Chapel
Contact: Muhammad Ali
Email: muhammad.ali@bucknell.edu
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Location: Online,email for info.
Contact: Therese Miller
Email: theresemiller154@gmail.com
Time: Thursday, 4:15 p.m.
Location: Online, email for info.
Contact: Rev. Edward Keido Sanshin Oberholtzer
Email: ecoberholtzer@me.com
Time: Tuesdays, 5:30 p.m.
Location: Online, email for info.
Contact: Rev. Kurt Nelson
Email: kdn004@bucknell.edu
Find off-campus services in the Lewisburg area
Special Events
The annual Christmas Candlelight Service is modeled on the Kings College Christmas Eve Service of Lessons and Carols.
2021 Candelight Services
Dates and Times
- December 2, 5 and 7
- 7:30 p.m.
Location
- Rooke Chapel
Ticket Policy
Tickets are required. All tickets are free of charge, but monetary donations for a local charity will be accepted at the services. You may reserve tickets online.
Bucknell Community
Tickets will be made available starting November 8 to Bucknell ID holders on a first-come, first-serve basis. Campus community members will have the option to request up to four tickets per person for any one night's service. Tickets will also be available via myBucknell or at any Campus Box Office location.
General Public
Remaining tickets will be available online or in person at all Campus Box Office locations starting November 9. Limit up to four tickets per person for any one night's service. Bucknell ID holders may also request tickets in person during this time.
Box Office Details
- Weis Center Box Office: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- CAP Center Box Office: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
- No phone, voicemail, email, campus mail or U.S. mail orders will be accepted.
- For additional information, please contact the Campus Box Office at 570-577-1000.
Each year during Commencement Weekend, the Office of Campus Religious Life honors our graduates with a multifaith baccalaureate celebration. The service takes place immediately prior to the senior Candlelighting Ceremony on the evening before Commencement.
A weekly gathering of religiously diverse Bucknell Students. We gather weekly to build community, discuss things of importance, practice pluralism, and plan occasions for the Bucknell community. Anyone is welcome to join – members of the world’s religious traditions, atheists, agnostics, seekers, or anywhere in between. Interested? Contact Chaplain Kurt Nelson, kdn004@bucknell.edu
Each January on the Sunday before Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we gather for a multi-faith worship service celebrating the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. King. We sing songs from the movement, hear wisdom from a range of traditions, and reflect together on ongoing movements toward peace and justice.
In Spring 2020, we will launch Bucknell’s first Inter-Faith Alternative Spring Break, focused on Food, Faith and Justice. Contact Chaplain Kurt Nelson, kdn004@bucknell.edu
We will invite Bucknell Faculty (and occasionally others) to narrate a 15-20 minute answer to the question, "What Matters to You and Why?", followed by a Q&A and discussion.
In most semesters, this is a lunch conversation. In Fall 2020, and Spring 2021, owing to the need to physically distance, we are recording WMTMW as a podcast, produced by Spandan Marasini '21, and Jack Rose '22:
Episode 1
Andrew Stuhl, Associate Professor of Environmental StudiesEpisode 2
Madison Scopano '22, Executive President of Bucknell Student Government, and Bernadette Maramis, President of the Class of 2024.Subscribe for future episodes, coming soon.
Contact Details
Religious & Spiritual Life
Location
111 Rooke Chapel