So they said: Quotes heard at and around Detroit Mercy

So they said

A collection of recent quotes heard at and around Detroit Mercy.

““We’re all living, connected human beings and it takes a whole community of students to encourage and protect each other.”

Director of Detroit Mercy’s Wellness Center Annamaria Silveri, to WXYZ Channel 7 News regarding Send Silence Packing, a traveling exhibit meant to encourage conversations about mental illness. More than 1,000 backpacks were set up on Sacred Heart Square, each telling the story of a young person who ended their life through suicide. It is the first time the exhibit has been at Detroit Mercy. It was first displayed in 2008 on the National Mall. “ “Among its most important benefits, this arrangement will enrich the lives of those who are educated at

Jesuit business schools by extending their academic opportunities long past their graduation.”

College of Business Administration Dean Joseph Eisenhauer, in announcing the Jesuit Promise for Lifelong Learning, an agreement among 17 members of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, that allows alumni of Jesuit business schools to take free courses for the rest of their lives at other Jesuit business schools.

““We need both science and spirituality to transform our world to the extent we need to, to save it from the climate change crisis.”

Detroit Mercy Professor Gail Presbey, cochair of the Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit Conference, held at Detroit Mercy Oct. 15-16. Hundreds of people from teens to seniors attended to network with environmental activists, hear from youth, immigrant and indigenous people on the front lines of the fight to reverse damage to the Earth. “ “Ignatius … was involuntarily laid up due to a health crisis. He had, perhaps for the first time in his life, uninterrupted quiet and time to reflect on his life. He asked for chivalric romances to pass the time, but surely to his dismay, the only books available were a Life of Christ and the Lives of the Saints. As he began to read these, he also began to pay attention to the movements of his own heart and started to believe that God was communicating with him in these various movements.”

Detroit Mercy Professor Patrick Kelly, S.J., explaining how being hit by a cannonball changed the life of Ignatius of Loyola. The Society of Jesus is celebrating the 500th anniversary of that “cannonball moment” that led to the founding of the Jesuits in what they are calling the Ignatian Year that ends July 31, 2022.