The Journeyman

Tag: paulists

  • the paulist mission: restated

    The Paulist Fathers, the religious order that stewards the University Catholic Center, has recently restated their mission. Previously, they stated their mission in a long “Mission Directive Statement”. The MDS, while fully inclusive, required someone to have some idea of what words like “evangelization” and “reconciliation” meant in their context. While good, it wasn’t something…

  • assembly day one: mission direction statement

    After prayer, we opened the Paulist Pre-Assembly with a look at the Paulist Mission Direction Statement (MDS). The MDS, in short, covers four main points of direction for the Paulists: Evangelization Christian Unity Reconciliation Interreligious Relations There was a good conversation about it and a strong desire to find some other way to word it.…

  • traveling to paulist pre-assembly

    On Tuesday, I flew from Ausin to New York CIty (LGA). I haven’t flown much and so far, every place I have traveled to included a direct flight. American, my airline of choice, doesn’t fly to LGA direct so I had to connect at DFW. I arrive in DFW after an uneventful, on time flght…

  • New York, New York

    May 16-22, 2006, I will be in New York City attending the Paulist Fathers Pre-Assembly and Ordinations. The Paulist Fathers, the religious order that the Diocese entrusts with campus ministry at The University of Texas at Austin, has an “assembly” every four years where priest-delegates determine the direction of the order for the following four…