“The greatest challenge of the day is: 
how to bring about a revolution of the heart,
a revolution which has to start with each one of us.” 

 ― Dorothy Day

“When the margins are the center: spirituality and social transformation”

NOVEMBER 4, 2021, 6:30-8:00 PM at ISLC
in-person & livestream!
Masks are required, weather permitting outside venue under newly purchased heat lamps. Tea/Wine and cheese/crackers will be served.
ISLC invited William O’Neil, SJ to an evening in which he could share his experience. He writes: “Sometimes spirituality is conceived in terms of private, personal growth or transformation. Yet the prophet Micah reminds us that disciples cannot “walk humbly with their God” if they do not “do justice” and “love tenderly" (Micah: 6:8). In our reflections this evening, we will consider how personal and social transformation are interwoven in St. Ignatius’s Spiritual Exercises as a pedagogy of Christian discipleship.”

​William O’Neil, SJ Professor Emeritus of Ethics, at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University in Berkeley, worked the last years for the Jesuit Refugee Services in Rome, Nairobi and most recently as a parish priest/chaplain in the Kakuma refugee camp on the Northern-Western border of Kenya holding over 200,000 refugees. Meanwhile he just published two new books: Reimagining Human Rights - Religion and the Common Good and Catholic Social Teaching - A User’s Guide.

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“Blessed are those who mourn”

NOVEMBER 18, 2021, 6:30-8:00 PM at ISLC
​in-person & livestream
Masks are required, weather permitting outside venue under newly purchased heat lamps. Tea/Wine and sweets/crackers will be served.
Professor Jung Run Sophia Park, SNJM as a scholar, spiritual director, a person of hybrid cultures, and a Holy Names sister, her publications embrace a wide spectrum. She authored Dislocation as Experience: women in Korea and the US, she published, Beauty of the Broken 부서진것의아름다움 (Seoul, South Korea: Marianist, 2015), and Considerate Chat: How Women Experience Transformation through Storytelling 사려깊은수다: 여성은이야기를 통해어떻게성장하나 (Yellow Bric, 2016) in Korean. She continues to research her topic of liminal space through her field work with Korean Shamans every summer. a Hybrid Identity Creating a Borderland Space (New York: Peter Lang, 2010) and Border Crossing Spirituality: Transformation in Borderland (Eugene, OR: Wipf Stock, 2016).Reflecting on her twenty years of spiritual direction and retreat ministry with women in Korea and the US, she published, Beauty of the Broken 부서진것의아름다움 (Seoul, South Korea: Marianist, 2015), and Considerate Chat: How Women Experience Transformation through Storytelling 사려깊은수다: 여성은이야기를통해 어떻게성장하나 (Seoul, South Korea: Yellow Bric, 2016) in Korean. She also continues to research her topic of liminal space through her field work with Korean shamans every summer.

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Faith at Work: Translating Tradition into Action

In Co-sponsorship with the Lane Center at USF, ISLC is excited to present:
Faith at Work: Translating Tradition into Action

This webinar on DECEMBER 1st, 12:00-1:00 PM will feature Sister Mary Haddad, President of the Catholic Health Association. Haddad, a Sister of Mercy, is an advocate for healthcare as a common good and human right. Titled Faith at Work: Translating Tradition into Action, her presentation will explore the influence that religious congregations of women have had on the social ministries of the Catholic Church and how Catholic social tradition has shaped and continues to permeate institutional ministries. Particular attention will be given to the Catholic health ministry.
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​For registration see: https://www.usfca.edu/event/2021-12-01-1200/women-cst-faith-work-translatingtradition-action