Spirituality

If you or someone you know needs prayers, enter them in our Bronco Book of Prayers. Let’s come together as a community and pray with one heart. If you feel so moved, during your prayer time, please offer the following prayer for our Santa Clara Community:

Merciful God,
I pray for our Bronco family and the intentions made in the Bronco Book of Prayers. We lift up our hearts to you, Oh God, and trust in your loving care.

Deepen your faith with SCU Professors of English Diane Dreher, M.A. ’15 and Juan Velasco through their blog offerings. As writers with a long commitment to spiritual practice, you are invited on a journey that combines writing, spiritual growth, and personal creativity.

Fr. Art is the Alumni Association’s Jesuit Liaison who regularly shares his thoughts and reflections on spirituality, our Bronco tradition, and the world around us. Read his reflections here.

The Bannan Forum of the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education collaboratively leads faculty, staff, and students in advancing the Jesuit, Catholic vocation of Santa Clara University as a transformative social force, building a more humane, just, and sustainable world. Focused on the intersection of faith, culture, and questions of justice and reconciliation, Bannan Forum provides public events, print publications, and digital offerings, bringing the SCU community and the larger public of Silicon Valley and beyond into conversations emerging from SCU’s distinctive character and mission. Learn More Here

The Ignatian world is wide and has many facets, all of which are rooted in the life and work of St Ignatius of Loyola, most notably his Spiritual Exercises. The Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education provides ways for SCU faculty, staff, and administrators to deepen their understanding of SCU’s Jesuit, Catholic mission, to make it their own, and to discover and experience some of the many faces of Ignatian spirituality. Ignatian spirituality is one important aspect - perhaps the most specifically Jesuit one— of ‘our way of doing things’ at SCU - providing not only a way of praying but tools for living with greater authenticity and internal freedom. Learn More Here

This bi-weekly email series from the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education serves as an opportunity to connect with and celebrate the mission and tradition that unites our campus and the wider Jesuit network. Each issue of the series provides a short reading or other form of content, a few key resources, and a brief reflection video from a member of the SCU community. Whether in times of crisis or in everyday situations, a deep engagement with the Jesuit mission shapes our actions and underpins our transformative vision of higher education. The mission of our institution also binds us together as we educate global citizens of conscience, competence, and compassion. Learn More Here

Campus Ministry provides Catholic, Christian, Multicultural and Interfaith spiritual opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. Many of their events are welcome to all. Their staff has pivoted from in-person to online daily Zoom offerings in response to sheltering in place. Campus Ministry also provides resources and zoom services for the observance of Holy Week and Easter.

Campus Ministry is planning a series of meditation opportunities on Instagram Live through the summer at 9 A.M. on Instagram, @scuspirit:

• Mindful Monday J.C. Santos will lead a different mindful practice each week.
• Wednesday "at the Well" featuring a short interview on Instagram each week with a different colleague about spirituality.
• Reviewing the Week with the Examen on Fridays J.C. will lead a different version of the Examen each week.

Located in Berkeley, JST is an international center for the study of theology. Students come from across the nation and around the world to prepare for a broad range of ministries and service to the Church and world. Students are lay women and men, Jesuits in formation, and members of other religious orders of all ages. JST offers email subscriptions for daily reflections during Advent and Lent.

The Graduate Program in Pastoral Ministries prepares women and men to enter professional ministries in the Church and society. Students and graduates of the GPPM program serve in parishes, education, diocesan offices, and non-profits. The GPPM Student & Alumni Network Night hosts regular networking opportunities. Contact Rose Lue, GPPM Student and Alumni Network Team Coordinator, for the April Zoom meeting information.

Participate in an Ignatian Spirituality & Yoga Retreat. Explore how Ignatian spirituality and Yoga can ground and guide us in the midst of this global pandemic. Offered by Bobby Karle, S.J. M.Div ‘21.

At the heart of the campus, the Mission Church serves as a gathering space for many on-campus spiritual experiences. To learn more about the Mission Church and spiritual offerings, please visit their website.