Called to Serve – June 2-8, 2013 – registration

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Called to Serve” is a service program sponsored by the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary of Monroe, Michigan. “Called to Serve” is open to college and post-college-age women.

The goal of the program is to offer young women the opportunity to:

  • Serve those who are most vulnerable
  • Study the issues that affect those we are serving
  • Create community
  • Pray together

Called to Serve – June 2-8, 2013

Application Form

Date

Name

Address

City

State

Zip code

Home phone

Cell phone

E-mail address

Work phone

Birth Date

What is your motivation for participating in “Called to Serve?”

 

What do you hope to gain from this experience?

 

What are your fears/and or questions about this experience?

 

 

What gifts do you bring to living with others in community?

 

 

Rate yourself on the following by using a scale of 1 to 5 with 5 being the highest:

Honesty and integrity      _____            open-mindedness          _____

Creativity                       _____            dependability                 _____

Maturity                         _____             health                            _____

Flexibility                       _____             self-confidence                _____

Empathy                         ­­­­­_____            ability to communicate    _____

Dealing with stress          _____            sensitivity to other cultures _____

Emotional stability           _____            integration of faith in daily life  _____

Christian values               _____           ability to get along with others  _____

Sense of humor               _____

Do you have any food, drug or environmental allergies? If yes, please explain.

 

Do you have special dietary needs?  If so, please explain.

 

Do you have any physical challenges of which we should be aware?  If so, please explain.

 

Will you be bringing a car? If so, what is your license number?

 

In case of emergency, please contact: 

Name:

Address:

City, state, zip:

Phone (day):

Phone (evening):

Relationship:

Name:

Address:

City, state, zip:

Phone (day):

Phone (evening):

Relationship:

Education: (Begin with most recent):

College/ University Name:

City/State:

Major:

Year of Graduation:

            College/ University Name:

City/State:

Major:

            High school name:

City/ State:

Year of Graduation:

Two most recent work experiences, if any:

Job title/Description:

Employer:

City/State:

Dates:

Work phone

Dates

 

Job title/Description:

Employer:

City/State:

Dates:

Work phone

Dates

Two most significant volunteer experiences, if any:

            Name of program or organization:

Volunteer position/ description of duties:

Dates:

            Name of program or organization:

Volunteer position/ description of duties:

Dates:

References: Please send the attached reference form to two people who know you well enough to assess your character and abilities.

The program begins Sunday, June 2 with registration at 12:30 p.m. and concludes after lunch on Sunday, June 8. It is necessary to be present for the whole week.

Please email your completed application to Sr. Mary Bea: mbkeeley@ihmsisters.org

Any questions or concerns? Email or call Sr. Mary Bea 734-240-9820 (office) or 248-943-3408 (cell).

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Called to Serve” is a service-learning program sponsored by the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary of Monroe, Michigan. “Called to Serve” is open to college and post-college-age women.

The goal of the program is to offer young women the opportunity to:

  • Serve those who are most vulnerable
  • Study the issues that affect those we are serving
  • Create community
  • Pray together

“Called to Serve” June 2-8, 2013

Personal Reference Form

Applicant’s name:   __________________________________________________

To the person providing the reference: Thank you for taking time to provide a reference for the young woman applying to “Called to Serve”,  a service learning week with the IHM sisters of Monroe, Michigan. Your responses will assist us in this process. If you have any questions, please call (734-240-9820 – office or 248-943-3408- – cell). You can also email Sr. Mary Bea at mbkeeley@ihmsisters.org.

How long and in what capacity have you known the applicant?

Character portrait: On a scale of 1 to 5 (5 being the highest) please rate the applicant according to the following qualities. You may also choose “not known.”

Honesty and integrity           _____                 open-mindedness                 _____

Creativity                                _____                 dependability                         _____

Maturity                                 _____                 health                                     _____

Flexibility                               _____                 self-confidence                      _____

Empathy                                 ­­­­­_____                 ability to communicate         _____

Dealing with stress               _____                 sensitivity to other cultures _____

Emotional stability                _____                 integration of faith in daily life        _____

Christian values                     _____                 ability to get along with others        _____

Sense of humor                     _____

Describe the applicant’s personality, commenting on at least two of the traits above.

Comment on the applicant’s work or study skills if known.

Comment on the applicant’s interpersonal skills and her potential for community living.

Comment on the applicant’s spiritual life.

Do you have any reservations about this applicant?

Any additional comments?

Your contact information:

Name

Address

City, State, Zip

Work phone

Cell phone

E-mail address

So proud…

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So proud of the IHM legacy very much alive at Marygrove College!  So proud of the way IHM spirit and values continue to shine through the faculty and students of Marygrove! So proud and grateful to be a part of this IHM community! Today Sr. Donna Hart and I traveled to Marygrove College for the last of a series of “Fireside Chats” sponsored by the Mission Integration department at the college. Srs. Gloria Rivera and Ann Nett gave a presentation on “Greening and Healing.”

Sr. Ann spoke of her thirty plus years of ministry in the poorest area of Brazil and her ministry now in greening initiatives in Detroit. She is spearheading the planting of a medicinal herbs garden at Marygrove as she had done in Brazil where the project produced jobs, medicine and empowerment for the people of the area.

Ann Nett at Fireside chat

Sr. Ann Nett, IHM

Gloria at Marygrove

Sr. Gloria Rivera, IHM

Sr. Gloria shared her growing awareness of the interconnectedness of all creation that first impressed her when she saw the photo of planet earth taken from outer space. A natural leader, she traveled to the 2005 Women’s Conference in Bejing and came back even more empowered to use her gifts in renewing the city of Detroit. In addition as she continued to study our interconnectedness with all of creation she founded the Detroit chapter of the national Bioneers movement. This year she and many other committed environmentalists will host the 9th Annual Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit conference October 25-27 at Marygrove College.

A Cardinal who rides the bus to work

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There’s such a sense of new life today as we see our new pope. Of course a big transition like this, to the first Latin American, first Jesuit Pope  augurs well for substantial change in the Vatican. The source of greatest hope for me comes from four different images: a cardinal who has a history of working for the poor; one who rode the bus to work instead of traveling in a limousine; a prelate who sold the Cardina’s mansion preferring to live in a normal apartment; and a spiritual leader who in his first brief address asked all of us to pray for him and bowed humbly for a quiet moment while we did. What more can I say?

Don’t Forget What Is Really important

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Sr. Margaret Traxler(the nun in both pictures)taking part in the protest in Selma

Sister Margaret’s Three Mantras
By Peggy Thompson, IHM Associate

Tuesday, March 12, is the day that the conclave begins to elect a new Pope. It is also the birthday of my late godmother, Sister Margaret Ellen Traxler, SSND. Margaret was described on more than one occasion as “the most feminist nun in America”—which may or may not be true, but she certainly was an unapologetic and outspoken one. One of her favorite expressions, uttered every time there was a synod or other gathering of the Catholic hierarchy, was: “They are meeting about us, without us.”  In 1994, as an uninvited presence at the Synod on Religious Life, Margaret was among a group of women (including both me and my mother, too) briefly detained by the Vatican police for carrying a banner with this slogan emblazoned on it. The police, bemused by a group of mostly middle-aged and older women, who identified themselves as members of the National Coalition of American Nuns, treated us very gently and then released us, having no idea—like the prelates of the church—what to do with us!

Another and related phrase she liked to use was: “When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose.”  She used this to express the freedom she felt as someone without any formal or institutional office or role of authority.  It is something I have come to appreciate more and more, and to repeat to myself on any number of occasions, not all of them church-related, you may be sure.

But Margaret had another mantra, which she first shared with me the night of my baptism and reception into the Catholic church ten years earlier, in 1984.  “Don’t forget what is really important.” She said as we got ready to go into St. Joseph’s Church.  By that, she meant God—specifically, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, her constant companions on the journey.  One of her favorite prayer books—and for years I’ve tried to find a copy for myself, as hers was unaccountably lost—was a Precious Blood Fathers’ compilation of the four Gospel stories in chronological order, which she used as a source of daily meditation, and which guided her annually through Lent.  For Margaret was not only a prayerful woman, she was a Eucharistic and uncompromisingly Catholic prayerful woman. Was she frustrated with a patriarchy that she believed was benighted and—most tragically, in her opinion—depriving itself and the larger body of Christ of women’s wisdom? Absolutely.  But she was also eternally hopeful, and loving, and—what always surprised those who met her for the first time and knew her only by reputation—essentially and unexpectedly gentle.

As the Conclave begins, I know that Margaret, who died in 2002, is watching and prayerfully murmuring her three mantras. And maybe we women, conscious of the events in Rome, can do the same, even as the clerics, once again “are meeting about us, without us.”  Let us, like dear Margaret, be ever hopeful since, “when you have nothing, you have nothing to lose.”  Most importantly, may we and the cardinals assembled in the Sistine Chapel, never, ever “forget what is really important”—the example and guidance of Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, in all that we do and all that we are.