photo : Loyola High School, Montreal
Our works
Planting Ignatian seeds: The work of Jesuit chaplains in Canada by Eric Clayton
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The Ignatian spirituality that I have come to know has deepened my prayer life,” says Alessandro Vani. He’s a 2021 graduate of Loyola High School in Montreal. “My prayers have become more profound.”
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hat deepening experience of prayer — that deepening experience of God — is in no small part thanks to the work of Fr. Robert Brennan, SJ — the chaplain at Loyola High School.
“Fr. Brennan was always present throughout my high school years,” Vani remembers. “He is still present today in my college life. I might not see him as often as I used to, but Fr. Brennan makes it a point —through emails or in-person events — to let us know that we are in his thoughts, that he is still journeying with us young people.” Emails and events are one way in which Fr. Brennan continues to impact former students like Vani. But it’s in Ignatian tools — like the daily Examen — where Fr. Brennan most clearly sees the fruit of his work as a chaplain.
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