Making All Things New: The Graces of the Ignatian Year
Jesuit Superior General Arturo Sosa established the Ignatian Year as a special time to commemorate the conversion of St. Ignatius Loyola and all the graces that have flowed from that event. The “year” began on May 20, 2021, the 500th anniversary of Ignatius’ wounding at Pamplona. It will end on July 31, 2022, the Feast […]
Women’s Advisory Committee Continues Its Mission with First-Ever Women’s Retreat
By Therese Fink Meyerhoff A Women’s Advisory Committee for an all-male religious order? While it may seem incongruent, establishing just such a committee is one of the first actions that Fr. Tom Greene, SJ, took as he began his term as provincial of the Jesuits USA Central and Southern Province. Made up of women leaders […]
SLU Catholic Studies Supporters Make Pilgrimage to England
July 14, 2022 – Every Monday night during the academic year, upwards of 150 students gather at Saint Louis University’s Catholic Studies Center for “Campion Night,” a program of spiritual and cultural formation named for the English Jesuit martyr St. Edmund Campion. A network of more than 65 volunteers and benefactors, many of them SLU […]
Sue Robb: Alleviating Suffering in the Kansas City Community
By Jerry Duggan As pastoral associate for justice and life at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Kansas City, Mo., Sue Robb oversees an amalgamation of outreach efforts that, together, alleviate the suffering of many in need in the local community. She is able to juggle so many different initiatives at once thanks to a […]
Jesuits Magazine: Winter 2022
In this issue, read about how to pray through Lent with the Universal Apostolic Preferences, our ministry on the border and more. Jesuits Winter 2022
Fr. Michael Harter’s Homily for Jubilee 2021
Readings of the Day Jeremiah 31: 7-9 I will gather them from the ends of the world, with the blind and the lame in their midst. Responsorial Psalm 126:1-2, 2-3, 4-5, 6. The Lord has done great things for us; we are filled with joy. Hebrews 5: 1-6. taken from among men . . . […]
Fr. Edward Flaherty, WWII veteran, Finally Receives his Medals
By Karen Augé June 22, 2021 – In 1941, before there was D-Day, or the flag raising on Iwo Jima, or Pearl Harbor, a young man from Missouri named Edward Flaherty Jr. put on an Army uniform. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, Flaherty stayed on, serving his country and […]
An Imminent God and Other Lessons from Refugees
By Therese Fink Meyerhoff The two and a half years Fr. Jeffrey Harrison, SJ, spent working with Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) taught him a different way of looking at suffering. “You’re dealing with people who every day are on the edge,” he says. “In America, you hear ‘they don’t feel things the way we do.’ […]
Still “Walking with Refugees,” 40 Years Later
By William Bole It is challenging to provide an education to refugees, both children and adults who are escaping violence and unrest in their homelands, but it is also the single best way to aid them in starting over with hope for a better future. The coronavirus pandemic has made the task all the more […]
Celebrating Our Golden Jubilarians
Fathers Billy Huete, SJ, and Doug Hypolite, SJ, this year celebrate 50 years in the Society of Jesus. They are a gift to our Society and the people they have served. They are beacons of joy and happiness in their vocations.
Learning from the Pandemic
July 30, 2020 By Fr. Jack Zupez St. Paul explains human history as passing from the alienation spoken of in the first nine chapters of Genesis to gradual reconciliation of all peoples, as children of one God. Christ came in the middle of time to give this movement of history a dynamic impetus forward. From […]
Conference Spurs Optimism about Work for Reconciliation
The quest for reconciliation drew more than 80 Jesuit partners in mission to Regis University in Denver in June. Attendees were challenged to “see, think and act” in new ways to create change and reconciliation in their work and in the broader world.
