Religious Vocations Ministry
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In collaboration with the Jesuits USA East Vocations Office, the St. Ignatius Catholic Community actively promotes religious vocations in general and vocations to the Society of Jesus in particular. Prayers for vocations are a regular part of the Sunday liturgy. In June 2025, the community was rededicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus – a devotion with deep historical and spiritual significance for the Society of Jesus. Intercessions will seek to promote religious vocations. St Ignatius’ videographers are interviewing its priests, sisters, and deacons to learn how they discerned their call to religious life and the greatest gift of that life. In November 2025, St. Ignatius’ Parish Religious Education Program (PREP) will include attention to religious vocations and will host a visit by a Jesuit. On the first Sunday of each month beginning in November 2025, St. Ignatius will also commission a PREP family to pray for vocations through the “Pass the Vocations Chalice” effort. -
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The Jesuit Way: Learning to Lead in the Heart of the Bronx
An inside look at how Jesuits are formed at Fordham, where philosophy and community engagement are a way of life
From left: Jesuit scholastics Noah Smith, Luke Olsen, and Jackson Graham outside of Ciszek Hall. Photos by Taylor HFor nearly 500 years, the Jesuits have been forming Catholic priests and brothers for leadership in education and service. Since 2021, a new model for a key part of that process has taken shape in a modest brick building in the Bronx.
Ciszek Hall is home to 17 Jesuits in formation—seminarians and brothers who completed the two-year novitiate and are taking Fordham graduate courses in philosophy and other disciplines through the Jesuits’ First Studies program. Crucially, Ciszek’s doors aren’t located on campus but on Belmont Avenue.
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Welcoming our 2025 Jesuit Novices
Fr. George Witt, SJ, director of novices for Jesuits USA East, has announced that five novices completed first probation on August 31, 2025, and formally entered the novitiate at St. Andrew Hall in Syracuse, NY. Pictured above are Matthew Simms, Jacob Ihnen, Matthew Querfeld, Joseph Musante, and Noah Duclos. We give thanks to God for their generous response to His call. Please keep them in your prayers.
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2025 Ordinands
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2025 ORDINANDS
Jesuits Celebrate Ordination of 22 New Priests
The Society of Jesus is proud to announce the ordination of 22 new priests in the United States, Canada and Haiti. We invite you to learn more about six that have become of Jesuit USA East.
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