Spirituality

March 15-17, 2012
-Home-

9:00 AM
This portion of the conference will provide time to discuss the articles provided below and the topics of spirituality for boys, girls and Sacred Heart. Please take a few moments to review the articles for engaging discussion.

//Please note there will be no handouts distributed. Any handouts provided by the speakers and additional resources will be posted at this site.//

Articles: //Woman-Body, Man-Body: Knowing God// by Wendy M. Wright

//Masculine Spirituality// by Richard Rohr, O.F.M.

S//pirituality of St. Madeleine Sophie and the Educational Mission of the Sacred Heart// by Catherine Baxter, rscj

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 * Faces of Mater (AASH)**


 * 20 minutes[[image:Materwithgirl-DK.jpg width="135" height="193" align="right"]]**


 * Images of God**

• Making the heart/love of God visible in the world, who in your life has most made the love of God visible?

• What are/were the qualities does/did that person exhibit that made God’s incarnated love accessible to you?

• As a Sacred Heart educator, how does your teaching/leadership uniquely make the love of God visible accessible to the girls and boys you teach?


 * 20 minutes**


 * Prayer in your Life**

• How do you best pray? Where do you engage prayer in your life? What form does that prayer take?

• How do you engage ritual in your prayer? Contemplation?

• As a Sacred Heart educator, how do you lead students to prayer? What are the ways you uniquely lead boys to prayer? Girls?


 * 20 minutes**
 * Group Sharing**

How do you nourish your spirituality as a Sacred Heart educator so that you are able to nourish the spirituality of your students?

--for many of our families --- our schools have become places of primary nourishment (spiritual, liturgical, etc.)

How do we take care of ourselves? How do we make sure we are nourished as Sacred Heart educators and our spirituality?

SF (all girls)

During Lent -- weeklong spirituality conference (Busy Person's Retreat)

Meet with RSCJ in time set aside to really talk about SH adult spirituality

Recommend this for entire Network

Centered on specific refreshing conversations -- emerged with a mind reeling with energy and deep profound thoughts with brain/heart

Gordy S. (SF)

What we are doing at this conference...asking questions that are rarely asked in this type of sharing environment

God is undefinable.

This kind of experience says why we are Sacred Heart educators -- in so many of our settings, we find a very diverse and mixed communities

God -- Prayer -- Spiritual Life

We DO discover the nuance meanings at times of sharing

Go back to our schools... CARVE out time!!!! We are doing it because it is what we are called to do!

For our students...how do we bring this awakening...by modeling, creating, developing the existing "rituals"

Kristen (Atherton)

Experiential spirituality -- Service Learning

experiencing REAL empathy

watching students grow...connects God for the educator

School retreats -- go with the students on Kairos, class retreats

Get away and spend time "watching" students

Largest sources of nourishment -- going to SH Network meetings -- sharing with and meeting colleagues -- something innate and natural that connects all of us -- no matter where we are from

Energized BECAUSE we have met each others -- Get nourishment for all of US!!!

Jeannie (VDOH)

Meeting with a few close friends for early AM mass...go on to a meeting place for coffee and sharing

Small community

When you go on a retreat or meeting....how do you sustain that energy?

As you return to schools, form smaller communities within your own school

How do you take your spirituality from the mountain top to the fields.....smaller communities

Bigger ideas -- breaking down to smaller ideas

Coming to school and seeing the daily moments with colleagues (adults and students)

Connections (real connections) made with daily relationships -- those "stop for a moment,moment

Model what we think should be going on...

Experiences such as NAIS, ISTE, ISACS, etc. need to be further enhanced with more of the Network meetings that develop, nurture, and grow Sacred Heart in all of us...consistently


 * Break—15 minutes**


 * 45 Minutes**
 * Sacred Heart Traditions**

How do we make spirituality/traditions of Sacred Heart education accessible to both boys and girls?

What Sacred Heart traditions are most important to your school community? Why? Are those traditions rooted in the gender(s) of your community?

How do you make Sacred Heart traditions relevant to the students? How does your community celebrate Sacred Heart spirituality for girls in a way that empowers them to be leaders in the 21st century?

How does your community celebrate Sacred Heart spirituality for boys so that what could easily been seen as a more “feminine” spirituality is meaningful to young men?

When students leave your school, what is the single most important way you hope to have influenced their spirituality? Is that in any way different for boys and for girls?


 * 20 Minutes**
 * Group Sharing**

Service Learning experiences

Routines not rituals

Speaking to boys -- use vocabulary that reaches boys -- Like when speaking of Philippine....speak of her courage, integrity....guts

Will be doing -- commissioned an artist to paint St. John Francis Regis (Philippine's mentor saint) -- Emulating Philippine -- apostolic zeal

--use this painting to model the virtues

Athletics: 290 boys at Atherton (over 100 play football with three teams)

Men Built for Others (program) -- What does it mean to be a real man?

Saying "I love you," treating others with respect, treating women with respect

New traditions

Friday "Thank you's" to work on the sense of entitlement

Every Friday before dismissal (dismissing by division) -- meet together to share what they have, from the week, to be thankful for

Now, this attitude, healthy sense of gratitude, happens innately, naturally....

Hardey Prep/Sheridan Road

Bring life to the school with rich traditions -- bring alums back to the school to the school to discuss how Sacred Heart traditions have helped them in life, work, etc.

Older students (8th grade) share with lower ages about faith, formative about SH education -- encourages levels of expression

Sophie giraffe --

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Acknowledgements at the beginning of Chapel -- HOS stands up to acknowledges what happened to another... One clap in response...... Then, others... After 10-15-20 then, there is a short round of applause

Take existing rituals or routines and MAKE them into what boys/girls/elementary/high school students CAN relate to and immerse themselves

Discovering of SH traditions can reinvent itself....

The reality of Mater is not about being female....BUT being CONTEMPLATIVE. Use contemporary spirituality....

Goal of our schools: Making them places that exemplify, teach, expect the heart of Jesus -- How do we use the language of Jesus to direct to the heart, and to what Madeleine Sophie Barat meant when she established the Society?