As the school year continues to pick up and the football season winds down to a finale, the Rugby team makes preparations for the start of its season in February.
Many Jesuit Rugby players, faculty members, and friends alike took part in the 11th annual “Score a TRY For Humanity” blanket drive and tournament on Oct. 22 at Postell Stadium....
We all know that although Christmas can be “the most wonderful time of the year”, it can also be the most stressful – endless shopping in order to find the right gifts for loved ones. But for some families, Christmas can become more of a burden then a blessing. These underprivileged families, stricken with misfortune and poverty, often cannot...
Starting the week of November 17th, the sophomore class started to collect reading glasses. These glasses all went to math teacher Mrs. Blackford’s family church, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Dallas.
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church has a program called the Honduras Mission Ministry, located in the city of Omoa, Honduras, which provides building materials for construction, Christian education, and clinics....
They were sinking buckets for charity. Playing in a basketball tournament is always fun, but the club “Brothers for Others” decided to combine fun with charity to raise money for one of the many organizations that they serve.
On January 23, the “Brothers for Others” club hosted their annual 3v3 basketball tournament. Teams enter the competition with an entry fee...
"Interact is an international Rotary-sponsored organization of community leaders who create positive, lasting change in their local communities and the global community through a motto of “service above self”. The name “Interact” is a call to International Action - it is a call to service and a call to increased international understanding." - Jesuit Dallas
On February 5th, on a...
How can we work to alleviate the pain of a child's broken heart? Over the past year, the Jesuit Community Service program has become directly tied to an extraordinary charitable organization: HeartGift. HeartGift provides lifesaving heart surgeries for children who live in nations where specialized medical treatment is either non-existent or scarce. These children suffer from a specific condition...
Fedora. Glasses. Mustache. Clenched shoulders. A mythic character touts into the spotlight with precise steps, his sleeves rolled up beyond the elbow to display an appropriate amount of the gun show that is his arms.
And then, he speaks:
“Ladies and gentlemen,” Mr. Donahue squeaks out to the gathering audience in the Lecture Hall, pronouncing ‘gentlemen’ not so gently, “We will...
“…To give and not count the cost, to fight and not to heed the wounds…” these are the words given to us from St. Ignatius in his prayer for generosity. This prayer embodies everything that Dallas Jesuit and other Jesuit schools across the nation strive for, characteristics like brotherhood, service before self, commitment, and integrity.
One specific characteristic that Dallas...
