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Title: Josephite Spirituality


1
Josephite Spirituality
  • In the context of Catholic schools
  • established by the Sisters of St Joseph in the
    Charism of Mary MacKillop

2
Prayer
  • Companion God, you gifted Mary MacKillop with a
    profound trust in your care
  • R Help us also to trust like Mary.
  • God of all wisdom, you gifted Mary MacKillop with
    perception and insight into the needs of her
    time
  • R Help us also to discern as she did.
  • God, end-point of all who search, you gifted Mary
    MacKillop with great faith
  • R Gift us also with a strong faith in you and
    your dream.

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  • God of the courageous, you gifted Mary MacKillop
    with strength of purpose and holy stubborness
  • R Gift us also with the courage of our
    convictions.
  • God of Jesus, who travelled lightly and owned
    little, you gifted Mary MacKillop with simplicity
    of mind and heart
  • R Gift us also with a desire make room for all
    in our hearts and lives.
  • God of laughter and dance, you gifted Mary
    MacKillop with a joy for life and all creation
  • R Gift us also with optimism even in the face of
    failure.

4
  • God who listens and waits, you gifted Mary
    MacKillop with your presence in prayer
  • R Gift us also with your presence and the
    courage to reach out to you.
  • God of bountiful nature, you gifted Mary
    MacKillop with wholehearted generosity
  • R Gift us also with an open and unconditional
    heart.
  • God, friend and companion of your people, you
    gifted Mary MacKillop with respect for the vision
    of others
  • R Gift us with the power of communion and the
    willingness to think beyond our boundaries.

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  • God, loyal presence throughout our history, you
    gifted Mary MacKillop with a love of your church
    and the wisdom it holds in trust for all
    generations
  • R Gift us also with a loyalty to and love for
    the richness of our tradition that we, like Mary,
    can draw on its certainty and strength to aid
    others in their search for You and for meaning in
    their lives.
  • We join our prayers to that of Mary MacKillop in
    the hope that we can preserve her spirit of
    service in our time and make Your dream present
    to those we meet.
  • Amen.

6
Radical Trust
  • The concept of radical trust comes from Mary
    MacKillops conviction that God would always
    provide and that if she set her heart on loyal
    service of the Church and the vision of Jesus,
    then material needs would be taken care of.
  • What might this Josephite understanding of
    Radical Trust look, sound and feel like in a
    Catholic school community today?

7
Discernment
  • Followers of the vision of Mary MacKillop are
    required to discern the urgent needs of our time
    and to act accordingly. They are to look for
    those who are voiceless and excluded-by others
    and themselves- in our world, and in the Church.
  • We are urged to recapture the radical response
    of Mary MacKillop and her companions to the
    misery and wretchedness of our era.
  • What might a Josephite understanding of
    Discernment look, sound and feel like in a
    Catholic school today?

8
Faith
  • Josephite spirituality calls us to a commitment
    to our own conversion on a daily basis it is an
    acknowledgement that we have never arrived at
    full belief that the One we search for is never
    fully found and that we are always on a journey
    to fulfilment and reconciliation. In this we turn
    to the Word which continually nourishes and
    transforms us and our world.
  • What might a Josephite understanding of Faith
    look, sound and feel like in a Catholic school
    today?

9
Courage
  • Followers of the charism of Mary MacKillop are
    called to live lives of courage- not just to face
    the blocks of fear, conformity, lack of
    truthfulness, arrogance, entrenched attitudes and
    exclusion, but also to risk suffering and failure
    in the cause.
  • What might a Josephite understanding of Courage
    look, sound and feel like in a Catholic school
    today?

10
Simplicity
  • In the spirit of Mary MacKillop, we are called to
    live simply, in mind and heart to travel lightly
    and to make room for all because we are not
    encumbered with too much nor desire to have it
    all.
  • What might a Josephite understanding of
    Simplicity look, sound and feel like in a
    Catholic school today?

11
Joy
  • Optimism is born out of courage and hope and so,
    as followers of the charism of Mary MacKillop, we
    plunge into the very worst the world can offer as
    people of Resurrection. Believing that love is
    the key to eternal life, we exhibit a joy in life
    and death that causes others to ask its source
    that they too may have it in their lives.
  • What might a Josephite understanding of Joy
    look, sound and feel like in a Catholic school
    today?

12
Prayer
  • We do not live and work alone. It is not our
    vision we seek to bring to the world. We are
    called and chosen by an ever-present God who is
    our hope and our strength. As inheritors of the
    Josephite charism, wherever we are, whoever we
    are, however we can, whatever we do, it is
    preceded, supported and reflected on in prayer
    with the One who sends us out.
  • What might a Josephite understanding of Prayer
    look, sound and feel like in a Catholic school
    today?

13
Wholehearted Generosity
  • The Josephite charism teaches that our desire and
    commitment for union with God calls us to be
    wholeheartedly generous with who we are and what
    we have after the heart and mind of our
    compassionate God revealed in Jesus. We
    continually have to make difficult decisions out
    of our option for those people afflicted by
    injustice and poverty, or in situations of
    wretchedness and misery.
  • What might a Josephite understanding of
    wholehearted generosity look, sound and feel like
    in a Catholic school today?

14
Mutual Relationship and Recognition
  • In the Josephite tradition, communion is nurtured
    by a deep spirit of mutual respect and
    relationship. We must be the change we see in
    others. Neither do we presume to fully know or
    own or be able to define the MacKillop charism
    we are filled with joy when we recognise it in
    the spark of it in others.
  • What might a Josephite understanding of mutual
    relationship and recognition look, sound and
    feel like in a Catholic school today?

15
Loyal Service to the Tradition and the Local
Church
  • The Josephite tradition is loyal to the local
    church, seeking to discern our mission and
    ministry there and to draw from the storehouse of
    tradition treasures that will enrich us on the
    quest.
  • What might a Josephite understanding of loyal
    service to the tradition and the local church
    look, sound and feel like in a Catholic school
    today?

16
The Capacities and the Charism
  • The BCEC Spirituality Framework and the Religious
    Life of the School document name 9 capacities of
    people seeking spiritual formation. The MacKillop
    Charism fits well into that framework
  • Presence Mutual Relationship Recognition
  • Prayer Prayer
  • Principle Courage
  • Welcome Wholehearted Generosity
  • Ritual Communion/Prayer
  • Journey Simplicity/Faith
  • Purpose Joy
  • Commitment Radical Trust
  • Fidelity Loyal Service to Church and Tradition

17
Your Tasks
  1. For each of the nominated elements of Josephite
    Spirituality, complete the chart of what it might
    look, sound and feel like for staff leadership
    teams students and parents of your community.
  2. Suggest, where necessary, a substitute student
    friendly term for use in your school.
  3. Think of a symbolic depiction to accompany this
    element.

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  • Share your experience of doing this task.
  • What might we do with your insights?

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Where To From Here?
  • Time Line- end 2008?
  • Chew Them Over- Staff Room? Monthly? or split
    them up and individuals focus on one or more?
  • Principles and examples
  • What does it mean to me/my classroom?
  • Use ideas from RLOS document
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