In addition to your physical health, Georgetown also cares about your spiritual needs. Our chaplains are available 24-hours-a-day to you and your family and can be paged by your nurse.
The Pastoral Care department is located on the first floor of the Main Hospital building near the chapel. To contact a chaplain, or to arrange for a visit from a representative of your own faith, call 202-444-3030. Your personal clergy can park for free when they visit you. The chapel is open at all times for prayer and reflection.
Catholic Health Care in the Jesuit Tradition
Georgetown University Hospital belongs to a long and rich Catholic and Jesuit tradition of caring for the sick. Jesuits have always ministered to the sick. Over the years, several thousand Jesuits gave their lives while serving plague victims. To prepare others to serve the sick as well, Jesuits founded their first medical school over 400 years ago.
Jesuits understand care of the sick as a continuation of the healing ministry of Jesus, who healed the sick and called on his disciples to continue that work as integral to proclaiming the gospel. Jesuits see care of the sick as a vocation, a call to serve. The richness of that cal gives work in health care a special dignity and meaning. More than a job, health care is a ministry.
The Catholic hospital strives to be a sign of God’s continued caring and healing presence. As a Catholic hospital, Georgetown aspires to be a community of service – in Jesuit language, a community of "men and women for others."
The overriding value for a Catholic, Jesuit hospital is the dignity of the human person – understanding the person as having his or her origin, purpose and destiny in God. Georgetown is committed to treating patients, family members and employees in accordance with that dignity.
The Jesuit tradition teaches care for the whole person and a commitment to the psychological, spiritual and social – as well as the physical – well-being of those we serve. Attention to the spiritual gives the Jesuit institution an inter-faith perspective and respect for the varied expressions of the spiritual in people’s lives.
Jesuits also have a 400-year-old intellectual tradition of research and scholarship, and of participation in the dialogue between science and service, and between technology and faith. The quest for excellence flows from Jesuit dedication to working for "the greater glory of God and the welfare of humanity," a sentiment carved on the cornerstone of the Main Hospital building. In that spirit, Jesuits put scientific excellence at the service of people in need.
Jesuit spirituality holds that God is to be found in the events of our lives, and so in every phase of sickness and health. At Georgetown, we strive to see in every ailing man, woman and child not only human vulnerability but divine availability. The crucifixes that hang on our walls remind us not just that God suffered in Jesus, but that God in the flesh is to be found wherever any of us is wounded and whenever any of us comes to his or her aid.
Georgetown University Mass Schedule Spring 2004
Main Campus
Dahlgren Chapel of the Sacred Heart
Monday-Friday: 12:10PM, 11:15PM
Sunday: 11:00AM, 12:30PM, 5:00PM, 8:00PM, 10:00PM, 11:15PM
Copley Crypt Chapel of the North American Martyrs
Monday-Thursday: 10:30PM
Sunday: 9:30AM
Medical Center Campus
Hospital Chapel
Monday-Friday: 7:30AM, 12:05PM
Saturday: 4:00PM
Sunday: 12:05PM, 4:00PM
Medical School Chapel, St. Ignatius Chapel, Med-Dent Building
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 12:05PM
Law Center Campus
Chapel of St. Thomas Moore
Monday-Friday: 12:15PM
Monday, Wednesday: 5:00PM
Sunday: 11:00AM, 5:00PM
Campus Ministry – 113 Healy Hall
Phone: 202.687.4300
Worship Services Line: 202.687.6277
Web: http://campusministry.georgetown.edu
Mass is also televised throughout the hospital on Channel 2.
The sacraments of The Eucharist, Anointing of the Sick and Reconciliation are available daily to Catholic patients in their rooms.
A Protestant service is held every Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. This is an ecumenical service.
