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Bookmark or Share- Jesuits Homepage - Jesuits.orgThe Society of Jesus’ four Universal Apostolic Preferences guide our mission. To show the way to God through the Spiritual Exercises and discernment. Learn more about Ignatian spirituality. To walk with the poor, the outcasts of the world, in a mission of reconciliation and justice.
- History - Jesuits.orgHistory. Less than a century after the founding of our religious order, Jesuits began arriving on the shores of America. French Jesuits explored the woodlands of Maine and celebrated, in 1611, the first known Mass on American soil, at the mouth of the Kennebec River. English Jesuits landed in Maryland, in 1634, and established a mission there.
- Jesuit | History, Definition, Order, Catholic, Slavery, & FactsJesuit, member of the Society of Jesus (S.J.), a Roman Catholic order of religious men founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola, noted for its educational, missionary, and charitable works. The order has been regarded by many as the principal agent of the Counter-Reformation and was later a leading force in modernizing the church.
- Who We Are - Jesuits.orgWe are the Society of Jesus, or the Jesuits, a Roman Catholic order of priests and brothers founded nearly 500 years ago by a soldier-turned-mystic, Saint Ignatius of Loyola. The Society of Jesus is made up of geographical territories called “provinces.”
- Our Mission - Jesuits.orgAbout Us. Our Mission. To work for reconciliation every day — with God, with human beings and with the environment. Faith, justice and solidarity with the poor and the excluded are central elements of the Jesuit mission of reconciliation.
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