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CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS
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BLOG & STUDENT TESTIMONIAL
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DONOR TIERS
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Should you have any questions regarding our enclosed offers, programs, or donor tiers, please feel free to contact either our Admissions Director,
Matt Brown ,
or our Registrar and Development Coordinator,
Sophia
Zdanowski.
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Free Audit Invitation We invite you to
audit one course
of your choosing from our list of
fall 2021 and spring and summer 2022 courses that can be found on our website here. (Note: summer courses are currently listed; fall courses will be listed soon!)
Once a course catches your eye, you can follow the below instructions to activate your free audit opportunity!
1. Complete our auditor application page on our website: www.stbernards.edu/auditor-online-application 2. When you fill out the application, there will be a field that asks if you attended the 16th Annual Gathering of the Ministerium (towards the end of the application). In order to “redeem” this one free audit offer, click “yes.” This will waive your audit fee 3. Any questions, please contact our Admissions Director! www.stbernards.edu/staff/matthew-brown
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St. Bernard's Magazine Each
semester,
St.
Bernard's
publishes
its
Magazine
as
an
opportunity
to
update its community of alumni, students, donors, faculty, and others with our news,
events,
student
and
alumni
spotlights,
and
faculty
writings.
We
were
thrilled to give our publication a refreshed look and invite you to view it by clicking the image below! If you'd like to receive a copy of our magazine in the mail, you can fill out this form here.
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Upcoming Events St. Bernard’s exists for the building up of Christian disciples in our age, in our region
and
engagement
beyond. occur
It on
is
also
a
important
place issues
where
conversation,
related
to
our
discussion,
faith.
St.
and
Bernard’s
offers many and varied events, lectures, and speaker series for our students, constituencies, and the wider community. We invite you to join us!
Join our monthly and virtual Words with Wine
community
as
we
discuss
Architecture and Liturgy in the Modern Worship
Space
with
Thursday, June 17th,
Marta
Botturi
on
from 7:30 - 9 pm
EST! A glass of wine is encouraged :) You can register here!
Join us either in-person or virtually for our
first-ever
June
18th!
Preview Learn
Day
more
Bernard’s
graduate
certificates,
courses,
formation
on
Friday,
about
St.
programs, and
opportunities.
overall In-person
attendees have the option of joining us for free lunch and campus tour before our presentations and discussion. Learn more here!
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Certificate Programs Here at St. Bernard’s, anyone who comes to study with us will find a wonderful and varied community of learners. We have those seeking to pursue Master’s degrees, but also those who desire to go deeper in an aspect of their faith without having to commit to a degree program.
Our Certificates seek to enrich those wanting to learn more – who desire to be formed and informed so as to offer a well-formed witness to the world. Below is a description of our Certificate in Catechetical Leadership. More information on our certificates can be found on our website here.
CERTIFICATE IN CATECHETICAL LEADERSHIP (CCL) .
At
the
heart
of
St.
Bernard’s exists the desire to form those discerning ministry – being Christ’s hands basic
and
feet
to
introduction
those to
the
around tenets
them. of
the
This
certificate
faith
and
ways
program to
provides
discern
calls
ministry. It is comprised of five courses (15 credit hours) that include:
Catechesis and Evangelization: Content, Method, and Challenges The Revelation of God: Scripture, Tradition, Creed (Catechism 1 and 2) Life in Christ: Action, Contemplation, Communion (Catechism 3 and 4) Speaking the Truth in Love: Introduction to Apologetics And an approved elective from the following: Theology of the Body: Sexuality and the Sacred Pastoral Care Catholic Bioethics: A Matter of Life and Death The Gospel of Life: Life Issues and Contemporary Challenges Sacred Scripture 6
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Graduate Programs St. Bernard’s academic offerings assist students of all ages in coming to know and to love the Lord and his Church through theological, philosophical, and pastoral engagement. Men and women, cleric and lay, ecclesial ministers and those seeking personal formation and edification enroll in our programs, seeking the good, the true, and the beautiful alongside one another. More on our graduate programs can be found on our website here. We have four programs:
1.
MASTER OF ARTS (THEOLOGICAL STUDIES) .
This degree seeks to
provide students with a thorough understanding of theology that simultaneously increases knowledge of the faith and incites the humble adoration of the mysteries of divine revelation. 2.
MASTER OF ARTS IN PASTORAL STUDIES .
This degree seeks to
provide students with a dynamic combination of theological and ministerial formation, which prepares them to offer an engaging, wellformed witness to the world. 3.
MASTER OF DIVINITY.
This degree seeks to provide students with an
extensive and dynamic combination of theological and ministerial formation, which prepares them to offer an engaging, well-formed witness to the world, usually through professional ministry. 4.
MASTER OF ARTS (CATHOLIC PHILOSOPHY) .
This degree seeks to
engage students in a systematic study of philosophy as realized within the Catholic intellectual tradition at a graduate level. Students will become historically informed, independent thinkers who can engage in the discipline of philosophy as practiced within Catholic intellectual circles and outside of these within contemporary culture for the sake of the goods for which the Diaconate, priesthood, or other ministries within the Roman Catholic Church exist. 7
St. Bernard's Blog & Student Testimonial St. Bernard's blog is an opportunity for students, alumni, and professors to engage current events and topics of faith and culture. We invite you to peruse our blogs, found on our website and by clicking the image below:
Student Testimonial Sarah Mancini-Goebert Certificate in Catechetical Leadership, Rochester Campus Sarah
has
spent
her
career
in
ministry,
most
recently
as
a
Campus
Minister at St. John Fisher College. She found that her job as a minister also involved work as a catechist teaching college students Catholicism and
supporting
them
as
they
navigate
academics,
social
challenges,
and faith at a crucial time in their lives. She decided that there would never be a “right” time to go back to graduate school and found that the Certificate in Catechetical Leadership was a good introduction to graduate
studies
without
the
commitment
of
a
full
Master’s
degree.
Thus far she is certain that her courses at St. Bernard’s will help her better
empower
the
young
adults
that
she
leaders for change.
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works
with
to
become
Donor Tiers & Giving We are very proud of the support that our school and its mission have been to the wider Catholic community. Over the years, we have benefited greatly from the constant faith, prayerful support and generous sharing of our alumni, friends of the school, and other dioceses, all of which have allowed us to challenge, inform and foster the gifts of those called to serve. We invite you to contact our Development Coordinator here or click here to give a monetary donation to St. Bernard’s.
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donor tiers
include:
St. Kateri Tekakwitha Society ($1000-2499)
Cistercian Society ($1-99)
St. Isaac Jogues Society ($2500-5000)
St. John Neumann Society ($100-249)
St. elizabeth Ann Seton Society ($5000-9999)
St. Marianne Cope Society ($250-499)
St. Bernard Society ($10,000, Pledges, Estate, and
St. Rene Goupil Society ($500-999)
Scholarship Foundation Gifts)
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