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Ignatian Heritage Week, held from March 20 \u2013 24, is a week-long celebration honoring Â鶹ÊÓƵ\u2019s Jesuit heritage and tradition, as well as the historic presence of Jesuits around the world. The week includes a collaboration of performances, films, lectures and presentations that focused on Jesuit identity and principles.<\/p>\n
The week-long celebration was launched on Monday at noon with an event, Mission and Ministry Lunch: The Ignatian Adventure, where The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola<\/em> were discussed.<\/p>\n Additional events varied and included Java with the Jesuits, where students enjoyed pastries and coffee with some of the campus\u2019 most well-known and well-loved Jesuits, yoga with a guided meditation focused on Ignatian Spirituality and a At each event, campus ministry raffled off books by prolific Jesuit speaker, Rev. James Martin, S.J., who will be on campus this evening. His speech, \u201cMeeting the Christ of Faith and the Jesus of History,\u201d is part of The John Tagliabue \u201967, H \u201905 Lecture Series. Fr. Martin\u00a0is the editor at large of\u00a0America<\/em>\u00a0magazine\u00a0and bestselling author of\u00a0Jesus: A Pilgrimage<\/em>,\u00a0The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0My Life with the Saints<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cThe programming this week, highlighted by The Tagliabue Lecture with Fr. Martin, are all invitations to broaden and deepen our understanding of our Jesuit identity in order to live it out daily.\u00a0We’re part of a rich history and it’s exciting to celebrate it,\u201d said Jason Downer, S.J., special assistant to the vice president of Mission and Ministry.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ignatian Heritage Week, held from March 20 \u2013 24, is a week-long celebration honoring Â鶹ÊÓƵ\u2019s Jesuit heritage and tradition, as well as the historic presence of Jesuits around the world. The week includes a collaboration of performances, films, lectures and presentations that focused on Jesuit identity and principles. The week-long celebration was launched on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":5715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,5,2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-current-students","category-faculty-staff","category-future-students","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogs.dir\/230\/files\/2017\/03\/Fr.-Martin-1024x683.jpg\")
memorial Mass for Benjamin A. Michalik, Ph.D. Students also participated in the Muslim Student Association Dinner and watched The Mission<\/em>, a movie about Jesuits in South America in the 1600s. The week concluded on Friday with an Arts on Bergen Concert: Reeds, Rhythm, and All that Brass, held at St. Aedan\u2019s: The Â鶹ÊÓƵ\u2019s University Church.<\/p>\n