Become a Jesuit. Support Us. Support Our Work Menu. Jesuits Only. Conversations that Matter. Jesuit Conference of Canada and the U. Privacy Policy. All Rights Reserved. This ideal takes many forms at Canisius. It can be a service trip to South America, helping refugees at the Mexico border with the Kino Border Initiative, or it can be caring for children at an orphanage in Poland. Local service learning gives you the opportunity to see these problems face to face, and then examine them in the classroom, allowing you to question them academically - How did these people get to where they are now?
What are the events that happened to have led them to this point? What is the bigger issue at the root of all of this? I was able to see this ideal fully realized as a student leader for Be The Light , a youth theology institute Canisius offers for high school students. Through this experience, I was able to see the cause and effect that change can have and how such deep rooted societal issues develop, actively putting this Jesuit ideal into practice.
Students are encouraged and expected to become leaders within our campus community, as well as devote time to service work in the city of Buffalo.
Whether this takes the form of participating in our student government or delivering food to those in need, we offer hundreds of ways to get involved and unlock different aspects of yourself.
Magis is a place where your knowledge of the world and your hunger for change meet. This is the total understanding of who you are, what the world needs of you, and how you will choose respond. This is a life lived as a continuous response to the question: How can I be more, do more, give more? This motto can be applied to most every aspect of your life: in school, service, career, family, the list goes on.
Ignatius died in and was canonized a saint in Ignatius left two great legacies. He founded the Society of Jesus in , together with nine companions, and became their first Superior General with headquarters in Rome. He also wrote the Spiritual Exercises, a treatise on prayer. Today it is the basis for a growing apostolate of retreats and spiritual direction. Contact information below. Ignatius Loyola was the founder of the Jesuit religious order.
During a battle with the French, his leg was shattered by a cannonball. He spent his time in recovery reading books about Saints legends and an illustrated Life of Christ. He became especially inspired by the teachings of St. Francis of Assisi and St. When he recovered, he decided to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, where he felt he could be closer to God.
During his journey, he spent much of his time in Manresa, Spain, in prayer sometimes for as much as 7 hours a day. He began to write down his insights about God and who God was for him, forming the basis for his spiritual exercises which are still practiced today.
In each he was imprisoned and interrogated by the Inquisition, because he kept speaking to people about spirituality without having a theology degree or priestly ordination. While in school, he became close friends with like-minded men who decided to bind themselves together in an apostolic community that became the Society of Jesus. Ignatius of Loyola and his companions founded the Society of Jesus in
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