Loyola Hindu Students' Organization

Dear Fr. Thomas, the HSO family would like to wish you safe travels on your journey back to India for your next assignment. thank you for being an amazing advisor for our HSO family. We would not be the same without you! You’ve been here through the ups and downs and helped us become the best version of ourselves. 🎉🎇

We wish you nothing but the best for your future accomplishments and we know you’ll continue to inspire students wherever you go. 🙏

You go above and beyond to make sure students succeed and it shows. Thank you for being easy to speak with and always available to give guidance. This isn’t a goodbye, this is a see you later! 🫶

We will all miss you and hope you have a great time in the motherland.🇮🇳

We hope you won’t forget us because we sure won’t forget you !!🥹

Congratulations to all the seniors for graduating! 🥳🥳
HSO wish you all success and is proud of all of you for completing the first chapter of your lives! Y’all are about to take the next big steps in your lives, and you will succeed in those!! 🎓🤝🧍‍♂️
Don’t be a stranger, we’re always here for you! Your home away from home will always be open for you!🥰
We will miss you guys🥺😭

Thank you all for coming out to Finals Puja, we hope that those blessings came in clutch with all of your finals! We hope everyone has a tremendous summer, and we wish to see y’all again next semester!🤩

HSO is offering all graduating seniors a graduation cord! Each cord is $5, we accept both Venmo, Zelle, and Cash as forms of payment. Please complete this form by Tuesday April 26, 2022.

With the end of the semester around the corner and final exams quickly approaching, join us at Finals Puja for a boost of confidence for your exams through prayer and blessings. There will be two Aarti (prayer) sessions held at the following dates and times: Friday, April 29th at 5:00 PM AND Monday, May 2nd at 5:00 PM. Please bring your school materials if you’d like them to be blessed as well! We hope to see your there!

Thank you everyone for coming out to Project Bhudevi! We appreciate everyone who came for both the indoor presentation and the outdoor portion during which we cleaned up Tobey Prinz Beach! We would also like to give out a special shoutout to UIC, HSC, and Northwestern Om for their help and support on this project!!

Our next event is Finals Puja and we would love to see everyone there for some blessings before finals week!!

HSO hopes you had a colorful time at Loyola Holi 2022: Hues of Love.😎😎
We appreciate everyone who came out to the inside portion of the event and enjoyed the food and presentation alongside the color-throwing part!🤩
We wish everyone had an amazing time after 3 years of not having an in-person Holi!!🔥🔥

Loyola, Northwestern, and UIC's Hindu students' groups are collabing on Project Bhudevi!

Project Bhudevi is a joint effort to help protect Mother Earth. There will be a free Breakfast Kickoff at Mundelein Center in LUC's Lakeshore Campus. Free, exclusive wristbands will be provided!

From there, our orgs will be hosting a beach cleanup at the beautiful Tobey Prinz Beach Park!

Please make sure to wear layers and have the Clear app downloaded with all vaccine-related info uploaded

Please bring your friends and family! We look forward to seeing you all!

Thank you to everyone who came out to HAW Day 4!! We hope you enjoyed the wedding as much as we did!!

Thank you to everyone who came to our HAW Day 3 event!! We hope you all enjoyed the special Arti as much as we did!!

Thank you for coming to Day 2 of HAW: our Sangeet event! We had a lot of fun and hope you enjoyed the dances and got your mehndi done!!

Thank you to everyone to came out to our first HAW day!! We hope everyone had fun learning more about our fun Kahoot topics and bonding with our board members and other GBM!!

Loyola Holi 2022: Hues of Love is less than a week away! HSO would like to invite you to join us in celebrating love, friendship, and the arrival of Spring with vibrant colors, delicious food, and festive music!

Happy birthday to our Vice President, Puja! 💙

The Shaadi, also known as Vivah, Kalyanam, or Lagna, is the traditional Hindu Wedding ceremony. It’s the last part of the multi-day festivity and the most auspicious one. It is a celebration of love and unity where every step taken is a promise bound by Agni, the fire deity.

HSO cordially invites you all to our mock Hindu Wedding on Thursday, March 3rd at 7:30 PM in Damen MPR. Come join the wedding festivities with your friends and witness the intricate rituals and customs whilst enjoying a full, vegetarian Indian meal and dancing (featuring DJ Tamasha)!

All are welcome to this event. It is FREE for all LUC undergraduates and $1 for non-LUC guests (all proceeds made will go to our philanthropy partner - the Shree Ganesha Mandir on Devon). We hope to see you all there!

A sangeet is an event filled with dance, music, and vibrant colors!

We welcome you to our sangeet event, where we are going to celebrate by playing many games, watching performances, and enjoying dinner!

Also, get your mehndi done for FREE!

Thank you to everyone who came out to Hindu Shabbat Dinner! We really enjoyed celebrating both the Hindu and Jewish faith with all of our GBM! We hope to see everyone at our upcoming events this week!!

Applications are now live on LUCommunity! They are due Friday, March 4th at 5pm! We hope to see everyone apply!

Enjoy a week full of events with us for Hindu Awareness week! We will have a variety of events full of fun and ritual empowerment from February 28th to March 3rd!

Happy birthday to our Graphics Designer, Pranav! 💛

We are excited to announce that HSO will now be an official chapter of the Hindu Students’ Council!!

Thank you to everyone who came out to our Cocoa and Marshmallows event! We hope you met some new people and had as much fun as we did!

Maya Amin is a nursing major!

She joined HSO in order to practice her faith here on campus, but who would’ve known she’d end up finding her home away from home

Her favorite thing about HSO is how the events bring together such a diverse group of people whether they’re hindu and celebrating a beloved holiday or they’re non hindus hoping to learn something new while enjoying themselves.

A fun fact about Maya is that she is addicted to coffee and loves finding coffee shops around the city!

We hope to see you at the largest interfaith event on campus!! this celebration is co-hosted by Hillel and HSO! Join us and participate in beautiful Hindu and Jewish traditions!

Thank you to everyone who came out to retreat! We hope you all enjoyed our annual retreat as much as our board members and had a chance to self-reflect and meet new people!!

Come out to learn more about our upcoming events, meet some new people, and get some free hot chocolate!!