It is Saturday morning, September 28th on the 28 acres, and instead of campus being vacant, about 500 restless eyes gaze upon the school, ready to take on their first of many retreats. A highly anticipated event, the Freshman Retreat is a great bonding experience for all first-year Jesuit students because it represents their first major opportunity to really...
A few weeks ago, a select group of people from organizations in the Jesuit community, such as Diversity, Campus Ministry, Student Council, and Community Service, embarked on a journey to the Catholic Conference and Formation Center in Dallas for the annual Jesuit leadership retreat. The goal of the retreat was to help the people from these groups step up...
Praying, meditating, and all things religious. That is what a retreat is all about, right? Well, not exactly. Jesuit's retreats focus on uniting each individual class into a strong , structured community in addition to helping students grow closer to God. On Wednesday, April 24, a day of fun activities, insightful talks, and bonding experiences highlighted the day's events for the...
Every year, a new class of seniors embarks on a series of retreats that are designed to allow students to enter a journey into the soul. The experience means to provide seniors a chance to find out God in their personal lives, as well as a reprieve from the daily grind and answer personal questions they may have as...
This past Wednesday, April 4th, 2012, Jesuit juniors embarked on the time-honored tradition of going on the Junior Retreat, an event which many consider to be the highlight of their junior year.
The day contained several bonding exercises and other activities- led by members of PALS- that focus on their future leadership roles as seniors at Jesuit.
In one such activity,...
Junior year is widely considered to be a year of transition, not just at Jesuit but at high schools around the country. It is a year when students begin to prepare for the next stage of their lives, a year when they look back on everything that marked their upbringings and look ahead to everything that will mark their...
On a wet and rainy Saturday morning, a group of 41 small group leaders comprised of juniors and seniors began setting up for the Freshman Retreat, the first milestone of the class of 2014’s journey through Jesuit. The Freshman Retreat is the first of many retreats in a student’s Jesuit career. It is also one of the most important....
