Magis, May 8, 2020

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Issue Thirty

May 8, 2020

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Liturgy News

Our Spring 2020 Renewal Program Cohort invites you to their Closing Prayer and Sending Rite, Friday, May 15, 2020, 3:45-4:30 p.m. Please RSVP to Carrie Rehak at crehak@scu.edu for the Zoom invitation.

Evening prayer gatherings via zoom are scheduled from 8:00-8:30 p.m., Sunday through Thursday. If you are interested in helping to lead a session in the coming weeks, please email Sebastian Budinich at sbudinich@scu.edu. Contact Sebastian for the zoom link as well.

LTP (Liturgy Training Publications) offers free resources for prayer during COVID-19, as well as virtual gatherings in Spanish and English for Sunday readings and various aspects of liturgical ministry.

Liturgical Press offers free resources for prayer: healing, illness, and grief.

Life, Love, & Light: Reflections by Veronica Mary Rolf: In this new series of contemplative podcasts, author and medieval scholar, Veronica Mary Rolf, delves into the wisdom of the beloved mystic, Julian of Norwich, who "sheltered in place" as an anchorite for twenty-five years! Weekly podcasts explore how Julian’s Revelations of Divine Love may sustain and inspire us through this pandemic and offer Guided Meditations to practice at home. Please join us in making this "Virtual Retreat with Julian of Norwich." It is free and available to all at https://lifelovelight.buzzsprout.com/.

JST Announcements

SAVE THE DATE: Our virtual celebration of the Spring 2020 graduates will take place on Saturday morning, May 23, 9:00 a.m. Watch for the announcement of the livestream to come.
All students have by now received the JST End Semester Student Survey on student experience of the virtual learning environment at JST during the shelter in place. Please submit this by May 13.
Register now for all 2020 summer courses. The last day to register for any course is Tuesday, June 2 (the summer term begins on June 1). All tuition must be paid ahead of time by Thursday, May 21, no matter when a course actually has its first day. If you later decide to drop a course you must do so by June 2 in order to get a full refund on the tuition, no matter when a course actually has its first day. Currently, three courses are being offered, LS-8300: Liturgical Music for Ministerial Leaders (3 units) with Christopher Wemp, June 15 - July 17; NT-8270: Paul's Letters: Context and Theology (3 units) with Jean-Francois Racine, June 8 - July 3; and SP-8250: Toward a Spirituality of the Creative Life (3 units) with Carrie Rehak, June 1- July 12. For a full description of the courses, click here.
JST updates on COVID-19 can be found here. This page links also to the SCU and GTU updates.
The JST Resource page for COVID-19 lists resources for prayer and reflection, wellness, financial assistance, and service.

Service and Advocacy

Out of the Darkness SCU virtual Campus Walk for suicide prevention is happening on Saturday, May 30. You can learn more, register, donate and participate by clicking here.

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Community Offerings

And the people stayed home

and read books

and listened

and rested

and exercised

and made art

and played

and learned new ways of being

and stopped and listened deeper

someone meditated

someone prayed

someone danced

someone met their shadow

and people began to think differently

and people healed

and in the absence of people who lived in ignorant ways, dangerous, meaningless

and heartless, even the earth began to heal

and when the danger ended

and people found each other grieved for the dead people

and they made new choices

and dreamed of new visions and created new ways of life

and healed the earth completely just as they were healed themselves.

Kathleen O'Meara (1839–1888), pen name Grace Ramsay, was an Irish-French Catholic writer and biographer during the late Victorian era. She was the Paris correspondent of The Tablet, still a leading British Catholic magazine. This poem appeared in her second novel, Iza's Story, about the struggle of Polish patriots against Russian, Austrian and German occupation. The book compares the Polish-Russian situation to the Irish-British situation and praises the revolt of a small nation against a powerful neighbor.

It was reprinted during the Spanish Flu Pandemic, 1919. Submitted by Mary Beth Lamb.

COVID-19: Keeping Good Mental Health in a Time of Uncertainty

Fred Piazza, clinical psychologist who spoke with the JST community on April 28, offers this guide to mental health during Covid-19: COVID-19: Keeping Good Mental Health in a Time of Uncertainty.

Catholic Social Thought and COVID-19

The Lane Center for Catholic Social Thought and the Ignatian Tradition at USF has put together these resources on Catholic Social Thought and COVID-19.

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JST Events

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