"We should like to skip/The intermediate stages./ We are impatient of being on/The way to something unknown, / Something new,/ And yet it is the law of all progress/ That it is made by passing through/Some stages of instability---/And that it may take a very long time."
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J.
Welcome to a new academic year! And welcome to Magis, the Student Life and Community weekly invitation to you---to go deeper into the life of the Jesuit School of Theology. Here we will 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. We hope to offer you resources to experience "something unknown" or "something new" as you pass through this stage of your journey. We look forward to walking with you in this moment of formation. Enjoy the adventure!
Featured Event
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Solidarity Supper - Ice Cream Social
September 20, 2022 at 6:15pm
Our first Solidarity Supper will be an Ice Cream Social! Join us for ice cream and the chance to go deeper with our JST Community.
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What's Happening at JST
Solidarity Suppers
Join us for 8 weekly Solidarity Suppers following Tuesday evening 5:15pm Mass. Supper will be served and each week will feature a special activity from presentations on special topics to facilitated conversation. See the full schedule of our Fall 2022 Solidarity Suppers
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New Horizons Graduate Student Journal
The Jesuit School of Theology's graduate student journal, New Horizons has published its newest issue, "Modern Crucifixions: Responding to Suffering in God's Creation." This issue expands the perhaps standard conceptions of violence but presents a great call for people of faith to not turn a blind eye to violence in its many forms, but to instead engage their faith to walk with those who suffer. We encourage you to give it a read!
Theology students interested in participating on the New Horizons editorial board are encouraged to contact our editor, MyLan Metzger, mlmetzger@scu.edu.
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Writing Labs for Academic Theology
Writing labs are open to all students affiliated with the JST and each session will cover one topic/skill.
Email Laura Dunn to sign up
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What do you want to see happen at JST?
We invite you to fill out our JST Community Life Survey to let our team know what would interest you.
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Liturgy Presider Schedule
Spiritual Formation Offerings
Please connect with Stephen Szolosi with your ideas, questions, and any hopes you wish to share regarding your spiritual formation: (Office 104 / sszolosi@scu.edu / https://calendly.com/sszolosi) |
JST invites each student to engage fully in a personal spiritual formation process that supports an individual's attending to God's loving presence, responding in ways that reflect one's personal charism and vocation, and so then, connecting with others and serving the community.
As the year begins, knowing more about your hopes for spiritual formation will help enrich the offerings in the weeks and months ahead. Please complete this survey if you have not already done so this year so as to bring to light the way the Spirit is moving in our community and identify the paths to be opened: Spiritual Formation Survey
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Silent Meditation | Gesù Chapel, Tuesday - Friday 7:15 AM - 7:45 AM
Beginning Wednesday (9/21)
We will meditate in silence for a period of 30 minutes.
Those who wish to do so will have the freedom to continue their meditation while the morning mass preparations are made on Tuesday to Friday.
To signal the start and end of the meditation period, the facilitator will ring the bell three times.
All are welcome to enjoy whether meditation is new to you or a long-practiced element of your prayer.
For those who would like a resource, we recommend writings by Fr Thomas Keating, OCSO as an introduction to Chrisitan Centering Prayer.
SCU Events
Great Wave
Contemporary artists explore the ocean as a source of mystery and resilience.
Exhibition Dates: Sept 19, 2022 - Jan 13, 2023
Edward M. Dowd Art and Art History Building Art and Art History Gallery Gallery Hours: M-F, 9am-4pm
Featuring Artists: Brandon Anderton, Tess Felix, Peter Hassen, Liz Hickok, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Hughen/Starkweather, Luc Janssens, Josh Keyes, Laura Arminda Kingsley, Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang, Courtney Mattison, Allison Watkins and Angela Willetts
Reception: Oct 7, 2022, 5-7pm, Dowd Lobby
GTU Events
Conversations: Engaging Ethiopian Iconography
Bonnie Hardwick, former director of the Graduate Theological Union Library and long- time iconographer, explores the multicultural influences expressed in the Ethiopian iconographic tradition. The conversation is multivalent: the iconographer’s engagement with the subject, the relationship between the icon and the viewer, the conversation within the icon itself, and ultimately an encounter with the Divine.
Exhibition | Sept. 1-Dec. 16, 2022
Reception | Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022 | 2-4PM
Location | Blackfriars Gallery, 2301 Vine St., Berkeley, CA
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/.
Please contact Mack Griffith at mgriffith@scu.edu for the Zoom meeting invite.
Resources
Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics
FASPE (Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics) is now accepting applications for its 2023 Summer Ethical Leadership Fellowship for Students and New Clergy. FASPE Seminary is a fully-funded, two-week fellowship program in professional ethics and ethical leadership that approaches the study of professional ethics by examining the actions and choices of German and international clergy in enabling Nazi policies. 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 May 2019 or after. 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. If interested in learning more, contact JST (and former participant) Mike Tedone, mtedone@scu.edu
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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