Institute for Leadership in Ministry Blog

On May 2, 2012, the Class of 2012 celebrated their graduation from the Institute for Leadership in Ministry at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph. They gathered with families, friends and parish staffs to celebrate the completion of three years of formation in theology, pastoral formation and spirituality; and leadership development. Read more...

The secular world has already left the Easter “holiday” and is now on to the next calendar date to be celebrated. As Catholic Christians, of course, we celebrate Easter and the Resurrection, the central mystery of our faith, not for one day or for one week but for fifty days! Read more...

For many, February is all about Valentine’s Day. People celebrate with cards, flowers and candy. “Love” is the operative word of the month. Much has been written about this small word. In fact, if you do an internet search on the word “love”, you’ll find almost 9 billion matches. Read more...

The Institute for Leadership in Ministry welcomed the Class of 2014 as the new academic year began. The 78 members of the combined English and Spanish classes come from 27 different parishes. Young adults (ages 19-40) account for about one-third of the class population. Read more...

The summer mailings have been sent to all students and the facilities have been readied to welcome almost 230 students and 80 faculty members to the new academic year.  There are 43 incoming first-year students in the English track and 37 in the Spanish track. Read more...

Last Sunday’s gospel spoke about the familiar parable of the Sower and the Seed. We are told that some of the seed fell on rich soil and produced much fruit. Our challenge is to prepare the soil of our hearts so that the seed may flourish within us. How can we become that “rich soil”? Read more...

 On Wednesday, May 4, 2011, the Institute for Leadership in Ministry celebrated the graduation of the Class of 2011 during Evening Prayer at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph. Friends and families gathered to celebrate the completion of three years of theological study, pastoral formation and leadership development.  Read more...

A letter has been sent to pastors inviting them to recommend students for the upcoming academic year, 2011-2012. In addition, the Director is visiting pastors and parish staffs to talk about the Institute. Read more...

In their book, Lead Like Jesus, the authors call Jesus the “greatest leadership role model of all time”. Leading like Jesus involves four leadership areas: heart, head, hands and habits. Here are some excerpts from their book.

Servant leadership begins with the heart. Some of the characteristics of a servant leader include:

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On March 2 and 16, the Institute will open our doors to interested individuals to “come and see”—to visit the Institute in order to get a sense of what we are about. Read more...

In their book entitled, Lead Like Jesus, Ken Blanchard and Phil Hodges call Jesus the “greatest leadership role model of all time”. Jesus modeled servant leadership. This was a radically different type of leadership that he called his disciples to and still calls us to today: Read more...

Our ILM community experienced a wonderful evening of prayer last week. Melissa Broome and Eleazar Cortes, our prayer leaders, inspired us with their personal reflections. All present were invited to reflect on our talents and how we are being called to develop and to use them. Students and alumni prayed through meditation, Scripture and song. Read more...

If you are new to ILM then the concept of prayer partner is new to you as well. At Orientation for first year students, each class member picks a person from another culture and language group other than his or her own, and from a different parish. These partners will get to know each other over the course of three years at the Institute. Read more...