Loyola Productions has launched a new service a YouTube channel dedicated to promoting the works and mission of the Society of Jesus. Here’s a great story on sustainability at LMU.

If you want to be a Jesuit, you ought to see what life is like for a Jesuit novice. This means a visit to the one of the two novitiate sites for the West Coast Jesuits. The novices spend time in both Portland and Los Angeles and so can you.

A few things to know before you go on a Candidates Weekend.

1–The weekend is very informal.
It’s main point is for YOU, the man seeking, to EXPERIENCE other CANDIDATES SEEKING.  So don’t expect much lecturing, preaching, power points, or small group discussions. Do expect …

 
In the year 1611, French Jesuits first entered into what is now Canada.

Filled with missionary zeal they lasted two years before returning to France to regroup. But they came back! And founded the first college in Canada in 1635 beating Harvard’s founding in the States by one year. And have never looked back ministering to the First Nations as well as wave after wave of arrivals from all parts of the world. We celebrate and hope to imitate their unquenchable missionary spirit!
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In celebration of his feast day we are featuring The Olive’s take on St. Ignatius.  This short video is the good work of the folks at Fairfield University and was originally produced as part of the faculty and staff orientation to that Jesuit university. Enjoy.

Ever wondered what is at the root of Ignatian Spirituality?  What do we return to again and again to get our bearings?

The Spiritual Exercises, of course.

The sense of the spiritual exercises can perhaps best be summed up by the introduction, titled “the first principle and foundation.”
The human person is created to praise, reverence, and serve God Our Lord, and by doing so, to save his or her soul.
All other things on the face of the earth are created for human beings in order to …