Name
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What's
your ministry?
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Why
are you enrolled in MTS?
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How
do you plan to use your degree in your ministry?
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What
mortal has most influenced your spiritual life, and why?
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| Mary Dudley |
Education
and communications. |
I
am a journalist and public relations professional by trade (30 years),
and want to expand my 'subject areas of expertise' to include theology. |
Writing
free-lance articles on theology topics, working as a public
relations person for a faith-based organization, or working for a
publisher specializing in theology books. |
The
mortal who has most influenced my spiritual life is Joan
Chittister, a Benedictine sister who writes books, news stories, and
lectures. She is a great writer, and a person who writes about
God with
pure joy and hope. Example: "Then, I understood. Life is
not about
getting God. Life is about growing in God." (Joan Chittister,
Called to
Question: A Spiritual Memoir) |
Daniel Guitierrez
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Currently
a postulant for Holy
Orders in the Episcopal Church.
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The
program is highly
recommended by our Bishop. The program provides the opportunity
to obtain a Master's in Theological Studies while continuing to perform
various ministries, duties and functions in our home parishes.
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This
degree will prove
invaluable for my service as a Priest in the Episcopal Church. It
allows the use of both the practical and academic in ministry.
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Jesus
- both the human and
divine. After Jesus, the influences are my Grandmother, St.
Francis of Assisi, Oscar Romero, Dom Helder Camara, Maximillian Kolbe,
and St. Therese Lisieux.
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Mary L. Hildebrandt
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My
husband, Bud, and I facilitate a small Parish prayer group, we chair
the Adult Faith Formation Committee for Shrine of St. Bernadette, give
time to the Church Library, I am a Lay Canossian, I sing with the
Choralairs to home bound seniors in homes, hospices, churches,
organizations and involved with our grandchildren.
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I
am enrolled in the MTS to serve the Lord and my community better
informed. My personal journey in Theological studies transports
me to joyful adventures where I encounter enchantment and
delight. It has been an awe-inspiring and reverent trip.
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I
am sharing this experience, every single opportunity that presents
itself, with our groups and in our classes (ex. Catechism, Apologetics,
book discussions) and the community.
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My
maternal grandmother influenced my spiritual life the most. She
was a holy person that dealt with all obstacles and hardships in a
prayerful way. She participated in the Church and served the
Lord. Even today, it is amazing to me that I never heard her
complain: although there were many reason to complain. (We lived
next door to her, and I liked the serenity in her house:
therefore, I almost lived in her house.)
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| Shelly
Leiker |
Ministering
to those who are
marginalized (specifically incarcerated and/or poor women)
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Prayer
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Bring
attention and resources to
people who have been denied their personhood as Children of God.
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My
grandfather ~ he pushed me to
be silent for long periods of time. It was in those moments of
silence I came to recognize God.
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| Tom McBride |
I
am an RCIA team member and I teach an apologetics class in my parish,
St. Bernadette. |
I
auditing one class in Christian Ethics. I have been interested in
moral theology for a long time, and wanted to do some formal study of
it. |
I
am not going to get a degree. I plan to use what I learn in my
teaching in my parish. |
St.
Therese of Lisieux, the Little Flower. Her “little way” is, for
me, the secret of living the Christian life. |
Brian Murphy-Dye
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Thresholds
prison ministry and teen ministry.
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The
primary reason is to
understand our faith and know God better. Secondary reason is to
be able to competently assist others in the same journey.
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I
have no idea yet. God will let me know when it's time. :)
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Louise
Jones, my
grandmother. She cared about everyone and accepted everyone as
they were. She was the least judgmental person I've known, and
someone worthy of attempting to emulate.
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Bob Pullings
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Permanent
deacon; RCIA Coordinator
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I
was asked by Frances Vogel Montano to think
about the program. After I thought about it Frances informed me
that there was scholarship monies out there and that I might
qualify. The rest is history.
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First
and foremost, to be a better deacon;
better with my homilies, better listener, better scholar, better
person. Past that, I plan to teach within the parish, at the
University level, and possibly write.
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My
maternal grandmother. In 1943 my uncle,
whom I never knew, was hospitalized in Roswell with a ruptured
apendix. He was 15 at the time, and the family had never been
"church goer's." As he lay in his 2nd floor hospital bed, in so
much pain he couldn't really move much, he suddenly sat straight up,
without complaint, looked out the window and told my grandmother,
"Look, Mama. He's coming to get me! And there's angels with
him!" He smiled wide, pointed, then closed his eyes, fell back
and died. My grandmother told me this story a handful of times
before she passed away. Everytime she did she'd include her own
thoughts, which were, it wasn't necessary so much to go to church and
listen to some loud fellow (she was Church of Christ) mess up something
so pure and innocent as the knowledge that Christ lives. For her
it was just that simple. It wasn't faith; it was fact.
"Christ lives. Now, get on with your life here." I've taken
that message with me pretty much all of my life. Christ
lives. Forget all the rest. Now get on with living.
And enjoy.
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Michael
Wesley
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Permanent
Deacon, RCIA Co-ordinator, Prayer Group
Leader
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I
want to equip myself to be used by God in whatever
capacity He may have for me in the Church.
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Through
preaching and teaching. My prayer is that my skill in both of
these areas will be enhanced, and that opportunities to use them will
be increased.
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Dietrich
Bonhoeffer. His bold challenge to the institutional Church to put
Jesus first continues to cry out to me. Also his quote from The
Cost of Discipleship: "When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and
die."
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