Callings centered on messages of healing
Casey Hynes
Issue date: 3/14/07 Section: News
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Two Mount St. Mary's graduates return to campus this week to speak about societal healing at this year's Callings Conference, which began on Monday. Krista Threefoot, a writer and research specialist with Catholic Relief Services, and Kathleen Curran, who works with the U.S. Bishops Campaign for Human Development will give presentations today at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m., respectively.
"I really like that [the Mount has] this conference," said Threefoot, who graduated in 2001. "They didn't have that when I was here."
Her talk will focus on global healing at the community level, and people who are working in developing countries to transform their societies.
Curran will discuss her experiences working with the Campaign for Human Development, and the "healing aspect of her mission," according to the Callings page of the Mount's Web site.
The conference, titled "Bearers of Hope and Healing," will run through Friday, and the presentations will be tied to a different theme each day, including global, spiritual and personal, and physical/end-of-life healing. Today's speakers will focus on societal healing.
The focus of the week's event is "basically a religious concept," according to Campus Chaplain Fr. Rick Hilgartner. He said that the theme is not about medical cures, but rather healing as a matter of justice, having to do with peace and restoration.
"[Healing] is what Jesus came to do," he said. "The whole Christian life is about recognizing a need for Jesus in our lives."
Dr. William Collinge of the Theology department spoke to this as well, saying "healing was so central to the teaching of Jesus, and it has been central to the Church."
He feels that the Callings presentations "open people's eyes to conditions in the world and also opens their eyes to responses."
"It's easy to overwhelm people with the problems of the world," he said. This week's lectures and discussions are meant to show how people can be part of the effort to correcting or at least lessening these problems.
"I really like that [the Mount has] this conference," said Threefoot, who graduated in 2001. "They didn't have that when I was here."
Her talk will focus on global healing at the community level, and people who are working in developing countries to transform their societies.
Curran will discuss her experiences working with the Campaign for Human Development, and the "healing aspect of her mission," according to the Callings page of the Mount's Web site.
The conference, titled "Bearers of Hope and Healing," will run through Friday, and the presentations will be tied to a different theme each day, including global, spiritual and personal, and physical/end-of-life healing. Today's speakers will focus on societal healing.
The focus of the week's event is "basically a religious concept," according to Campus Chaplain Fr. Rick Hilgartner. He said that the theme is not about medical cures, but rather healing as a matter of justice, having to do with peace and restoration.
"[Healing] is what Jesus came to do," he said. "The whole Christian life is about recognizing a need for Jesus in our lives."
Dr. William Collinge of the Theology department spoke to this as well, saying "healing was so central to the teaching of Jesus, and it has been central to the Church."
He feels that the Callings presentations "open people's eyes to conditions in the world and also opens their eyes to responses."
"It's easy to overwhelm people with the problems of the world," he said. This week's lectures and discussions are meant to show how people can be part of the effort to correcting or at least lessening these problems.
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