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Due to the Thanksgiving Holiday Break, the next issue of Magis will be published on Tuesday, November 23.
| Liturgy NewsPresider Schedule
Tuesday 11/23 8:00 Soo Young Park, S.J. 5:15 Paul Janowiak, SJ
Wednesday 11/24 5:15 Peter Omondi, SJ
Thursday 11/25 Thanksgiving Day 10:00 Deogratias Fikiri, SJ
Friday 11/26 5:15 George Griener, SJ
Saturday 11/27 8:30 Joe Mueller, SJ |
JST Announcements
- Due to the Thanksgiving Holiday, the JST Building will be closed Thursday and Friday, November 24 and 25. On Wednesday, Nov. 23, the building will be open from 8:00-3:00. Consult with your instructor about getting in for classes after hours.
- The COVID-19 testing schedule will also be modified next week. Testing kits can be picked up from the front desk on Monday, 11/22 and Tuesday, 11/23. All testing kits must be returned to the collection bin in front of the front desk by Tuesday, 11/23 before 1:30 pm. The regular testing schedule will resume the following week.
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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.
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Early Registration for the Intersession’22 term and for the Spring’22 semester. For Spring’22 you have until Friday, November 19 to register for spring courses. On that day, Early Registration will end – and registration won’t re-open until January 17. Early registration helps us know which courses students are most interested in, and which ones are not likely to have enough students. So, please, register early for as many courses as you feel confident about. You can always make adjustments later in January.
You can already begin now to look over the courses that are being offered both for Intersession and Spring on the GTU Course Schedule. The Intersession courses are listed along with the spring ones under “Spring’22”. When you bring up the spring courses, check the 3rd column (“session”) – for “Intersession” courses. If you have any questions, contact Jim Oberhausen, joberhausen@scu.edu.
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Of Interest Elsewhere |
Rethinking "Thanksgiving" Toolkit
The Indigenous Solidarity Network has developed a toolkit for discussing Thanksgiving with family, friends, and the broader community in order to dismantle the myths that hide and erase how the US is founded on genocide, and to open up conversations about race. Click here to view the toolkit.
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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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JST Weekday Liturgy
5:15 p.m., Gesu Chapel
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JST-SCU Commencement Mass & Reception
5:15 - 8 p.m., JST Gesu Chapel
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JST-SCU Lay Sending Service
10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., JST Gesu Chapel
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SCU Events and Announcements |
SCU Native History Tour
The SCU Native History Tour, developed in collaboration between members of San Francisco Bay Area Ohlone communities and SCU faculty, showcases the Indigenous history of the Santa Clara University campus. Clicking on the link above will bring you to Google Earth, where you can take the tour using the arrow icons in the bottom left of the window to navigate. At most stops, you can click on the images above the text for a slideshow and/or further information from Ohlone representatives. Your feedback on the tour via this survey is welcome.
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.
Metaphor, Myth and Politics: Art from Native Printmakers
De Saisset Museum at SCU features recent prints by Kenojuak Ashevak (Inuit), Marwin Begaye (Diné [Navajo]), Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit/Aleut), Wendy Red Star (Crow), C. Maxx Stevens (Seminole/Muscogee), and other Native and Indigenous printmakers from across the globe, all drawn from the collection of UC Davis’ C.N. Gorman Museum. These inventive works reveal the diverse points of view and styles of art present in the world of contemporary Native printmaking. Traveling exhibition Metaphor, Myth, & Politics: Art from Native Printmakers is the product of a partnership between the C.N. Gorman Museum at UC Davis and Exhibit Envoy. This exhibit is all online, October 1 - December 2.
http://scupresents.org/performances/exhibition-metaphor-myth-politics-art-native-printmakers
Archive Exhibit: The Samurai and the Cross: Life and Death in Christian Japan, 1549-1650
Curated by Prof. M. Antoni J. Ucerler, S.J., Director of the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History, this exhibit explores the reality of Jesuit missionaries in Japan in the late 16th and early 17th centuries through use of Japanese texts, European rare books, paintings, and other written and visual media. Many of these missionaries were martyred by Japanese authorities and went on to develop mythical proportions in Jesuit rhetoric.
The gallery space is on the third floor of the Learning Commons and Library, next to the Archives & Special Collections Reading Room. Exhibit hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday - Friday when the learning commons is open and by appointment. On display from September 20 through December 10. For more information: https://www.scu.edu/library/asc/exhibits/samurai/
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Be a Roadmap to Inspire Dreamers to Dream Big
5:00 - 6:00 p.m. PST via Zoom
Featuring Sarahi Espinoza Salamanca, CEO, DREAMer’s Roadmap, a free national mobile app that helps undocumented students find scholarships and share success stories graduating from college, and moderator, Ed Vargas, Latinx Research Center Advisory Board Member. Sarahi will share her experience as a child of immigrant parents, becoming a DACA student, and her drive to go to college. Sarahi is an advocate for the undocumented community, expanding the platform to provide food for essential farmworkers with #Supplies4Farmworkers and COVID rent relief with #FirstOfTheMonth.
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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.
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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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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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GTU Community Thanksgiving Meal
5:00-7:00 p.m. PST, Berkeley Institute of Religion, 2368 Le Conte Avenue
Let us gather in this time of Thanksgiving to share food from our cultures and fellowship with each other. We are grateful to the Berkeley Institute of Religion of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for hosting GTU students, their families, and the broader GTU community in this festive meal. Main dishes and turkey provided.
Please RSVP by 11/17 (Wed) by adding your name to the list, indicate what food you will be bringing, and if you need or can offer transportation.
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GTU 2.0 -- Community Town Hall
10:00 a.m. PST via zoom
This event will provide an opportunity to ask questions about GTU 2.0 initiatives of the GTU's Executive Leadership Team. To attend the Town Hall, please reach out to Melissa Haddick at mhaddick@gtu.edu to request access details. Questions may also be shared with the ELT in advance by submitting them to Melissa. For those who are unable to join, the meeting will be recorded, and a link can be requested from Melissa the following day.
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Madrasa-Midrasha|Jurisprudence and Diaspora
1:30 p.m. PST via zoom
Join us for this special Madrasa-Midrasha Program event, which will feature presentations by Dr. Charlotte Fonrobert (Stanford University) and Dr. Mark Fathi Massoud (UC Santa Cruz).
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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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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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Recognizing, Responding To and Healing Trauma in Faith-Based Communities
12:00p.m. PST via zoom
Dr. Bruce Perry -- renowned psychiatrist and neuroscientist and author of the #1 best-selling book with Oprah – “What Happened to You?” -- will speak about faith, adversity and resilience with various international and local faith-based leaders.
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Women and Catholic Social Teaching: Faith at Work, Translating Tradition into Action with Mary Haddad, RSM
Noon - 1:00 p.m. PST via zoom
Each year the Lane Center honors women who shape the Catholic social tradition through their actions and intellectual contributions to Catholicism. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed stark inequities in healthcare. In this context, we are excited to lift up the voice of an advocate for healthcare as a human right. Sister Mary Haddad, RSM, is the president and CEO of the Catholic Health Association of the United States. A Sister of Mercy, Haddad represents a legacy of women leaders who prioritize healthcare for marginalized communities.
Haddad will highlight the ways Catholic sisters have shaped Catholic social thought through their social ministries, with particular attention to healthcare. This event is co-sponsored by the School of Nursing and Health Professions, University Ministry, and Ignatian Spiritual Life Center at St. Agnes Church.
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Unpacking Histories: History of Boarding Schools for Native Students
4:00 p.m. PST online
Unpacking Histories is a learning and conversation series that examines the history of relations between Jesuits and Indigenous peoples in what is now known as the US and Canada. This session will focus on the history of boarding schools for Native students, with a particular look at Jesuit schools. Please register if you’re affiliated with a Jesuit province or ministry and are interested in attending this or future sessions.
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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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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. Scholars and public service experts will speak on the importance of environmental justice as it pertains to state water management, climate resilience, indigenous stewardship, and management of the Delta. Webinars are free and open to the public with registration.
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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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Calls for Papers, Grants and More |
Religious Studies Position at Saint Mary's College High School in Berkeley
Saint Mary’s College High School is seeking a Religious Studies Teacher to teach The Life & Times of Jesus and Does Religion Matter? beginning with the Winter 2022 Trimester (November 29). This is a full-time teaching 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
Albert Douglas Honegan, JST Ph.D. affiliate, preaches while Edward Stewart, JST Director of Enrollment Management and Marketing, presider, looks on during the Black Catholic History Month celebration on Thursday, Nov. 18 in Gesu Chapel. Photo by Soo Young Park, S.J..
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