Campus Ministry Newsletter
January 2018
Welcome the spring semester with us!
This Friday!
Join the Loyola Community for the inaugural interfaith prayer service recognizing the diversity and richness of the faith traditions represented at Loyola and in our surrounding neighborhood, including prayers, readings and blessings from various faith traditions.
Hope and Renewal Interfaith Prayer Service
This Fri. Jan. 26 at 3:30 PM in the Alumni Memorial Chapel
Just as we begin each fall semester asking the Holy Spirit to bless our community, this January we will begin our spring semester with an interfaith blessing for our community. This prayer service will include faith leaders from local faith communities, faculty, staff, administrators, students and community partners. Offering the prayer service in January recognizes the International Day of Peace on January 1st, and the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (January 18-25).
Fellowship and a reception in Hug Lounge will follow directly after the service.
Contact: CM Assistant Director Rev. Scott Adams.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Mindful Meals-- "I'm Not Racist:" Modern Day Racism
Tues. Jan. 30 at 12:15 PM, College Center 105
Join us for a faith-based meal and thoughtful dialogues surrounding social justice issues. Mindful Meals is a monthly program structured around the Catholic Worker House round table discussion model. This program promotes awareness and dialogue about specific justice issues prevalent in our world today. Through a simple meal and shared conversation space, participants gain a better understanding of our human role in contributing to and addressing these issues. All are invited to the dialogue to provide multiple viewpoints and understanding. Lunch provided and no RSVP needed!
Contact: CM Intern, Alex Agee.
Ignatian Q Conference at Loyola
Register now: www.loyola.edu/ignatianq
Attend the 5th Annual IgnatianQ Conference hosted by Loyola University Maryland! This conference is student led and designed to be a space for Jesuit University affiliated students to find support and community as they explore sexual, gender, and other intersecting identities within a Jesuit context.
Contact: CM Assistant Director, Elise Gower.
Evensong Returns Thurs. Jan. 25
Thursdays at 5pm in Alumni Memorial Chapel
Every week, Evensong, or evening prayer provides the community with an opportunity to come together in song and prayer in Alumni Memorial Chapel. This week, Michael DiBianco '18 will be leading the group in reflection and prayer each week and free pizza always follows in Cohn Hall 133 for fellowship and conversation. No RSVP necessary!
Contact: CM Intern, Kelly Mueller.
Apply to be a 2018-19 Campus Ministry Intern!
Next Info Session: Weds. Jan. 31 at 6pm
Application due Tues. Mar. 13 at 3pm
Applications for undergrad internships for the 2018-2019 school year are now available. Intern positions are $10.10/hr. direct hire work opportunities. For more information and job descriptions, visit the internships website.
Additional Information Sessions in Cohn Hall 100:
Thurs. Feb. 1 at 6PM
Wed. Feb. 28 at 6PM
Contact: CM Assistant Director, Megan Linz Dickinson
Ignite Retreat Feb. 9-11
Register by Friday, Feb. 2
Contact: Ignite Coordinator, Claire Hammerschmidt '19.
AMDG Retreat
Feb. 16-18
Register by Friday, Feb. 9
A.M.D.G. stands for Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, or “for the greater glory of God,” the motto of the Society of Jesus. The A.M.D.G. Retreat will have a new format this year, focusing on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola.
AMDG Retreat scheduled for Jan. 26-28 has been cancelled.
Contact: University Chaplain Fr. John Murray, SJ
Kairos IX Retreat
Apr. 13-15
Kairos, adapted from Greek to mean "God’s Time," is a Christian retreat program geared toward deepening one's faith, identity, relationships, and connection to God's role in our lives. This retreat is an opportunity to find meaning in the highs and lows of your life.
Contact: Kairos Coordinator Thomas O'Brien '20
Spiritual Exercises Retreat
Mar. 5-10 (Spring Break)
Experience the beauty and depth of Ignatian spirituality on this five-day adaptation of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola. For over five hundred years, the Exercises have helped men and women deepen their personal relationship with God. This retreat is individually directed, meaning that participants meet one-on-one daily with a Jesuit spiritual director.
Contact: University Chaplain Fr. John Murray, SJ
Liturgical and Music Ministry Leadership
Have you been thinking about doing more within your faith community? We are currently in need of new members in both of our Liturgical and Music ministries!
Hospitality, Lectors and Communion Ministers
Sign up now to serve as a Hospitality Minister, Lector,
or Communion Minister. Trainings are easily scheduled on an individual basis.
Contact: CM Sacristan Interns, litmin@loyola.edu
Chapel Choir Instrumentalists Needed
We are currently in need of musicians in all areas to accompany our chapel choir. Rehearsals are set for mutually convenient times.
Contact: CM Music Interns, chapelchoir@loyola.edu
Between the Lines Interfaith Book Club
Join this weekly book club discussing fiction about different faith traditions. Together, we will choose one book for each month and meet weekly to examine themes and how each novel furthers our understanding of different faiths. Contact Sofia (below0 to sign up to be a part of our Interfaith book club!
Contact: Sofia Lentine
Join a Koinonia Small Group for the Spring!
Koinonia is Greek for "community," and Koinonia groups are small, faith-based discussion groups that meet weekly for prayer and meaningful discussion. Groups are student-led and are held at a common location on campus. Koinonia is a great way to meet other students and form a sense of community on campus. Sign up for a group at any point during the semester and get more information.
Contact: CM Grad Assistant, Tara Carleton
In, Out and In Between
Contact: Counseling Center Staff Psychologist, Aaron Barnes, (410) 627-2703.
Register a Group for the St. Alphonsus Dinner Program
Contact/Reservations: CM Intern Elisabeth Abdoo '20.
CAMPUS PARTNER EVENTS
CCSJ Spring Service Open House
Weds. Jan. 24 from 10am - 4pm in CCSJ Common Space
Partner Program: Visit the CCSJ Spring Service Open House! Are you or someone you know Interested in committing to serve this semester? Learn about the many different opportunities for engaging in your community and sign up today. Weekly service opportunities are beginning soon!
Contact: CCSJ Assistant Director, Malia Maniyatt.
ASA's Wazobia
Fri. Jan. 26 at 7pm in McGuire Hall
Contact: African Student Association
POST-GRAD SERVICE
Consider a year of service after graduation or over the summer! Volunteer programs, such as those listed below, usually offer members a stipend and benefits in exchange for work with individuals and communities. Many programs involve living in community with other volunteers. Visit the Catholic Volunteer Network searchable database to find a volunteer program that fits your interest, skills and location!
Contact: CM Assistant Director, Megan Linz Dickinson
Maggie's Place is a network of hospitality houses for pregnant and parenting women that offers volunteers a life of simplicity lived with those you serve. Maggie's Place is accepting women for a year or a summer of service, starting in January or July.
Contact: Current Volunteer and '17 Loyola grad, Emily Bruce
RSHM Volunteer Program: Offers volunteers the opportunity to work with migrant farmworkers and their families, specifically through legal aid in Immokalee, Florida. Contact: sbourbeau@rshmeap.org or mpheyser@gmail.com.
Bon Secours Volunteer Ministry: Located in Baltimore and Richmond, volunteers work in one of three fields: healthcare, social services or education, many affiliated with Bon Secours Healthcare.
Contact: Regina Fleck, Recruiter
Jesuit Volunteer Corps and Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest- offers opportunities to serve throughout the US (1 year commitment) and internationally (2 year commitment) focused on the core values of community, simple living, social and ecological justice and spirituality/reflection.
Contact: info@jesuitvolunteers.org
Notre Dame Mission Volunteers AmeriCorps: Offers volunteer sites across the US and in Haiti, grounded in the belief that education is the fundamental tool of the poor in the struggle for human dignity, self-esteem and self-determination. Seeks to build community by reaching out across culture and class.
Contact: ebealobrzeski@ndmva.org
Other post-grad opportunities:
THINK | PRAY | ACT
THINK
As we reflect on the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., we remember how he demanded and prayed for freedom, to “break down the bondage and the walls of colonialism, exploitation, and imperialism” and for “all humanity [to] respect the dignity and worth of human personality.” We take an honest moment to reflect on freedom today, and specifically, where bondage persists.
Where does the legacy of slavery, colonialism, exploitation and imperialism live today in our world, our systems, our institutions and, in each of our own hearts?
The call of Dr. King has not yet been answered, 50 years later, and it demands continued work -- critical analysis of our world and persistent inner work to understand ourselves and our role in the world—from each one of us.
Read an excerpt from an interview with Fr. Bryan Massingale about Racism as a Soul Sickness or watch his talk from the Ignatian Solidarity Network Teach-In. View this video about race and power from Cracking the Code and explore Racial Equity Tools.
PRAY
A Prayer For Freedom
God grant that we will get on board and start marching with God because we got orders now to break down the bondage and the walls of colonialism, exploitation, and imperialism. To break them down to the point that no human being will trample over another, but that all humanity will respect the dignity and worth of human personality. And then we will be in Canaan’s freedom land.
God grant that right here in America and all over this world, we will choose the high way; a way in which human beings will live together as sisters and brothers. A way in which the nations of the world will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. A way in which every man, woman and child will respect the dignity and worth of all human personality. A way in which every nation will allow justice to run down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream. A way in which human beings will do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with God. A way in which men and women will be able to stand up, and in the midst of oppression, in the midst of darkness and agony, they will be able to stand there and love their enemies, bless those persons that curse them, pray for those individuals that despitefully use them. And this is the way that will bring us once more into that society which we think of as the brotherhood and sisterhood of humanity. This will be that day when white people, people of color, whether they are brown or whether they are yellow or whether they are black, will join together and stretch out with their arms and be able to cry out: “Free at last! Free at last! Great God Almighty, we are free at last!”
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
ACT
Take time today to cultivate Beloved Community in your life by sharing your story and engaging in relationships, creating surprising friendships and unlearning the biases that shape our perspectives and lens on the world.
Sunday Mass & Liturgical Ministry
Join us for the following masses, held every Sunday!
11:00am in Alumni Memorial Chapel
6:00pm in Alumni Memorial Chapel
8:00pm in Fava Chapel (First Floor Hammerman)
10:00pm in Hopkins Court Lounge
Contact: CM Associate Director, George Miller.