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On the Sophomore Leadership Overnight Retreat we are going to focus on being a servant leader! Before we get started, we want to spend some time talking about Servant Leadership, an important part of being a man for and with others.
When we talk about leadership at Bellarmine, we are always talking about servant leadership. It's a different way of being and leading.
When we talk about leadership at Bellarmine, we are always talking about servant leadership. It's a different way of being and leading.
Sophomore Retreat Servant Leadership
Published on Aug 23, 2017
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Servant Leadership
A Different Way of Leading
On the Sophomore Leadership Overnight Retreat we are going to focus on being a servant leader! Before we get started, we want to spend some time talking about Servant Leadership, an important part of being a man for and with others.
When we talk about leadership at Bellarmine, we are always talking about servant leadership. It's a different way of being and leading.
When we talk about leadership at Bellarmine, we are always talking about servant leadership. It's a different way of being and leading.
Modeled on the life of Christ, servant leaders choose to use their God-given strengths and gifts to attend to the needs of others, foster a faith that does justice, and care for the most vulnerable.
There different definitions of servant leadership. This is the one we will be using on this retreat.
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As we prepare to share more about servant leadership, let us open our hearts using a prayer written by Fr. Dean Brackley, a Jesuit who committed his life to serving the people of El Salvador. Please bow your heads:
We begin our prayer in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
We begin our prayer in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
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Leadership is hard to define.
Lord, let us be the ones to define it with justice.
Leadership is like a handful of water.
Lord, let us be the people to share it with those who thirst.
Leadership is not about watching and correcting.
Lord, let us remember it is about listening and connecting.
Leadership is not about telling people what to do.
Lord, let us find out what people want.
Leadership is less about the love of power,
and more about the power of love.
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Lord, as we continue to undertake the role of leader let us be
affirmed by the servant leadership we witness in your son Jesus.
Let us walk in the path He has set and let those who will, follow.
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Let our greatest passion be compassion.
Our greatest strength love.
Our greatest victory the reward of peace.
In leading let us never fail to follow.
In loving let us never fail.
Amen.
Amen.
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Pedro Arrupe S.J.
Pedro Arrupe is a model of servant leadership. Fr. Pedro Arrupe was an important Jesuit leader in the 20th century. In 1965 he was elected superior general of the Society of Jesus. As the leader of Jesuits around the world, Father Arrupe helped guide the order through the changes of Vatican II and focused his tenure on working with the poor and marginalized. Fr. Arrupe made it his life’s work to educate men and women to serve others—an ideal that now guides Jesuit schools across the world.
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However, Pedro Arrupe didn't just talk about being a man for and with others, he lived it. On one occasion, the Jesuit community in Ecuador threw a huge banquet in honor of his visit. He arrived at the banquet, said the opening prayer, thanked his hosts, and left. Pedro Arrupe had different plans for his evening. Instead, he traveled across town to the Working Boys Center, a Jesuit ministry that provided education and support for the young boys who worked on the street, shining shoes for a living. He arrived at the Working Boys Center, met the boys, talked with them, and then he shined their shoes. And this is the person who Pedro Arrupe was, a person who skips the banquet in order to serve others and be with them.
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Was in charge of helping train and care for new Jesuits in Japan during the atomic bomb. As someone who studied medicine, his community house into a hospital immediately. With their care, nearly all of the patients survived.
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Witnessing the massive amounts of refugees fleeing Vietnam after the war, Pedro Arrupe created the Jesuit Refugee Service, which responds to humanitarian emergencies around the world to this day.
Pedro Arrupe's message is radical
and reflects Catholic values
Pedro Arrupe was a sincere servant leader. Since he was so well-known in the Jesuit community as a leader, he was invited to speak on many occasions. In a moment, we will look at a familiar phrase that is used in Jesuit schools--being a man for others. He is the person who created this phrase and it is actually a radical invitation to a different way of being in relationship with others. A persepctive that is quite different from the self-serving. ladder-climbing attitude take is common place in our society. Please listen to this with open ears.
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“Today our prime educational objective must be to form people-for-others; men and women who will live not for themselves but for God and his Christ - for the incarnate God who lived and died for all the world...who, by becoming a human person, became, beyond all others, a Man-for-others.”"
In the spirit of the Gospel, Pedro Arrupe spoke to alumni from a Jesuit High School, saying:
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"People who cannot even conceive of love of God which does not include love for the least of their neighbors; men and women completely convinced that love of God which does not issue in justice for others is a farce.."
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Why Servant Leadership?
- To form People who don't just live for themselves
- Men and women who love the least of their neighbors
- By being a person who lives for others we become fully human
- Fosrtering a faith that does justice
So Why servant leadership?
Servant leadership is an integral part of being a person for others, someone who will live not just for themselves, and will love the least of their neighbors.
And only by becoming a person who leads by serving will we become fully human.
Servant leadership is an integral part of being a person for others, someone who will live not just for themselves, and will love the least of their neighbors.
And only by becoming a person who leads by serving will we become fully human.
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This is an excerpt from our school's mission. Being a person for and with others is at the heart of what we do. At Bellarmine, a call to leadership is always a call to serve the community. Thank you for listening- Go bells!!
