JVC expands a regional tradition
The Jesuit Volunteer communities located in what had previously been part of JVC South and JVC Southwest were named for people who worked for justice. Now as one united organization, JVC has carried this tradition over into the rest of the organization.
The international program is currently undergoing the same process. All of JVC's communities will have names by 2013.
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Albuquerque, NM - Casa Carlo Carretto
Carlo Carretto was born in Italy in 1910. As a young man, he became a part of the Catholic Action youth movement, which sought to engage the laity in spreading the religious and social message of the church.
In 1954, he decided to join the Little Brothers of Jesus, a community of desert contemplatives in a remote oasis in the Saharan desert. During his time here, he wrote and published Letters from the Desert, in which he described his desert experience as a place of encounter with God and a testing of his faith. Ultimately, he believed that the search for God in the desert must lead us back to our fellow human beings.
Atlanta, GA - Sojourner Truth House
Sojourner Truth was born into slavery as Isabella Van Wagner in 1797 and was not released until 1827. She changed her name to Sojourner Truth in 1843. Inspired by her faith, she transformed herself from a domestic servant into an itinerant Pentecostal preacher.
Truth was by a fiery abolitionist, feminist, dynamic preacher, spellbinding singer, not to mention a physically imposing person at almost six feet tall. Despite her illiteracy, she was considered a woman of great intellect and had received some education from a Quaker family that she had lived with for some time. Although there is some debate as to if she gave the Ain't I a Women speech that she is famous for, there is no doubt that she was an amazing woman who’s message continues to inspire those in our world who fight oppression.
Austin, TX - Casa Pier Giorgio Frassati
Pier Giorgio Frassati was born in Turin, Italy, to an affluent and influential family. An outdoorsman and mountain climber, he combined a deep love for Christ, a desire to serve the needy, and a mission to imbue society and politics with Christian ideals.
Frassati gave what he had to others. When he died at the age of 24, his family expected Turin's elite and political figures to attend the funeral, but they were surprised to find the streets of the city lined with thousands of mourners, most of whom were the people whom he served so unselfishly for seven years.
These mourners in turn, were surprised to learn that the saintly young man came from such an influential family. He is an example of a young man of deep faith with a humble commitment to serve people who are poor and marginalized.
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Baltimore, MD - Arrupe House
Pedro Arrupe, SJ, was the 28th Superior General of the Society of Jesus. He led the Society in the realities of serving the Church and people in the Post-Vatican Council II world. Arrupe was a man of great spiritual depth who was committed to justice.
Boston - Henri Nouwen House
The internationally renowned priest, author, respected professor, and beloved pastor Henri Nouwen wrote more than 40 books on spiritual life.
Born in Nijkerk, Holland, in 1932, Nouwen felt called to the priesthood at a very young age. He was ordained in 1957 as a diocesan priest and studied psychology at the Catholic University of Nijmegen.
In 1964, he moved to the United States and maintained correspondences with friends in English, Dutch, German, French, and Spanish. He reached thousands through his Eucharistic celebrations, lectures, and retreats.
Since his death in 1996, ever-increasing numbers of readers, writers, teachers, and seekers have been guided by his literary legacy.
Bridgeport, CT - Beannacht House (House of Blessings)
Our community name comes from the poem Beannacht (pronounced BAHN-ukth) by John O'Donohue. Beannacht is Gaelic for "blessing." We as a community feel very strongly that we are truly blessed in so many ways. Our community is a blessing, our experience as JVs is a blessing and our relationship to the city of Bridgeport is a blessing.
Brooklyn, NY - Shirley Chisholm House
Shirley Chisholm was the first African-American woman elected to Congress in 1968. As a Democratic candidate in the 1972 presidential primaries, she was also the first African-American to run for the position on a major party ticket.
The daughter of immigrants from the Caribbean, Chisholm grew up in, and represented, Bedford-Stuyvesant and other parts of Central Brooklyn. Before her death in 2005, she was known as an outspoken advocate of minority rights, a strong critic of the Vietnam War, and a proponent of education and social services such as health care and child care.
She is well known for visiting George Wallace, who held many opposing political and social views, in the hospital after he was shot. The two of them worked with a spirit of cooperation that led to Wallace's support of Chisholm's minimum wage legistation.
Camden - Lillian Santiago House
Lillian Santiago was a neighborhood activist in Camden, New Jersey. Desite her small stature, she was known for chasing away drug dealers and their customers from her block.
She struggled early in life with alcohol and drugs, panhandled, and served time in jail. After she began attending Holy Name Church, she turned her life around and got involved with Camden Neighborhood Renaissance and advocated for stronger law enforcement.
She died at age 64 in 2006. The JV house was given many of her awards and plaques to help keep her memory alive.
Chicago, IL - Fr. Agustus Tolton
Agustus Tolton was born a slave in Missouri in 1854. He couldn't find a seminary in the U.S. that would accept him and eventually studied at the Pontifical Urbanian university in Rome for missionary work. (The U.S. was still considered a missionary country at the time.)
He became the first African-American Catholic priest when he was ordained in 1886. In his ministry, he was an advocate for religious opportunities for blacks. Before his death at age 43, he helped found the short-lived St. Joseph School for Black Children of Quincy, Illinois, and St. Monica's Catholic Church in Chicago.
In 2011, he was designated a Servant of god as part of the path to his cannonization.
Chicago, IL - Cardinal Bernardin House
Cardinal Bernardin is the former Archbishop of Chicago. He is known for his work with young adults, ministry to people suffering from HIV/AIDS, opposition to nuclear war, and the defense of the dignity of human life.
Cleveland, OH - Bill and Gene Merriman House
Bill and Gene Merriman are the "land-stewards" of the JVC Cleveland house. For decades they have been a essential voice in the neighborhood. They are actively involved in local justice issues and Bill is a deacon in the local parish.
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Detroit, MI - Solanus Casey House
Solanus Casey was a simple, humble, Capuchin priest. He worked in New York before being transferred to the Capuchin friary on the east side of Detroit in 1924.
He was assigned to be the doorkeeper and soon became known and loved by all. He brought about peace with an insistence on our relationship to, and dependence on, God and neighbor.
He made himself available people in need and brought comfort to those from every walk of life. His ministry of charity was especially noted during the great Depression when his actions inspired the Detroit Capuchins to establish their Soup Kitchen, a service of charity that continues to this day.
Detroit, MI - Rosa Parks House
Rosa Parks is most famous for being arrested in 1955 for not giving up her seat on a bus for a white rider in Montgomery, Alabama. Her actions inspired the Montgomery Bus Boycott. It lasted 381 days until the segregation ordinance was repealed when a U.S. Supreme Court ruling deemed it unconstitutional.
The U.S. Congress called her "the first lady of civil rights", and "the mother of the freedom movement." In 1996, as a result of her life-long activism for social justice, she was awarded the Medal of Freedom, which is the highest award given to an American civilian. She moved to Detroit in 1957, where she lived until her death in 2005.
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Harlem, NY - Ella Baker House
Ella Baker was a civil rights activist who lived and worked in Harlem for much of her life. More than simply being a leader and creative force behind many groups such as NAACP, SNCC, SCLC, and countless others, Baker was a devoted practitioner of participatory democracy, and valued the radical democratic process of change above all things.
She believed that all oppressed peoples could be and should be the voices and forces of change, and encouraged the students and young people whom she mentored to listen to and learn from the lives of those in the communities where they were engaged.
Hartford, CT - Agape House
Agape is Greek for the highest form of love, selfless, divine, unconditional, active.
In the New Testament, it refers to the covenant love of God for humans, as well as the human reciprocal love for God. In Christian theology, the term defines the love God has for all of creation.
Houston, TX - Casa Rutilo Grande
Rutilio Grande was born into a poor family from the town of El Paisnal, El Salvador, in 1928. He announced his desire to become a priest at the age of twelve and five years later entered the Jesuits.
He believed priests should set an example of self-sacrifice and loving service. Grande encouraged seminarians to spend time living among peasants in the countryside, learning to understand their struggles, and their faith. Grande’s sermons on social justice were infamous among the town’s elite, and there was pressure to silence him.
On March 12, 1977, he was accompanying two others to mass in El Paisnal when all three were killed by machine gun fire. After hearing of the murders, newly appointed Archbishop Oscar Romero went to the church where their bodies were laid and celebrated Mass. Grande's death was seen as a major influence in Romero's future role as a social justice activist in the region.
Houston, TX - Helen Prejean House
Sr. Helen Prejean was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and joined the Sisters of St. Joseph of Medaille in 1957. She began working in prison ministry and became pen pals with Patrick Sonnier, a convicted killer sentenced to die in the electric chair.
Prejean repeatedly visited him as his spiritual advisor. In doing so, her eyes were opened to the injustices of the execution process. She later wrote of her experiences in Dead Man Walking. Today, she continues her crusade, educating the public about the death penalty.
Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, Texas has led the nation with the number of executions, many of them taking place in Harris County, where Houston is located.
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Kansas City, MO - Lazarus House
The story of Lazarus of Bethany, also known as St. Lazarus or Lazarus of the Four Days, is one of Jesus's more prominent miracles from the Gospel of John. Christ restored him to life four days after his death.
Each of Jesus' seven signs in the Gospel of John illustrates some particular aspect of his divine authority. This miracle exemplifies his power over death.
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Los Angeles, CA - Casa Dorothy Kazel
Dorothy Kazel was an Ursuline Sister from the Diocese of Cleveland who spent six years in El Salvador working for the poor when she was martyred by a Salvadoran dealth squad on December 2, 1980, with Ita Ford, Jean Donovan, and Maura Clarke.
Los Angeles, CA - Casa Ita Ford
Ita Ford was a Maryknoll Sister who left Chile after eight years to respond to an urgent call for more missionaries in El Salvador following the dealth of Archbishop Oscar Romero. She was martyred by a Salvadoran dealth squad on December 2, 1980, with Dorothy Kazel, Jean Donovan, and Maura Clarke.
Los Angeles, CA - Casa Maura Clarke
Maura Clarke was a Maryknoll Sister who spent many years in Nicaragua and was known there as "the angel of our land." She was chosen by the Maryknoll Sisters to carry on her work in El Salvador. She was martyred by a Salvadoran dealth Squad on December 2, 1980, with Jean Donovan, Ita Ford and Dorothy Kazel.
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Milwaukee, WI - Br. Booker Ashe
Br. Booker Ashe is an African-American Franciscian that started the House of Peace in Milwaukee. He advocated for the poor and is a strong symbol of the Church working for justice in the city.
Minneapolis, MN - Archbishop John Ireland
John Ireland was the first archbishop of St. Paul, Minnesota, and was a leading religious and civic leader of his time who argued that the church should expand its agenda and engage in the great problems of society.
He emigrated from Ireland as a child with his family and settled in St. Paul. He wanted to help the Catholic immigrants who were suffering from social and economic discrimination and founded an organization that bought land in rural land to resettle Irish Catholics from urban slums.
He was a proponent of education and was part of the committee that established Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and secured the land for the Cathedral of Saint Paul.
Mobile, AL - St. Brigid House
St. Brigid is one of the patron saints of Ireland, along with St. Patrick.
It is believed that Brigid was born into slavery in 439 and was converted to Christianity by St. Patrick. She was granted her freedom when it proved impossible to curb her enthusiasm for giving alms. She would otherwise have impoverished her master through such unauthorized largesse.
Brigid’s only desire was “to satisfy the poor, to expel every hardship, to spare every miserable man."
Before her death in 524, Brigid became a nun, abbess and founder of two monastic institutions in Kildare, one for men, the other for women. She also founded a school of art and illumination and Kildare became a center of religion and learning.
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Nashville, TN - Bishop Joseph Durick
Born in Tennesse in 1924, Joseph Durick would become the first native-born Bishop in that state.
He organized Project Equality, a system in which businesses agreed to observe racial justice in their hiring and contracting. He was a visible witness of Catholic social teaching. He stood in opposition to influential people and politicians to be in solidarity with striking hospital employees and Memphis garbage collectors. (This was the labor conflict that brought Martin Luther King, Jr. to Memphis when he was assassinated.) He also spoke in opposition to the death penalty and the Vietnam War.
When he died in 1994, he was known as a man who was strongly committed to racial equality and was not afraid of the controversy that accompanied the voicing of his convictions.
New Orleans, LA - Henriette DeLille House
Henriette Delille was born in New Orleans in 1813, the daughter of free parents of mixed race. Though raised with the expectation that she would become the mistress of a man of means, Henriette was steadfast in her determination to become a nun.
Prohibited by law from joining an order of white women, Henriette co-founded the Association of the Holy Family, welcoming women of color who wished to take religious vows. These women taught slave children, established a hospice for the sick, and eventually established a school for girls from free black families. It was ten years after Henriette Delille’s death, in 1862, that the women of the order she founded were allowed to wear religious garb in public.
New Orleans, LA - Thomas Stahel House
Tom Stahel, SJ, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and ordained to the priesthood in 1971 as a Jesuit in the New Orleans Province. His vocation took him many places where the need for both heady and humble service was required of him.
He was the editor of the America Magazine, the novice director for the missions in Nigeria and Paraguay, and was called to leadership as the Provincial of the New Orleans Society. He was assigned to be the pastor of two parishes in New Orleans.
When Hurricane Katrina began flooding the city, he was one of the last people to leave. In the days afterward, he prayed the Luminour Mysteries of the Rosary for his city. When he reflected on the Lord's Baptism, he noted that the gospel says that "Jesus came up out of the water" ready for a new life and mission. "So should my city, I pray."
Newark, NJ - Oscar Romero House
As the Archbishop of San Salvador during El Salvador's brutal civil war, Oscar Romero became the "bishop of the poor" for his work defending the Salvadoran people. After calling for international intervention to protect those being killed by government forces, Romero was assassinated on March 24, 1980.
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Oakland, CA - Casa Dorothy Day
Dorothy Day co-founded the Catholic Worker movement with Peter Maurin in the 1930s. Her work began in New York City's Bowery with victims of the great depression. For the remainder of her life, she lived and worked with and among the poor in intentional Catholic Worker communities, which multiplied rapidly throughout the United States. Catholic Worker communities continue to abound throughout the United States, both in urban centers and on farms.
Oakland, CA - Casa Thea Bowman
Thea Bowman was a Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration. She had a strong sense of her identity as a black Catholic woman. In 1980, she helped to found the Institute of Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University in New Orleans. She became a renowned speaker and in 1989 addressed the US Bishops at their annual meeting. Sr. Thea died of breast cancer at age 53.
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Philadelphia, PA - Thomas Merton House
Thomas Merton, OCSO, was a Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky. He was a poet, social activist, mystic, and student of comparative religion.
Merton wrote more than 70 books and scores of essays on spirituality, social justice, and quiet pacifism. He was a proponent of interfaith understanding and pioneered dialogue with prominent Asian spiritual figures, including the Dahli Lama.
Phoenix, AZ - Casa Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth was born into slavery as Isabella Van Wagner in 1797 and was not released until 1827. She changed her name to Sojourner Truth in 1843. Inspired by her faith, she transformed herself from a domestic servant into an itinerant Pentecostal preacher.
Truth was by a fiery abolitionist, feminist, dynamic preacher, spellbinding singer, not to mention a physically imposing person at almost six feet tall. Despite her illiteracy, she was considered a woman of great intellect and had received some education from a Quaker family that she had lived with for some time. Although there is some debate as to if she gave the Ain't I a Women speech that she is famous for, there is no doubt that she was an amazing woman who’s message continues to inspire those in our world who fight oppression.
Phoenix, AZ - Bartolome de Las Casas
Bartolome de las Casas was a 16th-century Spainard, who would later become the first Bishop of Chiapas. This Dominican friar was an a social critic and one of the leading voices on behalf of the idigenous peoples of the New World. He wrote extensively but his famous Historia de las Indias chronicled the first decades of colonization in the West Indies, and particularly of the atrocities committed by the colonizers against the indigenous peoples.
Portland, ME - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ, was a French philosopher and Jesuit priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist.
In his book The Phenomenon of Man, he abandoned traditional interpretations of creation from Genesis in favor of a less strict interpretation. He curried disfavor from the Roman Curia and some of his positions were condemned in the encyclical Humani generis. His views were influential during the Second Vatican Council and in 2009, Pope Benedict XVI praised his idea of the universe as a "living host."
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Raleigh, NC - Mev Puelo House
Mev Puleo was an American photojournalist and young Catholic who actively confronted a world of injustice, poverty, and violence.
From witnessing homelessness in the United States to struggles for social change in Haiti, El Salvador, and Brazil, Puleo used photography and interviews to be a bridge between poverty and affluence.
Puleo’s familiarity with suffering, however, was dramatically intensified when she was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor at the age of 31. She died less than two years later.
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Sacramento, CA - Casa St. Ignatius
Ignatius de Loyola was the founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). He was the youngest of 13 children from a noble family in the Basque region of Spain.
In 1521, his leg was shattered in battle. During his recovery, his sister provided him with religious books to read, which led to his conversion and ultimately founding the Jesuits.
It was not an easy path. He was arrested by the Spanish Inquisition and was rejected by the Dominicans, too. But in his devotion, he developed the Spritual Exercises and eventually found a group of like-minded friends to join him.
The first Jesuits were ordained to the Catholic priesthood in Venice and offered themselves in service to Pope Paul III. In 1540, Paul III approved the Institute of the Society of Jesus. Ignatius was elected General Superior and served in that post until his death in 1556 at the age of 65.
Sacramento, CA - Casa Jane Addams
Jane Addams, as a recent college graduate, opened Hull House, a settlement house in a poor neighborhood of Chicago, in 1899.
The house was open to children and workers, many of whom were recent European immigrants. Many of the volunteers who came to live and work at Hull House were awakened to the struggles of the urban poor and became active in the Progressive Movement of the early 20th century.
San Antonio, TX - Casa Guadalupe
In December 1531, Juan Diego was on his way to Mass. As he passed the site of an ancient Aztec shrine, he heard someone calling his name and saw a young woman whom he thought was an Indian maiden. She instructed him to tell the bishop to construct a church on the hill.
Diego gave the message to the Spanish bishop who asked for a sign. When he next saw the woman, she told him to take the roses that were blooming out of season to the bishop. He put them in his cape when he opened it for the bishop, they discovered an image of the Lady on it.
This took place only 10 years after the conquest of Mexico and the native people were not interested in the Spanish religion. The image of the Lady had dark skin and native features. The style and colors of her clothes had symbolic references to the Aztec religion and culture. Also, she had spoken to Diego in his own language, Nahuatl, not Spanish. The Spanish had seen no conflict between their missions of conquest and evangelization, but it was an Aztec person who delivered a divine message.
San Diego, CA - Casa Celina Ramos
Celina Ramos was the daughter of the cook and housekeeper for the Jesuit community at the University of Central America in San Salvador. On November 16, 1989, she was martyred by a Salvadoran death squad, along with her mother and six Jesuits.
San Francisco, CA - Casa Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was Baptist minister, activist, and pivotal figure in the Civil Rights Movement. He believed in the power of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience.
King first came to prominence during the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 and he helped found the Souther Christian Leadership Conference in 1957. He is most well known for his "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington in 1963.
King was the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 and was assassinated four years later in Memphis, while he was there to support the garbage collector strike. He was postumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. January 21 was established as a federal holiday in his honor in 1986.
San Jose, CA - Casa Pedro Arrupe, SJ
Pedro Arrupe, SJ, was the 28th Superior General of the Society of Jesus. He led the Society in the realities of serving the Church and people in the Post-Vatican Council II world. Arrupe was a man of great spiritual depth who was committed to justice.
San Jose, CA - Casa Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela is a former president of South Africa, the first to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. He held office from 1994-1999.
Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist and the leader of the African National Congress’s armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe. Mandela served 27 years in prison, convicted on charges of sabotage, as well as other crimes associated with the movement against apartheid.
He was released from prison on February 11, 1990 and led his party in negotations that led to establishing a democracy in 1994. For his efforts, he was awarded the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with F. W. de Klerk, who was president of South Africa at the time.
Scranton, PA - Jane Jacobs House
Born in Scranton, Jane Jacobs was a writer and grassroots activist with interest in urban planning and its effects on neighborhoods. She wrote The Death and Life of Great American Cities, which criticized urban renewal policies of the 1950s.
She fought against renewal projects in New York City and Toronto that would bulldoze slums for high-rises or roadways. Instead, she advocated for more mixed-use development to create space for more diversity and community.
St. Francis, SD - St. Therese House
Thérèse of Lisieux was born in France in 1873. From a very young age, she felt a call to the religious life, and entered the Carmelite order at the age of 15. She was inspired by the Gospel to place love at the center of everything and became known for her "little ways," relying on small daily sacrifices instead of great deeds as a path to holiness.
Shortly before her early death at the age of 24, Thérèse wrote her autobiography, Story of a Soul, shedding light on her deep spirituality and relationship with God.
Thérèse of Lisieux, also known as “The Little Flower,” is a patron saint of missions because of her special love for the missions and the prayers and letters she gave in support of missionaries. On the centenary of her death, Pope John Paul II declared her a Doctor of the Church for her teachings and wisdom.
St. Louis, MO - Tim Wise House
Tim Wise is an American anti-racist activist and writer. He regularly speaks on university campuses and trained professionals in methods for addressing and dismantling racism in their institutions.
Wise argues that institutions have been set up to foster and perpetuate white privilege, and that subtle, impersonal, and even ostensibly race-neutral policies contribute to racism and racial inequality today.In 2010, Utne Reader listed him as one of the "25 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World."
Syracuse, NY - The Berrigan House
Daniel Berrigan, SJ, and his brother, Jerry Berrigan, have made a lasting impact on the region's peace advocacy community.
Daniel taught at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, and founded its International House. He was active in the antiwar protests during the Vietnam era and helped found the Plowshares movement to protest the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
Jerry taught at Onondaga Community College for 25 years. Into his later years, he was active in antiwar protests of Iraq and was arrested at age 88.
They were inspired by their mother who often took in strangers during the Depression and taught them about "a healing hand to the underdog."
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Tucson, AZ - Casa Ignacio Ellacuria
Ignacio Ellacuria, was a Spanish Jesuit priest who taught at the Universidad Centroamerica (UCA) in San Salvador, El Salvador. His academic work greatly contributed to the discipline of "liberation philosophy," which focuses on liberating the oppressed in order to reach the fullness of humanity. He was murdered by the Salvadoran army along with five other Jesuits and two staff members.
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Washington, DC - Horace McKenna House
Horace McKenna, SJ was the founder of SOME (So Others Might Eat) in Washington, D.C., and advocate of the Sursum Corda (Latin for lif up your hearts) Cooperative, a public-housing neighborhood in The District.
One of 12 children, McKenna was born in New York City, educated at Fordham Preparatory School, and entered the Society of Jesus in 1916.
During his time in the Philippines in the early 1920s, he learned in-depth about the desperate needs of the poor. He was active in the civil rights movement, Vietnam protests and the Poor People's Campaign. He opened SOME in 1970. McKenna Walk in Sursum Corda is named for him.
Washington, DC - Ramos House
On November 16, 1989, six Jesuits, with their housekeeper, Julia Elba Ramos, and her daughter, Celina Ramos, were murdered in their residence at the University of Central America in San Salvador, El Salvador. After, many Jesuits from around the world volunteered to come to El Salvador to continue the work of those who died.
West Harlem, NY - Magis House
Magis is a Latin phrase that means "more." It embodies the act of discerning the best choice in a given situation to better glorify or serve God, or Ad majorem Dei gloriam (for the greater glory of God).
It is an expression of aspration and inspiration. It does not always mean to do more or give more to exhaustion, but striving for excellence.
As in the Spiritual Exercises, we're encouraged to ask ourselves, "What have I done for God? What am I doing for God? and What more can I do for God?"
