Welcome to the ICP Summer Workshop
In preparation for the upcoming Live Zoom sessions – June 17, 18, 24, & 25 (all 4:00-5:15 pm Eastern time), below please watch the “videos to preview” on each of the Universal Apostolic Preferneces (UAP) of the Society of Jesus and the provided reflection questions we will discuss during the live sessions. After each live session, we will post under each UAP, the Zoom video, transcription, Zoom chat comments, and other information and resources that were shared during the session.
Live Zoom Session Schedule:
Zoom Meeting Link: https://Fairfield.zoom.us/j/2076274140 (same for all sessions)
Meeting ID: 207 627 4140
- June 17: Walking with the Poor & Outcast: Sr. Katherine Feely, SND (John Carroll) & Mary Wardell-Ghirarduzzi (USF)
- June 18: To Show the way to God through The Spiritual Exercises & Discernment: Debra Mooney (Xavier) & Joe DeFeo (ICP)
- June 24: Caring for Our Common Home: Jodi O’Brien (Seattle Univ.) & Stephanie Russell (AJCU).
- June 25: Accompanying the Young: Eileen Burke-Sullivan (Creighton) & Margaret Freige (College of the Holy Cross).
Click to view our ICP Summer Workshop Team
Click to download: Summer Workshop 2020 Reflection Questions for UAP’s
Universal Apostolic Preferences of the Society of Jesus (original document)
Universal Apostolic Preference 1: Ignatian Spirituality & Discernment
Video to Preview before Session:
Debra Mooney, Ph.D., Xavier University: https://youtu.be/ziMJZ5opecQ
Post Session Materials:
Additional Resources:
Remember that all good Ignatian Discernment begins and is grounded in prayer and reflection
Recommended Books on Discernment (Individual & Communal):
- the art of discernment: making good decisions in your world of choices, Stefan Kiechle, S.J.
- The Way of Discernment: Spiritual Practices for Decision Making, Elizabeth Liebert
- The Soul of Discernment: A Spiritual Practice for Communities and Insitutitons, Elizabeth Liebert
- The Call to Discernment in Troubled Times: New Perpsectives on the Transformative Wisdom of Ignatius of Loyola, Dean Brackley, S.J.
- Communal Discernment Brochure (from Xavier University)
Universal Apostolic Preference 2: Walking with the Poor and Outcast
Videos to Preview before Session:
- Sr. Margaret Feeley, SND, John Carroll University: https://youtu.be/bguQIWyhh5w
- Mary Wardell-Ghirarduzzi, University San Francisco: https://youtu.be/X4r54f7ZbOA
Post Session Materials:
- Zoom Video of Session
- Transcript of Session
- Zoom Chat Comments
- A Prayer for My White Colleagues, Sarah Signorino, (Canisius University)
- The Assumptions of White Privilege and What We Can Do About It., Bryan Massingale, found in ncronline.org, June 1, 2020
- Twice as Good: Leadership and Power for Women of Color, Dr. Mary J. Wardell
Additional Resources: Anti-Racism
- From AJCU: Institutional Statements on Racial Justice & Additional Resources
- From: University of San Francisco/Mary Wardell-Ghirarduzzi
- From: Fairfield University Library
Recommended Viewing:
- 13th –Documentary (Netflix) – explores the economic history of slavery and post-Civil War racist legislation and practices that replaced it she contends as “systems of racial control” and forced labor from the years after the abolition of slavery to the present.
- Selma -Movie (2014) based on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches initiated and directed by James Bevel and led by Martin Luther King Jr., Hosea Williams, and John Lewis.
- Ava DuVernay
Universal Apostolic Preference 3: Accompanying the Young
Videos to Preview before Session:
- Eileen Burke-Sullivan, Ph.D., Creighton University: https://youtu.be/yYxvEZZIVLc
- Margaret Freije, Ph.D., College of the Holy Cross: https://youtu.be/VOuXys8yGwI
Post Session Materials :
Universal Apostolic Preference 4: Care for Our Common Home
Video to Preview before Session:
- Stephanie Russell, Ph.D., Association of Jesuit Colleges & Universities: https://youtu.be/4pka4zOMIvM
Post Session Materials :