Trouble viewing this email? Read it online.
Alt text:
Issue Twenty-Three April 1, 2021

This message is clipped. Scroll down to bottom left and click on "View entire message." 

Click here for the Zoom Link.

 


candles in shape of a cross
Liturgy News
  • Starting Thursday, April 8, 12:30 p.m., JST will host liturgy each Thursday in the Gesù Chapel at 12:30 p.m. PDT for JST students, staff and faculty only. The chapel allows for only 24 participants. Those wishing to attend must sign-up and follow the guidelines presented on the form. We also need lectors, ushers and sanitizing volunteers to sign up. Please sign up by 10:00 a.m. the day of the liturgy. If more than 24 sign up, we will contact you if we cannot accommodate you. The sign-up forms are available in In the Moodle course, "JST Community Life, Liturgy and Prayer", under Liturgy Past and Upcoming.
    • Presider: Thursday, April 8: James Ferus, S.J.
  • In the Moodle course, "JST Community Life, Liturgy and Prayer", under Holy Ground: Virtual Prayer Space, you are invited to pray the virtual Global Stations of the Cross, which takes you on a virtual journey around the globe, from Lahore to London to Little Rock, with works and podcasts by leading artists including Arabella Dorman, Dua Abbas & Jahanzeb Haroon, Jared Thorne, and Joyce Yu-Jean Lee. There is also a Polish tradition for Blessing Easter Baskets and the First Easter Meal to try with your families on Easter Sunday.  
  • In the Moodle course, "JST Community Life, Liturgy and Prayer", under Liturgy Past and Upcoming, you may join composer Dan Schutte for a virtual triduum: Three Days of Grace. You will find a link to livestream the SCU Easter Sunday Mass, April 4, 11:00 a.m. PDT here.
JST Announcements
  • Monday, April 5 – begins Early Registration for the Summer’21 term and for the  Fall’21 semester.  For Fall’21 you have two weeks (until Friday, April 16th) to register for fall courses.  (On that day Early Registration ends. After that, fall registration won’t open again until August 23.)  Look over the courses that are being offered both for Summer and Fall on the  GTU Course Schedule.  The summer schedule is under the year “2020-2021” and the fall schedule is under the year “2021-2022”.

    Please make an appointment with your faculty advisor as soon as possible to begin talking about what courses you would like to enroll in.  Also, check your eCampus “Tasks” tile to see if you have any holds that would prevent you from registering next week.

    If you’ve forgotten the process for registering, see the instructions:  How-to-Register. If you run into difficulties when registering, contact Jim Oberhausen at joberhausen@scu.edu.
  • Sandra Schneiders, IHM, JST professor emerita, will give a presentation, "Women Erased: Catholic Women, Feminism and a New Paradigm for Being Church," as part of the FutureChurch series, "Women Erased," on Tuesday, April 20, at 5 p.m. PDT.   See https://www.futurechurch.org/women-erased-series for full information.
  • COVID Relief Financial Assistance:  JST students who are U.S. citizens or who are eligible for federal public benefits may apply for CRRSA funding for financial assistance due to hardship related to COVID.   For full information on eligibility and the application process, see the following page:  https://www.scu.edu/preparedscu/crrsaa-fund-faqs/  and see the reference for "Group 2."  Please note that one must apply through eCampus, and that applications must be submitted from March 29 through April 16, 2021.
  • Food Insecurity:   Any JST student located in the U.S. who does not have reliable access to sufficient quantities of affordable, nutritious food, may submit a request for assistance from the SCU Bronco Pantry, by filling out this form.
  • The GTU Annual Surjit Singh Lecture will be delivered by Dr. Karen Barkey, Haas Distinguished Chair of Religious Diversity and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, on April 5, 12 p.m. PDT. RSVP to attend the lecture here.
  • JST will co-sponsor the following Bannan Forum, From Francis Xavier to Now: Interreligious Dialogue and the Jesuits in Japan, on April 13, 6:00 -7:30 pm PDT. Register here for the zoom link.
  • “Embracing the Community of Creation:  A Final Conversation on Faith, Animals, and Eco-Justice”:  JST M.Div. student Alyssa Moore hosts this discussion series on Fridays at 12:30 p.m. PST. There will not be a meeting during Holy Week. The last session will be on April 9, after Easter. Zoom Link
  • On Wednesday, April 21, noon-9:00 p.m. PST, you are invited to take part in the reading of Laudato Sí for SCU's tUrn week. You would read aloud for 20 minutes. If interested, please sign up here. Dean Mueller will read from 1:40-2:00.

Bronze bell on a wooden bell tower against blue sky.

Of Interest Elsewhere

Wrestling with Whiteness Training
This training sponsored by the Jesuits West Collaborative Organizing for Racial Equity (CORE) will create a shared understanding of whiteness, reflect on how it lives in us and shapes our lives, and utilize the gifts of Ignatian spirituality to prayerfully consider how we free ourselves to think and act outside of the dictates of white dominant culture. Participants will learn to articulate their own story of whiteness and analyze how their work is impacted by implicit bias and white supremacy, with a particular focus on how our faith institutions perpetuate these dynamics. Finally, participants will get equipped with tactics to train, organize and move other white people in the work of dismantling white supremacy.  

There will be about an hour of assigned prep-work for each session, a combination of readings, videos, prayer and reflection questions.
 
5 Thursdays after Easter: April 8, April 15, April 22, April 29 and May 6, 3:30-5:30pm PDT. Register here.

Entrance of JST Building with columns and ramp.

JST Events


Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in /var/www/html/t4/jst/news-and-events/magis/magis-2020-21/magis-april-1-2021/index.php on line 678

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Cannot use object of type stdClass as array in /var/www/html/t4/jst/news-and-events/magis/magis-2020-21/magis-april-1-2021/index.php:690 Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in /var/www/html/t4/jst/news-and-events/magis/magis-2020-21/magis-april-1-2021/index.php on line 690