Jesuits Magazine – Fall 2024
Download the Fall 2024 issue of Jesuits magazine from the Jesuits USA Central and Southern Province.
Jesuits Magazine – Winter 2024
The Winter 2024 issue of Jesuits magazine features stories on our Jesuits serving in Rome, Del Camino Jesuit Border Ministries and a pull-out resource for your Lenten prayer. Download it here.
Finding Moments of Grace
By José Lopez | Dajabon, Dominican Republic Thanks to Novice Director Fr. Drew Kirschman, who was always creative about my discernment process, I was able to explore the experience of being a Jesuit in a Latin American context. My incredible long experiment in Dajabon, Dominican Republic, was one of the most formative experiences of my […]
Lord, Teach Me How to Play
By Scott McKillip, SJ | Pine Ridge Reservation Late one night, my novice brother and I piled into the Toyota. We began our drive on the only road crossing through the vast miles of rolling hills on this side of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. We were in the kind of darkness one knows only […]
Following in the Footsteps of a Trailblazing Jesuit
By Therese Fink Meyerhoff and Tracey Primrose Henry Nolf grew up in Belgium hearing stories of Fr. Peter J. De Smet. Father De Smet was a renowned Jesuit missionary whose impact is still felt a century and a half after his death, but Henry’s stories don’t come from history books; they were family lore. Father […]
Jesuits Magazine, Fall 2023
The fall issue of Jesuits magazine celebrates the province’s past – including 200 years of Jesuits in St. Louis – and takes a look at some of the new ways Jesuits continue to find new ways to meet the needs of our world. Read it here.
Jesuit Prison Education Network Seeks “Co-Laborers in Mercy”
By Tim Linn How Vermonn Roberts came to Chillicothe Correctional Center is a matter of public record; the details and proceedings can be easily found in court records and newspaper articles. It’s something she lives with each day as an inmate. And it comes with feelings of deep regret, loneliness and hopelessness that haunted her […]
Province Office Focuses on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
“Justice is what love looks like in public.” This quote from Cornel West was the heart of Fr. Bryan Massingale’s presentation at Saint Louis University on the Spirituality of Racial Metanoia. The April event was part of the Sharing the Whole Story program offered by the Jesuits USA Central and Southern (UCS) Province’s Office of […]
Tracing the Footsteps of St. Ignatius: The Experience of a Lifetime!
By Gina Nisbet-Fonseca, Pilgrim “That’ll be gate D29,” said the ticket agent as she handed me my boarding pass. I made my way to the gate and waited. After a few hours of reading and checking my boarding pass repeatedly, I finally spotted some familiar faces in the gate area. I felt a twinge of […]
From the Office of Ignatian Spirituality: On Desolation
By Fr. David Kiblinger, SJ The rich man was striving for holiness. He zealously kept the commandments in the Law of Moses. He was fascinated by the possibility of eternal life and desired to obtain it. Hoping to find a formula for life everlasting, he consults the new teacher causing a stir among the Jewish […]
Two New Priests: The Province’s Commitment to the Church in Belize
By Therese Fink Meyerhoff Last summer, the Jesuits USA Central and Southern Province joyfully celebrated the priestly ordinations of four men. A little over a month later, two of those men arrived in the Central American country of Belize for their yearlong pastoral ministry assignment. Young priests are in high demand, so assigning two to […]
Two Standards: Stepping Out in Humility
By Fr. José (Pepe) Andujo Ruiz There is an optical illusion called the Penrose effect. You may have seen it: It is a stairwell that appears to ascend at every step and turn but is impossible because at the highest point you find yourself also at the original, lowest starting point. Jacob’s stairwell has been […]
