" MSB Program"
Madeleine Sophie Barat program
The program is for women aged 25 to 45. It is an evolving program. It
has three focal points:
* Spirituality
* Leadership
* Service
Those joining the program commit themselves for one year to:
* Come to the program days and evenings
* Undertake community service
* Be part of a mentor program.
The program offers a rich and diverse opportunity enabling participants
"to become aware of their reality, recognise their dignity, discover
their potential and be formed as leaders" with the capacity for interdependence,
solidarity and responsibility. (Society of the Sacred Heart General Chapter
2000)
The program
During 2007 the program includes:
* A live in week end at Kerever Park to begin the program (23-25 Feb)
* Two fruther live in week-ends (1-3 Jun and 9 -11 Nov)
* Monthly 6.30pm to 9.30pm evening meetings (15 Mar, 19 Apr, 17 May, 19
Jul, 16 Aug, 20 Sep, 18 Oct) at Sancta Sophia College, Missenden Rd Camperdown
NSW 2050.
At the live in week ends we explore such topics as discernment, leadership,
contemporary theology and theological reflection. Other elements of the
programme include mentoring and service.
Community service
Each particpant takes part in community service.
Mentoring
There is a pool of mentors. Mentors usually meet with their mentee each
6 weeks (usually after each weekend).
Convenors
The program convenors include:
* Sally Liddy
* Betty McMahon rscj
* Mary Shanahan rscj
* Wendy Mason
* Sue Rae
* Andrea Dean rsj
Cost
The cost of the program is $500 (including live-in weekends). Part of
full scholarship is available on a need basis.
Expression of interest
If you wish to receive an application form send this Expression of interest
form (PDF) to Sr Betty McMahon at Kerever Park Spirituality Centre
St. Madeleine Sophie Barat
St. Madeleine Sophie was born in Joigny, France on December 12, 1779.
She showed unusual exuberance of life, great judgment and common sense
as well as a dedication to God. Madeleine Sophie went to Paris for further
her education and on November 21, 1800 she and three other young women
pronounced their consecration and this marked the foundation of the Society
of the Sacred Heart.
In 1802 this group of women went to Amiens and Madeleine Sophie became
their superior, as well as the director of a school for girls. Later in
Grenoble, a second house of the Society of the Sacred Heart was founded.
Mother Barat labored for over sixty years to establ;ish Catholic schools
and to form her nuns. She sought to educate the children of the poor and
court in post-revolutionary France.
On May 25, 1865, the Feast of the Ascension, Madeleine Sophie Barat died
at the age of 85. She was beatified in 1908 and canonised in 1925.
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