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| Liturgy NewsOn Tuesday evening, December 7, at the 5:15 p.m. Mass, we will celebrate both the Vigil of the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, as well as the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. A group of children from St. Patrick’s Parish in Oakland will join us, and will present an enactment of the story of the apparitions of La Virgen de Tepeyac. All are invited for this Advent celebration, followed by a festive meal of tamales and Mexican hot chocolate, with a piñata for the children!
Presider Schedule for next week:
Tuesday 12/7 8:00 Jayaraju Ghattamaneni, S.J. 5:15 Eduardo Fernández, SJ
Wednesday 12/8 8:00 Mark Ngwenya. SJ 5:15 Anh Tran, SJ
Thursday 12/9 8:00 Marko Pavlič, SJ 5:15 Paul Janowiak, SJ
Friday 12/10 8:00 Michael Oluwadare, SJ 5:15 Presider to be decided
Saturday 12/11 8:30 Jean-Claude Havyarimana, SJ |
JST Announcements
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JST Lay Students: There will be a weekend retreat for JST lay students at the Jesuit Retreat Center in Los Altos, Friday evening dinner through Sunday lunch, March 4-6, 2022. Please respond on this form to indicate your desire to participate in the retreat.
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SUMMER PRACTICUM IN SPIRITUAL DIRECTION, June 20- July 15, 2022: To enable participants to refine a focus on religious experience in spiritual direction and retreat work, the practicum will combine theory and practical application to ministry through presentations, verbatims, role plays, case studies, journal exercises, group discussion, individual and group supervision. Each participant will direct at least four persons for one month. The program will be limited to fourteen persons. Directed by Jane Ferdon, O.P. and George Murphy, S.J.
An application and an interview will be required. Application deadline: February 1, 2022. Acceptances will be sent out by March 1, 2022. Tuition: $2500 with some scholarships available according to need.
For more information or application, please contact George Murphy, S.J., grmurphy@scu.edu
- On Tuesday, December 7, at 1:00 in Manresa, Jeremiah Coogan, candidate for the New Testament position at JST, will speak on "Meddling with the Gospel? Elitism, Incompetent Readers, and Gospel Books". He will meet with students over lunch on Tuesday, Dec. 7, 11:30-12:30 and Wednesday, Dec. 8, 1:00-2:00 in Loyola. Please respond to the calendar invite sent by Teresa Bowes in order to sign up for lunch.
- New Student Faith Sharing Group For Women: Faith, Fellowship, Fun and Female (and yes, Food)! Spring Semester 2022: Inviting all JST women students to a new faith-sharing group where we can claim God’s dream for each of us. We want to empower each other to flourish in prayer and confidence. We hope for fun and laughter too! Please email Anne Zehren, M.T.S. student, at azehren@scu.edu if you are interested in being part of this new group. She would like group members (and the Holy Spirit!) to help lead and define the format.
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The SCU Arrupe Fellowship program brings together ten undergraduate students to work in community settings, supervise their peers doing social justice projects, and engage in advocacy and formation. An opportunity exists for a JST student to help manage this program in the spring 2022 semester and serve as a mentor for the Fellows while exploring new community placements for our experiential learning for social justice core requirement. Work for the Arrupe Fellowship program will be paid hourly. If interested, please contact Jennifer Merritt, Director of Community-based Learning for the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education, email: jmerritt@scu.edu. Please apply by Friday, Dec. 3.
- JST students who did not receive a grant from the ARP/HEERF III Fund can apply for assistance if they have a self-identified hardship need due to the coronavirus pandemic. Request forms will be accepted through eCampus until Friday, December 17 at 5 p.m. PST. Additional information about this program can be found on the SCU ARP/HEERF III Fund FAQ page.
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Of Interest Elsewhere |
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Peregrinación Guadalupana 2021
8:00 a.m. PST, St. Louis Beltran Parish, 1410 100th Avenue, Oakland
You are invited to participate in our diocesan pilgrimage in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Pilgrims will leave from St. Louis Beltran Church at 9:00 and walk to the Oakland Cathedral. For more information, contact Héctor Medina, hmedina@oakdiocese.org.
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JST Events |
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JST Weekday Liturgy
5:15 p.m., Gesu Chapel
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The Adventure Continues 10/18/2023 – 5/15/2024
6:30 p.m., To be held online on the 3rd Wednesday of each month through May 15, 2024 from 6:30 to 7:45 PM
We invite you to a follow-up program to the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises to begin on September 20th sponsored by your friends at Santa Clara University. This series is open to anyone who has completed the 19th Annotation or the 30-day Exercises with Santa Clara or elsewhere.
We will meet monthly on the third Wednesday of the month from 6:30 to 7:45 PM (except for Dec. we will meet on the second Wed.). We will use the book by Kevin O’Brien, SJ called Seeing with the Heart: A Guide to Navigating Life’s Adventures, which is his follow-up book to The Ignatian Adventure. We are asking you to purchase the book by Sept. 20th if you wish to participate in this Ignatian spirituality adventure.
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Contemplative Walk
2:30 p.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 2:30.
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SCU Events and Announcements |
8 minute Lunchtime Examen
Join SCU’s Division of Mission and Ministry for a weekly 8-minute Lunchtime Examen every Friday, 12:51-12:59 p.m. PDT. A team of faculty, staff, and students will take turns leading the Examen each Friday over Zoom. Aware of just how much we are all going through these days, the team hopes to provide a calm, welcoming presence as we journey together in community through the Examen. We hope students, faculty, and staff from any religious, secular, or spiritual identity feel supported and welcomed in this experience. No need to register. Click HERE for zoom details.
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Festival of Lights
Dec. 3 and 4, 7:30 p.m. PST, Mission Santa Clara Church
Kickoff the season with holiday favorites and contemporary compositions with the SCU choirs in the beautiful Mission Santa Clara. The evening culminates with the breathtaking candlelight version of Silent Night. Featuring traditional holiday carols to contemporary compositions, join us and see why the Festival of Lights is a two-decade long tradition. The December 4 concert will be livestreamed. Tickets for students are $20.
Click here to register to livestream the concert.
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Community Conversations: Building Bridges: Justice in the Legal, Legislative and Judicial Systems
12:00-1:30 p.m. PST via zoom
The guilty verdicts in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, the implications of Kyle Rittenhouse’s not-guilty verdict in Wisconsin, and a jury’s findings of liability against white nationalists in the fatal Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va remind us that systemic racism remains a painful reality in our country and permeates our judicial, legislative, and civic systems.
This conversation will invite deliberations about how to advance inclusive justice. In the course of the exchange, we will draw upon our persona and Jesuit values to identify concrete actions and ways forward.
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Living with Loss: Finding Our Way Together
4:00-5:30 PST via zoom
On behalf of the School of Education and Counseling Psychology, please join us for a panel discussion next week. Both sessions are open to all students, faculty, and staff.
We are struggling to cope with the recent tragic losses in our community as we grieve for the loss of our beloved friends and students. Despite its often-overwhelming intensity, grief is now understood to be a natural condition —the human reaction to loss — and for most people is expected to abate over time. However, sudden and traumatic losses can leave us at risk for a number of co-occurring mental health problems, complications intensified by the psychological stressors of the pandemic. How can we understand what we are going through and find a way forward, as individuals and as a community?
Expert faculty from the Counseling Psychology Department will address these mental health challenges and present current thinking on grief, loss, and trauma, with a special focus on helpful practices for bolstering resilience and well-being in this time of crisis in two upcoming sessions. Each will begin with a brief presentation by panel members that will be followed by extensive Q&A. EXPERT PANELISTS: Teri Quatman, Jean Riney-Niewiamdomski, Sherry Wang.
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Northern California Innocence Project's 20th Anniversary Celebration
5:30 - 8:00 p.m. SCU Recital Hall and online
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Northern California Innocence Project has helped to free 4 wrongfully convicted men.
Jeremy Puckett (March 13, 2020), Arturo Jimenez (August 12, 2020), Clifton Jones (April 15, 2021), and Juan Bautista (June 24, 2021) collectively lost 71 years.
We hope you can join us for a special evening event on December 9th to honor these and all those freed from a wrongful conviction. Our community is critical to the healing journey! This event is free to attend.
If you are joining us in person at Santa Clara University, vaccination proof is required. Please bring your proof of COVID-19 vaccination card or digital record or proof of a negative COVID-19 test.
If you are joining online-only, a link will be provided closer to the date.
REGISTER ONLINE by emailing Lori Stone at lstone@scu.edu.
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Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World
10:30 - 11:30 a.m. PST via zoom
Exploring and explaining a litany of glitches, near misses, and mathematical mishaps involving the internet, big data, elections, street signs, lotteries, the Roman Empire, and an Olympic team, Matt Parker (known as the Standup Mathematician) uncovers the bizarre ways math trips us up, and what this reveals about its essential place in our world. Getting it wrong has never been more fun.
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GTU News and Events |
Student Employment at GTU
The GTU seeks to hire student workers in the following areas: library circulation assistant, admissions representative and GTUx community manager. Go to https://www.gtu.edu/about/employment and scroll down to Student Positions for detailed job descriptions and how to apply.
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Interfaith Dialogue and Engagement: Rejoice/Lament
7:00-8:15 p.m. PST, Classroom B, CDSP or via Zoom
Join us for a two-part discussion about how our traditions approach holidays and mark time, and how the pandemic may be changing how we gather, or hope to gather.
For more information, including a Zoom link, contact Phillip Lienau at plienau@ses.cdsp.edu
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Art Break with Benjamin Heller
noon - 1:00 p.m. PST via zoom
Benjamin Heller is a cross disciplinary artist, blurring the traditional boundaries of media to uncover newfound vitality in their intersections. Drawing from a diverse background and training in visual arts, photography, dance, and physical improvisation, his works are rooted in the movement of the body and the creation of intimate environments that can be entered, opening a space for discovery via the body, senses, and the imagination.
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Islamic Studies at GTU: Dr. Sulaiman Mappiasse
4:00 p.m. PST, via Zoom
Dr. Sulaiman Mappiasse, a Fulbright Scholar from Indonesia at CIS/GTU, will share his research, “Social Relations in a Post-Religious Conflict Area, Poso, Indonesia: An Interreligious Learning Perspective.”
All are welcome to attend these events to learn from and with students, visiting/research scholars, alums, and faculty in Islamic Studies at the GTU. Please email Dr. Munir Jiwa (mjiwa@gtu.edu) for Zoom registration information.
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Spiritual Care in LGBTQ Deserts: a Lavender Lunch with Jude Johnson
12:15-1:15 p.m PST via zoom
In this online Lavender Lunch, Jude Johnson shares their experience of providing spiritual care for LGBTQ Veterans of the VA medical system in the Inland Empire of California. The desert cities in Southern California pose unique challenges in seeking support for LGBTQ individuals as the resources tend to be located in larger cities near the coast. Jude will also discuss experiences in educating allies in the VA medical system and advocacy for trans-competent health care.
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Community Events and Resources |
Deepening Kinship on the Journey Online Retreat
An Advent Retreat sponsored by the Discerning Deacons project, Dec. 5, 12 and 19, 2:00-3:15 p.m.
What waits to be born this Advent? Let’s pause to gather in the space of this online retreat for some juicy spiritual nourishment during this sacred season. Sessions will feature inspiring voices from the Catholic community, including Casey McCabe Stanton and Claire Hitchins. Sliding Scale payment. See here for full information.
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Jesuits and Boarding Schools: Truth, Reconciliation, Responsibility
9:00 - 10:30 a.m., PST, via zoom
The Taking Responsibility project has a particular goal to highlight not only the history of Jesuit institutions and sexual abuse, but to ask how we can confront and handle this history and its many legacies in the present. Following up on last year’s online dialogue “Native American Communities and the Clerical Abuse Crisis,” this event will bring together a Jesuit who has been deeply involved in this question along with two speakers who are leaders at, and in one case a graduate of, the Red Cloud Indian School, now several years into a Truth and Healing process. The panel seeks to address the pressing question of what it means for today’s Jesuit institutions (and their employees, students, and graduates) to take responsibility for the full legacy of the Jesuits in North America. Sponsored by Fordham University.
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Whatever Happened to the Common Good?
9:30 -10:30 a.m. PST, online via livestream
This online dialogue sponsored by Georgetown Univeristy will lift up the neglected principle of the common good; explore how it has been undermined in the United States’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as through political combat and religious divisions; and look for ways forward to advance the common good and meet our national challenges. Must register to receive instructions for accessing the livestream.
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Environmental Justice and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: Climate Justice
12:00-1:00 pm PST
This monthly series will touch on themes of environmental justice relevant to issues in California and the Delta. Dr. Raoul Lievanos will speak on "Racialized disparities related to sea level rise, flooding, and foreclosure risk in Stockton". Webinars are free and open to the public with registration.
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Berkeley Holiday Gift Fair
4:00-7:00 p.m. PST, UC Theater, 2036 University Avenue, Berkeley
Check out 30+ local vendors and pick up gifts for everyone on your list! Bring your mask and proof of vaccination. This event is FREE to the public!
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Santa Clara Chorale Concert, Remember Holidays
Dec. 10, 8:00 p.m., Dec. 12, 4:00 p.m. Mission Santa Clara
The Santa Clara Chorale will be performing their Christmas concert, "Remember Holidays", at the Mission Santa Clara de Asis on December 10, 8:00 pm and December 12, 4:00 pm. Their repertoire includes traditional carols and exciting festive songs. Discounted tickets are available for SCU employees, students, and seniors. Kids 18 and under attend for free! Reserve your tickets online: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35864/production/1081374
General admission ticket prices:
Adult: $27
Senior: $22
SCU staff: $22
Student: $5
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Saturday Morning Meditation: Find Peace in an Unpeaceful World
10:30 - 11:30 a.m. PST via Zoom
Before the Buddha became enlightened, he spent hundreds of lifetimes cultivating the heart-mind qualities that support the spread of benevolence, compassion, loving kindness, sympathetic joy, and equanimity, known as the Divine Abodes, or Bramaviharas. Join meditation teacher Arisika Razak for an embodied exploration of these qualities, which offer a way to balance our responsibilities to ourselves with our responsibilities to others. Learn how the Divide Abodes can help you find inner peace in the midst of a rapidly evolving global health pandemic, catastrophic climate change, and the lethal targeting of marginalized populations. This virtual meditation session is open to practitioners at all levels. Sponsored by the Asian Art Museum, $5 donation.
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Calls for Papers, Grants and More |
Call for Papers: Lumen et Vita Spring Graduate Conference -- NEW!!
“The Great Waters of the Kingdom of Matter”: Faith, Religion, Science, and Reality
Abstracts of no more than 300 words are due by 11:59 PM on January 20, 2022. Conference at Boston College, virtually and in person: Saturday, March 26, 2022. Sponsored by Lumen et Vita, The Graduate Journal of Theology, School of Theology & Ministry, Boston College. The three best papers (as determined by a panel of judges) will each be awarded $400.
Lumen et Vita Call for Papers
Religious Studies Position at Woodside Priory, Portola Valley -- NEW!!
Woodside Priory is seeking a part-time Theology Teacher to teach two semester-long Theology courses beginning in January. This is a part-time teaching position that may develop into a full-time position. For the job description and to apply, click here.
FASPE Seminary Fellowships in Professional Ethics
FASPE is an intensive, two-week study program in professional ethics and ethical leadership. FASPE is neither a Holocaust studies course, nor a genocide prevention program. Rather, the curriculum is designed to challenge Fellows to critically examine constructs, current developments and issues that raise ethical concerns in their professions in contemporary settings in which they work.
The Fellowship is fully funded for between 12 and 16 applicants. FASPE Seminary applicants must either be enrolled in graduate school preparing for work as a religious leader at the time of application or they must be working as clergy with a relevant graduate degree received between May 2020 and January 2022. Those applying as students may be studying at a seminary, divinity school, rabbinical school, Muslim chaplaincy program or other graduate program related to religious OR theological training.
More information is available at this link. If you would like further information about FASPE or its programs, please visit the website www.faspe-ethics.org. Potential applicants can register here. Completed applications are due January 2, 2022.
Call for Papers: International Symposium on Jesuit Studies
This International Symposium on Jesuit Studies scheduled for August 1 - 4, 2022, at Boston College will explore the many aspects of the Society’s relations to the Church, all within the global contexts in which the Jesuit mission grew and operated. Proposals and a narrative CV (together no more than 500 words) are due before the end of Monday, December 6, 2021, with decisions communicated before the end of the year. Proposals for individual papers or panels are accepted. Selected papers may be peer reviewed and published in open access following the event. For further information and to submit proposals, contact the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at iajs@bc.edu. More information on the call for papers is available here.
Call for Papers: Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life
On February 26, 2022, the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College will host the 2nd Annual Graduate Student Conference on the theme: "Religious Activism and Political Change; Political Activism and Religious Change." Because of the lingering impact of COVID and to encourage a national presence at the conference, we will again hold the conference virtually. Given the number of topics implicated by this topic, we invite proposals from graduate and professional students in any discipline. Abstracts are due on December 12th, 2021, and should be sent to boisi.center@bc.edu.
Call for Book Proposals for book series, Phenomenologies of Religious Experience
This series invites proposals in classical phenomenology, French phenomenology, pre- and post-phenomenologies, and in methodologies that bridge phenomenology and analytic philosophy. In accord with Husserl’s original intent, the series welcomes attempts to locate spiritual or religious experience within a broader theory of the sciences (Wissenschaftslehre) and to expand phenomenology towards transcendental philosophy and metaphysics.
The series is published in cooperation with the Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience, www.sophere.org.
Click here For More Information
Bryan Paulsen, S.J, John Kellett and Joanna Elvis prepare for the Advent Reconciliation Service on December 2. Photo by Mary Beth Lamb.
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