Ignatian Heritage Month
Each November, the Loyola University Chicago community comes together in a variety of settings to celebrate and reflect on our Ignatian heritage and its continued influence on our work today. Ignatian Heritage Month is both a tradition and an invitation to deeper contemplation and renewed action.
Examens & Podcast
Our Ignatian tradition is not limited to programs and events! This Ignatian Heritage Month, Examens and weekly podcasts are here for your continued reflection and inspiration at whatever time is convenient to you. Enjoy!
Calendar of Events
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Teilhard de Chardin S.J. Lecture featuring Sr. Ilia Delio, OSF
The Hank Center welcomes Sr. Ilia Delio as our 2025 Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. visiting Fellow in Catholic Studies. Professor Delio, who specializes in the area of science, technology, and religion, will offer this year's Teilhard lecture: "Incarnation and Evolution: The Catholic Vision of Teilhard de Chardin." The lecture will engage Teilhard's theological vision as a framework that offers valuable orientation for navigating contemporary challenges marked by rapid technological and social transformation.
LSC, 4th Floor Information Commons, 7:00-8:30 PM
Community Service & Action Art Contest
This contest celebrates artistic endeavors as it draws upon the Universal Apostolic Preferences (UAPs) set forth by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits): Caring for our Common Home, Journeying with Youth, Walking with the Excluded, and Showing the Way to God. We invite students to reflect on the UAPs and reflection prompts provided by CSA and then to create and submit photography, digital art, or photos of visual art that expresses their thoughts and reflections. Submissions open on Wednesday, October 8 and close on Sunday, November 2.
Friday, October 31, 2025
All Saints' Day Mass
LSC, Madonna della Strada Chapel, 5:15 PM
Saturday, November 1, 2025
Health Sciences Campus Ministry Food Drive for the Quinn Center
As autumn arrives and we prepare to celebrate Ignatian Heritage Month throughout November, we once again activate to support individuals and families in Maywood and the surrounding Proviso community through collective contributions to the Quinn Center's Annual Thanksgiving Food Drive. The Quinn Center offers year-round, comprehensive services, programs, and resources to hundreds of local families. They are a valued partner in our shared mission of holistic health and healing in our community! Find out ways you can support the cause at the link below.
HSC
Monday, November 3, 2025
Mass for the All Saints and Blesseds of the Society of Jesus
LSC, Madonna della Strada Chapel, 12:00 PM
Ignatian Heritage Month Lunch with the Jesuits
Get a free lunch while getting to know some of Loyola's Jesuits! All students, staff, and faculty are welcome. Each lunch is limited to ten guests.
LSC, Ignatius House
A Church for the Poor: Receiving Pope Leo's Dilexi Te
Tuesday, November 4, 2025
Reigniting the Mission Conference
WTC, Schreiber Center, 8:30 AM-11:30 AM
Invitation Only
Medicine and Bioethics Grand Rounds: Does it Still Matter? How the Jesuit Heritage Affects our Educational and Clinical Practice
Michael McCarthy, PhD, Rochella Ostrowski, MD, Michael Stokas, MD
Zoom, 12:00 PM-1:00 PM
Ignatian Heritage Month Lunch with the Jesuits
Get a free lunch while getting to know some of Loyola's Jesuits! All students, staff, and faculty are welcome. Each lunch is limited to ten guests.
LSC, Ignatius House
All Things Ignatian Special Topics: A Faith That Does Justice
Zoom, 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Register Here-Faculty and Staff Only
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Color(ism) and Ignatian Pedagogy: Richard Hunt @LUMA
How does Ignatian pedagogy guide arts-based conversation and reflection on color, colorism, and power through active engagement with Richard Hunt’s sculptures? Join us at LUMA (Loyola University Museum of Art) for an interactive, arts-based reflexive workshop with Seungho Moon, EdD, an expert in aesthetic education at the School of Education.
WTC, Loyola University Museum of Art, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM
Ignatian Heritage Month Kick-Off
LSC, Damen Student Center Atrium & Den, 1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Thursday, November 6, 2025
St. Albert's Day
HSC
St. Albert's Day Ethics Grand Rounds: Science in the Ignatian Tradition
Fr. Jarek Mikuczewski, S.J., MSc, Instructor, Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics
HSC, SSOM Room 190 (Tobin Hall), 11:45 AM-12:30 PM
Ignatian Heritage Month Lunch with the Jesuits
Get a free lunch while getting to know some of Loyola's Jesuits! All students, staff, and faculty are welcome. Each lunch is limited to ten guests.
LSC, Ignatius House
Thursday Night Mass
LSC, Ignatius House, 9:00 PM-10:00 PM
Friday, November 7, 2025
Sunrise Prayer at the Lake
LSC, Madonna della Strada Plaza, 6:00 AM
Journeys of Dignity: A Lecture Series on Migration through the Lens of Catholic Social Teaching and Jesuit Education
Migration and the Ministry of Accompaniment in the Jesuit, Catholic Tradition
Michael Gallagher, S.J., J.D., Former Deputy International Director, Jesuit Refugee Services
Zoom, 12:00 PM-1:00 PM
Ignatian Heritage Month Lunch with the Jesuits
Get a free lunch while getting to know some of Loyola's Jesuits! All students, staff, and faculty are welcome. Each lunch is limited to ten guests.
LSC, Ignatius House
Ignatian Heritage Month Volleyball vs. Rhode Island
LSC, Gentile Arena, 6:00 PM
Saturday, November 8, 2025
Campus Ministry Canned Food Drive
LSC, 8:00 AM-4:00 PM
Sunday, November 9, 2025
Mass of Remembrance
LSC, Madonna della Strada Chapel, 10:30 AM-11:30 AM
Monday, November 10
Ignatian Heritage Month Lunch with the Jesuits
Get a free lunch while getting to know some of Loyola's Jesuits! All students, staff, and faculty are welcome. Each lunch is limited to ten guests.
LSC, Ignatius House
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Mass with a Blessing for Veterans
LSC, Madonna della Strada Chapel, 12:00 PM
Lunch ‘n Learn More about Engaged Scholarship
Gather with faculty and staff colleagues during Ignatian Heritage Month to continue the dialogue around engaged scholarship! Faculty who have published and disseminated this inclusive type of research will share examples of their work, resources and practices that aid such scholarship will be featured, and lunch will be provided. Following the conversation, join a tour of the Women and Leadership Archives in Piper Hall to explore a treasure trove of material that supports engaged scholarship efforts.
LSC, Palm Court (Mundelein Hall 4th floor), 12:00 PM-1:30 PM
Ignatian Heritage Month Lunch with the Jesuits
Get a free lunch while getting to know some of Loyola's Jesuits! All students, staff, and faculty are welcome. Each lunch is limited to ten guests.
LSC, Ignatius House
All Things Ignatian Special Topics: A Faith That Does Justice
Zoom, 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
LSC & WTC Employee Book Clubs: Spiritual Criminals: How the Camden 28 Put the Vietnam War on Trial by Michelle Nickerson, PhD
LSC, Cuneo Hall, 12:00 PM-1:00 PM
WTC, Corboy Law Center, 12:00 PM-1:00 PM
Lunch provided
Register Here-Faculty and Staff Only
Ignatian Heritage Month Lunch with the Jesuits
Get a free lunch while getting to know some of Loyola's Jesuits! All students, staff, and faculty are welcome. Each lunch is limited to ten guests.
LSC, Ignatius House
Hank Center Book Discussion: Kristen Grady Gilger, My Son the Priest: A Mother's Crisis of Faith
The true story of a young man’s journey to become a Jesuit priest—written by his mother, a fallen-away Catholic who must come to terms with her son’s decision or risk losing him. It is an intimate, sometimes irreverent, and often searing examination of faith, family, and reconciliation.
LSC, Information Commons 4th Floor, 7:00 PM-8:30 PM
Thursday, November 13, 2025
HSC Employee Book Club: Spiritual Criminals: How the Camden 28 Put the Vietnam War on Trial by Michelle Nickerson, PhD
HSC, 12:00 PM-1:00 PM
Lunch provided
Register Here-Faculty and Staff Only
Ignatian Heritage Month Lunch with the Jesuits
Get a free lunch while getting to know some of Loyola's Jesuits! All students, staff, and faculty are welcome. Each lunch is limited to ten guests.
LSC, Ignatius House
Ignatius the Veteran Trivia Event
All students are welcome! Bring a laptop/phone to participate in the trivia game. There will be FREE food! This event is meant to celebrate both Veterans Day and Ignatian Heritage Month. We hope to see you there!
LSC, Damen Den, 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
"Beginnings of Loyola: Rooted in the Immigrant Experience" with Chicago Historian Ellen Skerrett
Chicago historian Ellen Skerrett is returning to the Lake Shore campus to discuss her further research into Loyola’s 19th century origins since the 2008 publication of Born in Chicago: A History of Chicago’s Jesuit University. Her visual presentation will feature archival gems highlighting Arnold Damen as a city-builder and his vision of urban education at LUC’s first campus home on Chicago’s West Side, now known as Saint Ignatius College Prep. Skerrett will also explore Fr. Damen’s invitation in 1867 to the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary who built the Mundelein College skyscraper (now part of LUC’s campus) and educated the mother of Pope Leo XIV.
LSC, Simpson Multi-Purpose Room, 4:00 PM
Thursday Night Mass
LSC, Ignatius House, 9:00 PM-10:00 PM
Friday, November 14, 2025
Journeys of Dignity Lecture Series Follow-Up Event
Details TBD
Saturday, November 15, 2025
Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice Starts
Sunday, November 16, 2025
Mass for the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Commemorating the Jesuit Martyrs of El Salvador, celebrated by Cardinal Blase Cupich
LSC, Madonna della Strada Chapel, 10:30 AM-11:30 AM
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Arrupe College "Cannonball Reflections"
WTC, 1:00 PM-2:00 PM
All Things Ignatian Special Topics: A Faith That Does Justice
Zoom, 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Thursday, November 20, 2025
Ignatian Heritage Month Tabling & Community Connections
Share how you practice our Jesuit values, celebrate our Ignatian heritage, and learn about how we can better “care for our common home” through the composting program coming to HSC. Free muffins and hot or cold apple cider provided. In partnership between HSC Ministry, the Office of Sustainability, & Handcut Foods.
HSC, Cuneo Center 2nd floor Atrium, 11:30 AM-1:00 PM
AJCU Affinity Group Luncheon
LSC, 12:00-1:00 PM
Invitation Only
Thursday Night Mass
LSC, Ignatius House, 9:00 PM-10:00 PM
Friday, November 21, 2025
The Sobrino Student Colloquium on Worship, Theology, and Justice
The Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage and Campus Ministry invite undergraduate students to participate in a research colloquium dedicated to the great Salvadoran priest and theologian, Jon Sobrino. This colloquium, bringing together undergraduate scholars from Loyola University Chicago and Marquette University, seeks to provide an opportunity for theological reflection rooted in worship and the Catholic intellectual tradition, and oriented outward in loving service to our world.
LSC, Information Commons 4th floor, 1:00 PM-8:30 PM
Monday, November 24, 2025
Employee Labre Outing
In the spirit of gratitude this Thanksgiving season and as we get closer to the end of Ignatian Heritage Month, faculty staff on the Water Tower Campus have the opportunity to participate in Loyola's homeless outreach led by Labre Homeless Outreach student leaders. We will meet in Baumhart Hall to make a simple meal and gather donations for outreach before walking around WTC to connect with neighbors experiencing street homelessness.
Invitation only.
WTC
“Let us make this immense richness a patrimony to improve contribution to the common good of humanity, struggling to make this world a home reconciled in justice.” Arturo Sosa, SJ, Superior General of the Society of Jesus, Address to the International Association of Jesuit Universities, August 2022
Resources
Calendar of Events
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Teilhard de Chardin S.J. Lecture featuring Sr. Ilia Delio, OSF
The Hank Center welcomes Sr. Ilia Delio as our 2025 Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. visiting Fellow in Catholic Studies. Professor Delio, who specializes in the area of science, technology, and religion, will offer this year's Teilhard lecture: "Incarnation and Evolution: The Catholic Vision of Teilhard de Chardin." The lecture will engage Teilhard's theological vision as a framework that offers valuable orientation for navigating contemporary challenges marked by rapid technological and social transformation.
LSC, 4th Floor Information Commons, 7:00-8:30 PM
Community Service & Action Art Contest
This contest celebrates artistic endeavors as it draws upon the Universal Apostolic Preferences (UAPs) set forth by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits): Caring for our Common Home, Journeying with Youth, Walking with the Excluded, and Showing the Way to God. We invite students to reflect on the UAPs and reflection prompts provided by CSA and then to create and submit photography, digital art, or photos of visual art that expresses their thoughts and reflections. Submissions open on Wednesday, October 8 and close on Sunday, November 2.
Friday, October 31, 2025
All Saints' Day Mass
LSC, Madonna della Strada Chapel, 5:15 PM
Saturday, November 1, 2025
Health Sciences Campus Ministry Food Drive for the Quinn Center
As autumn arrives and we prepare to celebrate Ignatian Heritage Month throughout November, we once again activate to support individuals and families in Maywood and the surrounding Proviso community through collective contributions to the Quinn Center's Annual Thanksgiving Food Drive. The Quinn Center offers year-round, comprehensive services, programs, and resources to hundreds of local families. They are a valued partner in our shared mission of holistic health and healing in our community! Find out ways you can support the cause at the link below.
HSC
Monday, November 3, 2025
Mass for the All Saints and Blesseds of the Society of Jesus
LSC, Madonna della Strada Chapel, 12:00 PM
Ignatian Heritage Month Lunch with the Jesuits
Get a free lunch while getting to know some of Loyola's Jesuits! All students, staff, and faculty are welcome. Each lunch is limited to ten guests.
LSC, Ignatius House
A Church for the Poor: Receiving Pope Leo's Dilexi Te
Tuesday, November 4, 2025
Reigniting the Mission Conference
WTC, Schreiber Center, 8:30 AM-11:30 AM
Invitation Only
Medicine and Bioethics Grand Rounds: Does it Still Matter? How the Jesuit Heritage Affects our Educational and Clinical Practice
Michael McCarthy, PhD, Rochella Ostrowski, MD, Michael Stokas, MD
Zoom, 12:00 PM-1:00 PM
Ignatian Heritage Month Lunch with the Jesuits
Get a free lunch while getting to know some of Loyola's Jesuits! All students, staff, and faculty are welcome. Each lunch is limited to ten guests.
LSC, Ignatius House
All Things Ignatian Special Topics: A Faith That Does Justice
Zoom, 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Register Here-Faculty and Staff Only
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Color(ism) and Ignatian Pedagogy: Richard Hunt @LUMA
How does Ignatian pedagogy guide arts-based conversation and reflection on color, colorism, and power through active engagement with Richard Hunt’s sculptures? Join us at LUMA (Loyola University Museum of Art) for an interactive, arts-based reflexive workshop with Seungho Moon, EdD, an expert in aesthetic education at the School of Education.
WTC, Loyola University Museum of Art, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM
Ignatian Heritage Month Kick-Off
LSC, Damen Student Center Atrium & Den, 1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Thursday, November 6, 2025
St. Albert's Day
HSC
St. Albert's Day Ethics Grand Rounds: Science in the Ignatian Tradition
Fr. Jarek Mikuczewski, S.J., MSc, Instructor, Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics
HSC, SSOM Room 190 (Tobin Hall), 11:45 AM-12:30 PM
Ignatian Heritage Month Lunch with the Jesuits
Get a free lunch while getting to know some of Loyola's Jesuits! All students, staff, and faculty are welcome. Each lunch is limited to ten guests.
LSC, Ignatius House
Thursday Night Mass
LSC, Ignatius House, 9:00 PM-10:00 PM
Friday, November 7, 2025
Sunrise Prayer at the Lake
LSC, Madonna della Strada Plaza, 6:00 AM
Journeys of Dignity: A Lecture Series on Migration through the Lens of Catholic Social Teaching and Jesuit Education
Migration and the Ministry of Accompaniment in the Jesuit, Catholic Tradition
Michael Gallagher, S.J., J.D., Former Deputy International Director, Jesuit Refugee Services
Zoom, 12:00 PM-1:00 PM
Ignatian Heritage Month Lunch with the Jesuits
Get a free lunch while getting to know some of Loyola's Jesuits! All students, staff, and faculty are welcome. Each lunch is limited to ten guests.
LSC, Ignatius House
Ignatian Heritage Month Volleyball vs. Rhode Island
LSC, Gentile Arena, 6:00 PM
Saturday, November 8, 2025
Campus Ministry Canned Food Drive
LSC, 8:00 AM-4:00 PM
Sunday, November 9, 2025
Mass of Remembrance
LSC, Madonna della Strada Chapel, 10:30 AM-11:30 AM
Monday, November 10
Ignatian Heritage Month Lunch with the Jesuits
Get a free lunch while getting to know some of Loyola's Jesuits! All students, staff, and faculty are welcome. Each lunch is limited to ten guests.
LSC, Ignatius House
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Mass with a Blessing for Veterans
LSC, Madonna della Strada Chapel, 12:00 PM
Lunch ‘n Learn More about Engaged Scholarship
Gather with faculty and staff colleagues during Ignatian Heritage Month to continue the dialogue around engaged scholarship! Faculty who have published and disseminated this inclusive type of research will share examples of their work, resources and practices that aid such scholarship will be featured, and lunch will be provided. Following the conversation, join a tour of the Women and Leadership Archives in Piper Hall to explore a treasure trove of material that supports engaged scholarship efforts.
LSC, Palm Court (Mundelein Hall 4th floor), 12:00 PM-1:30 PM
Ignatian Heritage Month Lunch with the Jesuits
Get a free lunch while getting to know some of Loyola's Jesuits! All students, staff, and faculty are welcome. Each lunch is limited to ten guests.
LSC, Ignatius House
All Things Ignatian Special Topics: A Faith That Does Justice
Zoom, 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
LSC & WTC Employee Book Clubs: Spiritual Criminals: How the Camden 28 Put the Vietnam War on Trial by Michelle Nickerson, PhD
LSC, Cuneo Hall, 12:00 PM-1:00 PM
WTC, Corboy Law Center, 12:00 PM-1:00 PM
Lunch provided
Register Here-Faculty and Staff Only
Ignatian Heritage Month Lunch with the Jesuits
Get a free lunch while getting to know some of Loyola's Jesuits! All students, staff, and faculty are welcome. Each lunch is limited to ten guests.
LSC, Ignatius House
Hank Center Book Discussion: Kristen Grady Gilger, My Son the Priest: A Mother's Crisis of Faith
The true story of a young man’s journey to become a Jesuit priest—written by his mother, a fallen-away Catholic who must come to terms with her son’s decision or risk losing him. It is an intimate, sometimes irreverent, and often searing examination of faith, family, and reconciliation.
LSC, Information Commons 4th Floor, 7:00 PM-8:30 PM
Thursday, November 13, 2025
HSC Employee Book Club: Spiritual Criminals: How the Camden 28 Put the Vietnam War on Trial by Michelle Nickerson, PhD
HSC, 12:00 PM-1:00 PM
Lunch provided
Register Here-Faculty and Staff Only
Ignatian Heritage Month Lunch with the Jesuits
Get a free lunch while getting to know some of Loyola's Jesuits! All students, staff, and faculty are welcome. Each lunch is limited to ten guests.
LSC, Ignatius House
Ignatius the Veteran Trivia Event
All students are welcome! Bring a laptop/phone to participate in the trivia game. There will be FREE food! This event is meant to celebrate both Veterans Day and Ignatian Heritage Month. We hope to see you there!
LSC, Damen Den, 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
"Beginnings of Loyola: Rooted in the Immigrant Experience" with Chicago Historian Ellen Skerrett
Chicago historian Ellen Skerrett is returning to the Lake Shore campus to discuss her further research into Loyola’s 19th century origins since the 2008 publication of Born in Chicago: A History of Chicago’s Jesuit University. Her visual presentation will feature archival gems highlighting Arnold Damen as a city-builder and his vision of urban education at LUC’s first campus home on Chicago’s West Side, now known as Saint Ignatius College Prep. Skerrett will also explore Fr. Damen’s invitation in 1867 to the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary who built the Mundelein College skyscraper (now part of LUC’s campus) and educated the mother of Pope Leo XIV.
LSC, Simpson Multi-Purpose Room, 4:00 PM
Thursday Night Mass
LSC, Ignatius House, 9:00 PM-10:00 PM
Friday, November 14, 2025
Journeys of Dignity Lecture Series Follow-Up Event
Details TBD
Saturday, November 15, 2025
Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice Starts
Sunday, November 16, 2025
Mass for the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Commemorating the Jesuit Martyrs of El Salvador, celebrated by Cardinal Blase Cupich
LSC, Madonna della Strada Chapel, 10:30 AM-11:30 AM
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Arrupe College "Cannonball Reflections"
WTC, 1:00 PM-2:00 PM
All Things Ignatian Special Topics: A Faith That Does Justice
Zoom, 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Thursday, November 20, 2025
Ignatian Heritage Month Tabling & Community Connections
Share how you practice our Jesuit values, celebrate our Ignatian heritage, and learn about how we can better “care for our common home” through the composting program coming to HSC. Free muffins and hot or cold apple cider provided. In partnership between HSC Ministry, the Office of Sustainability, & Handcut Foods.
HSC, Cuneo Center 2nd floor Atrium, 11:30 AM-1:00 PM
AJCU Affinity Group Luncheon
LSC, 12:00-1:00 PM
Invitation Only
Thursday Night Mass
LSC, Ignatius House, 9:00 PM-10:00 PM
Friday, November 21, 2025
The Sobrino Student Colloquium on Worship, Theology, and Justice
The Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage and Campus Ministry invite undergraduate students to participate in a research colloquium dedicated to the great Salvadoran priest and theologian, Jon Sobrino. This colloquium, bringing together undergraduate scholars from Loyola University Chicago and Marquette University, seeks to provide an opportunity for theological reflection rooted in worship and the Catholic intellectual tradition, and oriented outward in loving service to our world.
LSC, Information Commons 4th floor, 1:00 PM-8:30 PM
Monday, November 24, 2025
Employee Labre Outing
In the spirit of gratitude this Thanksgiving season and as we get closer to the end of Ignatian Heritage Month, faculty staff on the Water Tower Campus have the opportunity to participate in Loyola's homeless outreach led by Labre Homeless Outreach student leaders. We will meet in Baumhart Hall to make a simple meal and gather donations for outreach before walking around WTC to connect with neighbors experiencing street homelessness.
Invitation only.
WTC