ONLINE EVENTS & Programs

The Jesuit and Ignatian community is offering a wide range of opportunities online during this time of anxiety and uncertainty surrounding the novel coronavirus.

Check out our "Ignatian Spirituality Online" calendar below!

​These events are sponsored by various organizations. Scroll down to find the groups within the Ignatian and Jesuit network and beyond offering ministries and events that are right for you.

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The Calendar

This calendar of online events is sponsored by Ignatian Young Adult Ministries and the Jesuit Friends and Alumni Network. Many of the events posted are organized by our Jesuit and Ignatian partners around the country — please contact them directly with questions about their events. Thanks! 

Event times are listed in Eastern Time!

PRAYERS and REFLECTIONS DURING THIS TIME

Each day brings an inundation of news stories and uncertainty about what the future holds. Here, we have collected some of the best prayers and reflections that we have seen.

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Pope Francis' Urbi et orbi
Pope Francis meditated on the calming of the storm from the Gospel of Mark. 
​Click here to watch the video and read the full text.

COVID-19: Discerning a path to God
Click here to watch Fr. Arturo Sosa's message as the Society of Jesus, in solidarity with the whole world, lives in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

Webinar: The Jesuit Mission in a Time of Uncertainty and COVID-19
Click here to watch this webinar with Fr. General Arturo Sosa, Superior General of the Society of Jesus.

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AMERICA MAGAZINE
A Coronavirus Prayer
Jesus Christ, you traveled through towns and villages “curing every disease and illness.” At your command, the sick were made well. Come to our aid now, in the midst of the global spread of the coronavirus, that we may experience your healing love.
Click here for the full prayer in English. In Spanish. In Italian.

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RELIGION NEWS SERVICE
Spirituality in a Time of Quarantine
"What would Jesus do? Jesus would tell you to stay home for your own good and the good of your neighbor.
But is that it? As Christians, we know that spirituality is not just about avoiding evil. It is also about doing good. Every crisis is an opportunity to do good. Here are some suggestions about what individuals, families, neighbors and parishes can do during this quarantine." Click here for more.

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IGNATIAN SOLIDARITY NETWORK
Reflections and Resources in Light of COVID-19

• An Examen for Life During COVID-19
  
• Responding in Prayer, Reflection, and Solidarity: Coronavirus Resources, as the Jesuit and broader Catholic network responds in unique ways with love, compassion, and new means of building community, ISN will compile them in this space.
  
• Hope & Community in the Time of Coronavirus, a reflection by Rachel Drotar, from ISN's daily Lenten reflection series, Radical Hope: Lent 2020
  
• Coronavirus: A Reminder that We Are All Connected, a letter to students from Dr. Philip Metres, professor of English and the director of the peace, justice, and human rights program at John Carroll University.

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ASSOCIATION OF JESUIT COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
Information from AJCU on the Impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) on Jesuit Colleges and Universities
As of Monday, March 16, staff members for the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU) are working from home for at least the next two weeks. Click here for links to webpages with information from Jesuit colleges and universities on ways that they are addressing the coronavirus (COVID-19) on their campuses, along with video messages from presidents.

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JESUIT CONFERENCE OF CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES
A Meditation for the Anxious During COVID-19
"Become aware of your breath. Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe in. Breathe out. Bring your breathing under control. It’s hard. We’re in uncertain times, uncharted waters. Our breaths might be short, panicked. We may have forgotten to breathe all together..."
Click here to read the entire meditation.

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 Parishes Live-Streaming Masses
During this time of Mass cancellations, suspensions and closures, many Catholic churches around the country are still able to celebrate Mass and offer live-streams for those of us unable to attend in person. Click here for a full listing of the Jesuit parishes and ministries live-streaming Mass every day of the week, courtesy of America Media.

Our Lady of Hope (Portland, ME)
Mon-Fri: 9am, 7pm
Sat: 4:30pm; Sun: 7am, 9am

Radio Mass of Baltimore (St. Ignatius)
live video stream or audio only
Sun: 9:00am, 6:00pm

Paulist Fathers' Motherhouse (NYC)
Mon-Fri: 12:10pm
Sun: 10am, 12:30pm (Spanish), 5:15pm

St. Francis Xavier (NYC)
​Sun: 11:30am

St. Raphael (Raleigh, NC)
​Sun: 9:30am, 2:30pm (Spanish)

St. Thomas More (Atlanta, GA)
Link to Daily Masses

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Pandemic
a poem by Lynn Ungar
What if you thought of it
as the Jews consider the Sabbath--
the most sacred of times?
Cease from travel.
Cease from buying and selling.
Give up, just for now,
on trying to make the world
different than it is.
Sing. Pray. Touch only those
to whom you commit your life.
Center down.
 
And when your body has become still,
reach out with your heart.
Know that we are connected
in ways that are terrifying and beautiful.
(You could hardly deny it now.)
Know that our lives
are in one another’s hands.
(Surely, that has come clear.)
Do not reach out your hands.
Reach out your heart.
Reach out your words.
Reach out all the tendrils
of compassion that move, invisibly,
where we cannot touch.
 
Promise this world your love–
for better or for worse,
in sickness and in health,
so long as we all shall live.

Prayer for a Pandemic
May we who are merely inconvenienced remember those whose lives are at stake.
May we who have no risk factors remember those most vulnerable.
May we who have the luxury of working from home remember those who must choose between preserving their health and making their rent.
May we who have the flexibility to care for our children when their schools close remember those who have no options.
May we who have to cancel our trips remember those who have no safe place to go.
May we who are losing our margin money in the tumult of the economic market remember those who have no margin at all.
May we who settle in for a quarantine at home remember those who have no home.
As fear grips our country, let us choose love.
And during this time when we may not be able to physically wrap our arms around each other, let us yet find ways to be the loving embrace of God to our neighbors.  Amen.
- Prayer by Dr. Cameron Wiggins Bellm

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