Tuesday, March 19, 2024

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August: most Jesuit students dread the thought of it. As temperatures hit their peak, so does anxiety: the anxiety of alarms buzzing early in the morning, the anxiety of heavy backpacks slung on shoulders, the anxiety that summer is reaching its end and school is fast approaching. For a lot of Jesuit students, band camp is starting, two-a-days are...
Each Wednesday morning, a flood of blue polos enters the Terry Center. There, the senior class meets before heading off to their senior service sites. Often unknown to the rest of the school, each service site is unique and offers different experiences for each senior. On Friday, February 14, with the help of the Campus Ministry Prayer Service team,...
The Terry Center, filled with Jesuit Dallas and Strake students, teachers, and guests, sit in anticipation for the mass said by Father Carlos Esparza S.J., class of '98. Father Esparza's return to Jesuit is preceded by working with the Department of Defense, joining the Jesuits, working at Jesuit Strake, and now preaching in Denver, Colorado. He returns to the...
The devastating flooding suffered by Houston this week has been impossible to ignore. Every day, more and more gut-wrenching images of entire neighborhoods submerged in water and families fleeing their homes appear on the news. Hurricane Harvey has killed over 30 people, and that number is likely to rise if the flooding doesn't subside. All of this is unfolding just...
What do Scooby Doo, 70's disco dancers, firefighters, Justin Bieber and Anchorman all have in common? The answer: Jesuit Homecoming. On the night of October 24, 2015, an endless stream of excited juniors and seniors filed into the front entrance of Alumni Hall, prepared to have the time of their lives, sporting the above costumes and others like them. This...
As we approach end of the Advent season, the Sacrament of Confession takes on heightened significance within the Catholic Church. Advent, a period of anticipation and preparation for the celebration of the birth of Christ, serves as a unique and opportune time for believers to engage in the spiritual practice of confession. The act of confessing one's sins and...
There was a time when one could circumvent the classrooms of Jesuit College Preparatory School without passing a single electronic device, save the occasional overhead projector. In this not-so-distant past, cell phones were a rarity on campus, and only the most dedicated programmers owned personal computers (PC’s).   These days of electronic disconnect are a thing of the past. According to...
Jesuit freshmen, sophomores, and juniors gather in the prayer courtyard, heads bowed in prayer, sending silent reflections to the Heavens. After introducing a new method of faith formation, Jesuit students can now visit the prayer garden during 4th, 5th, and 6th period to say a rosary led by either Mr. Knight or Mr. Ornelas. This prayer time was engineered as...

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