The School of the Word is open to everyone. Its purpose is to teach people how to pray with Scripture, how to grow in the personal relationship and following of Jesus, and how to tell others what you have received and experienced in prayer.

The School of the Word is offered by the Verbum Dei as a time and space to listen to the Word of God and to assimilate it so that the contemplative encounter with Christ may give us a newfound source of faith and love in our daily lives.

Escuela de la Palabra
Tuesdays 7:00PM - 9:00PM
3365-3373 19th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Tel: 415-282-3005
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The School of Leadership for Evangelization (SLE), also known as the School of Apostles, offered by the Verbum Dei Missionary Fraternity aims to form and educate people who have touched the need and urgency for evangelization in the USA and worldwide. The Evangelizer becomes an answer to social-political conflicts observed and experienced in today’s world, and to one’s own personal struggles in daily life.

What does the SLE teach?

The school is primarily about a growing spiritual life that forms an evangelizer through the means of prayer, study, reflection and sharing.
This program brings together contemplative awareness for our spiritual life, and theoretical knowledge with a practical application.
The participant’s interest, social location and/or ministerial field will influence his/her own reception and personal application of sound theological teachings, which will be given in this school as different series relating to evangelization.

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Cell communities are formed and led by people who attend both the School of the Word and the School of Leadership for Evangelization (apostles) and deeply understand a call to form in their homes or in their parishes a group that invites others to also pray with the Word that leads them to a personal encounter with Christ, transforming their lives and their social surroundings.

St. Thomas More Church
Wednesdays 7:15pm - 9:00pm (for Summer)
1300 Junipero Serra Blvd.
San Francisco, CA 94132
Contact:
Sr. Lorna Mendoza: 650-994-6919

Stockton
Monday 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Contact:
Sr. Bella: 415-282-3005

St. Anthony of Padua Parish
Wednesday 7:00pm - 9:00pm
(for the season of Lent)
3215 Cesar Chavez St.
San Francisco, CA 94110
Contact:
Sr. Teresa Malave 415-282-3005

Mountain View
Thursday 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Contact:
Jaime/Giuliana Rodriguez: 650-964-7148

In Colleges and Universities

City College SF/ SF State

Join us if you are in college or university for our activities and events! We facilitate the Catholic Student Club in several community colleges in the Bay Area.

Our Email: catholicstudentclub@hotmail.com

Link to Campus Ministry, VDMF

 

City College of San Francisco

San Francisco State University
SFSU Campus Ministry
Monday 6:10pm - 7:10pm
Contact:
Sr. Sibele: 415-307-7828

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Dixon / East Palo Alto / Hayward / Napa / Pinole / Pittsburg / Redwood City /
San Francisco / San Jose / San Mateo / San Pablo / Vallejo

Filipino Group
Thursdays 7:30pm - 9:00pm

583 St. Francis Blvd.
Daly City, CA 94015
Contact: Sr. Lorna Mendoza: 650-994-6919