Moved to Greater Love: Electronic Prayer Experience for Lent and Easter

During the Lent and Easter season, the Society of Jesus in the U.S. has created a program of prayer and reflection that is open to all. Moved to Greater Love is a nine-week digital prayer experience that begins the week of Ash Wednesday and runs through the second week after Easter. The nine Jesuit provincials who authored the program describe it as “an invitation to magnanimity, silence, creativity and depth, calling us all to consider how God’s love burns away fear and opens us up to respond generously and wholeheartedly.” Read more

Lenten Film Series Starts Ash Wednesday

Hosted by Sr. Rose Pacatte,  FSP, this new seasonal series features seven film and TV clips released Ash Wednesday and each Wednesday thereafter, to highlight Lenten themes and foster reflection and conversation. “The Lenten Film Series offers viewers a unique, media-driven way to journey through Lent  using a variety of TV and film programs as meaningful spiritual guideposts,” said Sr. Rose. Read more

Second Annual Runners for Others: 5K Ignatian Run - Registration OPEN

Join us on Saturday, April 5 for the second annual Runners for Others: 5K Ignatian Run and 1 Mile Walk at Patterson Park in Baltimore. In addition to building community, the goal of the run is to raise awareness of the many Jesuit social ministries in the Baltimore metropolitan area. Participating institutions include Cristo Rey Jesuit High School, Ignation Volunteer Corps, Loyola Blakefield, Loyola University Maryland, Maryland Province Jesuits, St. Alphonsus Rodriguez Parish, St. Ignatius Church and St. Ignatius Loyola Academy. If you are interested in sponsorship or volunteer opportunities, please send your inquiries to ignatian5k@aol.com.                  Registration Here

Tour of Historic Jesuit Sites in Southern Maryland

In commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the restoration of the Society of Jesus, the Maryland Province is hosting a tour of historic Jesuit sites in Southern Maryland for friends and benefactors of the province. Among other stops, guests will visit St. Ignatius Church at Chapel Point, the oldest continuously active Catholic parish in the U.S., and St. Clement's Island, Maryland's first colonial landing. For pricing and further information, click here.

2014 Marks the 200th Anniversary
of the Restoration of the Society of Jesus

Pope Francis celebrated Mass at the Church of the Gesù in Rome in January with fellow Jesuits for the feast of the Most Holy Name of Jesus, which is also the official start of the yearlong commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the restoration of the Society of Jesus. Read more

Commemorative restoration events here

Pope Francis Canonizes Blessed Peter Faber, SJ

On his 77th birthday, (Dec. 17), Pope Francis canonized Jesuit Father Peter Faber, the companion of Saint Ignatius and a master of the Spiritual Exercises, in a decree of “equivalent canonization”.  Pope Francis has long admired Faber, "the silent companion" of the first Jesuits. Read more

Maryland Province Announces New Provincial

Father General Adolfo Nicolás, SJ, Superior General of the Society of Jesus, has appointed Father Robert M. Hussey, SJ, as the next provincial of the Maryland Province. He will succeed Father James M. Shea, SJ. Currently, Fr. Hussey is pastor and superior at St. Raphael the Archangel Church in Raleigh where he has served for the past five years. The new provincial will begin his term on the feast of St. Ignatius, July 31, 2014.
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