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Nearly three months after the historic election of the first Jesuit Pope, the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), the largest order of priests and brothers in the Roman Catholic Church, ordained 16 new priests in the United States.
June 4, 2018 — The Society of Jesus is proud to announce the ordination of 27 new priests in the United States, Canada and Haiti. We invite you to meet each ordinand by clicking on their photos in the right column.
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Fr. Erik Sorensen, SJ, was ordained to the priesthood on August 4 at Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel in Montreal by Cardinal Michael Czerny, SJ. Next, he will pursue doctoral studies in liturgy and interreligious dialogue with Indigenous peoples.
June 19, 2020 —The Society of Jesus is proud to announce the ordination of 15 new priests in Canada, the United States and Haiti this calendar year. Ordinands at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry.
- Introduction
- Our Common Mission
- Priesthood at The Service of The Church
- Characteristic Activities
- Present Tasks
- Drawing on Our Tradition
- The Stages of Ministry
- Recommendation to Father General
1. Dynamic movements in Church and society suggest that we undertake a specific consideration of the priestly dimension of Jesuit life more complete than the last three Congregations were able to offer. We present not an elaborated theology of priesthood, but only a way of considering the priestly dimension of Jesuit identity and mission in the lig...
6. The Epistle to the Hebrews says that Christ is “a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God” who makes “a sacrifice of atonement for the sins of the people” (Heb 2:17). Through their baptism, Christians participate in Christ’s priestly work of reconciling the world to God and are called to mediate this reconciliation in their lives...
7. By their ordination, Jesuit priests also share in the ministerial priesthood by which Christ, through the gifts of the Spirit, unceasingly builds up his Church, guides his people through the pastoral office and leads them into the Kingdom of his Father.The Companions of Jesus who offer themselves to the Church for priestly ministry do so because...
10. Inspired by Christ, “the first Evangelizer,”and by the example of Ignatius and his first companions, Jesuit priestly service is exercised through a wide range of ministries. The Apostolic Letters of Paul III (1540) and Julius III (1550) approve a whole series of activities proper to Jesuit priests: ministries of the Word and ministries of inter...
13. Within the varied contexts in which the Society’s contemporary mission is conducted, common tasks are to be found: how to find words that speak to the men and women of our time who are no longer moved by the Christian message; how to be faithful to the tradition of the Church and at the same time interpret it in secularized cultures; how to min...
16. The way in which Jesuits exercise their ministerial priesthood takes its character from our apostolic mission to labour with Christ in proclaiming the Kingdom.Our first companions envisaged a universal, itinerant ministry of evangelization, teaching, works of charity and poverty of life: an evangelical imitatio apostolorum, a radical pattern of...
23. Each stage in the preparation for and exercise of priestly ministry introduces a new element which modifies and strengthens a man’s identity as a Jesuit: he moves, first of all, from the life of a scholastic to accepting the Church’s call to ordination. Then, working through the challenges of being a young priest, he will undertake active minis...
31. General Congregation 34, while in full accord with the Society’s charism and its desire to be available for mission, nevertheless firmly restates the Society’s tradition to resist, insofar as is compatible with obedience, nominations to the episcopacy. For Saint Ignatius this principle was vital for the mission and well-being of “this least Soc...
June 13, 2016 — This month, the Jesuits are celebrating the ordination of 20 new priests in the United States, Canada and Haiti. Fr. Kevin Spinale, SJ, (second from left) and Fr. Christopher Ryan, SJ, (second from right) were ordained at Fordham University Church.
June 5, 2019 —The Society of Jesus is proud to announce the ordination of 22 new priests in Canada, the United States and Haiti. We invite you to meet each ordinand by clicking on their photos in the column to the right.
