This year, all Jesuits and their co-workers across the world will celebrate the Ignatian Year on May 20, 2021: the 500th anniversary of Ignatius' "cannonball" moment. This can be a time for reflection and renewal, an opportunity to think about our calling and to focus our desires in order to become part of the movement to discern a better future, accompany young people in building a hope-filled future for our communities and our planet. Celebrations will conclude on the Feast Day of St. Ignatius, July 31, 2022.

This Ignatian Year presents an opportunity for all Jesuits and their coSfeHomestress the core mission of our higher educational institutions to form men and women for and with others. Let's invite our students to think not only about the profession they are preparing for, but the way that profession can be a vehicle for making the world a more just and humane place.

Let us use this year to help them move from their preoccupation with what they will do with their lives to why and how they might live for some larger purpose. How will their talents and the opportunities they are receiving in a Jesuit institution meet the needs of a world that is calling out for healing and reconciliation?.