"… recognizing the reality of seasons can be incredibly liberating … because it attunes us to receive God’s grace in different ways in different eras of life."
- James K.A. Smith, How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now (2022)
Welcome to Magis where we offer reminders of what is happening on campus, at the Graduate Theological Union, Santa Clara University and throughout our broader Bay Area community. Our team does not intend this to be exhaustive but rather provide a nice sampling of ways for you to live out your studies within our community life here in Berkeley, California. Enjoy this week's edition!
Featured Event
Solidarity Supper - Berkeley Art and Interreligious Pilgrimage Project
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Tuesday, October 11 at 6:15pm
After a light supper, Dr. Barush will discuss her work with The Berkeley Art and Interreligious Pilgrimage Project, which is an invitation to create and experience art-infused pilgrimages in the Bay Area and beyond. It seeks to link sacred landscapes the world over to neighborhoods, gardens, and backyards as a way to connect with each other and our ancestors and as a catalyst for spiritual healing and even physical recovery. Her talk will explore the artworks and built environments that inspired the project and some future directions for growth.
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GTU-Wide Student Ice Cream Social
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Friday, October 14 from 3:00-6:00pm | St. Margaret's Courtyard at CDSP
Come to meet students from the various schools and centers living and studying in the Berkeley area. RSVP here!
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What's Happening this Week at JST
Monday, October 10
JST Student T-Shirt Design Contest | Deadline: Monday, Oct. 10
- Be creative! Show us what the JST community means to you.
- Please submit a square, one-color design, which would be printed on the back of the JST shirt. The frontside of this shirt will have our JST logo. What you create should be something that expresses our unique place and community. Please make sure that if you use words that they are not too small.
- When designing, please consider how your design will look on a white, grey, or red background, since any of these is possible.
- Any file format is fine as our JST staff will work to translate your design (if selected) to be printer ready.
Please submit your design by Monday, October 10 5:00pm to JSTstudentlife@scu.edu
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Tuesday, October 11
11th Hour Prayer
Tuesday, Oct. 11 | 11:00am | Outside Gesú Chapel
Tuesday, October 11 please join our JST community outside the Gesú Chapel at 11am for a prayer service calling attention to the urgency of the climate crisis. We will ring the courtyard bell, pray together in lament for the destruction of the Earth. We will also implore those in power to act with compassion and justice toward creation to reverse the harm that has been done to our planet.
Come and pray with us at 11am on the 11th as we bear witness to our fragile Earth, our common home.
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Writing Labs for Academic Theology | Critical Summary versus Critical Analysis
Tuesday, Oct. 11 | 3:00-4:15pm | Zoom
Presenter - Thomas Calobrisi Skills: avoiding plagiarism, quoting, paraphrasing, citations, and understanding sources
Open to all JST affiliated students Please email Laura Dunn to sign up and receive a zoom link
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Wednesday, October 12
International Student Advising with Melissa Heid
Melissa Heid from SCU's office for International Students and Scholars will be on-campus at JST on October 12 to meet with international students.
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Friday, October 14
GTU -Wide Student Ice Cream Social
3:00-6:00pm | St. Margaret's Courtyard, CDSP
JST students are invited to come build relationships with other GTU students over ice cream on the afternoon of Friday, October 14. This event will be held in the courtyard at CDSP just down the street from JST. RSVP here!
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Included in this Week's Magis
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Liturgy News
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| 8:00AM | 5:15PM |
Tuesday, 10/11 |
Santamaria Belda |
Zas Friz |
Wednesday, 10/12 |
Nyirenda |
Yoda
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Thursday, 10/13 |
Muthiah |
Lay-Led Liturgy
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Friday, 10/14 |
Ng'ang'a |
Havyarimana |
Saturday, 10/15 (8:30AM) |
Connell |
No Liturgy |
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Lay-led Paraliturgical Rosary - October 13th, Thursday 5:15 p.m.
Please join us on October 13th, when the community will gather for a prayerful recitation of the rosary during this month dedicated to the rosary. With the luminous mysteries furnishing focus, our prayer will include song and reflection on the mysteries. Nelly Pandagos and Ve Barkhordarian will be our co-presiders. We hope many reading this note will step forward and help to enrich the prayer through your participation.
Special note: If you have a Marian image, statuette, or another devotional article, please bring it to the liturgy. These will be displayed in their variety, so that we may celebrate Mary as a patroness of our community.
Upcoming Lay-led Liturgies -
As we prepare for this term's lay-led liturgies, we welcome additional support in the planning for the liturgies to be celebrated on November 3 (evening prayer), November 17 (liturgy of the Word), and December 1 (an Advent Reconciliation Service). We need musicians, lectors, and coordinators, who can assist with the planning, communication, and preparation of the chapel.
Spiritual Formation Offerings
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Silent Meditation | Gesù Chapel,
Periods for communal, silent meditation will remain available during the upcoming week:
Morning Meditation | Tuesday - Friday 7:15 AM - 7:45 AM
Afternoon Meditation | Tuesday & Thursday 1:30-2:00 PM
Special note: On Saturday, October 15, the chapel will remain open following mass for meditation. At about 9:20 AM, the first of two 20-minute periods of silent meditation will begin. A brief five-minute break between the two sessions will allow others to join specifically at that time. Those who can linger will enjoy coffee and pastries. While no rsvp is required, you can assist with the hospitality planning if you anticipate joining by emailing Stephen Szolosi sszolosi@scu.edu.
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Are you planning to contact a spiritual director? Perhaps you've been meaning to send an email, but haven't yet found the time. Stop Stephen Szolosi any time to ask for some support in your process. Or simply take that step and reach out to a director today asking to meet for an initial conversation in which you can explore the practice.
Ministerial Formation Offerings
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GTU Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) Event
The GTU will be hosting a virtual Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) event on Wednesday, October 19, from 3:00-5:00 p.m.This will include CPE Center Presentations and office hours. 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/.
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JST Enneagram and Self-Discovery Workshop
Wednesday, Nov. 9 | 2:00-7:00pm | JST Manresa Lounge
The Enneagram is an ancient wisdom tradition for understanding the dynamics of personality: both one’s giftedness and one’s challenges. This workshop for JST students, hosted by Bruce Lescher and Clare Ronzani, will offer an overview of the Enneagram and a basic introduction to the nine Enneagram “types.” Participants will be asked to fill out an informal Enneagram self-test before coming to the workshop.
Clare Ronzani and Bruce Lescher have both taught courses in spirituality at the Jesuit School of Theology and the Graduate Program in Pastoral Ministries of Santa Clara University. Clare has served as JST’s career advisor; Bruce as Associate Academic Dean. Both are experienced spiritual directors and retreat leaders.
Participants are requested to complete an Enneagram self-test prior to the workshop. Please register with Mack Griffith (mgriffith@scu.edu) by Nov. 2 to receive the self-test and suggested reading.
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.
Save the Date
Diaconate Ordination
The Jesuit Community invites you to join in celebrating the seven JST community members who will be ordained as transitional deacons on Saturday, October 22, by Bishop Michael C. Barber, SJ.
Ordination Mass
October 22, 2022 | 10:00am
Cathedral of Chris the Light
2121 Harrison St. Oakland, CA
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Ordination Reception
October 22, 22 | 6:00-9:00pm
Chardin House
2621 Ridge Rd. Berkeley, CA
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Inaugural Thea Bowman Lecture | Dr. M. Shawn Copeland
Tuesday, November 15, 2022 | 6:00-7:15pm | JST Gesu Chapel | Flyer
Thea Bowman repeatedly urged that Black Catholics come to our Church “fully functioning,” that is, bring our gifts of history, tradition, experience, and culture; at the same time, she recognized that even should those gifts be ignored, neglected, or refused, Black Catholics must continue to present them. Thea Bowman’s life exemplifies the radical transcendence of Black Catholic life–walking in uncommon faithfulness, daring freedom, reaching out in solidarity to ‘others,’ transcending arbitrary limitations, striving to realize the radical potential of grace.
Dr. M. Shawn Copeland is Professor Emerita of Systematic Theology and the Program in African and African Diaspora Studies at Boston College. Professor Copeland is an award-winning writer and has lectured extensively across the world.
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SCU Events
SCU tUrn Week | Climate Crisis Awareness & Action
SCU Office of Multicultural Learning (OML) Opportunities:
- SCU will be marking Indigenous People’s Day on Monday, October 10th with a showcase by the Native American Coalition for Change (NACC) and the Multicultural Center (MCC) in the area between Benson and the Library from 11am - 3pm. This will be followed by a Town Hall on SCU’s Indigenous Efforts from 3:30 – 5pm. More details will be sent via email.
- Rainbow Reads is a book club hosted by SCU OML which centers Queer and BIPOC authors. The book club picks up again for the new year on October 10th. In honor of Latinx Heritage Month, the group will be reading The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes. To sign up and get a free copy of the book, click here!
- Dates and times for Fall quarter Safe Space and UndocuAlly Workshops are now available on the ODI website. Workshops begin the week of October 10th.
- October 20th is Spirit Day, where people all over the world wear purple to take a stand against bullying of LGBTQ+ youth. To learn more about Spirit Day, visit the following website, sponsored by GLAAD.
GTU Events
Film Screening: The Ants & the Grasshopper
Tuesday October 18 | 6:30pm | Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology
DPST Documentary Flyer
To save her home from extreme weather, Anita Chitaya faces her greatest challenge: persuading Americans that climate change is real.
Traveling from Malawi to California to the White House, she meets climate skeptics and despairing farmers. Her journey takes her across all the divisions shaping the US. It will take all her skill and experience to persuade us that we’re all in this together. This documentary, ten years in the making, weaves together the most urgent themes of our times.
https://www.antsandgrasshopper.org/
Professional Development Program Workshops
These workshops are primarily geared toward GTU doctoral students, but other students are welcome.
PDP Workshops GTU F22
Community Events
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
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
COVID-19 Vaccines & Other Immunizations
As the weather gets colder, JST-SCU students are encouraged to protect yourselves and our community members by keeping up with COVID-19 boosters and flu shots. For easy access to vaccinations, we recommed students schedule an appointment at a CVS Minute Clinic. Within walking distance of JST and free with your student health insurance, CVS is an accessible option for vaccines.
We're Hiring - Student Employee Positions Available
Graduate Assistant - Donor Outreach & Events External Relations
Administrative Support - Writing Program
Graduate Assistant - Office of Finance and Administration
Community Event Organizer - Student Life
Student Engagement Coordinator - Student Life
Technical Assistant - Student Life
Liturgical Accompanist - Spiritual Formation
Liturgy Coordinator - Spiritual Formation
Sacristan - Spiritual Formation
Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant - Sr. Mary McGann
Graduate Research Assistant for Spirituality - George Murphy
Research Assistant - Dr. Jeremiah Coogan
Graduate Research Assistant - Anh Tran
Chaplaincy Innovation Lab
The Chaplaincy Innovation Lab (CIL), Brandeis University, brings chaplains, theological educators, clinical educators, and social scientists into conversation about the work of chaplaincy and spiritual care.
Please see the CIL website for free eBooks, webinars, and videos about careers in chaplaincy.
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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