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- Following upon Dean Mueller's message regarding the resignation of Kevin O'Brien, SJ, you are invited to a virtual Taize Prayer service on Friday, May 14, at 4:30 p.m. PDT. This will a simple service of prayer, scripture, Taize chant, and intercession, as we ask for God's guidance and healing for JST and the entire university community. See here for more information.
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JST hosts liturgy each Thursday in the Gesù Chapel at 12:40 p.m. PDT for JST students, staff and faculty only. The chapel allows for 25 participants, including presider and ministers. Those wishing to attend must register by 10 a.m. on Thursday, following the guidelines presented on the registration form. If more than 25 register, we will contact you if we cannot accommodate you. We also need lectors, ushers, and sanitizing helpers. To volunteer, sign up on the separate Ministry sign-up sheet. Both the registration form and the ministry sign-up sheet are posted in the the Moodle course, "JST Community Life, Liturgy and Prayer", in the tile, Liturgy Past and Upcoming.
- Lay Sending: JST will send forth lay graduates into ministry and service in a Liturgy of the Word with a Rite of Sending on Thursday, May 20, at 5:15 p.m. PDT. A limited number of participants will attend in person in the Chapel, while all others may attend online. See here for more information as we post further details.
- Commencement Mass: JST will celebrate a Mass giving thanks for all of our May 2021 graduates on Friday, May 21, at 5:15 p.m. PDT. This will include a blessing of the graduates. A limited number of participants will attend in the Chapel, while all others may attend online. See here for more information as we post further details.
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JST Announcements
- JST will honor our 2021 graduates in a virtual Commencement ceremony of prayer, reflection, acknowledgement, and conferral of degrees on Saturday, May 22, at 10 a.m. PDT. See here for more information, including the livestream link: https://www.scu.edu/jst/news-and-events/jst-commencement/.
- JST's student journal New Horizons is seeking academic papers, pastoral reflections, and art from graduate students on themes of welcoming the stranger in Fratelli tutti, ranging from climate change to crises of migration and economy. Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis and are due by May 28, 2021, to be published in August 2021. Please find the full Call for Papers here and email newhorizonsjst@scu.edu with any questions.
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JST Events |
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Contemplative Walk
11:30 a.m. Join others to reconnect to the world around us. Check the Magis for specifics each week. In general, those walking meet at the bell and depart at 11:30.
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JST Community Liturgy
5:15 p.m., Gesu Chapel
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JST Weekly Liturgy
5:15 p.m., Gesu Chapel
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JST Weekly Liturgy
5:15 p.m., Gesu Chapel
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JST Weekly Liturgy
5:15 p.m., Gesu Chapel
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Adoration with Benediction
5:15 p.m., Gesu Chapel
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SCU Events and Announcements |
Gift of Peace Retreat (3 part zoom series)
- "Disturb our Peace" (Zoom): Saturday, April 24, 11:00am-12:30pm (PDT) - "Give Us This Day" (Zoom): Saturday, May 8, 11:00am-12:30pm (PDT) - "Gift of Peace" (Zoom): Saturday, May 22, 11:00am-12:30pm (PDT)
Students may join us for this Spring's Gift of Peace Retreat, which will be a three-part online series of retreats designed to contemplate the presence of peace in our lives. As we continue to engage with the reality and transitions of COVID in our lives, we are invited to reconnect with ourselves and our world in a new way. During this retreat series, we'll explore the theme of peace through an Ignatian lens, reflecting on our story and the larger story we are invited into at this time. We'll spend time considering matters of desire, hope, attachment, freedom and fear. Each retreat session will include a guided reflection, small and large group conversation and prayer. Should you have any questions, feel free to email, Victor Lemus (Campus Minister for Retreats) at: vlemus@scu.edu. Sign up here.
SCU in Quarantine: Our Pandemic Stories
The unfolding of the COVID-19 pandemic over the last 12 months has brought forth unprecedented challenges and extraordinary change, while also providing opportunities for remarkable achievements and periods of stillness and reflection. Submit your short stories—in text or audio form, or through original artwork—to this digital time capsule. They will be housed in perpetuity in University Archives so that future historians may better understand how we got through this time, together yet apart. Submit your story here.
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Transformational Growth with Coach George Flowers
5:30 - 7:00 p.m. PDT online
In this session, you will learn how to tap into resilience and identify strategies that help you achieve extraordinary levels of excellence in the face of stress and change. Be prepared to reach new levels of personal performance in this training. Registration is limited.
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Workshop for SCU in Quarantine: Our Pandemic Stories
4:00 - 5:00 p.m. PDT
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Understanding Everyday Racism to Move Toward Racial Equity with Dr. Lindsay Pérez Huber
4:00 p.m. PDT
Utilizing the tool of racial microaggressions, Dr. Lindsay Pérez Huber provides an understanding of how everyday and systemic racism emerges in schools, colleges, and universities, and how it negatively impacts Students of Color. She provides strategies to disrupt everyday racism and what institutions need to consider to move toward racial equity.
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Our Cannonball Moment: An Ignatian Examen for the Entire SCU Community
12:15 - 12:45 p.m. PDT
Tony Cortese, S.J., Co-Chair of the Ignatian Year Planning Committee, will facilitate this virtual Examen. This particular Examen will be an invitation to the entire SCU community to reflect on how the story of Ignatius’ may parallel our own story and stories.
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Getting to Know Ignatius in Word and Image: Biographical Details and Cannonball Reflections
4:00 - 5:00 p.m. PDT, via zoom
David DeCosse, Co-Chair of the Ignatian Year Planning Committee, will host a virtual event in which we will:
- Join in a communal reading of the first chapter of the Autobiography of St. Ignatius
- Watch a presentation by Kathryn Barush, Bertelsen Professor of Art History and Religion at the Jesuit School of Theology of SCU, on images of the life of Ignatius
- Hear a reflection on Ignatius’ cannonball moment by Katherine Sanchez, SCU ’21
- Open things up for discussion
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Workshop for SCU in Quarantine: Our Pandemic Stories
noon - 1:00 p.m. PDT
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The Book of Holding On
May 21 and 22, 7:00 p.m May 23, 2:00 p.m. PDT
THE BOOK OF HOLDING ON is a whimsical, poignant exploration of growing up, teenage mental illness (in particular, obsessive thoughts), and coping with change. The adolescents are played by adult actors, suggesting that the central challenges depicted often last throughout our lives.
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GTU News and Events |
Sacred World Art Collection at the GTU
In 2014, the Institute for Aesthetic Development and F. Lanier Graham donated an extensive teaching collection of sacred objects to the Graduate Theological Union. This virtual exhibition features forty of the over 500 spiritual and ritual objects from the collection. https://www.gtu.edu/sacred-world/#welcome
Saturday Meditation
Meet weekly on Saturdays from noon - 1:15 p.m. PST for meditation led by GTU Ph.D. student, Stefan Waligur. It follows a format of chanting, prayer, silence and conversation (in large group and in break out rooms). All are welcome!
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Madrasa-Midrasha| Psychoanalysis in Judaism and Islam
noon PDT
Join us for a conversation on Psychoanalysis in Judaism and Islam with Dr. Naomi Seidman (University of Toronto) and Dr. Omnia El Shakry (UC Davis).
Dr. Seidman's talk is titled "Dreaming in Yiddish: Freud's Jewish Languages" and will explore the Jewish languages embedded in a number of Freud's dreams through the lens of the Hebrew and Yiddish translation of his work. Dr. El Shakry's talk is titled “Psychoanalysis and Islam: Translation and Tradition in Modern Egypt” and will explore the intersections between the psychoanalytic and Islamic mystical traditions, asking what it might mean to think through psychoanalysis and Islam together, not as a ‘problem,’ but as a creative encounter of ethical engagement.
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Cristosal: Advancing LGBT+ Human Rights in Central America: a CLGS Queer & Latinx Faith Conversation
2:00 - 3:15 p.m. PDT
Join the CLGS Latinx Roundtable | Fe, Familia, Igualdad in a conversation with staff members of Cristosal about their work advancing LGBT+ human rights in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador – known as the Northern Triangle of Central America.
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Community Events and Resources |
A Virtual Academic Lecture Series at the Ricci Institute
Thursdays, May 20, 7:00 a.m. PDT
The Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at the University of San Francisco presents the Ricci Scholars’ Study Lecture Series 利氏學仁書齋系列講座 for the 2021 Spring Semester. This series continues our goal to promote research and the study of the history of Christianity in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam by inviting specialists from across the world to share their research through virtual lectures.
The presentations include:
May 20: Sources and History: Some Archival Collections in the Study of the History of Christianity in China, Japan, and Korea, by Rev. Dr. M. Antoni J. Ucerler, S.J., Associate Professor, University of San Francisco; Dr. Hongyan Xiang, Associate Professor, Colorado State University; Dr. Franklin Rausch, Associate Professor, Lander University.
Solidarity Toward the Common Good: Women Engaging the Catholic Social Tradition
The Joan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Social Thought and the Ignatian Tradition is proud to present a series of events celebrating the forthcoming book, Solidarity Toward the Common Good: Women Engaging the Catholic Social Tradition. Through diverse experiences, identities, and disciplinary approaches, the authors explore both how women have shaped the Catholic Social Tradition (CST) and how their voices have also been marginalized in CST. Each event explores CST with critical attention to intersectionality, exploring gendered dimensions of labor, family, migration, racism, healthcare, and non-violence. This series is scheduled for five Tuesdays from 5:00 - 6:00 pm PST, starting April 6.
May 18: Women, Migration, and Domestic Work in CST, Erin Brigham, Catherine Punsalan-Manlimos, Kristin E. Heyer and Gemma Cruz. (this one only, 3:45 - 5:00 p.m. PST)
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Calls for Papers, Grants and More |
Community Service Liaison, St. Ignatius College Prep, San Francisco, CA -- NEW!!
St. Ignatius College Preparatory is searching for a new full-time member in the Office of Community Service and Social Justice to serve as the Community Service Liaison. For details, see the job description.
Director of Immersions at Santa Clara University -- NEW!!
The Director of Immersions (DI) will provide strategic leadership for all aspects of the Ignatian Center’s immersions program. The DI will be responsible for supervising the Immersions Team, with a view to developing policies and programs that advance the distinctively Jesuit, Catholic tradition of education at Santa Clara and further the strategic plan of the Ignatian Center. The Director serves on the leadership team for the Division and Mission and Ministry, and in that capacity serves as an active participant in strategic planning across the Division. The Director reports the the Vice-President of Mission and Ministry, Alison Benders. For more information and to apply, see: Director of Immersions job description.
Collaborative Liturgical Accompanist, part-time, St. Ignatius Church, San Francisco, CA
St Ignatius Parish is seeking a part-time Collaborative Liturgical Accompanist to be the primary liturgical accompanist for 3-4 weekend Masses, special liturgies (e.g. Holy Week and Christmas), weddings and funerals. The ideal candidate will be an accomplished instrumentalist (both piano and organ experience) and vocalist, with outstanding communication and organizational skills. Ultimately the CLA is a person who can work with musicians of all skill levels to produce an excellent liturgical outcome, a person able to build relationships and trust among all the musicians they encounter in a variety of situations.
For more details, go to https://www.stignatiussf.org/post/job-opportunity-collaborative-liturgical-accompanist
Part-Time Internship with Catholic Campaign for Human Development
The Diocese of Oakland's Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) office is looking for someone to fill a CCHD Internship that entails 13-14 hours per week for the 2021-22 school year. The job description can be found at www.cchdeastbay.org. For questions about the internship, please contact the CCHD Diocesan Coordinator at (510) 768-3176 or mmckimmey@cceb.org.
Call for Papers: Science, Faith and Religious Life
This special issue of Review for Religious will treat science, faith, and religious life. Manuscripts on any aspect of this topic will be considered. Of particular interest are essays that treat the challenges of religious education in an age of science. How, for instance, can we meet the challenges in evangelizing those who seem indifferent to the great questions about the meaning of life and assume that contemporary science alone is sufficient? All submissions must be received by June 15, 2021. For more information, see http://www.reviewforreligious.com/callforpapers/
Call for Papers, Conference for the Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience
The conference, "In the Shadows of Religious Experience: Hostility, Violence, Revenge," a webinar hosted by the University of Vienna, will take place online Oct. 6-8, 2021. Please submit papers of no more than 600 words, formatted for anonymous review, before July 10, 2021. Enclose your biographic information in the body of the email. Send the paper to vienna2021@sophere.org. You should receive a response acknowledging your submission. Notifications of acceptance will be emailed by July 20, 2021. For more information on the webinar, click here.
Call for Papers: Teaching Religion & Theology
Teaching Theology & Religion encourages all members of the GTU community to contribute to upcoming volumes of the journal.
Co-editors Drs. Kyle Schiefelbein-Guerrero (PhD ’15) and Jennifer W. Davidson (PhD ’11) are looking for full articles (4,000 to 7,000 words), In the Classroom essays about concrete teaching practices (up to 3000 words), Teaching Tactics on a specific repeatable practice (400 words), or reviews. More information on submitting articles is available here.
Ellen Jewett, Celila McArthur, Daryl Grigsby, Rose Machario and John Lee during the Renewal Program Sending Celebration, May 12, 2021. Screenshot by Mary Beth Lamb.
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