SYMPOSIUM COLLOQUIUM SYMPOSIUM 2016 Imperatives of Mission Outreach

SYMPOSIUM COLLOQUIUM

SYMPOSIUM 2016 Imperatives of Mission Outreach and Inclusion Leadership and Governance What’s working well

An ecclesial workforce

An ecclesial workforce

An ecclesial workforce Classical theology “a lay disciple is called to accept a peripheral and submissive role within the Church, while taking an active role in the transformation and nature of history. ” Frohlich, M. The Lay Contemplative: Testimonies, Perspectives, Resources, 54.

Canonical Visitation of the General Council Report

However. . . we would like to invite you to remain vigilant so that concern for professionalism – and consequent demands on performance, structured relationships, and a high degree of organisation does not eclipse the enthusiasm and even unpredictability that are typical of living out the gospel.

As Catholic schools if we continue on our current trajectory Who will we become?

Global interdependence and the common destiny of all peoples on earth

“Our efforts at education will be inadequate and ineffectual unless we strive to promote a new way of thinking about human beings, life, society and our relationship with nature. ”

CURRENT SCENARIOS Inequities increased Poverty, unemployment, exploitation Marginalisation and exclusion Intolerant, rigid populism Decadent humanism Paradigm of indifference (3)

STEM It is ironic that we have achieved important goals in knowing the forces of nature, science and technology and, at the same time, are lacking in ideas for adequate coexistence within society so as to give everyone and acceptable and dignified existence. (5)

HUMANISING EDUCATION Education should be at the service of a new humanism, in which the social person was willing to talk and work for the realisation of the common good. (6)

HUMANISING EDUCATION Humanising education means putting the person at the centre of education, in a framework of relationships that make up a living community, which is interdependent and bound to a common destiny, This is fraternal humanism. (7)

A CULTURE OF DIALOGUE Instead of limiting religiosity to the private and confidential sphere of the individual, compelling citizens to live publicly only the ethical and legal norms of the state, it reverses the terms of the relationship and calls on religious beliefs to profess their positive ethical values in public. (12)

GLOBALISING HOPE Globalising hope is the specific mission of education to fraternal humanism. (17) Christian redemption. . . Is already the substance of reality, in the sense that the things we hoped for: everything, a true life, are already present in us. ” (15)

FOR A TRUE INCLUSION Education to fraternal humanism must make sure that learning knowledge means becoming aware of an ethical universe in which the person acts. (19)

FOR A TRUE INCLUSION We need leadership capable of striking out new path and meeting the needs of the present with concern for all and without prejudice to coming generations. (19) ancestors – contemporaries – posterity (22)

COOPERATION NETWORKS There is widespread call for education to overcome the pitfalls of cultural stanardisation processes, which produce the harmful effects of homogenisation, and, at the same time, consumer manipulation. (26)

As Catholic schools if we continue on our current trajectory Who will we become?

What brings me greatest joy?

Joy is an emotion and a state of being Ada Oneya

What bothers me most?

What brings me greatest joy? What bothers me most?

As Catholic schools if we continue on our current trajectory Who will we become? Therefore. . .

Leadership and

Can. 129 § 1. Those who have received sacred orders are qualified, according to the norm of the prescripts of the law, for the power of governance, which exists in the Church by divine institution and is also called the power of jurisdiction. § 2. Lay members of the Christian

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Catholicity is the distinctive spiritual, religious and cultural habitus in which the presence of God is encountered. ( Catholic Schools: Mission, Markets and Morality - Gerald Grace)

The Visitation John O’Donohue, Conamara Blues (London: Bantam Books, 2000), 63.

In the morning it takes the mind a while To find the world again, lost after dream Has taken the heart to the underworld To play with the shades of lives not chosen. She awakens a stranger in her own

Soon she can no longer bear to be alone. At dusk she takes the road into the hills. An anxious moon doubles her among the stone. A door opens, the older one’s eyes fill.