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ePISTLE

A Weekly e-Newsletter for the WTU Community

January 17, 2010

Gospel Summary

This week, you will notice that we are including the Gospel reflection for next Sunday. We hope you will find this more helpful as you prepare for Sunday Mass.
“The presence of the Spirit means joy. In the 21st century we're OK with entertainment and pleasure, but are suspicious of joy because it might be a pie-in-the-sky illusion. How can we talk about joy, or even allow ourselves to experience joy, when there is so much false hope, so much suffering, so much serious work to be done?”
Campion P. Gavaler, OSB

Click here to read Campion P. Gavaler's full reflection

Be Published!

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In this Issue...

• WTU Question of the Week
• Social Justice Corner
• Jerry Hall Scholarship Fund Still Growing!
• Alumni Class Notes
• This Week at WTU
• Notes from the Registrar
• Job Opportunities
• WTU Tour of Turkey and Greece

WTU Question of the Week

What Faculty Member is a Certified Hero?
Click here for the answer.

Social Justice Corner

We are all devastated by the suffering of the Haitian people in the aftermath of the 7.0 earthquake that shook their island nation. The WTU community has been quick to offer ways to help. Act Now!

If you are interested in Immigration Reform Legistlation, please click here to send a postcard to Congress.

Jerry Hall Scholarship Fund Still Growing!

In March 2010, WTU lost one of its full-time faculty, Assistant Professor of Word and Worship Jerry Hall, S.J., who passed away following a brief illness. In a desire to celebrate Jerry’s life and to honor our community’s memory of him, the Rev. Jerome Hall, S.J. Memorial Scholarship fund was established.

To date, 34 alumni, faculty, and staff have made donations to the scholarship fund totaling $5,330. The Union continues to encourage donations to the fund, which must grow substantially before it can be endowed, and before it will be possible to draw income to award the first student scholarship. If you wish to make an online donation to this fund, please use the online donation form.

Alumni Class Notes

If you have experienced a professional achievement such as a new job, published writing, or receipt of an award, or you have personal news such as an ordination, wedding, birth, or jubilee to celebrate, please share the good news by submitting a Class Note to alumni@wtu.edu.

See the most recent updates...

Cathy Melesky Dante, M.Div '09
Yvonne Stewart, GC '09
Raymond Maher, O.Carm, MTS '97; GC '06

Links

This Week at WTU

Up Coming Events:
Please click on Lecture for more details

Wednesday, January 27: Nourishment for Ministry, "Conscience Formation"
Wednesday, February 3: "Following Jesus into Peace and Nonviolence"

Notes from the Registrar

Click here for important information on adding and changing classes, tuition adjustments and Fall semester grades.

Job Opportunities:

Select the Job title to read the full describtion

Chaplain-in-Residence for Georgetown University
Langley Park Parish Partnership Coordinator

May 2010 WTU Tour to Turkey and Greece

Once again professors Theresa Koernke, IHM, and Joseph Wimmer, OSA, are organizing a study tour in the footsteps of John and Paul, May 14-27, 2010, but this time with a greater emphasis on the growth of the early church. Tour members will follow Paul through the ancient Greek and Roman ruins of Athens, Corinth, Thessalonica, Philippi and Ephesus, and read his letters on location. They will experience the spirit of St. John in the city of Smyrna and while walking through the magnificent ruins of Pergamum and Ephesus (Rev 2:1-17).

For more information send an e-mail to professor Theresa Koernke at koernke@wtu.edu.

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