The Catholic Weekly 25 September 2022

catholicweekly.com.au 2 NEWS 25, September, 2022 Call 02 9649 6423 or visit www.catholiccemeteries.com.au Consecrated lawns and chapels Sydney’s only Catholic crematorium Monthly mass for the Repose of Souls Funeral directors available for a Catholic service Bereavement pastoral care Serving the Catholic community for over 150 years COMMITMENT, PRAYER, mentoring and mission: a new approach to universi- ty chaplaincy at the Universi- ty of Notre Dame Australia is bringing tradition and exper- imentation together to help young Catholics become dis- ciples and future leaders. The In Altum (“into the deep”) program, which began at UNDA’s Fremantle Cam- pus, launched in Sydney in the midst of COVID-19 in De- cember 2020. Its first intake of students in 2021 committed to pray every day, attend fortnightly forma- tionmeetings with chaplaincy staff, receive mentoring, at- tend a retreat, and take on two and a half hours of evangelisa- tion a week. Students workshopped their own ideas for evangeli- sation with chaplaincy staff, andwere responsible for turn- ing their ideas into reality. Harrison Payne and Molly Hayes, both third year prima- ry education students, said they overcame shyness and worries about time pressure to join the program, and have grown in faith as a result. Mr Payne organised a biweekly poetry group at UNDA, and Ms Hayes joined other students writing letters to nursing home residents un- der lockdown. “It’s something we action ourselves, we organise our- selves, and come up with the idea ourselves,” Mr Payne said. “We do it, see it, and can say, ‘That’s something I’ve worked on, and has come to fruition through my work.’” Ms Hayes said that before In Altum she attended Mass regularly but now prays daily and enjoys spiritual reading. “The habits we got from In Altum have been so transfer- able for me. Prayer especially,” Young adults findGod in commitment andmission, not introspection ¾ Adam Wesselinoff Notre Dame chaplaincy goes for discipleship she said. “I made a commit- ment to prayer, and I’ve kept that commitment now.” She undertook the “Re- treat in Daily Life” run by the Fraternas as part of the pro- gram, which introduced her to a richer way of reading and praying with the Scriptures, a skill that has transferred over to her work in the classroom. “Being a teacher, when I teach kids the Bible I can use those methods to help them engage with the stories in a new way,” Ms Hayes said. Ms Hayes and Mr Payne said they had become more confident, patient and disci- Harrison Payne and Molly Hayes. The Sydney Notre Dame students are part of a new way of thinking about mission focused on discipleship being run through the University of Notre Dame’s chaplaincy. The In Altum program draws on the Archdiocese of Sydney’s Go Make Disciples mission plan. PHOTO: ADAMWESSELINOFF plined as a result of their year with In Altum . UNDA Sydney Chaplain Fr Reginald Mary Chua said the program drew on the Sydney Centre for Evangelisation’s Go Make Disciples mission plan, by making an attempt to lead young Catholics out of a “temptation to introspection” and into mission and service. “Students were interested in learning about the faith, going to Mass, but not neces- sarily in a way oriented to ser- vice and leadership,” Fr Chua said. “That was the impetus for what became In Altum . When it was introduced here in Sydney it was quite natu- ral to see a connection with Go Make Disciples , which had just come out that year.” Chaplaincy Coordinator Elizabeth Flynn, a consecrat- ed woman in the Fraternas community, said the pro- gram’s mentoring and prayer components gave it a per- sonal focus that made it quite adaptable during 2021’s inter- mittent COVID-19 lockdowns. “The program is about each individual growing in self-knowledge, becoming a better and more committed Christian, which is going to serve them for life,” she said. “The commitment to prayer: we don’t oblige which prayer people do. But I say to them, ‘You can commit to five minutes, but will that really satisfy?’ “You have to be responsible before God! 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