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The Distinctive Role of the Catholic Trustee Agents of a New Evangelization? Slide 2 The Trustee Slide 3 Your Roles to Ensure Student Success and Well Being Fiduciary Role: budgets, transparency, communication Societal Role: working with the various partners, responsive to stakeholders Innovative Role: teaching & learning, continuous improvement Strategic Role: setting direction, multi-year plan Slide 4 Thee Archetypes Single Issue Trustee Stepping Stone Trustee Passionate About the Cause Trustee Slide 5 Winter is Coming Slide 6 Baptized As Prophet Listen to the Word and Speak it Challenge what is Proclaim how it can be The prophetic voice is not always well received Great prophetic voices had to prepare for suffering Slide 7 Baptized as Priest Ministerial Priesthood and the Priesthood of all believers Engagement with the Sacraments Bringing Holiness to the World by Word and Deed The Devout Life Slide 8 Baptized as King Take ones place in the world Be leaven to the world Transform the Kingdom Pilgrims with dual citizenship Bring wisdom, justice, faith, love, hope Slide 9 The Coin What Coin Do You Carry With You As A Trustee? The Side of Prayer The Side of Love (Bp Robert Morneau, aux. Green Bay, Wisconsin) Slide 10 The Joy of the Gospel: The Mission of the Trustee Evangelii Gaudium The Joy of the Gospel 2013 The Church as a Field Hospital Slide 11 A New Attitude When you live the Gospel dont look like you have just come back from a funeral open your hearts to the joy of Christ Slide 12 Mercy, Renewal, Missionary Impulse I encourage each Church to undertake a resolute process of discernment, purification, and reform reach everyone without exception or exclusion the confessional must not be a torture chamber Slide 13 Do Justice Authentic Faithwhich is never comfortable always involves a deep desire to change the world, to transmit values, to leave this earth better than when we found it. Slide 14 The Poor Almost without being aware of it, we are incapable of feeling compassion for the poor, weeping for other peoples pain, or feeling the need to help them I want a Church that is poor and for the poor. Slide 15 The Peacemaker Peace in society cannot be understood as pacification of the mere absence of violence the dignity of the human person and the common good rank higher than the comfort of those who refuse to renounce their privileges a prophetic voice must be raised Slide 16 Time > Space Patience to work slowly not always with immediate results Space tries to possess and limit us, it can confine to possessing spaces Time is an expression of fullness Time is the horizon which constantly opens before us Slide 17 Unity > Conflict Conflict has to be faced It cannot be permitted to trap us Seek to face conflict, resolve it, and make it a link in the chain of a new process Go beyond to build communion Unity brought by the Holy Spirit who can harmonize every diversity Slide 18 Reality > Ideas Sadly even many with solid doctrinal and spiritual convictions are seeking power and human glory rather than the good of others. Dont let this happen to you. Slide 19 The Whole > The Parts Open our worlds and broaden our horizons Yes be local, but also be global Seek the Gospel The Church does not have solutions for every particular issue Dialogue is essential