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Spring 2010

Sacred Heart Jesuit Center, A Holy Caring Place for Senior Jesuits; Eight High Schools with Higher Aims; Amazing Grace at Alcatraz; Rising Diversity: Making Choices; The El Salvador Martyrs: Crosses to Liberate the Poor.

Fall 2009

Novitiate: Where the Jesuit journey begins; Get on the bus for a family visit to prison; Restorative Justice heals broken lives; Knocking at midnight; 2008 Honor Roll of Benefactors; and more.

Spring 2009

Responding to the call of Christ; dreams come true for at-risk students at Sacred Heart Nativity Schools in San Jose; four Jesuits on a mission in Fresno; Ignatian spirit at Blessed Sacrament Parish in Hollywood; Beatitudes for the Workplace; Reflections on World Youth Day in Australia.

Fall 2008

California Province Centennial Initiatives: Jesuit Retreat Center of the Sierra, Kino Border Initiative; Our Lady of Talpa inspires devotion in Arizona; plunging into reality in Los Angeles with Loyola High School students; becoming stewards of God's garden; smiles as visible signs of God's love; and more.

Summer 2008

Profiles of Jesuit and lay ministries; growing opportunities at Homeboy Industries in L.A.; Cristo Rey High School Sacramento; 2007 Honor roll of benefactors; conversion; mothering; and more.

Winter 2008

Inmates perform Shakespeare’s plays and share their faith in California’s San Quentin State Prison; a Jesuit priest describes his missionary work in rural Honduras; USF students listen as Cambodians cry out; responding to Christ’s call means getting out of the boat to walk on uncharted waters.

Fall 2007

Jesuit formation process; forming permanent deacons for the Church; new kind of high school with Ignatian values; Jesuit priest who practices medicine; discovering the historical Jesus; meditations on Ugandan martyrs.

Spring/Summer 2007

New winemakers at the historic Novitiate winery; vibrant Christian Life Community groups; defending St. Mary Magdalene; encountering “thin places” in our lives; Honor Roll of Benefactors 2006.

Winter 2007

Six illustrious Jesuits, life-changing immersion trips; Catholic Campus Ministry/Newman Center in Hawaii; Jesuit Institute for Family Life International Network; immigration issues; discernment of spirits.

Fall 2006

Our Ignatian family gathers in Georgia; Jesuits working around the world; Giving Hope: Ignatian Volunteer Corps; designing sacred spaces.

Spring/Summer 2006

PICO National Network is seeking justice in New Orleans; remembering California Jesuit missionaries in China; Jesuit astronomers serve at the Vatican Observatory in Arizona;"Finding God in All Things: An Ignatian Environmental Ethic."

Winter 2006

Jesuit volunteers serve the Southwest, fresh insights at the Loyola Institute for Spirituality, ethical thinking in a high-tech world, education beyond the comfort zone, celebrating the First Companions: St. Ignatius Loyola, St. Francis Xavier, and Bl. Peter Faber

Summer/Fall 2005

A Vietnamese Jesuit's faith journey, urban parishes embrace cultural diversity, bringing computer technology to Jesuit schools in Peru, "The Jesus Meditations" by Father Michael Kennedy, S.J.

Spring 2005

Brophy Prep is an oasis of Jesuit education in the Arizona desert, a Provincial prospective from Thomas H. Smolich, S.J., the Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos, "Who is Jesus: Deconstructing Da Vinci"

Fall 2004

Homeboy Industries - Father Fregory Boyle making it work, the power of faith in Honduras, developments within the California province.