Hospitality to Angels: Contributing to the Humanitarian Response on the Border
By Beau Guedry, SJ Yo vengo a traerte vida Vida en abundancia en abundancia Yo soy el camino, La verdad y la vida Vida en abundancia En abundancia (I come to bring you life Life in abundance In abundance I am the way, The truth, and the life Life in abundance In abundance) November, 2021 […]
Inspiring Modern-Day Missionaries on the Brébeuf Relic Tour
Video by Fr. W. Tucker Redding, SJ Story by Rachel Amiri The history of the Society of Jesus is rich with the witness of saints who offered their lives as missionaries and martyrs. A desire to inspire a new generation of missionaries led the vocations teams from the Jesuits USA Central and Southern, Midwest and […]
Del Camino Jesuit Border Ministries: Responding to Pastoral and Sacramental Needs
By Fr. Brian Strassburger, SJ I first met Gaby and Meidy in July 2022 when a new shelter for migrants, Senda 2, was opening in Reynosa, Mexico. They were a lesbian couple traveling together from El Salvador, where they had faced discrimination based on their sexual orientation. They had come to seek asylum in the […]
Recovering the Stories of “Ours” Since 1823: Missouri Province Legacy
In celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Jesuits’ arrival in St. Louis in 1823, historian Ellen Skerrett has uncovered stories of “Ours,” some that have been forgotten, others never known. The Missouri Jesuits’ encounter with American life in all its complexity is a transnational adventure story. Thousands of Jesuit priests and brothers devoted their […]
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.
Yet Another Journey into Yes
Moving from Jesuit Hall to St. Ignatius Hall By Fr. Michael Harter, SJ In January 2023, 66 Jesuits made the move from Jesuit Hall, near the campus of Saint Louis University, to the new St. Ignatius Hall at Garden Villas North in St. Louis County. Father Michael Harter, SJ, shares this reflection on what the […]
Jesuits Magazine, Fall 2022
The fall issue of Jesuits magazine is an expression gratitude: to our volunteers and donors, to our Jesuit brothers who bear witness to the Ignatian Presupposition and for our vocations themselves.
Katie Jansen Installed as Parish Life Coordinator at St. Francis Xavier College Church
By Jerry Duggan St. Francis Xavier College Church in St. Louis quietly experienced a milestone this spring when Katie Jansen was installed as parish life coordinator, assuming most of the administrative responsibilities normally handled by a pastor. In Jesuit parlance, Ms. Jansen is the “director of the work” – the highest-ranking administrator for this Jesuit […]
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 […]
A Jesuit’s Palm Sunday with the ‘crucified church’ of Belize
By Jeremy Zipple, SJ The 33 mission churches of Toledo District, in southern Belize, and the roughly 10,000 Catholics they serve, share a single priest, Jesuit Father Sam Wilson. This year, on Palm Sunday, he was on his way to celebrate Mass in “the last village on the map,” as he calls it, a hamlet […]
