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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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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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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.

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-...

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Learn more: ow.ly/zRlR50WHLEt

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

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.

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-...

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

#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.

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

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

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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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

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."

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

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

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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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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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.

Please pray for Mike Mateo-Sebastian, SJ, and Corey Trujillo, SJ, of Jesuits West, who will profess first vows of poverty, chastity and obedience on August 9 at @LoyolaMarymount in Los Angeles. jesuitswest.org/firstvows2025

Please pray for the three Jesuits East novices who will profess first vows of poverty, chastity and obedience on August 9 in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Syracuse, NY: Rajae Clarke, Rev. Garrett Ahlers, and Michael Audet. ow.ly/Czt850WBB2O

On this day in 1814, the Society of Jesus was restored after being suppressed by papal brief for 41 years.

On the new #AMDG pod, Brian Green, director of technology ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, discusses how the Vatican is approaching the complex issues surrounding AI and how a Catholic might think about whether or not to use AI tools.

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Fr. Pedro Arrupe, SJ, 28th Superior General of the #Jesuits, was ministering in #Hiroshima 80 years ago today on August 6, 1945, and used his medical training to help care for the wounded.

Read his account: ow.ly/Wi3S50Kea9I