Justice Walking Updates

Leading Justice Walking with Tere Hernandez (Freshman) has been a great experience. I am going to miss going to Catholic Worker with the Justice Walking members. We were able to offer our service to Catholic Worker in Oakland and Berkeley, while also deepening our relationships with one another. We were able to deepen our relationships by sharing our stories and listening to eachother during every Justice Walking session. Our final session for this academic year was last Sunday, April 22nd.  We served the homeless with the Catholic Worker in Berkeley.

Freshman, Maria Fernanda Cuevas, wrote the following reflection on Justice Walking:

"... J- Walking has been a great way to get in touch, not only with your self but I have learned much about others and the world sufferings. I have had insight into the many ways that a simple gesture of kindness can make a big difference in an individual life. Not only that but I have come to appreciate the continuation of doing good. Justice Walking really brings you back to remember that you must have a beginners mind when looking at any angle of the world. As you view the world learn to look past the surface without judgment. While discussing and sharing readings with the group, we came to the conclusion that to have this beginners mind we should never to be afraid of change but instead embrace the future whether it brings good or bad, Endurance is part of the experience. This is probably one of many impacts that J-Walking has had on me. As we meet we grow, as individuals and as a group, and I am very grateful to be part of this group!"

If you are interested in being part of Justice Walking during Fall 2012, I will be sending an email for the date for an information meeting.

We also invite you to celebrate our journey with us at the 7PM Sunday Mass.  We will hear from and bless the current Justice Walking members.

Justice Walking Mass and Blessing
McLean Chapel
Sunday, April 29, at 7:00pm

We will also be showing a movie of the Justice Walking experience that our current members lived this semester.

The members are:
Tere Hernandez
Maria Fernanda Cuevas
Rafael Martinez
Jolleen Corner
Megan Lopez
Jennifer Santisteban
Zachary Kaneshiro

Thank you J Walkers for a great experience!

(Posted by Carolina Vargas, Graduate Assistant for Campus Ministry)

Justice Walking

We have all learned a lot on this Justice Walking Journey, especially about service. On Saturday, March 17th we had our Justice Pilgrimage, we went to help feed homeless people in Berkeley at People's Park with our friend JC Orton, from the Berkeley Catholic Worker/Nights on the Streets. We got up at 6:30am. It was a cold day. As I was getting ready, putting on a long sleeve shirt, then my sweater, and another layer, I could not help it but to stop and reflect on how the people we were going to serve did not have that option. They do not have a roof over their head, and some even do not have the warm clothes to cover themselves on cold days. Then all of a sudden I forgot about being cold. My heart got warm, and made me feel warm all over, and gave me extra energy to give my best service and love to the homeless people we were going to help. Leading Justice Walking has been an amazing experience, I have had the opportunity to get to know the students better and learn about their stories and also learn along the Justice Walking Journey with them. We have about three sessions left and I would not like to see it end. What excites me is that we have next semester, so if you are interested, look for Justice Walking information next semester.



Here is what Jolleen Corner (Justice Walker member) has to say about Justice Walking:

"Justice Walking has been an exciting adventure for me. I have learned more about God and how to serve others. Helping at Catholic Worker is a blessing to be a part of and I enjoy seeing the people's faces light up when you give them food. I have learned that I need to get out of my comfort zone and open my eyes to the hurting world around me. We are called to be servants just like Jesus was, to be his hands and feet to a dying world. I have enjoyed hearing people open up and share the depths of their hearts. We all have a story, a testimony, that God has given us to help others who have gone through similar situations as us. Justice Walking is helping me have a 'Beginner's Mind' and to not judge others. I have grown so much in Justice Walking and I cannot wait for what more is in store for us."

By Carolina Vargas, Campus Ministry G.A. and J-Walking Coordinator

Lenten Relay for Life Service Opportunity

What are you doing to get involved on campus?

In observance of the Lenten season, Campus Ministry and the A.L.I.V.E. Club invite you to participate in our RELAY FOR LIFE service opportunity.

Lent is known as a time of prayer, penance, and almsgiving. Throughout the season of Lent, it is common to give up something or to do something to better your life for those 40 days.

For example, if you really love chocolate and sweets, it would be difficult to go without it for that long period of time, right? Well this is more of a reason to give it up.

To take this process one step further, we are inviting you to:

(1) Write what you are giving up on one of the paper leaves in the basket in the Chapel or in the Brennan display case and tape your leaf onto image of the tree.
(2) Make a personal commitment to make a small donation towards Relay For Life when (or if) you slip up on your Lenten promise, such as eating that piece of chocolate you promised you wouldn’t.
(3) To show your solidarity with Relay for Life, wear one a purple strings (also at the Chapel and in the Brennan display case) on your wrist during Lent
(4) Bring your donation to the Relay For Life Mass in the McLean Chapel on Sunday, March 18th at 7 PM.

Relay For Life is an event to commemorate those who have fought the battle of cancer. As some of you may know, Relay For Life will be on the Holy Names campus March 20 to the 21st. If you would like to sign up for a team or start your own team, please visit www.RelayForLife.org/HNUCA

Written by HNU Sophomore, Misty Martinez

Documentary: Our Right to Sing

Join Campus Ministry on:
Friday, February 24th
in the Sophia Room
from 12:15pm to 1:15pm

Director Carolina Fuentes will be present for discussion and questions

Our Right to Sing explores the role of music in the resistance movement of El Salvador during two decades of military dictatorship


Director Bio:
Carolina Fuentes holds a Masters Degree in Social Documentation from The University of California, Santa Cruz and is an award-winning radio and television journalist spanning a lengthy career with PBS Radio Billingue and Univision. She is twice winner of the Golden Apple Media Award, granted by the California School Boards Foundation; and Emmy nominated for her investigative report exposing the abuses against undocumented immigrants at an INS facility in Harlingen, Texas. In a collective award to journalists for the national news coverage of September 11, 2001 attacks in New York, Carolina was recognized for her reporting contributions, by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Her most recent work is the documentary film titled, Our Right To Sing. The project examines the role of music in the resistance movement of El Salvador during two decades of military dictatorship. Fueled by her research at the University of California, Santa Cruz, , the documentary project has won a prestigious fellowship from the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently being screened internationally.
Fuentes’ thesis documentary project, Our Right to Sing, is the first of its kind. Until now, there has not been a film on the musical byproduct of this collective experience – something Fuentes witnessed first-hand as member of a musical group inspired by the principles of Liberation Theology and with the arson of the San Jose Catholic Church, where she was parishioner. After the assassination of friends and classmates – Fuentes fled from her native El Salvador to Mexico where she lived seven years and completed her Bachelors Degree in Social Psychology at The University of Queretaro.

Before her immigration to the US in 1989, she worked in Mexico City with Central American refugee children and families fleeing the horrors of war in their home countries. For the last seventeen years living in the U.S., Fuentes has continued to champion social change through her feature stories and now her feature documentary. At present, she is screening her latest work on the protest music of El Salvador, hoping to join with the efforts of human rights activists, in constructing a historical memory of the civil war in El Salvador.

“The San Jose church in El Salvador was one of the first Christian base
communities where from the inception of the theology of Liberation, young people
began to reflect upon our social reality. I was one of the singers in our musical group
called, “El Sembrador”. These were the seventies and my country was living under
a military dictatorship. In 1975 a provoked fire destroyed our church and although
the flames devoured our instruments, our voices were not extinguished.
“Our Right to Sing”, has taken me back to my country to collect the stories
of the young people from the 1970’s who denounced injustice by creating music,
poetry, and popular theatre. These individuals became the collective voice the
dictatorship could not silence. With the fellowship granted by the Berkeley Human
Rights center I have documented the role of music in constructing a historical
memory of the civil war, which killed more than 70 thousand Salvadorans. The film
explores the power of music in constructing a collective memory. Musicians tell us
how during two decades of military dictatorship terror and during the post war they
have defended their right to create popular art as a powerful voice in the struggle
for social justice.”
- C. Fuentes

Justice Walking Intro Session

"Be the change you want to see in the world" - Mahatma Gandhi

College J-Walking includes:

Seven weekly sessions (every other session is located at a social service agency)
Thematic reflecting on the signs of our times
An overnight opening and closing retreat
A public dialogue
A daylong Justice Pilgrimage
Maintaining a journalReading and reflecting on two books
Practicing five lifestyle adjustments that apply Gospel teachings to life choices

If you would like to learn more about College JusticeWalking

Join us on Tuesday, January 17th at 7:00pm in the McLean Chapel

Hunger and Homelessness Mass / SOA Sending Rite, with J.C. Orton

J.C. Orton will be speaking at our 7PM Mass, on Sunday, November 13.

J.C. Orton reaches out to the hungry, homeless, and marginalized, through the Dorothy Day House and Nights on the Streets, in Berkeley. In 2009, he won the Jefferson Award for Public Service. With the help of volunteers, he has served over 100,000 meals to the homeless since 1997. J.C. has also protested against violence and torture, such as at the SOA Watch and Ft. Huachuca.

J.C. will have more information about getting involved this Sunday! To learn more about the Catholic Worker in Berkeley and ways to get involved, please read on:


The two Catholic Worker Houses in Berkeley, Dorothy Day House and Night on the Streets, provide hospitality every day of the year for our family of homeless and poor.

Breakfast for 100-225 every morning of the year in three different locations.

Monday – Saturday breakfast is prepared @ 1932 Center Street starting at 6:30AM. It is then transported to 2362 Bancroft Way at 8:00 where it is served. Remnants and dirty pots/pans are returned to Center St. where clean up is done. Contact Richard Webber @ 781-985-0981 to sign up.

Sunday breakfast is prepared at 1630 Berkeley Way starting at 6AM. It is then transported to People’s Park where 40-60 are served. At 8:10, the meal is moved to Center Street between Milvia & MLK jr. Way and an additional 60-100 are served. This meal is served al fresco, with tents to provide shelter for the serving line when necessary. After the meal is served, there is always time to make it to the 9:30 Mass on time. Contact
J C Orton @ 510-684-1892 to sign up.

Dinner for 50 served at the Men’s shelter on Center St. every night.

Groups are need to purchase, prepare and serve meals for 50 men at the Men’s Shelter at 1932 Center St. every night of the year. Contact Richard Webber @ 781-985-0981 for more information. The need is especially great for those times when school is on break and during summer vacation….

Holiday dinners for 150-250 five times a year at the Newman Hall Parking lot.

On MLK Jr. Day, President’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day meal is served from 4-5PM. Servers are needed to serve this meal. Help with meal preparation earlier in the day at 1630 Berkeley Way is always helpful as well as clean up of the pots/pans used for the meal. Contact J C Orton @ 510-684-1892 to sign up.

Hot soup served thrice weekly on Shattuck Ave. & the Telegraph area each winter from Thanksgiving until Easter.

This effort began in 1997 as an extension of a Loaves & Fishes outreach effort. In addition to the food, we distribute sleeping bags, heavy ponchos, blankets and clothing to the homeless living on the streets.

Soup (10 gallons) is prepared earlier in the day by various groups and individuals (we need help with this). We depart at 7:PM on a fixed route through Berkeley stopping many times along the way to extend hospitality every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday nights. We need drivers, cooks, and agile workers able to provide this respite from the cold and wet nights to those most in need. Contact J C Orton @ 510-684-1892 to sign up.

A winter shelter for 50 located on Bancroft Way for our family of homeless folks.

The shelter at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church at 2300 Bancroft Way has been operated by the Catholic Worker for the past five winters. This shelter receives funding from the City of Berkeley provided to Dorothy Day House and has limited nights of availability. The shelter is open on those nights of inclement weather beginning the Monday after Thanksgiving through the Wednesday before Easter. Nightly opening times vary as well as the nights of operation as funding is limited.

We need people at opening time between 7-11 PM as well as closing time between 5:30 – 8AM to facilitate our efforts. Contact J C Orton @ 510-684-1892 to sign up.

Visitation of those in hospitals and mental wards throughout the area as well as
assistance with their return to independent living.

Daily direct contact with these “Ambassadors of God” extending and overextending ourselves to engage and genuinely love those considered by many as disposable and a burden to society. Please join us in our efforts.

J. C. Orton, Coordinator
P O Box 13468
Berkeley, Ca 94712

1630 Berkeley Way
Berkeley
510-684-1892
noscw@sbcglobal.net

Nonviolence and the Beloved Community

"The aftermath of violence is tragic bitterness, while the aftermath of nonviolence is the beloved community." – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King’s Six Principles of Nonviolence

1. Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people.
2. Nonviolence seeks to win friendship and understanding.
3. Nonviolence seeks to defeat injustice, not people.
4. Nonviolence holds that suffering for a cause can educate and transform.
5. Nonviolence chooses love instead of hate.
6. Nonviolence holds that the universe is on the side of justice and that right will eventually prevail.

Martin Luther King’s Six Steps to Social Change

1. Information Gathering
2. Education
3. Personal Commitments
4. Negotiation
5. Direct Action
6. Reconciliation and Healing Process

ALTAR for DIA DE LOS MUERTOS

Join A.L.I.V.E. and Campus Ministry in celebrating the lives of our deceased loved ones . . .

In addition to the Book of Remembrance, Campus Ministry and A.L.I.V.E. will be setting up an altar to remember and honor our deceased loved ones.

Join us on Wednesday, October 26th from 4:30 to 6PM and 9:00 to 10:00PM (following the A.L.I.V.E Club meeting). We will continue working on our altar on Sunday, October 30th, from 6:00pm to 7:00pm (before Mass).


Bring a copy of picture of a loved one who has passed away to add our altar in the McLean Chapel . Please bring copies only. We know how dear these photos are to you and do not want to misplace originals. Let us remember our love ones and celebrate their lives.
We will provide materials available for decorating the photos and our altar.

For more information on Dia De Los Muertos: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead

Justice Walking

"BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD"- Mahatma Gandhi

Justice Walking is a unique discipleship process that brings young adults into a small, committed community. Over the course of one semester, J Walkers dialogue, reflect, and apply to their lives what has been learned along the J-Walking journey.

The J-Walking journey includes the following components:

• Seven sessions



• Every other session at a local social service agency



• Opening and closing retreats



• Group relection on a few selected texts



• Justice pilgrimage



• Focus on relationships



• Spiritual practices that apply gospel teachings to life choices

If you are interested and want to be the change you want to see in the world. Join us for intro sessions:

Thurs., November 3rd, 12:30-1:20PM, in the Cushing Library (bring your lunches!)
and
Wed., November 9th, 8:00pm, in the McLean Chapel (with the ALIVE Club)

"J Walking goes far beyond seven sessions. It is a way of life. It changes the way you live your life!" -Allison Ferry, J-Walker

Vigil for Immigrant Rights

Join the ALIVE Club and Campus Ministry on:

Wednesday, October 19th from 5pm-6pm at West Contra Costa County Detention Center!

Richmond High School (with members of HNU's Alive Club) have planned an interfaith vigil to speak up for immigrant rights.


The Contra Costa County Dentention Center operates an annex to the county jail in North Richmond. Through some arrangement between the county and the Feds, Ice detains undocumented immigrants there until they are deported or sent on to some federal detention center. An organization called the Interfaith Human Rights Project (IHRP) conducts a vigil at the West County lockup on the third Wednesday of each month, from 5pm-6pm. Rather than personally conduct these vigils , the IHRP invites local groups to sponsor each event. There is no set format for the vigil--the only requirement is that they be peaceful. The purpose of the vigils is to show solidarity with our brothers and sisters whose only crime is to be in this country without documentation and to protest our immigration policy.

Please contact campusministry@hnu.edu by this Sunday if you would like to attend (we will leave campus on 10/19 at 4PM and return at 6PM).

Join ALIVE tomorrow night (Wed., 10/12, 8PM, McLean Chapel) to learn some of the songs for the vigil.

School of The Americas Watch East Bay

Help us connect the dots: a panel discussion on US-backed militarism in Latin America, immigration abuses, and local policing practices

Joining Nico Udu-gama on the panel are Edgar Ayala, East Bay Area Immigration activist, and Jay Donahue from Critical Resistance

When: Friday, September 30th
6:30pm-9:oopm

Where: First Unitarian Church of Oakland
685 14th St.
Oakland, CA

SOA Movie Night, Crossing the Line

SOA Movie Night

Tonight, Th., Sept. 29, 7:30 PM

The Hawk’s Nest

Crossing the Line: Journey to Awareness

Viewing and Discussion with

Byrne “Buzz” Sherwood, Jr., Lieutenant Colonel, USA (retired), Richmond High School teacher, and SOA activist

&

JC Orton, Nights on the Street - Catholic Worker, SOA Activist

(as part of the SOA Awareness Series, with the Peace & Justice Club and the Center for Social Justice and Civic Engagement)

Connections Project Approved!!!

Coming Up: Day of the Dead Procession, Nov. 2, 5:30PM; SOA Sending Rite, Nov. 13, 7PM Sunday Mass

Contact Campus Ministry if interested!