{"id":158,"date":"2016-05-05T17:13:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T17:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communitybasedlearning.me.holycross.edu\/?p=158"},"modified":"2016-05-05T17:13:05","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T17:13:05","slug":"reflections-on-the-social-justice-retreat-molly-caulfield-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/communitybasedlearning\/2016\/05\/05\/reflections-on-the-social-justice-retreat-molly-caulfield-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on the Social Justice Retreat – Molly Caulfield ’18"},"content":{"rendered":"

Line dancing in a church basement in Worcester, MA on a Friday<\/span><\/span> night.\u00a0 If you had asked me two years ago where I would be in as a sophomore in college, I can guarantee you that location would not have been anywhere on my list.\u00a0 However, that is precisely where I found myself a few weeks ago.\u00a0 Among\u00a0 questions of what am I doing here<\/i>? and how in the world did I end up in here<\/i>?, I smiled to myself in gratitude.\u00a0 Many things and many people led me to be where I was that Friday<\/span><\/span> night, and I was and am so grateful that I made it to that Macarena with the kids of Concordia Lutheran Church.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, ten other Holy Cross students and I had the opportunity to spend a weekend of reflection in Worcester with Isabelle Jenkins and Marty Kelly.\u00a0 The retreat, called “Reflections in the City,” gathered a handful of student leaders from different areas of campus, including SPUD leaders, CBL students and interns, Multicultural Peer Educators and more, who all share a common interest and passion for working for social justice.<\/p>\n

During the 24-hour retreat, we had the opportunity to get to meet and hear the stories of some of the members of the Concordia Lutheran Church, to learn a little more in and about the Main South neighborhood, and to spend time in reflection individually and as a group about working for social justice.<\/p>\n

The retreat was a respite from our usual responsibilities to \u201clive some of the questions\u201d we are always asking ourselves and one another.\u00a0 We had the chance to reflect on what exactly is \u201csocial justice.\u201d What does that look like and how do we work towards that?\u00a0 What are our responsibilities individually and as a community to get there?\u00a0 How does our identity as members of a Jesuit school community call us to this work in a particular way?\u00a0 How do we deal with the frustrations of this work?\u00a0 What are the issues of social justice in our hearts, in our everyday surroundings, in our cities, in our country, in our world? The retreat pushed me to ask questions that at times I forget to ask myself and it was frustrating because we did not find all the answers in those 24 hours.\u00a0 If anything, we simply found more questions.\u00a0 However, the beauty of that space was that we discovered questions together and together with meaningful dialogue wrestled with the discomfort those questions cause.\u00a0 The retreat was but a glimpse of the beauty of accompanying each other in community \u2014both the community of Worcester and our HC community within that\u2014 in these questions, which left unasked could rob us of the opportunity to be men and women willing to be broken open for and healed with those who are suffering around us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Line dancing in a church basement in Worcester, MA on a Friday night.\u00a0 If you had asked me two years ago where I would be in as a sophomore in college, I can guarantee you that location would not have been anywhere on my list.\u00a0 However, that is precisely where I found myself a few … <\/p>\n

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