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Mission and Values

Parish Mission Statement

The love of Christ impels us to welcome all,
to worship joyfully and pray fervently,
to walk together with those in need,
and to reverence God in the wonder of Creation.

Rooted in our Catholic faith and values, and also, as a Jesuit Parish, we practice the art of Ignatian Spirituality–a spirituality for everyday life. It shows us how God is present in our world and active in our lives. It is a pathway to a deeper journey in prayer, good decisions guided by keen discernment, and an active life of service to others.

This deeper journey in prayer leads to a strengthened personal love for Jesus and discernment of finding God in all things. Ignatian spirituality calls us to focus on the stirrings in our heart, the use of imagination in prayer, the discernment and interpretation of feelings, and the cultivation of great desires and generous service.

Moved by our intimacy with Jesus, we are called to serve others in our Church, in our neighborhood, in our nation, and in the world. Pedro Arrupe, a former General Superior of the Jesuits, calls those formed in Ignatian Spirituality “men and women for others.” It is a call to service with a deep commitment to social justice and a radical giving of oneself to others.

It is in and through our community of faith that we receive the graces needed to persevere and grow in our relationship with Jesus Christ. It is through Ignatian Spirituality that we are woven into a tapestry of “contemplatives in action.”

Vision Statement Implementation Plan 2024

The Parish Council is delighted to announce twelve (12) new initiatives as part of the Parish’s Vision Statement Implementation project. The twelve initiatives will be launched over the next several months, with many beginning in Fall 2024. Additional details about each exciting program will follow, including how you can participate.

The initiatives are the result of the outstanding efforts of many individuals who worked tirelessly on the Vision Statement Implementation project and its four Working Groups. The four Working Groups—(1) We Welcome All, (2) We Worship with Joy, (3) We Walk Together with Those in Need, and ( 4) We Reverence God in the Wonder of Creation—are grounded in the Parish’s Mission Statement, whose beautiful words are the very foundation upon which our future will be built.

The 12 initiatives of our Vision Implementation project are:

Read the Full Vision Statement Implementation Plan

Parish Vision Statement

The Parish Vision Statement reflects a labor of love—love for the Church, love for our parish, love for our natural environment, and love for the people we are called to serve as disciples of Jesus Christ. This vision of what our future could look like brings our mission statement to life, wraps it in flesh, provides a rhythm for its heartbeat, and calls us to follow a path to a new paradigm of Church.

The Vision Statement is essentially an invitation to liberate ourselves from the comfort of simply conforming to habits of the past and to open our minds and hearts to new ways of being Church. This vision challenges us to embrace the future by responding to the crucial, compelling, and complex circumstances of today’s world.

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Laudato Si' Action Platform

In his encyclical, Laudato Si’, Pope Francis called upon the world to care for our common home, the planet that we share with all God’s children. It is both an individual and communal responsibility.

As the first formal action to be taken since publishing the parish’s implementation plan, the parish has adopted the Laudato Si’ Action Platform, a program of initiatives developed by the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.

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Our Apostolic Priorities as a Jesuit Apostolate

The worldwide Society of Jesus, whose members are Jesuits, has identified four vital areas of apostolic endeavor for the current decade ending in 2029. They are:

  1. SHOW THE WAY TO GOD through the Spiritual Exercises and discernment.
  2. WALK WITH THE EXCLUDED—the poor, the outcasts of the world, those whose dignity has been violated—in a mission of reconciliation and justice.
  3. JOURNEY WITH YOUTH by accompanying young people in creating a hope-filled future.
  4. CARE FOR OUR COMMON HOME by collaborating for environmental protection and renewal of the Earth, God’s Creation.

“With these universal apostolic preferences, we resolve to concentrate our vital energies during the next 10 years, 2019-2029.” — Father General Arturo Sosa, S.J., February 19, 2019

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