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| Liturgy NewsLaudato Si’ Action Platform: You are warmly invited to pray for the 40 days between October 4, the Feast of St. Francis, and November 14, the World Day of Prayer for the Poor, and the launch of new planning materials on the Laudato Si’ Action Platform.
Prayers for the seven sectors served by the Laudato Si’ Action Platform are available to download here. We are praying one of these intercessions each week at the Tuesday evening liturgy from now through November 16.
Rosary: In honor and observance of October as the month of the Most Holy Rosary and as Respect Life Month, Dianna Gallagher will be leading the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary, next Wednesday, October 13 at 12:45 pm in the Chapel. All are invited to join in prayer for building a culture that cherishes and protects every human life.
Evening Prayer for Creation: Thursday, October 14, 5:15 p.m., JST Chapel. Annie Hayes, M.Div. student, will preside for this liturgy as part of our JST participation in SCU tUrn Week, in prayer and action for climate justice.
To sign up for a liturgical ministry on a particular date, please refer to this form. The link is also available from the Moodle Course: JST Community Life, Prayer and Liturgy, under the tile: Liturgy Past and Upcoming. Please contact Fortunatus Nnadi, Liturgy Coordinator, at JSTLiturgy@scu.edu to volunteer as a liturgical minister and receive the sign-up reminders.
Presider Schedule
Tuesday 10/12 8:00 Jayaraju Ghattamaneni, SJ 5:15 Andrew Fernandes, SJ
Wednesday 10/13 8:00 Mark Ngwenya, SJ 5:15 Mass in Spanish: Michael Tyrrell, SJ
Thursday 10/14 8:00 Marco Pavlič, SJ 5:15 Evening Prayer: Annie Hayes
Friday 10/15 8:00 Michael Oluwadare, SJ 5:15 Aloysius Agbo, SJ
Saturday 10/16 8:30 Jean Claude Havyarimana, SJ |
JST Announcements
- Join Us for Our Laudato Si’ Action Platform Discernment Group: As an outgrowth of JST's Climate-Justice Teach-In (SP ’20) and in concert with global efforts toward sustainability, Carrie Rehak, Mary Beth Lamb, and Mary McGann, RSCJ invite students, faculty, and staff who are interested in taking part in the Laudato Si' Action Platform initiative to join us for a discernment process. We meet on Tuesdays, 1-2PM, on the patio behind JST. Contact Carrie Rehak, crehak@scu.edu for further information. For various resources, check out the tile on the Laudato Si’ Action Platform in the Moodle Course, JST Community Life, Prayer and Liturgy.
- William Troche, Manager of Housing and Building Operations, requests information on where students are currently living this semester. Please take a few moments to fill out the Where Are You Living? survey. The survey will close on Monday, October 18, 2021. Anyone who fills out the survey will have a chance to win a free SCU blanket from the campus store in Santa Clara.
- The JST Student Life Office is looking for a Graduate Assistant to help prepare Magis and perform various other office tasks. Please see the job description here, and make your application to Mary Beth Lamb, melamb@scu.edu.
- Bridge Projects, a contemporary art gallery and curatorial project based in Los Angeles, featuring experimental, research-driven exhibitions by local and international artists hosts Prof. Kathryn Barush on Thursday, Oct. 14, 6:00 p.m. PDT in a talk that explores the idea of installation art as an embodied experience of pilgrimage. For more information and to register, click here.
- On October 23, 10:00 a.m. PDT at the Cathedral of Christ the Light, 9 Jesuit candidates will be ordained to the diaconate. For more information, click here.
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Of Interest Elsewhere |
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Ignatian Family Teach-In
8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. PDT via zoom
The Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice, or IFTJ, is an annual gathering for members of the Ignatian family (those affiliated with both Jesuit institutions and the larger Catholic Church) to gather in the context of social justice and solidarity to learn, reflect, pray, network, and advocate together. It is a place where people are empowered, re-energized, inspired, challenged, and supported by a community that sees faith and justice integrally linked.
Now in its 24th year, IFTJ has a rich history rooted in honoring the Jesuits and their companions who were martyred in El Salvador in 1989.
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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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JST-SCU 2024 Commencement Exercises
3 - 5 p.m. Join us for the 2024 Commencement Exercises of the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University. Light reception to follow
Please RSVP here by Mary 8, 2024
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JST Weekday Liturgy
5:15 p.m., Gesu Chapel
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JST Weekday Liturgy
5:15 p.m., Gesu Chapel
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JST Weekday Liturgy
5:15 p.m., Gesu Chapel
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JST Weekday Liturgy
5:15 p.m., 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.
tUrn Climate Crisis Awareness and Action Week: October 11-15
tUrn headliners run from 7am to 9pm Monday through Friday, from Oct 11 to 15.
tUrn is an interdisciplinary, intercultural invitation to lean into the climate crisis. Led by extraordinary speakers from SCU and all over the world, there are 30 headliners that are free and open to the public.
RSVP on the tUrn website for each headliner at: www.scu.edu/tUrn/headliners
Global Conference on Sustainability in Higher Education
SCU is a Host of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s (AASHE’s) annual Global Conference on Sustainability in Higher Education (GCSHE). GCSHE offers 3 full days (Oct. 12-14) of live content and networking, plus eighty days of on-demand access (through December 31). As a Host Institution, we have unlimited registration passes for our campus only, as well as unique opportunities to be recognized for our commitment to sustainability. The Center for Sustainability, College of Arts & Sciences Dean's Office, and VP Finance & Administration see the value in this conference and are sharing the sponsorship to enable free registration for anyone with an @scu.edu email address. Check it out here.
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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FDA Approval and Remaining Vaccine Myths: Addressing the Lingering Obstacles
11:00-11:30 PDT
Katherine Saxton, associate professor of biology & public health, College of Arts and Sciences, Santa Clara University reviews the process that the COVID-19 vaccination has to undergo to receive FDA approval, as well as persistent myths that are fueling COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and resistance. Sponsored by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
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Just Mercy: Film Screening and Panel Discussion
6:00-9:15 p.m. PDT via zoom
What happens when books are adapted into films? How does adaptation impact storytelling?
Students in the LEAD Scholars Program are reading Bryan Stevenson's 2014 book, Just Mercy, about legal justice for death row inmates, which was made into a 2019 film by the same name. Join the LEAD team, the Common Reading committee, and several illustrious alumni—including film producer Blye Faust '97 and writer Malarie Howard '14—for a film screening and panel discussion afterwards.
Registration and access details to come later.
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Ethical Approach to Vaccine Policies: Mandates, Passports, Exemptions and More
11:00-11:30 a.m. PDT via zoom
As a very important strategy for protection against COVID-19, employers, businesses, schools, and other organizations are finding different ways to ensure safety by regulating vaccinations and testing. In today’s webinar, we will be joined by Gary Spitko, Presidential Professor of Ethics and the Common Good and Professor of Law at Santa Clara University School of Law. We will explain the ins and outs of these strategies and policies and the impact that they have on curbing the spread of COVID-19 in the community. Sponsored by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
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GTU News and Events |
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The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Pittsburgh Neighborhood
4:00 p.m. PDT via zoom
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Madrasa-Midrasha| Psychoanalysis in Judaism and Islam
noon PDT via zoom
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).
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The Bible But Make it Kinky: A Queer Reading of Traumatic Bible Stories: A CLGS Lavender Lunch with Kendra Twenter
12:15-1:15 p.m. PDT via zoom
In this CLGS Lavender Lunch Kendra Twenter centers women of the Bible who were abused, unnamed, and used to justify the inappropriate crossing of boundaries. Based upon a video series that she created for her Final Project for a Certificate of Sexuality & Religion from Pacific School of Religion, Kendra will discuss some essential aspects of kink and sex as they appear in the biblical accounts of Bathsheba, the Whore of Babylon, and the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. She will also explore aspects of the ongoing abuse and mistreatment of women today.
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The Role of Latinx Faith Communities in HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care with Carolina Ramos: a CLGS Queer and Latinx Faith Conversation
noon - 1:15 p.m. PDT via zoom
Join us as we explore CLGS’ new LGBTQ+ Latinx Health Guide on HIV/AIDS for Faith Communities with Carolina Ramos!
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Landscapes and Inscapes: A Pilgrimage Through Art
6:00 - 7:30 p.m. PDT via zoom
From the earliest centuries to today, humans have mapped one sacred landscape onto another to engender an experience of closeness to their ancestors, to their homeland, or to the divine. It is a practice that crosses cultures and time – from the Jain mandalas linked to far-away Mount Meeru to seven-circuit labyrinths in turf and stone. Such kinetic, synesthetic, and haptic artistic expressions have taken on a particular urgency in this time of pandemic as travel was curtailed and loved ones were far out of reach. In this talk Dr. Kathryn Barush will explore the idea of installation art as an embodied experience of pilgrimage that helps foster a sense of connection and communitas.
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CLGS Annual Georgia Harkness Lecture
6:30 p.m. PDT via zoom
Veiled metaphors and transgressive embodiments of Hebrew and Greek bibles have been ignored, forgotten or intentionally omitted forgotten. Using early Christian and Medieval art as inspiration, Bishop Rohrer will make an unapologetic case for reading scripture with a genuinely trans aesthetic.
The Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer (they/he) is the first openly transgender Bishop of a mainline Christian denomination, currently serving as Bishop of the Sierra Pacific Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).
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International Students' Gathering
5:00 p.m. PDT, Berkeley School of Theology, 2606 Dwight Way, Karpe Hall Berkeley
Sponsored by the GTU International Students’ Association and Berkeley School of Theology. If you can, bring a dish or a dessert to share. RSVP by Oct. 13 to Lia Rochill, lrochill@bst.edu or Zulu Lemtur, zlemtur@gtu.edu. Proof of vaccination is required to attend.
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GTU Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) Event
1:00 - 2:00 p.m followed by office hours, via zoom
Those interested in learning more about CPE in the Bay Area are welcome to attend. For more details about CPE please see: https://www.acpe.edu/. Please contact Mary Beth Lamb (melamb@scu.edu) for the Zoom meeting invite.
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The Ark: Queer Art for Survival with Nessa Norich: A CLGS Jewish Queeries Series Event
1:00 - 2:15 p.m. PDT via zoom
The film, The Ark, invites the viewer to process the changes they too have experienced over the past year and offers ancient Jewish wisdom for how we can find wholeness in this uncertain transitional moment. Nessa will talk about the important role of queer narratives in the work of building a more equitable, compassionate society.
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Reel Religion: The Bible, Movies and The Blackfriars Gallery Movie Poster Collection: a "Wise Habits" Event
5:30-6:30 p.m. PDT via zoom
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Book Release Party with Dr. Kathryn Barush
Noon - 1:00 p.m. PDT via zoom
Join CARe in celebrating the release of Dr. Kathryn Barush's newly published book, Imaging Pilgrimage: Art as Embodied Experience.
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Authority and Normativity In and Between Buddhist Traditions
12:00 p.m. via zoom
The Institute of Buddhist Studies (IBS) is delighted to announce the Graduate Student Symposium for the fall of 2021. The Symposium will be held virtually on October 22nd, 2021.
The theme of the 2021 Symposium is “Authority and Normativity in and Between Buddhist Traditions.” The keynote speaker for this year’s Symposium will be Dr. Ann Gleig.
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Grief and Magic: A Conversation on Ritual and Loss with Author Merissa Nathan Gerson
noon PDT via zoom
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Community Events and Resources |
Double Vision: Art from Jesuit University Collections
An exhibit inspired by the Stations of the Cross, it features art from three Midwest Jesuit campus museums: Loyola University Museum of Art (Loyola University Chicago), the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art (Saint Louis University), and the Haggerty Museum of Art (Marquette University). The exhibit features an online interactive space, as well as a digital catalogue with an introductory essay contributed by noted Jesuit artist and historian, Rev. Tom Lucas, S.J. Double Vision will be featured at Marquette's Haggerty Museum through December 19.
Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice
Forming Our Consciences: Practicing our Faith in a World of Gray
Sponsored by St. Ignatius Parish in San Francisco, Forming Our Consciences: Practicing Our Faith in a World of Gray is a six-part series examining the formation of one’s conscience in a world that is often not black nor white, but gray. The series of six interconnected talks, delivered by distinguished spiritual guides and leaders, will take place over the course of the fall in 2021, and will include remarks around hot-button social issues that challenge our faith, alongside the opportunity for reflection and sharing.
Held on several Sundays, September 12 - December 5, 11:30 PT via zoom.
Register Here. Speakers include JST's Lisa Fulham and Lucas Sharma, SJ
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The Fragment Transformed
10:30 am - noon, PDT, via zoom
JST and GTU Professor Kathryn Barush will participate in this panel which will consider the manifold ways that artists have reimagined and repurposed fragments to tell new stories and challenge established traditions. From the junk aesthetic of assemblage in the 1960s to the use of pilgrimage souvenirs in contemporary art pieces, fragments have been reconstituted as expressions of creativity, resistance, and power. These talks will explore how fragments are reified, transformed and reinterpreted to offer critiques of culture, race, and gender. Her paper is entitled: Assemblage as a pilgrimage portal: the afterlife of the found object.
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Virtual Information Session: 2022 FASPE Seminary Fellowship
9:00 a.m. PDT via zoom
Virtual information session for those interested in applying for the 2022 FASPE Seminary Fellowship (information about the fellowship is posted under Calls for Papers, Grants and More).
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For a Synodal Church: What is Pope Francis inviting us all to do?
4:00-5:30 p.m. PDT via zoom
And how can we participate, animate, and serve the listening and discernment process? A panel of theologians will speak from their experience and expertise. The panel includes two members appointed to the Synod Commission on Theology (Prof. Rafael Luciani and Prof. Kristin Colberg) and Prof Hosffman Ospino who has been integral to the V Encuentro and encouraging synodal, listening, participatory processes in the US Church. This webinar is sponsored by Discerning Deacons.
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Calls for Papers, Grants and More |
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
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. Additionally, FASPE will host a virtual information session on October 26, 2021 at 9 a.m. PST. Potential applicants can register here.
Call for Papers: New Horizons
In Volume 6 Issue 1, New Horizons, JST's peer-reviewed Graduate Journal, invites submissions on the themes of discernment, power, participation, and authority in the church. See the Call for Papers for more details.
Academic papers should be formatted according to the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th. Ed., and comprise between 2,000-4,000 words. Homilies and pastoral reflections are held to the same word count. Poetry, prayer, artwork, and photography are highly welcomed components of the journal.
Submissions should be uploaded by 5pm on November 1, 2021 to newhorizonsjst@scu.edu. Accepted submissions will be published in February 2022. Please email bkozee@scu.edu with any questions or inquiries.
On October 2, 2021, the Jesuit diaconate ordinees gathered at Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Altos for a day of reflection. From left to right, Edward Ngô, S.J., Ricardo Perkins, S.J., Daniel Nevares, S.J., Aaron Bohr, S.J., Lucas Sharma, S.J., Thomas Croteau, S.J., Matthew Yim, S.J., Joel Thompson, S.J. and Joseph Kraemer, S.J. Photo by Marty Connell, S.J.
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