The Ignatian Year: To See All Things New in Christ
Fr. Arturo Sosa, SJ, the Superior General of the Society of Jesus, invites us all to engage in the Ignatian Year by reflecting on those disruptive moments that cause us as individuals, organizations, nations, and as a global society to examine our lives and choose pathways that lead to wholeness, the promotion of human dignity, and harmonious existence with all of creation.
What is the Ignatian Year?
On May 20, 2021, the Society of Jesus and the Ignatian family will begin the worldwide celebration of the Ignatian Year. On that day, 500 years ago, St Ignatius was wounded by a cannonball while defending Pamplona. For him, it was a major failure and a change of plans in what he envisioned for his future, full of riches and worldly exploits. However, this failure started a process of conversion, which led Ignatius to have bigger dreams, no longer centered on himself, but rather on God. It helped St. Ignatius to see all things new in Christ.
As announced by Father General Arturo Sosa, SJ in a letter announcing the Ignatian Year, we celebrate this year to remind us of the daily opportunity to experience a new conversion and to live a transforming experience. It is a call to allow the Lord to reveal to us a new enthusiasm, interior and apostolic, a new life, new ways of following Christ: "To see all things new in Christ."
The Ignatian Year and the Universal Apostolic Preferences (UAP)
The Ignatian Year invites deep reflections not only on our own cannonball moments, or disruptive setbacks, but also on the four Universal Apostolic Preferences of the Society of Jesus that help us navigate and, on which focused during Ignatian Heritage Week 2021:
- To Show the pathway to God through the Spiritual Exercises and Discernment
- To Walk with the Excluded
- To Journey with Youth Toward a Hope-filled Future
- To Care for Our Common Home
JCU Programs for the Ignatian Year:
Thursday, May 27 at Noon
Jcu Fit Launches Spiritual Fitness Program with Office of Mission & Identity
A different Spiritual Fitness Exercise each Third Thursday at Noon throughout the year.
Saturday, June 12, 2021 at TBD
Alumni Reunion Weekend
"St. Ignatius and Dealing with Disruption"
by Ed Hahnenberg, Ph.D.
Chair, Theology and Religious Studies and Breen Chair of Systematic Theology
Friday, June 30, Noon to 1:30 PM
Feast of St. Ignatius followed by Community Picnic
Thursday, August 5 at 7:30 PM on Zoom
"Cannonball Moment?: The Conversation of St. Ignatius of Loyola"
A lecture by Paul V. Murphy, Ph.D.
Green Chair in Catholic Studies and Director of the Institute of Catholic Studies
Offered as part of the JCU Alumni Continuing Education Series (A.C.E.S.)
Fall 2021
Fall book club
The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything by Jim Martin, SJ
Led by Sherri Crahen, Ph.D.
Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students
September 9, 2021 at Noon
Celebrate the Spirit: Engaging the Ignatian Year
Bishop Edward Malesic, Presider and Homilist
Followed by Community Picnic
October 2021
"The Spiritual Exercises as a Pathway to God"
Andrew Cera, SJ and Thomas Pipp, SJ
Sponsored by the Ignatian Spirituality Institute
November 4, 2021
National Black Catholic Month
"Walking with the Excluded and the Anti-Racist Examen"
Mary Wardell Ghirarduzzi, Ph.D.
Vice President for Diversity Equity, and Inclusion at University of the Pacific
Co-sponsored by the Offices of Mission & Identity and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Thursday, February 3, 2022 at 2 PM
Mission Week 2022
International Panel of Students Working for Justice and a Hope-filled Future
Co-sponsored with the IAJU
Friday, March 12, 2022 at Noon
Mass and Campus Luncheon
The 422nd Anniversary of the Canonization of Saints Ignatius and Francis Xavier
Thursday, April 21, 2022 at 7 PM
In honor of Earth Day 2022
"Caring for Our Common Home as a Laudato Si' Campus"
Nancy Tuchman, Ph.D.
Dean, School of Environmental Sustainability
Loyola University Chicago
Co-sponsored by Office of Mission and Identity and The Institute of Catholic Studies
May 22 - June 4, 2022
Ignatian Camino Pilgrimage
JCU Campus Ministry students with Creighton University and Xavier University
July 28, 2022 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Lecture and Luncheon
Fr. Xavier Jeyaraj, SJ, the Secretary of the Social Justice and Ecological Secretariat of the Society of Jesus, will present, Mining, Indigenous Peoples, and the Environment in Light of the Universal Apostolic Preferences. We hope you can attend in person or virtually.
July 31, 2022 (Celebrated Friday, July 29, 2022)
Feast of St. Ignatius Mass and Community Picnic
All are welcome to join the JCU community as we celebrate the Feast Day of Saint Ignatius Loyola (July 31st), on Friday, July 29, 2022.
Mass - 12:00pm - Saint Francis Chapel
Rev. Thomas Pipp, S.J., Presiding
Picnic Lunch - 12:45pm - Main Quad
(In case of rain: LSC Conference Room)
Ways to be involved all week
Attend daily Mass at 12:05 PM in St. Francis Chapel
Sunday, January 29th
9:00 PM Mission Week Mass
St. Francis Chapel
Presider: Rev. Joseph Hilinski, Delegate for Ecumenical and Interfaith Affairs
Followed by Dessert Reception in Interfaith Commons
Monday, January 30th
7:00 PM "A Tale of Two Saffron Growers: Jewish & Christian Culture in Late Antiquity"
Dolan Center for Science and Technology - Donahue Auditorium
Speaker: Noah Bickart, Ph.D., Mandel Chair in Jewish Studies, Theology and Religious Studies.
Sponsored by: The Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Chair in Jewish Studies and the Office of Mission and Identity
Tuesday, January 31st
4:00 PM Celebration of Service Awards Ceremony
Dolan Center for Science and Technology - Muldoon Atrium
2023 Presentation of Edmund Campion Student Service Awards, and Curtis W. Miles Faculty Service Award.
This year we honor: Selena Alamir (Junior), Sydney Burger (Sophomore), and Malia McAndrew (Faculty).
Followed by Dessert Reception
Sponsored by: Center for Service-Learning and Social Action and the Office of Mission and Identity
Wednesday, February 1st
12:00 - 1:30 PM Faculty and Staff Luncheon and Lecture: Beyond Inclusion - Inclusive Education for Civic Participation
D.J. Lombardo Student Center - LSC Conference Room
Speaker: Bryan Dewsbury, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biology, Florida International University
Thursday, February 2nd
12:00 - 1:30 PM Faculty and Staff Luncheon and Discussion: Interreligious Understanding for Inspired Futures
D.J. Lombardo Student Center - LSC Conference Room
Presenters: Noah Bickart, Ph.D., Edward P. Hahnenberg, Ph.D., Zeki Saritoprak, Ph.D., V.P. for DEIB, Naomi Sigg
Friday, February 3rd
12:00 - 2:00 PM Breaking Bread: Bites of Interfaith Conversations for Students
D.J. Lombardo Students Center - Interfaith Commons
Sponsored by: Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion
John Carroll University is a Jesuit Catholic University in Cleveland, OH in the United States. As part of the University's celebration of the Ignatian Year, we are hosting a virtual international panel of students who will share their concerns and hopes about climate change and our individual and institutional responses to this ecological, social, and economic humanitarian crisis.
This event will take place on THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2022 AT 3 PM EST so that as many people from around the globe can attend as possible. It will be recorded and posted so people can view at more convenient times.
Our panelists will consist of students and recent alumni from: Ecuador, India, Peru, South Africa, Spain, United States of America.
The panel is being sponsored by John Carroll's chapter of Alpha Sigma Nu (ASN), the Jesuit Honor Society, in partnership with the ASN central office, and the International Association of Jesuit Universities (IAJU). We invite all students to join us for this interactive virtual experience. Share your own concerns and hopes as together we participate in the Ignatian Year, when we are invited to:
Care for Our Common Home
Journey toward a Hope-filled Future
Walk with the Excluded
Show the Ways to God Through the Spiritual Exercises and Discernment
Opening Prayer by Carla Macedo
Carla Macedo is a business engineering student at Universidad del Pacífico in Lima, Peru. She is currently president of the Alpha Sigma Nu chapter at her university and at The Lions Club International, the world's largest volunteer organization. She is also a Real Estate Solutions intern at Interbank in Lima, Peru.
Panelists
Allesandra Badajoz is an economics student at Universidad del Pacífico in Lima, Peru. She is the president of Sustainable Action (ACSOS), a student organization that promotes environmental awareness. She is also and AIESEC volunteer promoting projects to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and a member of "Generation 10", program of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
Juan Galera Calleja is in his fourth year of a double bilingual major in Business and International Relations, at Loyola University in Sevilla. He serves as the President of their Alpha Sigma Nu Chapter. He is passionate about history and politics, exercising, reading, and writing. Throughout his time at Loyola, he has been involved in multiple activist networks, the most recent being the drafting of 95 legislation proposals to be presented to the EU Commission, Council, and Parliament, of which more than half had to do with climate change and sustainability. He and his fellow officers are also actively committing their ANS chapter to collaborate with local farms and educate young people on just and sustainable farming.
Maurice Condor is from Ecuador, a "small country with an amazing culture." He studies International Business in Quito at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador. Last year, he participated in the Jesuit sponsored Magis Exchange program in Spain. He has a deep love of nature and a particular passion for water. He appreciates the different conceptions that water has in different cultures, not only for its beauty but also because it has an intrinsic value. Water quality is an important issue for him.
Christine Dewyer Charlotte is from Villa Park, IL, outside of Chicago in the United States. She is a student in Loyola University Chicago's new School of Environmental Sustainability. She is an Environmental Studies major with a minor in Sustainability Management. She has been a member in the Student Environmental Alliance and has held two educational internships with The Romero Institute and Illinois Public Interest Research Group, which promote the environment and sustainability. She is very passionate about the future of our collective natural environment.
Noluthando Honono is a student from South Africa.
Hiramoni Kalita is a student in India.