What We Do
Just about everything!
Jesuits work in parishes, administer the sacraments, do counseling and spiritual direction.
Some are engaged in the social apostolate, the retreat apostolate, and in mass media.
Some Jesuits are medical doctors, psychiatrists, lawyers, musicians, artists.
Some are meteorologists, geophysicists, mathematicians, sociologists, and historians.
Some go on foreign missions.
Many are educators, among them philosophers and theologians.
The only norm for the type of apostolate of a Jesuit is service to God and his people, in accord with the will of his superiors and the corporate thrust of the society which is “the promotion of justice in the service of faith.”
Ministries
Social/International
- Aboriginal
- Manitoulin Region Pastoral Services
- Thunder Bay Region Pastoral Services
- Kateri Native Community Centre
- St. Anne's Parish
- Regina: Prisoners and their Families
- Anishinabe Centre: formation of native leaders
- Social
- Jesuit Forum for Social Faith and Justice
- Jesuit Collaborative for Ecology, Forestry, and Agriculture
- Interreligious Dialogue
- International
- Canadian Jesuits International
- Collaboration with International Society
- Darjeeling
- Zambia
- Jamaica
- African Jesuit AIDS Network
- Ukraine
- International Outreach and Development
- Collaboration with International Society
- Refugees and Migrants: JRS Canada
- Canadian Jesuits International
- Aboriginal
Higher Education
- Research and Publications
- Higher Education
- Campion College
- Regis College
- Institutes
- Lonergan Research (Toronto)
- Canadian Jesuit Studies (Toronto)
- Catholic Studies (Winnipeg)
- Peace Studies (Montreal)
- Jesuit Communications Project (Toronto)
- Chaplaincies
- Service to other Institutions
- Roman Institutions
- Slovenia/Slovakia
- St. Augustine's
Education of Youth
- Youth Ministry
- Schools
- Camp Ekon
Spiritual
- CLC and Basic Communities
- Spiritual Directions and Facilitation and Models for Communal Discernment
- Lay/Religious/Priests
- Collaborators with Jesuits
- Jesuits: Active, In Formation
- Spirituality Centres
- Apostleship of Prayer
Messenger of the Sacred Heart
Pastoral
- Parish Ministries
- Short-Term Parishes
- Long-Term Parishes
- St. Pius X (St. John's)
- Our Lady of Lourdes (Toronto)
- St. John's (Waubaushene)
- Immaculate Heart of Mary (Gore Bay)
- Our Lady of Canada (Mindamoya)
- St. Bernard (Little Currant)
- St. John the Evangelist (Waubaushene)
- St. Peter's (Thunder Bay)
- Holy Rosary (Guelph)
- St. Ignatius (Winnipeg)
- Other Ministries
- Pastoral Homecare: Ottawa
- Services to Dioceses
- Chaplaincies: hospitals, seniors, HIV/AIDS
- Other Pastoral Ministries
- Martyrs' Shrine
- Parish Ministries
See the organigram for a complete view of Jesuit ministries.