Posted by admin on May 7, 2010 under 5. TGIF! | 
Summer Opportunities
Wide Awake! Evangelical Catholic Training Camps
Evangelical Catholic is offering Evangelization Training Camps this spring! Evangelization training camps lay the spiritual and ministerial foundations for students and staff to unify around a common vision of ministry outreach and formation. They envision integrating existing programs with new programs to accomplish their outreach and formation goals. Students learn practical ministry skills to help them truly become co-laborers with staff. Staffs gain practical frameworks to bring focus to their widespread and consuming ministry responsibilities. Visit www.evangelicalcatholic.org to register and for more information.
May 9-14
ETC Southern regional in North Carolina
Fort Caswell Coastal Conference Center
May 16 – 21
ETC New England regional in Massachusetts
Betania II Retreat Center, Medway
Co-sponsored by Archdiocese of Boston Office of Campus Ministry
Campus Ministry Symposium
Chrysta Bolinger is CCMA’s Director of Member Services and Communications.
As the school year comes to a close, so too does the opportunity to join Campus, Young Adult, and Vocation Ministers from across North America. Don’t Miss Out! Registration will be closing Monday morning May 10 for our Symposium 2010 – Stewards of the Treasure of our Faith.
Register today to hear great speakers like Fr. Donald Senior, C.P., Fr. J. Glenn Murray, S. J., Mary Johnson, SND, Christian Smith and many more. Don’t miss out on over 30 outstanding seminars! Registration is only $200.00 for the week and includes everything but travel. Just click here and register today! http://campusministry.nd.edu/national-conferences/nd-symposium/
Looking forward to welcoming you to our campus,
Darrell
Posted by admin on April 30, 2010 under 5. TGIF! |
Pilgrimage to England for Beatification of John Henry Cardinal Newman
Pope Benedict XVI announced he will preside at the beatification ceremony of John Henry Cardinal Newman in Birmingham, England, September 19, 2010. On behalf of The Very Reverend Dennis Corrado, C.O., American Delegate to the Permanent Deputation and member of the Brooklyn Oratory in New York, we extend a special invitation to join a pilgrimage of North Americans to celebrate with our Holy Father the life and ministry of Cardinal Newman.
Newman was one of the great intellectual and pastoral leaders of the 19th century. Prior to his conversion to the Roman Catholic Church, he had been a prominent member of the Oxford Movement, a group who advocated a return of the Church of England to its Catholic heritage. After being ordained in Rome, Newman returned to England as an Oratorian. He founded the Birmingham Oratory and was his beloved home throughout his long life. With Fr. Frederick Faber he helped establish the Oratory in London known universally now as the Brompton Oratory. Various ecclesiastical difficulties hindered his work in Ireland and England. He sought to establish an oratory at Oxford where eventually a Catholic organization was founded and, in 1888, was renamed the Oxford University Newman Society. Many Catholic campus ministries in the United States are called “Newman Centers” in recognition of Newman’s influence in supporting the spiritual formation of Catholic young people at non-Catholic colleges and universities. Eventually, in 1993, an Oratory was founded in Oxford.
Illume collaborates with pastoral leaders to create journeys to places of great historical and religious significance, places conducive to reflecting on our heritage, nurturing faith formation, building community and broadening perspectives. Travel to places where visionary men and women forged new traditions inspires world citizenship and greater understanding of other lands and peoples, leading to more compassionate ways of life.
We hope you will join our global community of family and friends for this special event!
Details of the pilgrimage and information about registration can be found at www.travelillume.com/trc/ckh
Illume
102 Union Wharf
Boston, MA 02109
programs@travelillume.com
Evangelical Catholic Offers Training Camps
Evangelical Catholic is offering Evangelization Training Camps this spring! Evangelization training camps lay the spiritual and ministerial foundations for students and staff to unify around a common vision of ministry outreach and formation. They envision integrating existing programs with new programs to accomplish their outreach and formation goals. Students learn practical ministry skills to help them truly become co-laborers with staff. Staffs gain practical frameworks to bring focus to their widespread and consuming ministry responsibilities.
May 9-14
ETC Southern regional in North Carolina
Fort Caswell Coastal Conference Center
May 16 - 21
ETC New England regional in Massachusetts
Betania II Retreat Center, Medway
Co-sponsored by Archdiocese of Boston Office of Campus Ministry
August 4 - 8
ETC Great Lakes and Midwest Regions in Wisconsin
St. Joseph’s Retreat Center, Bailey’s Harbor, Door County (outer arm of peninsula that extends into Lake Michigan)
Co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Catholic Student Center and Diocese of Green Bay Office for Vocations.
Posted by admin on March 26, 2010 under 5. TGIF! |
Call for Exemplary Awards
CCMA offers five official awards that recognize outstanding people and programs in the campus ministry field. For 2009-2010, we will recognize an Exemplary Bishop, the Reverend Charles Forsyth Award, the Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Award, the Higher Education Relations Committee Exemplary Administrator, and seven Exemplary Campus Ministry programs. Nominations are open to all and may be made by completing the nomination application and submitting it to CCMA by April 26. Nominations for all exemplary awards may be made online by clicking on the title above! The new webpage is designed to provide information on all the awards and to offer campus ministers an easy way to submit nominations. The site features award information, past winners, and links to the proper nomination forms. Campus ministers are welcome to nominate programs of their own if they feel that the program is an example of excellence in any of the six aspects of campus ministry and vocations. Please visit the awards information at http://www.ccmanet.org/ccma.nsf/Awardsprogram2010?Openpage. Nominate your program today!
Wide Awake!
Date: April 9-10, 2010
Location: Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, Ill.
Young Adult Conference
Keynote: John Allen
Special guest workshop presenters Fr. Brian Daley, S.J. and David Fagerburg both of U. of Notre Dame
Join other college students and young adults (under 35) who desire to wake up to their deeper purpose in life. We exist for more than making money and working jobs. Our academic and career successes/failures do not define our identity. This conference will include large group sessions of powerful music, young adult personal stories of faith, and compelling speaker and workshops to guide young adults in specific aspects and disciplines of living a life of faith. Registration and information at: http://www.evangelicalcatholic.org
Campus Ministry Leadership Institute
Date: June 5-11, 2010
Location: Saint Joseph’s University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Contact: www.sju.edu/CMLI
The Campus Ministry Leadership Institute (CMLI) is a six-day training and working institute for student leaders and campus ministers who attend together as campus teams. Now in its eleventh year, the institute is designed to produce dynamic leaders who work collaboratively to develop and implement successful Catholic campus ministry programs. CMLI participant teams will learn and practice valuable leadership skills, develop a project that is ready to implement at home, generate new ideas for your ministry, network with campus leaders from across the country and enhance understanding of Catholic campus ministry. Please visit the CMLI website at www.sju.edu/CMLI for information and to register.
Frank J. Lewis Institute
Date: June 6-11, 2010
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana
Contact: http://campusministry.nd.edu/national-conferences/fjl
University of Notre Dame is proud to announce that the Frank J. Lewis Institute for Campus Ministry Orientation will be held this June. The program provides valuable experience for campus ministers with one to three years experience in the field. Participants will come from across the country to learn and be refreshed. Topics for the Institute include forming the faith community, appropriating the faith, forming the Christian conscience, educating for justice, developing leaders for the future and personal development. More details and information will be available by visiting http://campusministry.nd.edu/national-conferences/fjl.
Posted by admin on March 12, 2010 under 5. TGIF! |
CCMA Membership for 2010-2011
CCMA would like to take this opportunity to thank all members for their continued support and prayers through the past year and national convention. You all are such a blessing to us! Annual membership renewals invoices are being mailed in the next several weeks. Renewal and new membership rates remain the same:
Individual Membership: $125 per year
Team Membership (four or more campus ministers at the same campus ministry site): $105 each
Diocesan Membership (four or more campus ministers from the same diocese): $105 each
Associate Membership: $55 per year
Corporate Non Profit Membership: $150 per year
Corporate For Profit Membership: $250 per year
Membership term begins July 1 and ends June 30. In order to be included in the 2010-2011 Catholic Campus Ministry Directory, please renew membership by June 1, 2010. Please contact Michelle Gundrum at Gundrum@ccmanet.org or 888.714.6631, Ext. 17, for more information or to renew or join CCMA.
Duchesne Volunteer House Offers Immersion Trips
Duchesne Volunteer House was founded by the Religious of the Sacred Heart in New Orleans in August 2007 as a response to the devastation brought on by hurricane Katrina. Duchesne Volunteer House offers a week long service and immersion program for college students. The program includes a reality/hope tour of the city, work opportunities, prayer and theological reflection. We are presently accepting applications for the 2010-2011 school year. Our schedule fills up quickly. For more information please contact Sr. Mary Pat White at mwhite@rscj.org or visit their website at http://duchesnehouse.rscj.org.
Catholics on Call Accepting Applications for 2010 Young Adult Summer Conferences
Catholics on Call invites young people, ages 18-30, who are considering a life of service in the Church to join them for their 2010 young adult summer conferences. Participants will have the opportunity to connect and pray with other like-minded young adults, to hear nationally-known speakers discuss how to listen to God’s call, and to learn valuable skills that will help them to discern their vocation, whether it be to priesthood, religious life or lay ecclesial ministry. Conveniently scheduled as an extended weekend (June 3- 6) or weeklong program (Aug. 1-6) and located at Catholic Theological Union in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, these conferences are free of charge and include room and board. For an application please visit www.catholicsoncall.org or for more information contact Catholics on Call at catholicsoncall@ctu.edu or 773.371.5431.
Chrysta Bolinger is CCMA’s Director, Member Services and Communication.
Posted by admin on November 29, 2009 under 1. Media Monday |
Just when you were in need of a great advent resource - voila - the USCCB created one! Check out http://www.usccb.org/advent/ for the resource including a bit of history, blessings, prayers, lessons and carols and more!
What a great way to share the richness of the new liturgical year and advent!
Katie Byrnes is an Assitant Chaplain at Saint Thomas More Catholic Chapel & Center at Yale University.
Posted by admin on November 17, 2009 under 2. Fat Tuesday |
With this Sunday’s feast of Christ the King, we bring an end to the Year of Grace, 2009 (at least in the liturgical calendar). The kingship of Christ is articulated both in his interrogation by Pilate, where Jesus literally “speaks truth to power,” and in the vision of Daniel of the “one like a son of man” receiving “kingship” as well as the obedience of all nations. The kingdom of Christ is one built on truth and the power that truth engenders. That’s in stark contrast to the kingdoms of this world, represented by Pilate who is remembered in history for his abuse of power and is recorded in the Gospel of John with the infamous retort “what is truth?” In which kingdom have we been living this past year? What keeps us from hearing the truth Christ speaks to us, truth that sets us free and empowers us as disciples?
On a totally unrelated note, but one that looks to our preparation for the Sunday liturgy in the long term, the US Bishops are in their fall meeting this week. One of the big issues that the bishops are discussing is the proposed new translations of the Roman Missal. If the bishops approve the final two sections of the translations, the whole text goes to Rome for confirmation. If that is forthcoming (and of course it will be), we might have new English translations for the Mass in a little over a year.
There has been much debate about these new translations over the past decade. Bishop Trautman spoke recently about what he sees as grammatical and linguistic flaws in the texts. During this bishops meeting he has made returning the translations to committee (ICEL) a goal. Whether that happens or the translations move forward, such a revision of the liturgical prayer of the Church happens very rarely. For all of our students and for the majority of campus ministers, the current translation is the only Mass known. We have so well committed large portions of the Mass to memory that they are now a reflex. We all know the joke about the broken microphone and the congregation’s reflexive response “and also with you.” Yet that emblematic response will change in the new translation. I don’t think it is too early for us to start planning how we will help our communities through this transition. To help us begin thinking about this considerable effort, the bishops have added a new section to their website at www.usccb.org/romanmissal
Fr. Peter Walsh, CSC is an assistant chaplain at Saint Thomas More, the Catholic Chapel and Center at Yale University.
Posted by admin on October 23, 2009 under 5. TGIF! |
Petrus Development Offers Fellowship
Applications are being accepted now for the Petrus Fellowship. This fellowship promotes the growth of professional development ministry within Catholic campus ministry for higher education and provides $4,500 payable at $1,500 per summer toward the tuition and fees of the Masters of Arts in Philanthropy and Development program at St. Mary’s University of Minnesota in Winona.
CCMA awards the scholarships on an annual basis, one each year, such that three persons are in the program concurrently. Eligible applicants will have at least two years full time fundraising experience and employment in the development field.
For more information and to apply for the fellowship, please visit the Petrus Fellowship page at http://www.ccmanet.org/ccma.nsf/petrusfellowship?OpenForm or contact Chrysta Bolinger at Bolinger@ccmanet.org.
New Campus Minister Support Network Needs You!
Greetings for the fall semester! CCMA offers the New Campus Minister Support Network (NCMSN) to allow CCMA members who are new to campus ministry to draw upon the resources and experience of CCMA members who have “run the race” for awhile.
Attention New Campus Ministers:
You are invited to join the NCMSN in order to dialogue with experienced campus ministers who are dedicated to helping you succeed in your ministry. You decide who you would like to contact via email or phone to begin dialogue about your new campus ministry experience.
Attention Experienced Campus Ministers:
Join the NCMSN as an experienced campus minister and help a new campus minister succeed by offering your experience and expertise.
Join the NCMSN:
To access the NCMSN, please go to the CCMA webpage (www.ccmanet.org) and click on Members (left hand side of the home page). You will need to enter a login and password. (If you need the login and password, please contact Michelle Gundrum at gundrum@ccmanet.org).
Once you are in the “Members Only” section, please click on the New Campus Ministers Support Network (NCMSN). This will bring you to the NCMSN site.
If you are a new campus minister hoping to join the NCMSN, scroll down until you see the box “Join the NCMSN”.
If you are an experienced campus minister who would like to be a part of the NCMSN, please click on “Join the NCMSN as an Experienced Campus Minister”.
In each case, you will be asked to fill out an online form. Once the form is filled out and submitted to CCMA, you will be given additional instructions as to how to utilize the NCMSN.
For more information:
Feel free to contact any member of the NCMSN committee:
Esther Sanborn, Chair, sanborn@sxu.edu
Courtney Hull, chull@mansfield.edu
Maura Neuffer, cathmincod@sbcglobal.net
Michelle Gundrum, CCMA, gundrum@ccmanet.org
May God’s blessings be upon the work of your ministry!
Evangelical Catholic Introduces Wide Awake!
Living Wide Awake in Christ is the call of every Catholic Christian. Wide Awake Chapel Hill brings together college students and young adult who have not yet awakened to the joy of life and Christ, and those who have and want to go deeper. Music, inspiring speakers, inspiring student stories of waking up, and workshops to help us wake to the fullness of life Christ came that we might all have. Workshops for pastoral staff facilitate the formation of awakening, evangelistic ministries and campus and in parishes.
The conference will be held Friday, November 13 from 6 p.m. to midnight at the Student Union, Great Hall, at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Form more information, the conference video and to register, please visit the EC website at:
http://www.evangelicalcatholic.com/WIDEAWAKECONFERENCE/tabid/149/Default.aspx
Posted by admin on September 29, 2009 under 2. Fat Tuesday |
This Sunday’s readings from Genesis and the Gospel according to Mark pose a particular challenge, since they are often seen for what they negate rather than what they promote. Often this gospel passage is referred to Jesus “prohibiting divorce,” and that is in part due to the tricky nature of the question that is posed to Jesus: “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife.” The divorce question was a hot topic—John the Baptist lost his head over it, literally. Rather than miring himself in the terms of the first century debate on the parameters of divorce, Jesus returns his inquisitors (and listening bystanders) to the key insight into human nature that the Book of Genesis reveals in the second creation story: it is not good to be alone. Jesus takes a polemical question meant to “go negative” and turns it to a positive insight into the human condition. Where the discourse on divorce is inherently sexist (look who it is that is filing for divorce in the question), Jesus redirects the discussion to one of mutuality and complementarity. The challenge for the preacher is to do the same: to redirect listeners away from hearing the teaching of Jesus as narrow and prohibitive and towards the ideal for human relationships upheld in Christian marriage.
On the one hand, we deal mainly with people in their late teens and early twenties, where the ideal of a lifelong partnership that is mutually fulfilling is good news indeed. Our students know quite personally the truth of the divine statement, “it is not good to be alone,” and many will hear the words of Jesus with a great deal of hope. At the same time, we know that students have had experience with divorce—parents and siblings for some, their own for nontraditional or graduate students. How do we speak about marriage in such a way that the ideal is preserved and upheld, while avoiding any hint of criticism or judgment for those who, often through no fault of their own, have experienced a failure in marriage?
As with many of our colleagues, we have seen quite a bit of interest in John Paul’s “Theology of the Body” among our students. Two years ago, we invited Christopher West to our center, where he presented a workshop to about ninety college students. His website is well worth checking out! Another great resource comes from the USCCB, For Your Marriage, which has worthwhile information not only for couples in marriage and preparing for marriage, but for younger Catholics who will be thinking about this vocation in the near future.
Fr. Peter Walsh, CSC is assistant chaplain at Saint Thomas More Catholic Chapel and Center at Yale University.
