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Jesuit News @jesuits.bsky.social · Aug 27

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Jesuit News @jesuits.bsky.social · Aug 25

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Jesuit News @jesuits.bsky.social · Aug 25

This month, 22 Jesuit novices from the United States and Haiti professed first vows of poverty, chastity and obedience at five different Masses. AMDG!

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Jesuit News @jesuits.bsky.social · Aug 24

This summer, McQuaid Jesuit High students served as pallbearers at funerals for those who pass away without family or friends to carry them to their final resting place. It's part of the school’s commitment to service.

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Jesuit News @jesuits.bsky.social · Aug 22

In this week's "Now Discern This," Eric Clayton invites you to pray with three summertime vignettes as we come to the end of the season. www.jesuits.org/stories/now-...

Now Discern This: Praying with Summertime Scenes - Jesuits.org

In this week's "Now Discern This," Eric Clayton invites you to pray with three summertime vignettes as we come to the end of the season.

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Jesuit News @jesuits.bsky.social · Aug 22

A Jesuit artist is creating "pop icons" like you’ve never seen: ow.ly/zRlR50WHLEt

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Jesuit News @jesuits.bsky.social · Aug 21

Congratulations to Corey Trujillo, SJ, and Mike Mateo-Sebastian, SJ, of Jesuits West, who professed first vows in the Society of Jesus on August 9 at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. ow.ly/bji050WJU5A

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Jesuit News @jesuits.bsky.social · Aug 21

Happy 106th birthday to Sister Jean of @loyolachicago.bsky.social! 🎉 bit.ly/srjean

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Jesuit News @jesuits.bsky.social · Aug 20

Congratulations to the four Jesuits who professed first vows on August 6 at Notre Dame de Perpétuel Secours in Ouanaminthe, Haiti: Erick Germain, SJ, Wildersen Cyla, SJ, Angelain Pierre, SJ, and Livensky Basse, SJ.

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Jesuit News @jesuits.bsky.social · Aug 19

Cameron Bellm interviews singer-songwriter Jessica Gerhardt about her latest album and how Ignatian spirituality inspires her art. jesuitmedialab.org/an-ever-unfo...

An Ever-Unfolding Work of Art: The Ignatian-Inspired Music of Jessica Gerhardt - Jesuit Media Lab

Cameron Bellm interviews Jessica Gerhardt about her latest album and how Ignatian spirituality inspires her art.

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Jesuit News @jesuits.bsky.social · Aug 19

Congratulations to the eight @MidwestJesuits who professed first vows on August 9 in St. Paul, MN: Aidan Stenson, SJ, Timothy Long, SJ, Jonathan Herrington, SJ, Mark Trombley, SJ, Noah Smith, SJ, Taylr Bahr, SJ, Christopher Kinkor, SJ, and Robert Nichols SJ.

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Jesuit News @jesuits.bsky.social · Aug 18

Jesuit artist Nicholas Kerestan Leeper, SJ, is creating ‘Pop Icons’ like you’ve never seen.

Learn more: ow.ly/zRlR50WHLEt

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Jesuit News @jesuits.bsky.social · Aug 18

Today is the feast of St. Alberto Hurtado, a Chilean #Jesuit priest who founded Hogar de Cristo, houses for the poor in Chile. ow.ly/XQM450FT4TU

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Jesuit News @jesuits.bsky.social · Aug 17

In this week's Now Discern This, Eric Clayton reflects on a dying butterfly and how its life reveals what it means to flourish and flutter. www.jesuits.org/stories/now-...

Now Discern This: To Flourish and Flutter - Jesuits.org

In this week's Now Discern This, Eric Clayton reflects on a dying butterfly and how its life reveals what it means to flourish and flutter.

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Jesuit News @jesuits.bsky.social · Aug 15

#OTD in 1917, St, Óscar Romero was born in El Salvador. St. Óscar Romero, pray for us!

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Jesuit News @jesuits.bsky.social · Aug 15

#OTD in 1534, on the Feast of the Assumption, St. Ignatius and six companions — Peter Faber, Francis Xavier, Diego Laynez, Simão Rodriguez, Alonso Salmerón and Nicolás Bobadilla — professed their first vows at a Mass celebrated by Faber at Montmartre in Paris.

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Jesuit News @jesuits.bsky.social · Aug 14

Congratulations to Michael Audet, SJ, Fr. Garrett Ahlers, SJ, and Rajae Clarke, SJ, of Jesuits East, who professed first vows in the Society of Jesus on August 9 in Syracuse, New York. beajesuit.org

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Jesuit News @jesuits.bsky.social · Aug 14

Today is the feast of St. Maximilian Kolbe, a priest who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz. #qotd

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Jesuit News @jesuits.bsky.social · Aug 13

On the new #AMDG pod, Fr. Jack Bentz, SJ, who works in campus ministry at Gonzaga University, discusses his new podcast “Catholics in Ordinary Time,” centered on conversations with all different sorts of Catholics, and what he's been learning from them.

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Jesuit News @jesuits.bsky.social · Aug 13

Today is the feast of St. John Berchmans, a #Jesuit scholastic and the patron saint of altar servers, who died at age 22. ow.ly/vOWm50SWIbW

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Jesuit News @jesuits.bsky.social · Aug 12

Writer and artist Tara Kate invites us into an Ignatian contemplation of Piero di Cosimos' "The Visitation." jesuitmedialab.org/an-ignatian-...

An Ignatian Encounter at the Museum: The Visitation with St. Nicholas and St. Anthony Abbot - Jesuit Media Lab

Writer and artist Tara Kate invites us into an Ignatian contemplation of Piero di Cosimos' "The Visitation."

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Jesuit News @jesuits.bsky.social · Aug 12

Congratulations to Paul Gillam, SJ, Tom Laughlin, SJ, Jackson Graham, SJ, Viêt Vu, SJ, and Corey Jackson, SJ, who pronounced first vows in the Society of Jesus on August 9 at Regis University in Denver. beajesuit.org

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Jesuit News @jesuits.bsky.social · Aug 11

Fr. Richard D’Souza, SJ, one of the scientists who discovered that the Milky Way has a sister galaxy, has been appointed by Pope Leo XIV as the new director of the Vatican Observatory. He succeeds Br. Guy Consolmagno, SJ, next month.

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Jesuit News @jesuits.bsky.social · Aug 10

In this week's Now Discern This, Eric Clayton reflects on a visit to the shrine of Our Lady of Champion, the first approved Marian Apparition in the U.S.
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Jesuit News @jesuits.bsky.social · Aug 9

Please join us in praying for the 18 Jesuit novices who will pronounce first vows of poverty, chastity and obedience today at four Masses across the United States.

Learn more about Jesuit formation at beajesuit.org.

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