"Jesuit education provides a rigorous course of study based on the liberal arts. We seek to educate for vision, for hope, and for responsibility. We want our graduates to be haunted for the rest of their lives by the question that grows out of faith: how can I with my life, and with the people I work with, do the greater good, provide the greater service? How can I the promote justice for every person, no matter how racially or culturally or religiously or economically different?" Fr. Edward Glynn, S.J.
Click here for a text of the homily of Edward Glynn, SJ, President of John Carroll University,
given at the Eucharistic Liturgy Wednesday morning, JSEA Colloquium Cura Aposolica June 2004

What are Jesuit high schools doing
to keep their high school Jesuit?

Jesuit Secondary Education Association

JSEA forum

Participating in JSEA sponsored events

The Jesuit Secondary Education Association sponsors many workshops and meetings which bring Jesuit high school teachers form across the nation together. Colloquiums, Workshops on Curriculum, meetings of Presidents and Principals as well as meetings of Pastoral, Service and, recently, Technolgy staff.

Participating in Missouri Province sponsored events

For the past few years, Veteran Faculty Retreats have been offered through the Missouri-Wisconsin Provinces. Missouri Province offers the opportunites for faculty to make a summer retreat. A few years ago, Missouri Province sponsored a SLU course on the Ignation Heritage for teachers from DeSmet and SLUH.

JSEA Bulletin Board

St. Louis U. High has a bulletin board in a very prominent location dedicated to the History of the Society of Jesus and JSEA News. There is a Jesuit Word/Symbol fo the Month (e.g. Magis, IHS), Jesuit Document of the Quarter (e.g. What Makes a Jesuit School Jesuit?, Jesuit Spirituality), the latest JSEA Newsletter, maps of the Jesuit Provinces and high school in each, biographical infomration about Ignatius, among other information which is changed and updated regularly. For more information, mail to Matt Sciuto, St. Louis U. HIgh

Daily examen

For more information, mail to Greg Meuler, Wisconsin Province

Put Ignatian history and ideals into the curriculum

The text of our first semester of Freshman Theology is Thomas Zanzig's Understanding Catholic Christianity. The first chapters deal with Identity and Development and Faith. The life of Ignatius is studied as an illustration of some key ideas in these chapters. the first chapter of William O'Malley's The Fifth Week is usually used, but much of the reearch is done on the internet centered on a web site created entitled Guiding Ideals in Jesuit Education. For more information, mail to Matt Sciuto, St. Louis U. HIgh

Prayer services around Jesuit ideals

At St. Louis U. High, freshmen meet as a class very Monday in the chapel for a 12 minute prayer service. During the second quarter, each Monday centers on a Jesuit theme or ideal. For more information, mail to Matt Sciuto, St. Louis U. HIgh

Ignatian luncheons

In school group meetings during the Colloquium gathering in Cleveland this past summer, the SLUH group discussed ways we might get faculty and staff together for conversation. It has developed that not as many faculty and staff were eating lunch in the faculty/staff dinning room. A suggestion was mentioned to have several lunches each month (sponsored by the school) that would bring faculty and staff together. The theme of the luncheons would be a celebration of being Ignatian Educators. The idea is based on the group "Teaching for Tolerance" national days of mix-it-lunches in schools for students.
So, twice a month we ask Food Service to prepare a special meal and members of the JSEA Colloquium prepare special activities such as quizzes on identifying Jesuit secondary schools by state or city; answering trivia questions about the JSEA; identifying Jesuit saints; or completing a crossword puzzle on "do you speak Ignatian?" At one luncheon the group distributed a Monthly Planning Guide for 2005 with "SLUH Ignatian Educator" on the cover.
The luncheons have been a big hit!

For more information, mail to Art Zinselmeyer, St. Louis U. High, Missouri Province

Ignatian Values Days

For more information, mail to Terry Terrell, St. Ignatius, Chicago.

Monthly discussion of a major Jesuit document

We will discuss

"Go Forth and Teach"
"Send Our Roots Rain"
"Four Hallmarks of Jesuit Pedagogy"
"Ignatian Pedagogy-A Practical Approach"

in the first semester. Our second semester reading list is still up in the air, although there has been some discussion of reading "What Makes a Jesuit School Jesuit?" and Monika Hellwig"s "Finding God in All Things".

For more information, mail to Jean Elliott, St. Louis U. HIgh