Programs
Upcoming Programs
Employee and Alumni Service Day
Friday, February 23
Give back and serve with your peers during the Mission Week Alumni & Employee Service Event at Cradles to Crayons. Service will vary, but typically includes sorting donations.
You can choose either a morning shift (10am – 12pm) or afternoon shift (1pm – 3pm).
Lenten Reflections
Daily, starting February 14
Read reflections written by SJU Employees and local Jesuits. Register below to have these reflections emailed to you daily during Lent.
Mission Week
February 16 - February 25
Celebrate our University’s mission! This week-long celebration will include service opportunities, leadership seminars, discussions regarding our Jesuit Tradition and more! Click the button below to receive our “Guide to Mission Week”, a newsletter sent each day during Mission Week to help you celebrate our Mission!
Spiritual Exercises
A compilation of meditations, prayers, and contemplative practices developed by St. Ignatius Loyola to help you deepen your relationship with God. Participants will meet with a spiritual director weekly and can do the 5-week or 30-week version.
Connect with us
We invite you to join our mailing list to stay up-to-date on the latest events and initiatives from the Office of Mission.
If interested, we currently have the following committees/ taskforces that will be starting in the fall semester.
- Mission Week Committee - Email Eric Thompson (ethompso@sju.edu) if interested.
- Interfaith Taskforce - Email Eric Thompson (ethompso@sju.edu) if interested.
- Refugee Working Group - Email Beth Ford (emcnamee@sju.edu) if interested.
Philadelphia Service Immersion Program
PSIP, Philadelphia Service Immersion Program, is a unique opportunity for students to participate in community service, explore historic and cultural destinations in the Philadelphia area, and foster a community amongst your peers rooted in the Jesuit mission of being with and for others.
PSIP is offered in multiple formats, including an early move in experience for first year students, an early move in experience for upperclassmen, and an immersion experience over fall break.
Spiritual Exercises
For over 50 years, members of the SJU community of many different faith traditions and those who have no particular tradition at all have participated in doing a version of the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola, a 500-year-old process of reflection on daily life and considering the movement of God’s spirit.
The Spiritual Exercises are a method of speaking to and listening to God daily; an honest self-evaluation weekly with a person experienced in leading persons through meditation and contemplation. There are a few versions:
- 24 weeks - This is called the 19th Annotated Exercise
- 5 weeks
- Ignatian Exercises - The use of scripture for contemplation and the practice of the daily “examen” for greater integration of prayer and work. This is also called the 18th Annotated Exercises.
If you are interested or have any questions, please contact the Office of Mission (officeofmission@sju.edu) or fill out this form and a member of the office will be in touch.
Ignatian Spirituality and Leadership Conference
St. Ignatius of Loyola was one of the most effective leaders in human history. His methods and practices allowed him to establish and lead one of the world’s most successful organizations, the Society of Jesus.
SJU is proud to host its fifth annual Spirituality and Leadership Conference. We invite you to learn new tools for enhancing self-awareness and methods for personal discernment and healthy group process. Feel energized, inspired and ready to lead for the greater good!
SJU Community Garden
The Saint Joseph's University Community Garden serves as an intersection for sustainability and social justice by providing an intentional and reflective space for the SJU community to come together and promote the Jesuit ideals of appreciation of things both great and small, community engagement, and commitment to service and the environment. All food, herbs, and spices grown in the organic, raised-bed garden will be donated to one of several community partners. Since breaking ground in our Merion Campus location in April 2019, we have donated over 930lbs of produce to local organizations and SJU’s food panty, HawkHub.
SJU Haiti Partnership
For the last six years, Saint Joseph’s University’s Project Haiti in Philadelphia has been assisting the 17 Jesuit grammar schools and 1 vocational school throughout Haiti. Since the earthquake on January 12, 2010, whose epicenter was just outside of Port-au-Prince, the Haitian Jesuits have started a new school system, called in French Foi et Joie. An official document emanating from a meeting of Jesuits in August 2005, entitled in French Projet de Fondation de Foi et Joie en Haiti and signed by the Provincial Superior of the Jesuits of French Canada, established Foi et Joie in Haiti.