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I'm asking him to change his ways. At least, that's what Mr. Healey advises in fulfilling the third Spiritual Work of Mercy, which asks us to Admonish the Sinner. It's hardly an easy task, but it's best done by starting from within. For, as this weekend's readings show, if we do not repent, then we shall perish.

There is something really awesome about being connected to an institution whose appeal is so amazingly universal. Mr. Healey today recounts one example of how the community of Saint Ignatius appears in the most random of places and with the coincidental of encounters.

The Transfiguration is one of the most complex and symbol-laden events in all of the public ministry of Jesus. As Peter awakens, he knows he is supposed to do something, but his first suggestion is setting up tents for Jesus, Moses and Elijah. What can we learn from Peter's mistake?

Tuesday marks our annual Giving Day and, sure, there are incentives. But no one really gives because of the prizes. They give, writes Mr. Healey, because of the people who have made, make, and will continue to make Saint Ignatius a school that always strives to do all for the Greater Glory of God.

Each Lent we are confronted with the story of the redemptive sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross. We are reminded that to dust we shall return. We spend time in our own desert of sacrifice, in imitation of Christ's 40 days in the desert. We are shown a reality that we often choose to look away from.

Lent is a time of prayer, fasting and almsgiving. The last of those three is often forgotten, but this Lent Mr. Healey invites and encourages people to give alms by supporting foreign missions, which were close to the heart of his late son, Kevin '07, who would have turned 30 this Palm Sunday.

Jesus is definitively the “Word” of God, but He is also the personification of the other meanings of logos: logic, reason, natural law, the how-things-fit-together-ness of the Universe. As we prepare for Lent, this is a time to bind ourselves to and align our lives with the "Logos"--Jesus Christ himself.

Part of the welcome for the Class of 2023 included a story from senior Deloren Tisdel, who shared about how he found his voice at Saint Ignatius. As Mr. Healey writes, it's part and parcel of what graduates of this Alma Mater leave with--one of many lifelong takeaways from their Ignatius education.