1. A Look Backwards: I n European immigrants n Embattled Church n Council of Baltimore n Prepare for Menial Jobs n Lay persons n No consensus

2. A Look Backwards: II n The “Catholic Moment” n Vatican Council n Americans n College-bound n Religious men and women n Mary Perkins Ryan n Organization of Parish Religious Ed

3. A Look Backwards: III n Post-modern World n Embarrassed(Embattled?) Church n Wealth and Education n Lay Persons n Preference for public education n New priorities n Consensus?

4. Currently: n How will we take care of the “new immigrants”? n How will we take care of the students with the most needs? n How will we afford to take care of these needs? n How can we re-constitute priorities?

5. The future of the Catholic Church Rests on the quality of its leadership.

6. What is our role as leaders? What is the task at hand? What is the task ahead?

7. The Hero’s Journey Transforming our role as leaders CSAANYS S Carol Cimino

8. The Mythic Founding n Every institution has a mythic past; n The goal of institutions is to bring their members into the belief of that mythic founding/past; n Once the members have assented to belief, there is consensus on the notion of re-founding; n Once there is consensus on re- founding, there can be consensus on mission.

9. Institutions…. n Are the repositories of collective wisdom; n Have as their goal the passing on of that wisdom; n Have a duty to pass on the wisdom and charism of the community.

10. The Leader: Takes us to a place where we would never go alone. Defines reality: the goal in terms of the mission.

11. Do something today Which the world May talk of hereafter ( Admiral Collingwood)

12. The Hero in Myth n Begins in a state of innocence –Has no idea of what will be demanded n Leaves Home –We have left our zone of comfort –You are THEY –You must be noticed –What makes us do this?

13. One can never consent To creep when one Feels an impulse to Helen keller

14. The Hero: n Has a mission: –How does the mission get “played out”? –What is your personal mission? –How does it fit into your institutional mission? –What drives us: mission or money? –Are we headed in the right direction? Emmaus

15. Whatever you can do or dream you can, BEGIN IT. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. (Goethe)

16. The Hero: n Embarks on the mission n Reads the signs of the times n Understands that the journey must be undertaken.

17. When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however… the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life We should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature (Sigmund Freud)

18. The Hero: n Makes friends along the way –Who are our friends? –Accept all that come to us:they don’t make lepers like they used to. –How will we make and keep new friends? –How will we call upon the wisdom within and the wisdom without? –Who are the “keepers of the myth”?

19. Too much of a good thing can be wonderful! Mae West

20. The Hero: n Meets monsters –Our doubts –Our culture –Our challenges: Diversity Technology Money People to take our place –Who are your monsters?

21. Whether you think you can or think you can’t, YOU’RE RIGHT (Henry Ford)

22. The Hero: n Has doubts –Are we the right people for the job? –Is the job worth doing? –Are we in the wrong forest? –Is what we are doing now what the Church needs now? –If not, then what?

23. “There is no use trying,” said Alice; “one can’t believe impossible things.” “I dare say you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” (Lewis Carroll)

24. The Hero: n Completes the mission and returns home changed –How will we know? –How will they know? –Will we be satisfied staying home? –What brings us “out on the road” again? –What about legacy? Who will come after us? –How will we react to the way they do it?

25. Chart your own journey: Where are you now? birth baptism schooling Choice of vocation ministry Commitment to ministry Commitment to place Commitment to people ministry Choice of vocation Choice of ???? Vocation/ministry

26. Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin It serenely and with too high a spirit To be encumbered with your old nonsense. (Emerson)

27. A Final Thought: “I find the great thing in this world is Not where we stand, as in what direction we Are moving. To reach the port of heaven We must sail sometimes with the wind and Sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift Or lie at anchor.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes

28. Another Final Thought: We are more in need of a vision or destination and less in need of a map. Leaders create their own destiny by following their internal compass. They make their life a mission, not just a career Stephen Covey

29. And yet another final thought: I have come that they may have life and have it In abundance. Jesus