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Risen
We have witnessed our death.
Christ has carried our pain,
accepted our selfishness and fear,
been pierced with our wounds,
suffered our injustice.
The Beloved has borne us into our death.
But love like the holy bread
transforms that which swallows it.
Christ has broken the walls of the tomb—
our tomb.
Christ is risen,
and now we too are alive.
Alleluia!
by Steve Garnaas-Holmes
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Featured Event
Bishop O'Dowd High School as a Model of Ecological Education with Special Guest Michael Downs '07
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April 25 | 6:45 PM | Manresa Lounge
Come hear from JST Alum, Michael Downs '07, about how Bishop O'Dowd High School has become a model of Ecological Education in a presentation co-hosted by the Laudato Si Action Platform Initiative.
Join via Zoom by clicking here.
Meeting ID: 924 4893 1930
Password: 693482
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What's Happening this Week at JST
Denim Day
Wednesday, April 26
Join people around the world by wearing denim in a pledge to educate yourself and others, support survivors, and challenge misconceptions about sexual violence. To learn more about the history of the Denim Day movement or to take the pledge check out Denim Day's official website and follow the VPEs on Instagram.
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Writing Labs for Academic Theology - Methodology II
Thursday, April 27 | 3:00 - 4:15 PM | Zoom
Facilitated by Evan Underbrink
Skills: Crafting a Thesis Statement | Method, Methodology, Approach, Hermeneutical Question | From Topic to Question to Method to Argument
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Climate & Environmental Justice Conference
Thursday, April 27- Friday, April 28 | Santa Clara University
The Environmental Justice and Common Good Initiative is pleased to announce the 2023 free conference, entitled “Climate & Environmental Justice Conference: Faith-based, community-based, and academic collaboration for action” to be held at Santa Clara University and online from April 27– 28, 2023. The conference will advance the work of organizing community-university alliances and partnerships to promote climate and environmental justice in Northern California, across Latin America, and throughout Jesuit higher education. See the preliminary program and stay tuned for future announcements about how to engage. Registration is open and it is free.
Check the conference website frequently for updates, and, please direct questions to environmentaljustice@scu.edu.
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Berkeley Crop Walk
Sunday, April 30 | 12:30 PM at JST or 1:00 PM at St. Mary Magdalen
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Help us to end hunger, one step at a time! JST is teaming up with the School of the Madeleine for the 2023 Berkeley CROP Hunger Walk. Together we will provide more meals for the growing number of people in our community who need them, and create greater food security in communities around the world. Walkers will meet at the St. Mary Magdalen parking lot at 1:00 pm on April 30th, or walk together from JST at 12:30 that day. Please see our team page here. Questions? Contact Kate Barush (kbarush@scu.edu) or Mary McGann (mmcgann@scu.edu)
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Coming Up at JST
Almost Alumni Ice Cream Social
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May 2 | 6:15 PM | Manresa Lounge
Come help us celebrate our 2023 Graduates with an ice cream social co-sponsored by JST's Office of External Relations, our graduates' alumni connection. Staff members of SCU's Bronco Exchange will also be joining us to meet students and talk about the networking resources available through SCU.
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Lay Ministry Conversation
Friday, May 5 | 12:30-2:00 PM
JST students are invited to join Susanne Ruschmann, Deborah Ross, and Stephen Szolosi for a conversation about lay ministry in various cultural contexts. Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to Mack Griffith (mgriffith@scu.edu) by Monday, May 1.
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JST-SCU Commencement Festivities | Registration Open
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| We are looking for volunteers willing to help during Commencement weekend. Contact Jenny (jgirardmalley@scu.edu) if you are interested! |
Included in this Week's Magis
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Kudos Corner
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On Tuesday, April 18, we welcomed back four JST alumni for a panel discussion about careers in ministry. Thank you Shannon Vanderpool '05, Chris Trinidad '10, John Michael Reyes '13, and Brianna Deutsch '22 for sharing your wisdom and for allowing us to welcome you back to JST!
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| We want to celebrate our community's achievements! Please let us know if you have something to celebrate such as an award, a recognition, the completion of a major project, etc. |
Spiritual Formation & Liturgy
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Prayer Periods | Gesù Chapel
Tuesday to Friday, 12:30-1:15 PM
The chapel is open for silent prayer periods Tuesday to Friday from 12:30 to 1:15 PM. The bell will be tolled at the start of each period.
Contemplative Walk
Thursday, 3:15 PM
We will gather outside the chapel at 3:15, so come and enjoy a time of renewal. Each walk is roughly an hour long! Connect with Laryn if you have any questions or proposed destinations! |
Liturgies | Gesù Chapel
Tuesday, 4/25
Tuesday evening’s liturgy, when we celebrate the Feast of St. Mark, will draw upon the Zaire Use of the Roman Rite. The adaptation, while simplified in various ways, will include a role of an announcer, who calls the congregation into specific moments of the liturgy, two brief processions at the entrance, offertory, and a few other specific ways of reflecting cultural norms. For example, the liturgy will begin with an invocation of saints and ancestors. Similarly, during the proclamation of the Gospel, the congregation will remain seated, a posture reflecting the disposition of a respectful listener. The sign of peace will be offered prior to the Liturgy of the Eucharist.
Liturgy Presider Schedule
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Tuesday,
4/25 |
Wednesday,
4/26 |
Thursday,
4/27 |
Friday,
4/28 |
Saturday 4/29
8:30AM |
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Martinez |
Havyarimana |
Ngwenya |
Ghattamaneni |
Tyrrell |
| 5:15PM |
Kinzamba |
Funes |
Hsu
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Connell |
No Liturgy |
Ministerial Formation
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CPE Opportunity Available | Clinical Chaplain Residency
California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA | September 11, 2023 - September 6, 2024
Priority Application Deadline: April 30, 2023
See here for more information
Field Guide for Aspiring Chaplains: Moral Injury and Moral Distress
The Chaplaincy Innovation Lab is hosting a webinar on moral injury and moral distress in spiritual care on May 1, 2023, at 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Pacific Time. For further details, please see: https://chaplaincyinnovation.org/event/field-guide-moral-injury-moral-distress |
Lay Ministry Conversation | Friday, May 5 at 12:30-2:00 p.m.
JST students are invited to join Susanne Ruschmann, Deborah Ross, and Stephen Szolosi for a conversation about lay ministry in various cultural contexts. Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to Mack Griffith (mgriffith@scu.edu).
JST Housing Updates
Updates Regarding Housing for the 2023-2024 Academic Year
JST-SCU Housing Application for 2023-2024 is Currently Available
If you are interested in JST-SCU housing for the 2023-2024 academic year, please know that applications are accepted on a rolling basis and housing assignments are made if space is available at the time of application.
Log into eCampus and enter your campus ID and password to access the JST-SCU housing application on-line.
In order for your application to be considered complete, you must electronically sign the JST-SCU Housing Contract and submit a $500 prepayment housing deposit, all within the online application process. Please apply here!We encourage new applicants to apply by May 12, 2023.
New applications and returning applications received after May 12, 2023 will be notified of their 2023-2024 placement the last week of June 2023. Those received after the first week of June 2023 will be assigned and notified on a rolling basis.
Contact William Troche (wtroche@scu.edu) with any questions.
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Apply for the Jean Donovan Lay Intentional Community
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Returning JST Students are invited to consider applying for the Jean Donovan Lay Intentional Community for the 2023-34 academic year. The lay intentional community is a living resource for single lay students who wish to deepen their formation through a shared exploration of vocation and ministerial identity. Student community members share companionship. prayer, reflection, and simple living based on the gospel values of justice, right relationship, and care for our earth. Community members are expected to engage fully and actively in community life, contributing their gifts and talents for the benefit of and in support of the community's mission, which members discern in an ongoing way each year.
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Applications are currently available and can be requested by emailing Jenny Girard Malley, Assistant Dean of Students and Community Life at jgirardmalley@scu.edu. We invite you to apply as soon as possible.
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PLTS 2023-2024 Housing Application for GTU Students is Open
PLTS welcomes housing applications from GTU students for the 2023-2024 school year. Our unfurnished apartment-style housing is located in Downtown Berkeley near University Ave & Martin Luther King Jr Way. For more info about our housing, click here.
PLTS students will receive first priority for housing, and remaining openings will be made available to GTU students for the 2023-2024 school year in order of housing application received. GTU housing applicants will be contacted mid-summer regarding availability.
Most available apartments will be unfurnished studios ranging in size from 350-550 square feet. PLTS housing allows pets (dog or cat) with an additional pet deposit.
For further questions, email housing@plts.edu.
Click here to apply for PLTS Housing
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Upcoming Conferences
Joy: Community, Inclusion, and Social Justice | A GTU Interfaith Conference
Wednesday, April 26 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | GTU Dinner Board Room
This interfaith conference will feature plenary speakers Amy Hollywood (Harvard Divinity School) and Mary Clark Moschella (Yale Divinity School). There will be a number of presentations from the GTU community speaking from their different traditions and disciplines on the place of joy in religious thought and practice. This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendees in the Dinner Board Room at 2400 Ridge Road and online attendees on Zoom.
See here for more information and registration
GTU Student Conference on Women and Religion and WSR Chair Lecture
Friday, April 28 | 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM | Dinner Board Room, Flora Lamson Hewlett Library, 2400 Ridge Road Berkeley, CA 94709
The GTU Student Conference will celebrate interreligious and interdisciplinary voices and scholarship on issues involving Women and Religion. The Conference will feature 4 panels of 3 students moderated by a WSR Faculty Advisor. The day will come to a close with the highlight of the WSR Faculty Chair Lecture given by Dr. Mahjabeen Dhala and the awarding of the WSR Certificates followed by a reception.
Snacks and lunch will be provided by Simurgh Bakery. There will be wonderful WSR giveaways of t-shirts, lunch bags, and books for all attendees. All genders are welcome and encouraged to attend.
See here for more information and registration
Women of the Church: A Catholic Leadership Forum | 2023 National Conference
July 19-21, 2023 | St. John's School of Theology and Seminary, Collegeville, MN
When it comes to women in the Church, the Spirit is stirring.
Join us July 19-21, 2023 in Collegeville, MN for the third Women of the Church national conference. Sponsored by Saint John’s School of Theology and Seminary. The conference will do as St. Paul urged the early Roman Church: to Welcome Her and all her extraordinary gifts.
Everyday, through diverse vocations, women share their leadership skills, liturgical and ministerial talents, theological insight, and prophetic imagination. Come celebrate these gifts and, in community with others, imagine a Church even more welcoming of women.
See here for more information
SCU Events
The 8th biannual tUrn climate crisis awareness and action week at SCU is held April 24-28, 2023. Faculty, staff, alumni, students, community members and partnering groups and institutions around the world are all invited to lean-in to the climate crisis and its just solutions.
GTU Events
Madrasa-Midrasha | Sacred Celebrations
Monday, April 24 | 12:30 PM | GTU Dinner Board Room
Please join the GTU's Madrasa-Midrasha Program as we celebrate the messages of Passover and Eid-al-Fitr featuring Rabbi Dorothy Richman and Kamal Abu-Shamsieh. A light lunch will be provided for those who attend in-person.
Register here to attend in-person
Register here to attend on Zoom
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Talmudic Reflections on Gender Diversity with Dr. Max Strassfeld and Rabbi Jane Rachel Litman
Thursday, April 27 | 1:00 PM | Zoom
How does Judaism look when we center nonbinary narratives, rather than treat them as anomalies? How do gender taxonomies represent complex rabbinic ideas about culture, practice and Jewish law? Is it possible to reclaim these texts in a liberatory way? Join Max Strassfeld and Jane Litman in a discussion of the possibilities and limitations of trans Talmud.
More Information & Zoom Link
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GTU Art Forum
Thursday, May 4 | 7:30 PM | DSPT
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An Art Forum will take place on Thursday May 4th at 7.30 pm at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology. Artists will present their creative practice accompanied by a brief talk relating to philosophy, theology and aesthetics followed by a Q&A. Artist talks by Justyn Michael Zolli (visual art), Nathalia Bell (moving image), Br. John Paul Puschautz (visual art), and Joshua Peck (literature)
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CALLS FOR PAPERS
Please email Mack Griffith if you know of upcoming calls for papers! |
Community Events
Exhibit: Visualizing Place — Maps from The Bancroft Library
March - June 2023 | More Details
Visualizing Place: Maps from The Bancroft Library highlights the Library’s diverse and extensive map holdings. Selected from across Bancroft’s collections, these works chart the evolution of cartography from the early printed atlas born during the period of European contact to contemporary maps displaying cultural, social, and imaginary narratives—from those that show California as an island to those that help us examine a place, be it a city, a region, or a nation. Whether printed, hand-drawn, or digitally produced, maps help us understand our own neighborhoods, our broader region, and our global environment. There is no right way to look at a place in time, but, together, these map selections allow us to visualize the familiar through a different lens.
Resources
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COVID-19 Vaccines & Other Immunizations
Please the SCU Prepared Site for all COVID Related Information
Free COVID-19 Vaccine Locations Near JST:
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
Campus Safety Services
Campus Safety Services encourages students, faculty, and staff to be an active participant in your personal and community safety. The following safety reminders will help keep campus safety a priority:
- Always lock your vehicle and residence upon exiting and at night; if you live off-campus, consider investing in a doorbell camera device
- Never store valuables in your vehicle
- Use fortified locks when securing your bicycle or skateboard
- Be aware of your surroundings and report suspicious activity to Campus Safety and/or the Berkeley Police Department
- CSS: (408) 554-4441
- BPD: 911 or from a cell phone call 510-981-5911
- Prioritize and respect your own mental health; encourage others to do the same
Hours of Operation
Campus Safety Service is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We have two shifts to serve you, 6a-6p and 6p-6a respectively. Our dispatch center is located in the Main Parking Structure (Building 714). Please contact us anytime at (408) 554-4441. You can also go to https://www.scu.edu/campus-safety/
We're Hiring - Student Employee Positions Available
Please see this page for information on openings for student employment.
JST Calendar Highlights
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