Bro. John Moriconi, SJ

Can you say Mass?" "When will you be ordained?" "Can you get married?" These are questions that I often get when I tell people that I am a brother in the Society of Jesus, a religious order also known as the Jesuits.

 

Fr. Dan Homan, OSB,  retreat leader, speaker, author

When I am asked, "How did you know you were called to the Benedictines?" I wish I could say I had a vision or heard God's voice. It would be even better if I could say I had a "Joan of Arcadia" experience and encountered the Divine in one of God's disguises. But, alas, it did not happen that way.

 

Br. Jim Boynton, SJ, Vocation Ministry Asst., Detroit Province of the Society of Jesus

In 1671 Fr. Jacques Marquette, SJ, landed his canoe on the northern shore of the Straits of Mackinac, and established the mission of St. Ignace, named in honor of the founder of the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits, St. Ignatius of Loyola. Since I am a member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, some of my ancestors were certainly there to witness this event.