A sea of red on Friday morning as Jesuit students piled into the Terry Center for the first mass of the year, September 4, along with thousands of Jesuit schools across the world, a tradition begun in 1548 at the first Jesuit school in Messina, Sicily. The mass, Mr. Knight explained, " is where the community gathers to thank God...
Heavenly Father, Teach us to be generous.
Teach us to serve you as you deserve.
To give and not to count the cost,
To fight and not to heed the wounds,
To toil and not to seek for rest,
To labor and not to ask for reward
Except that of knowing, that I do your will. Amen.
Saint Ignatius, Pray For Us.
The Prayer for Generosity reminds...
“Pray to find the good in the lowest part of the day...this will give you great power.”
Mr. Garrison, the principal of Jesuit, stressed this message in the first prayer service of the 2015-2016 school year on August 28th.
Elaborating on this point, Mr. Garrison emphasized the importance of the daily Examen, how it allows us to reflect on our...
When people think of priests, all they consider is their spirituality and role as spiritual leaders within the Church community, failing to realize that priests, too, have personal lives and hobbies. On March 27th, two priests, Fr. Robert Murphy and Fr. Edwin Leonard, a Jesuit and a diocesan respectively, spoke to students about their own paths to the priesthood and the...
One of the many, many benefits of attending Jesuit College Preparatory is the opportunity to go on a retreat every year with classmates. To begin their Jesuit careers, all students first attend the Freshman Retreat in which they discover the school-wide spiritual community at Jesuit. Next, near the end of their sophomore year, students go on the Midpoint Retreat...
A defining aspect of a student's senior year at Jesuit is the opportunity to participate in many different retreats that allow seniors to step away from the sometimes stressful tribulations of academics, athletics, and extracurriculars. One of these retreats in particular strikes a chord with many Jesuit seniors: the Kairos retreat. Although underclassmen may simply see the Kairos Retreat as...
The following is a partial transcript of the prayers, readings, and reflections presented at the school-wide Friday Prayer Service on February 6th, 2015.
Good Morning. This morning, the students who regularly lead us in Morning Prayer and the Examen have joined together to offer us their reflections on trying to incorporate prayer into their daily - often very busy - lives. We...
