Maggie's Page

"If it is liturgy, it is to be sung."

 My other web sites are:Watchmaker Press           Technology Connection Web site        Blog: Random Light

These writings are posted in the spirit of the virtual classroom. I have enjoyed many conversations with people who are willing to enter into the exploration of these ideas.   Some of the concepts are more difficult than others.  Some papers are tentative, others complete.   Explore at your own risk.

This, then, is what I pray, kneeling before the Father, from whom every family, whether spiritual or natural, takes its name:

Out of his infinite glory, may he give you the power through his Spirit for your hidden self to grow strong, so that Christ may live in your hearts through faith, and then, planted in love and built on love, you will with all the saints have strength to grasp the breadth and the length, the height and the depth: until, knowing the love of Christ, which is beyond all knowledge, you are filled with the utter fullness of God.

Glory be to him whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine; glory be to him from generation to generation in the Church and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever. Amen .

Papers:

• Patterns in Conflict, Patterns Revealed
• St. Benedict Planning 2002

    Adopted by St. Benedict Parish Pastoral Council, Dec. 20,2001

3 Dissertation Proposals, Spalding University, Fall,  2001 --Spring, 2002
 

• Liturgy of the Hours in Parishes: The New York Experience

• Liturgy of the Hours in the Parish:

A model of leadership development within worship
Phase I -- Building Capacity (Awareness and Experience)
 
• An exploration of the relationship between randomness and the expression "The Holy Spirit."

• Liturgy of the Hours in the parish: Morning Prayer, Ministry & Liturgy October 2001

• Development of program materials--booklet, recordings, publication and distribution
• Sanctification of Time in the Third Millennium: Morning and Evening Prayer (with Night Prayer)  A Liturgy of the Hours for the ecclesial communities of the local churches

American Catholic Identity, Dr. Tom Walters, Summer 2001, St. Meinrad

Leadership Seminar II, Dr. John Shaughnessy, C.F.X., Spring 2001, Spalding University

• Personal Philosophy of Leadership 2001

Ethics and Leadership, Dr. Brian Reynolds, Fall 2000, Spalding University

• Musician's Prayer
• Liturgical Music and Unauthorized Copying

• Brief of a Significant Case in the field of Liturgical Music

• Introduction to Homilies for Sunday Mass, Fr. Pat Creed
• Fr. Pat's Easter Vigil homily and "This Holy Night"    (He calls them homilies, I call them poetry.  Were you there when he preached these?)

Human Resource Leadership, Dr. Gladys Busch, Spring 2000, Spalding University

• Book Critique:  Extension of concepts presented in Mind Wars

• Book Critique: Catechism of the Catholic Church, Part One

• Searching for Liturgy of the Hours in Parishes. Published Pastoral Music, June 2000

• Vygotsky Proposal

• Four Recommendations to St. Benedict Parish

• The Learning Process
• Rooted in Ritual, Affirmed in Faith   An Exploration of Homilies of Rev. C Patrick Creed

• Perception of Values:An Introduction to Robert M. Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality with a comparison to the Value System of Hunter Lewis
• The Highest Entrance A meeting of Thomas More, et al. with a Pirsigian Heavenly Tribunal.  (Based on characters and situations from the movie, A Man for all Seasons .)

• Margaret Wheatley and Edith Stein: Mystic Particles in an Evolutionary Wave
• Questions / Comte's Dream
• The Demon's Envelope
• Letter to Laura and Natalie

• Leadership
• Practical Thoughts on Leadership
• Book Critique: Redefining Diversity by R. Roosevelt Thomas
• Book Critique: The Age of Unreason by Charles Handy
• New Leadership in its Second Generation
• Personal Philosophy of Leadership

R. M. Pirsig, Metaphysics of Quality, Evolutionary Reality

• Beyond Lila: Defining Social in Robert Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality 6/98
• The Lila Squad: Metaphysics of Quality Discussion Group
• Metaphysics of Quality: Reflections and Prisms (under construction)

The Technology Connection

(maybe this should be renamed Rituals for Enlightened Communities. Nah.)

If an organization has a guiding, shared vision that is in turn replicated throughout the system, and the organization is continually learning, then a Learning Organization has emerged.

The question is how to create such a system.  How to create the opportunity for each person to develop new models for analyzing and making sense of our current systems?   To develop deep, personal mastery, or Profound Learning?  To create a shared vision with others?  To be part of team learning?   And how to provide suficient leadership within the system to keep it balanced between order and chaos?

Jack D. Dale, Superintendant, Frederick Co. Schools, The New American School System: A Learning Organization, International Journal of Education Reform

The Technology Connection Information and Materials

Do-it-yourself technology training and education. An outcomes-based-action program to develop technology skill and communication skill. Good for team-building and community-building.

Leadership, Education, Organizational Change

Wheel of Time

Personality Integration of Rand al'Thor and Lews Therin Telamon

All those years in school, I had to analyze literature, dig out the nuances of plot and character, all for a grade or for the approval of teacher and/or class.   Now, I understand what it's really for.

Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time books are read and discussed by thousands upon thousands of people.   What is the appeal?  What is it that Jordan sees?  This is good adventure, sure, but he has his finger on something new, something undefined in today's society.  Read the books for the fun of it, but don't be surprised if you find youself worrying at the details.   If you do, it's ok.   You're on the cutting edge.

If you haven't read the books, start with The Eye of the World .  Read slowly, and enjoy the trip!

The Jedi Question (A short novel)

Do you really think Darth Vader turned into a sweet old guy and Luke, Han, and Leia went to play with the Ewoks? In 1980, it might have been different.  Just for fun!

Decyzja Jedi

"People like various things about your book: prequel-time ideas, Phaneen, no Ewoks :), no twins, Luke perilously close to the Darkside, a walking Jabba...For me, The Jedi Question goes side by side with Return of the Jedi; it's so vivid I can see it playing before my eyes, movie-like."  --Magda Jarczyk, translator

Margaret (Maggie) Hettinger Resume Portfolio

• Employment History
• Community Involvement
• Membership in Professional Organizations
• Awards, Achievements, special recognition
• Workshops, Seminars, Conferences attended
• Publications, Proposals, Reports
• Essay--The Problem of Social Stability in Education Reform