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Oceania Province is working in Partnership with Catholic Mission in the area of Exposure / Immersion programmes and recommend their Timor Leste programme and their study programme.
MAJORITY WORLD STUDY PROGRAM
Course Overview
Module A
Immersion Briefing and Course Overview
The Cry of the Poor
Module B: Global Patterns and Case Studies (Reading the Signs of the Times)
The poor of the Majority World are all around us. They are dispossessed, marginalized and often oppressed. They are the homeless in our towns and cities; they dwell on the fringes of our communities; they live in remote indigenous communities. Most live in the countries we commonly refer to as the Third World. They certainly make up the vast majority of the world's population.
In this module we explore relationships between the people of the majority World and the people of the Minority World mainly from a global perspective, but with some analysis of specific case studies. We identify some of the forces at work causing the massively disproportionate allocation of the world's resources, and ponder whether these same forces are also responsible for devastating our planetary ecology.
Finally we consider what our response to these realities should be as followers of Jesus.
Module C: Church Teachings and Theologies
The Church has much to say about how we as Christians should respond to the Cry of the Poor.
What is the Reign of God?
What is our mission as followers of Jesus today?
What is the purpose of that mission?
How do we implement that mission?
In this module, after reviewing key themes and elements of the previous module, we will seek answers to these and other questions through an exploration of Catholic Social Teachings and theologies. Some of these theologies are still emerging and are beginning to connect the Cry of the Poor with the Cry of the Earth.
Module D: Catholic Educational Leadership in Response to the Cry of the Poor
Leadership is a spiritual exercise and is about identifying core values, articulating a vision and inspiring and empowering others to strive together towards the realization of that vision.
The presenters of this module will draw links between the key themes and elements of the previous modules and those of Catholic Educational Leadership.
What are Catholic Educational Leaders called to do and be in response to the Global Cry of the Poor?
The Cry of the Earth
Module E: Global Patterns and Case Studies (Reading the Signs of the Times)
Our planet is in peril. Decades upon decades of over-consumption in the Minority world and over-exploitation of resources has led not only to the further impoverishment of the majority but also to massive devastation of the ecology.
Indeed the very forces that have enriched the Minority world and impoverished the Majority world are the same forces that are making the planet sick. The people of the minority world were once able to pay scant attention to the plight of the majority because the connection between their over-consumption and the exploitation of others as well as the planet could easily be ignored. Now, to ignore these forces and the destruction they wreak is to do so at our own peril.
In this module we deepen our exploration of the relationships between the people of the Majority World, the people of the Minority World and the Natural World, through an analysis of Global patterns of economic and environmental exploitation that are leading to a range of ecological disasters.
Finally we consider what our response to these realities should be as followers of Jesus.
Module F: Church Teachings and Theologies
We are caretakers of the Garden, called to participate with God in Creation; in establishing the Reign of God.
In our over-consumerism have we become spiritually disconnected with the natural world?
Do we need to reawaken a spirituality of connectedness?
What does the Judeau/Christian tradition have to say about our place in relation to the natural world?
What are we called to do and be in response to the cries of both the Poor and the Earth?
In this module, after reviewing the main themes and elements of the previous module, we will seek answers to these and other questions through an exploration of the growing body of Catholic teachings and theologies that is emerging in response to both the Cry of the Earth and the Cry of the Poor.
Module G: Catholic Educational Leadership in Response to the Cry of the Earth.
Leadership is a spiritual exercise and is about identifying core values, articulating a vision and inspiring and empowering others to strive together towards the realization of that vision.
The presenters of this module will draw links between the key themes and elements of the previous modules and those of Catholic Educational Leadership.
What are Catholic Educational Leaders called to do and be in response to the Global Cry of the Earth?
Module H
Post immersion de-brief and assessment task.
