Last Wednesday, Jesuit hosted its third annual  "Be the Match" Bone Marrow Registry Donor Drive, in which potential bone marrow donors are found and connected to patients in need of a life-saving marrow transplant.
Be the Match compiles a database of potential donors of bone marrow to cancer patients. Each year at Jesuit, about 200 students volunteer to be potential donors. Students...
HIV/AIDS is a global epidemic that stretches across nations everywhere. Over 1 million people in the United States alone live with HIV, with approximately 50,000 people diagnosed every year, and over 30,000 of these people living with HIV are diagnosed with the AIDS virus. Many organizations have been formed in order to support the endemic. These organizations raise money...
This upcoming summer, Jesuit students and faculty will be going on two service trips, one to Nicaragua and the other to Alaska. Mr. Richard Perry is in charge of the trip to Nicaragua, which thirty-five students will go on, along with Mr. Keith Reese, Ms. Madeline Maggard, Mr. Raul Ornelas, and Mr. Tim Murphy. Meanwhile, Mrs. and Mr. Mattacchione...
...Teach me to serve you as you deserve,
to give and not to count the cost,
...to labor and not to seek reward,
except that of knowing that I do your will.
St.Ignatius wrote these words in his famous Prayer for Generosity because he believed that his Society of Jesus and all good men should serve their community. All Jesuit students, parents, and...
Playing catch, rolling over, and performing tricks, the dogs put on a show for the audience, their magnificence putting the crowd in awe. Some say dogs are man's best friend, but to the Jesuit therapy dog program they are much more than that. Dogs serve as a way to connect to people, no matter who they are or where...
At Jesuit, we consistently interact with the poor in community service. We pray for the poor in our daily prayers. We donate food and money to the poor in yearly drives. We feel sorry for the poor when we see them on the side of the road. But do we really know the depth of their suffering, the gravity...
When you think of the border situation with Mexico, what do you think of? Poverty, violence, drugs? For many, it’s a distant issue that you’ll talk about in a Social Justice class and never really commit a lot of thought to since it seems so far away.
Taking a trip to El Paso to show people what the issue of...
Encountering Christ through hands-on service and encountering others’ humanity form the two main goals of Jesuit’s Community Service and Social Justice program, CSSJ, and the program always seeks improve these two aspects of service. As CSSJ entered the 2013-2014 school year, Mr. Richard Perry and Mr. Anthony Mattacchione, Assistant Directors of CSSJ, began this extensive process of improving the...
