“Yearning and Promise” explores Advent and the expectant longing for the birth of Christ through cityscapes, wilderness, and water, with scriptures drawn from Isaiah 40 and Matthew 1. The audio for this video (linked above) is in Swahili with subtitles in English, Spanish, Mandarin, and Korean—a poetic way to represent the primary tongues of our community.
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Featured Event
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JST T-Shirts Now Available
Students are invited to purchase a JST T-shirt complete with the winning design by Hector Chavez Perez. T-Shirts are $10 each and are availavle in sizes S-XL.
Students can get the shirts in the Student Life offices on Monday 12/12 and Tuesday 12/13 between 9-10am and 2-4pm. If those times don't work for you, email Jenny (jgirardmalley@scu.edu) to set up a time later in the week.
Take a photo with your shirt and don't forget to tag JST on social media!!!
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Cookies & Cocoa Study Break
Join your friends and meet alumni over a hot cup of cocoa, decorate some cookies, and chat!
Date: Thursday, Dec. 13 Time: 3 - 4:30 p.m. Place: Manresa
Brought to you by the Office of External Relations
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What's Happening at JST
Student Basic Needs and Food Security Assessment
Dear University Community,
We invite all undergraduate and graduate students to participate in this brief anonymous survey to assess food and housing security among Santa Clara's student population.
The information gathered from this survey will help provide valuable information to better the services provided to SCU students, aiding to expand investment in this critical area. At the end of the survey, you can enter to win a $50 gift certificate.
Complete the Survey Here
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JST December 2022 Playlist is LIVE
Our Student Life team member, Lisa Calvez, has been collecting students' suggestions and we have created a playlist for you. Take a listen on Spotify!
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JST Office Closure for the Holidays
The JST Offices will be closed from Friday, Dec. 23, 2022 to Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023. We look forward to seeing you in the New Year!
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January Intercession Begins January 3, 2023
Spring 2023 Begins January 30, 2023
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Included in this Week's Magis
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Kudos Corner
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Congratuations to Cedric Mouzou (first-year S.T.L. student) whose photography was accepted for the Student Art Exhibition, organized by the Center for the Arts & Religion (CARe). Cedric's photopgraphy will be featured during the reopening of the GTU Library! More details regarding when the exhibition will be open for viewing will be shared in the future. |
On December 2, the anniversary of the Maryknoll Martyrs in El Salvador, the JST Jean Donovan Lay Community was blessed by our community during mass as we recognized their faith-filled journey to live simply and intentionally. Thank you Hector, Joanna, Fabio, Nelly, Selah and Alexandra for your witness to justice and to community life!
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We want to celebrate our community's achievements! Please let us know if you have seomthing to celebrate such as an award, a recognition, the completion of a major project, etc.
Liturgy News
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Tuesday, 12/13 |
Tyrrell
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Hadley |
Wednesday, 12/14
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Martinez |
Yoda*
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Thursday, 12/15
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Santamaría Belda
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Zas Friz w/ S. Zachary Preaching
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Friday, 12/16 |
Nyirenda |
Bouchtang Fodjo |
Saturday, 12/17 (8:30AM) |
Muthiah |
No Liturgy |
*Wednesday evening Mass in Spanish |
A Request for Generosity: Please look out for an email calling for volunteers for the liturgies during January and an appeal for updates to your class schedules and availability. We will need generous volunteers at the start of the intercession and until the new semester begins.
Mass of Gathering and Lunar New Year Planning - Connect with Edward Chow, SJ or Stephen Szolosi to assist with the preparation for Lunar New Year. On Monday, January 30, we will prepare the chapel space, and we’ll need help resetting it on Monday, February 6. Please help us by letting us know you are interested in supporting this liturgy!
An Early Invitation - Mark your Calendars: Vesperal Divine Liturgy in SF | Informational Flyer
Join the small community at Our Lady of Fatima in San Francisco (Geary Blvd) on Jan. 6 at 5:00 PM and enjoy the festive reception to follow. Contact Chris Hadley, SJ for more information!
Spiritual Formation Offerings
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Occasions for Personal Prayer
Morning Meditation | Gesù Chapel
Tuesday -Friday 7:15 AM - 7:45 AM
Afternoon Meditation | Gesù Chapel
Tuesday & Thursday 1:30-2:00 PM
Advent Activity
Stop by Manresa Lounge and contribute a symbol of new life, peace, or hope with art materials to a small Christmas tree as we continue to move with the Holy Spirit through Advent.
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Spiritual Direction
Use our JST Spiritual Director Catalog to connect with a director.
Pilgrimage: Open Paths for the Wayfaring Spirit
Use this developing Pilgrimage Paths 2022-2023 catalog to identify or imagine your own pilgrimage.
Tickets for CARNE y ARENA are available for any interested student. The exhibit at the Craneway Pavilion in Richmond runs through January 28.
Email Stephen (sszolosi@scu.edu) to receive information about CARNE y ARENA.
Ministerial Formation Offerings
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RCIA/OCIA Faith Formation Webinars
Did you know that the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) ritual text has been undergoing a process of revision? The newly-revised translation for the dioceses of the United States will be renamed the Order of Christian Initiation of Adults.
The Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions (FDLC) is hosting a free webinar series on the Order of Christian Initiation of Adults (OCIA). All webinars will be offered in both English and Spanish. Join the webinars live or view the recordings. |
Prophetic Communities: Organizing as an Expression of Catholic Social Thought
University of San Francisco | Thursday February 9th -Saturday February 11th, 2023
English with simulcast interpretation to Spanish
This conference will explore how Catholic theology and social thought has given rise to community organizing and how community organizers embody and shape the Catholic social tradition. Convened at the University of San Francisco, this three-day event will bring together scholars across disciplines with community organizers of various networks to build relationships, knowledge, and capacity for theological reflection and praxis. Our hope is that bridging the church, academy, and social movements, this conference will foster the solidarity and synodality that Pope Francis has envisioned. Please see: https://rsvp.usfca.edu/event/5bdcf7e5-b758-47e8-9d24-f7047c902f35/summary
Save the Date
Blanket Making for Project Linus
Monday Jan. 24 | 6:30 p.m. | JST
Join your friends and make new ones to make blankets forProject Linus. The blankets will be donated to children in need in foster care, hospitals, and shelters. This is a perfect activity for families and students who need service hours. Fabric and all other materials needed for the project will be provided. Savory snacks will also be served!
Register Here
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GTU Events
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Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience (SOPHERE) Conference 2023: Religious Experience and the Phenomenology of Nature | 16th – 19th August 2023
CFP deadline: March 15 2023
(Hosted by the University of Galway and St. Angela’s College, Sligo)
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Abstracts/Papers
If you wish to present a paper, please send either an anonymized paper of no more than 3,000 words or an abstract of no more than 600 words free of any identifying information, and in Word format, to conferencegalway2023@sophere.org by March 15th 2023 (midnight Irish time). Although we are accepting abstracts, preference will be given to completed papers. In a separate document, send identifying information. You should receive an email acknowledging your submission.
We welcome abstracts from multiple perspectives, including from postgraduate researchers. Areas of interest include the first-person phenomenological perspective and research of religious experience in the following contexts (though not limited to these)
- Natural Theology and Revelation
- Religious Nature Poetry
- Eco-feminism
- Nature Aesthetics
- Environmental Aesthetics
- Naturphilosophie
- Eastern, Northern, and Southern Perspectives
- Nature and Grace
- Philosophy of Nature in Different Religious Traditions
- Metaphysics of Nature
- Subjectivity and Nature
- Phenomenology of Spiritual Practices in Nature
- Eco-phenomenology and Religious Experience
If you have any questions about the conference, please email the conference organizers:
Professor Felix Ó Murchadha: felix.omurchadha@universityofgalway.ie
Dr. Mary Shanahan: mshanahan@stangelas.ie
Community Events
Winter Wonderland
Dec. 2, 2022 - Jan. 2, 2023 | Central Park Dr., Berkeley
Weekdays 4pm-8pm | Weekends 12pm-8pm | Cost: $4+
Create a storybook Christmas for your family. Join us for our annual Breakfast with Santa event at Tilden Merry Go Round. Secure your reservations today before we sell out! Festive Holiday Buffet, Holiday Activities, Carousel Rides, Surprise gift for the young partygoers (0-13) and the highlight of the morning, a visit from Santa and his elves. Select sessions available through December 23rd.
Handel's Messiah
Dec. 17 at 7pm & Dec. 18 at 4pm | First Congregation Church Berkeley | Purchase Tickets
This performance will last approximately 150 minutes, with one intermission and one additional pause.
Handel’s Messiah is one of those pieces which we think we all know, and then we sit in front of it and are once again wowed and reminded just what a genius Handel was. How many works have SO many great tunes? How many of them bear repeated listening, revealing new things each time? How many take you on a dramatic roller coaster encompassing rage, sorrow, joy, and jubilation? How many can still pack an emotional gut-punch even though you’ve heard them before? Messiah can.
In this pre-holiday treat Music Director Richard Egarr is back and joined by a top-flight roster of great soloists. Join us and be uplifted
Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration at BAMPFA
September 3-December 18, 2022
The most recent Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archives exhibit considers the foundational roots of confinement from philosophical, sociological, theological, and art historical perspectives to better understand the fact that today's mass incarceration crisis has been centuries in the making.
Resources
COVID-19 Vaccines & Other Immunizations
Please the SCU Prepared Site for all COVID Related Information
Free COVID-19 Vaccine Locations Near JST:
word on the street: An OML/RRC Podcast
Word on the street is that the word on the street podcast is where it's at! We in OML (Office of Multicultural Learning) and the RRC (Rainbow Resource Center) continue to bring you new episodes of our podcast, word on the street. If you are not already subscribed to the podcast, click on the link above to follow us on Spotify! If you would like to record an episode with us, please send us an email at oml@scu.edu.
Mental Health Resources through SCU | CAPS 24/7
JST-SCU students have access to
- 24/7/365 Mental Health Support Line - 408-554-5220 (press 1 to reach the 24/7 support line)
- Free telehealth or off campus face-to-face counseling sessions
- Access to multiple mental health educational resources
See the Cowell Health Center for more details
We're Hiring - Student Employee Positions Available
Please see the this page for information on openings for student employment.
JST Calendar Highlights
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JST Weekday Liturgy
5:15 p.m., Gesu Chapel
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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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