Angelus News | July 29, 2022 | Vol. 7 No. 15
On the cover: A pilgrim walks on his knees outside the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in 2019. For our special pilgrimage issue, on Page 10 Mike Aquilina writes on how the urge to leave everything and travel afar is as old as Christianity itself. On Page 14, Elise Ureneck recounts the unexpected graces of her last pilgrimage with her late mother, and on Page 16, California historian Stephen Binz points the way to the pilgrim path in our own backyard. On Page 20, Pasadena native Jenny Gorman Patton tells of finding the healing she needed, rather than the one she wanted, at the Marian shrine of Lourdes, France.
On the cover: A pilgrim walks on his knees outside the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in 2019. For our special pilgrimage issue, on Page 10 Mike Aquilina writes on how the urge to leave everything and travel afar is as old as Christianity itself. On Page 14, Elise Ureneck recounts the unexpected graces of her last pilgrimage with her late mother, and on Page 16, California historian Stephen Binz points the way to the pilgrim path in our own backyard. On Page 20, Pasadena native Jenny Gorman Patton tells of finding the healing she needed, rather than the one she wanted, at the Marian shrine of Lourdes, France.
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inequity.<br />
The opportunity now, Hernandez<br />
said, is to sustain the growth seen over<br />
the past few years, especially in archdiocesan<br />
schools which have increased<br />
enrollment by 3.5% nationally, and<br />
apply those lessons to other areas.<br />
“We really want to identify things<br />
that worked, that were good, that were<br />
efficient,” he said<br />
“Maybe there were some good benefits<br />
to what we learned for these three<br />
years,” he added. “The exposure to the<br />
new resources and tools that we had<br />
to start using — maybe that’s a good<br />
thing. It helps us move in a different direction<br />
than we were three years ago.”<br />
That is the core focus of this year’s<br />
conference, which will include<br />
continued training on the basics of<br />
online tools like Zoom as well as<br />
newly emerging apps and electronics.<br />
Registrants have had online access<br />
to a host of on-demand and live web<br />
courses through an online platform<br />
since <strong>July</strong> 1, one way that the conference<br />
is embracing its theme, “Flipping<br />
the Switch.”<br />
Amy J. Cattapan, Ph.D., an<br />
award-winning writer and educator,<br />
will be presenting in person after<br />
leading a session during the 2021<br />
virtual conference. She compared the<br />
hybrid event model as following recent<br />
schooling trends.<br />
“Many of the presentations will<br />
discuss how teachers can ‘flip’ their<br />
classrooms,” she said, “where teachers<br />
provide students with a video to watch<br />
or a passage to read at home, and then<br />
class time is reserved for practicing<br />
under a teacher’s guidance.”<br />
But “flipping” the classroom goes<br />
beyond just providing a virtual and<br />
in-person meeting space, according to<br />
Cattapan.<br />
“Many teachers have been through<br />
a very dark period recently,” she<br />
said. “The pandemic has drained us<br />
physically, intellectually, and emotionally.<br />
We’re looking for the light of<br />
inspiration to be turned back on so that<br />
we can head back into our classrooms<br />
with new ideas, energy, and enthusiasm.”<br />
“We often talk about the ‘light of<br />
Christ’s love for us,” Lisa Henley,<br />
an author and speaker who will also<br />
present at this year’s conference, said<br />
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in agreement. “I know that for me to<br />
share this light with others, I have to<br />
activate my own spiritual journey …<br />
before we can help someone else flip a<br />
switch, we need to bring light into our<br />
own lives.”<br />
Though not the original intention of<br />
the conference, Hernandez acknowledged<br />
that mental health and well-being<br />
has quickly become a prominent<br />
focus for this C3 Conference.<br />
“It’s definitely the time to understand,<br />
‘Hey, it’s OK to turn off every once in<br />
a while.’ You can be the light, but you<br />
don’t have to have it on 24/7, 365,” he<br />
said.<br />
The C3 Conference will also serve as<br />
the launch of a new partnership with<br />
Homeboy Electronics Recycling, a part<br />
of the gang rehabilitation and re-entry<br />
program Homeboy Industries, in the<br />
face of a new challenge facing Catholic<br />
institutions: e-waste.<br />
“It just happens because things age<br />
out,” Hernandez said. “Whether it’s a<br />
new phone system or internet router<br />
or wiring, old printers, laptops, it kind<br />
of accumulates. We were looking to<br />
figure out the best possible opportunity<br />
to recycle all of that.”<br />
Through the partnership, Homeboy<br />
Electronics Recycling will offer pickup<br />
services of e-waste for Catholic<br />
institutions.<br />
“It’s a win-win situation. They have<br />
more items so that they can continue<br />
to train with their mission, and it helps<br />
us because all of our locations end up<br />
eliminating all the waste and we have<br />
more space,” Hernandez said.<br />
In recognition of the new partnership,<br />
Father Greg Boyle, SJ, founder<br />
of Homeboy Industries, will offer an<br />
opening keynote address.<br />
“When we get together on Aug. 2 in<br />
person, that is really our celebration,”<br />
Hernandez said. “That we are still<br />
here. That our ministries are still there<br />
… and that we’re stronger than we<br />
were even three years ago.”<br />
Evan Holguin is a graduate of the<br />
University of <strong>No</strong>tre Dame. Originally<br />
from Santa Clarita, he now lives in<br />
New Haven, Connecticut. His work has<br />
been featured on the website Aleteia.<br />
com and on Ultramontane: A Catholic<br />
<strong>News</strong> Podcast.<br />
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