Celebrating with Our Partners

Fr. Richard McGarrity, SJ (far left) concelebrated the Mass with Fr. Grummer. The event was held in the Alumni Memorial Union at Marquette University. A similar event was scheduled for Feb. 3 in Omaha at Creighton Prep’s Henry L. Sullivan, SJ Campus Center. Another event will be held later this year in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.

Fr. Provincial James Grummer, SJ chats with one of about 300 Jesuit Partners who signed up for an October Mass and breakfast to meet the new provincial of the Wisconsin Province.

Today a deacon, a priest in June Archbishop Elden F. Curtiss of Omaha congratulates Marty Hosking, SJ after ordaining him to the diaconate at Creighton University’s St. John’s Church in November. Marty and Greg O’Meara, SJ are expected to be ordained to the priesthood at Gesu Church in Milwaukee on June 7. Marty is currently teaching Spanish at Creighton Prep. Greg is in his third year of theology studies at the Weston School of Theology in Cambridge, Mass.

Friends, family, Jesuits gather as Associates make promises

Eighteen Ignatian Associates making their first public promises look on as Fr. James Grummer, SJ, provincial for the Wisconsin Province of the Society of Jesus, blesses their pins during a liturgical celebration that followed two years of formation. Another 22 previously promised Ignatian Associates renewed their promises for 1 or 3 years at the September gathering in the Twin Cities area. The Mass, at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in St. Paul, concluded the annual retreat weekend for all associates who came from as far away as Omaha, Cleveland, and Milwaukee to the Franciscan Retreat House in Prior Lake. Fr. Larry Gillick, SJ directed the retreat. Ignatian Associates are lay people who desire to live their lives in accordance with the Gospel. They ground themselves in The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, have a desire to love and serve God (serving especially the more vulnerable in our world), and seek companionship in mission with the Society of Jesus. For more information, please contact Joan Shrout at 414-389-9540, or go to www.ignatianassociates.com on the worldwide web.

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