Liturgies
Family, friends and alumni are welcome to attend all-school Masses and prayer services.
Masses and prayer services offer the chance for our community to come together in prayer and celebration of the Eucharist. In gathering together, we reaffirm our commitment to knowing, loving, and serving God and one another.
Strengthening community
Liturgies offer time and space for community to be encountered and strengthened. Periodically throughout the academic year, our students and staff gather together to pray, hear and reflect on Sacred Scripture, break bread, and celebrate the Eucharist. Mass and prayer services offer physical signs of Christ’s presence within and among us, and they remind us of the type of loving community that we are called to build and participate in.
Frequency
Students at Jesuit attend several all-school Masses during the school day in the Barry Gym in the Fall and Spring.
Additionally, they will attend one Mass each year with only their grade-level classmates in the Chapel of the North American Martyrs.
Students in the Liturgy Workshop class, a senior theology elective, coordinate with on-campus clergy and the Campus Ministry office in planning and leading liturgies on campus.
Prayer
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Prayer is a regular part of campus life at Jesuit. A morning prayer to kick off the day and an Ignatian form of prayer called the “Examen” after lunch are prayed daily over Jesuit’s PA system.
Creating relationship
Prayer is how one opens one’s mind and heart to God. It can take many forms, have a variety of intents, and be both personal and communal.
Ultimately, prayer is how we can make ourselves known to God and how God can make himself known to us. Any relationship requires communication to flourish, and prayer is how one communicates with God.
Part of daily life
At Jesuit, prayer is woven into nearly every part of campus life. It is, of course, encountered on retreat and in liturgy, but it is also more informally encountered in the team prayer said together before an athletic game, the lifting up to God of special intentions before a class begins, or the school-wide morning prayer and midday examen.