After months of empty classrooms and silent hallways, Jesuit became crammed with smiling faces as the first bells signaled the beginning of the new school year. The new school year ushered in a wide assortment of emotions, ranging from senior excitement to freshman fright.
To begin Jesuit’s first half day, the students and faculty spilled into the Terry Center for a...
“We humans seem to always find it easier to pray when we are afraid of dying, but most of us fortunately don’t find ourselves in life or death situations very often. But all of us as part of our human condition face another type of storm. We face our internal storms – involving relationships, family problems, and events we...
Another summer of celebrations, graduations, introductions, summer school, and preparation for the new school year has come and gone and on August 21st, 2019, the Jesuit Dallas school community gathered together once again to mark the start of a new school year. Marking the first day of school, Mr. Tom Garrison' 92, Principal of Jesuit Dallas, kicked off the...
As on most Fridays, the students slowly marched to the Terry Center to attend normal Friday prayer service or mass.  But the moment their chairs entered eyesight, each student knew something was different, and everybody was pleasantly surprised to find a rosary waiting for them.
On Friday, April 22nd, Campus Ministry led the school in saying the rosary, one of the most traditional acts in...
Tabor Jones '16, Jose Rivera '16, Will Naquin '17, and Reid Hatzmann '18 shared the following reflections with the Jesuit Community on the October 16 Friday prayer service that was led by the Jesuit Dallas pilgrims to Philadelphia for Pope Francis's visit to the United States. Evan Jackson '17 and Nicolas Elizondo ‘18 also made the pilgrimage with two members of our faculty,...
"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together." - Desmond TutuÂ
On January 31, 2020, as students entered the Terry Center for weekly prayer service, Tutu's quote appeared on the screen. Ever since the beginning, humans have been social beings, reliant on interaction with others to form a community and survive against the predatory wild....
As all the Jesuit students piled into the Terry Center, a familiar song was being sung at the front of the auditorium, and as soon as everyone sat down, the prayer service was under way. Mr. Perry began with an introduction to the Christian virtue of hospitality and adoption prayer service and what it was all about. He believed that...
