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This retreat offers students an opportunity to explore in more depth some of life's ultimate questions - Who am I? What are my priorities?  How do I maintain a sense of balance in my life?  Where and how has God been present in my life?

The retreat is rooted in and introduces students to Ignatian spirituality. (Manresa is one of the places where St. Ignatius stopped on his journey, and it was at Manresa that the ideas for what are now known as the Spiritual Exercises began to take shape.)

John Carroll University has a strong tradition of service to the Cleveland community and beyond.  Fall Orientation will help welcome you to this proud JCU tradition. On Thursday, August 23, from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, teams of first year students, accompanied by current JCU students, faculty, staff and administrators, will engage in various community service projects in local Cleveland neighborhoods.

Participating in the “Streak Week Service Project” is not only a great way to learn about service at John Carroll, but also a great way to make a difference in our community and meet fellow JCU first year students. All students who participate will receive a “Streak Week Service Project” t-shirt.  For more information, visit: http://www.jcu.edu/orientation/streakweek/service.htm.

"Footprints" supports JCU's Fatima Food Drive which provides food for over 100 families associated with Fatima Family Center at Thanksgiving time.  Anyone can run, walk or volunteer.  Registration begins at 7:30 AM in the DeCarlo Varsity Center.  Pre-Registration is $15 and Race Day Registration is $20.  The first 200 participants receive an official "Footprints for Fatima" t-shirt.  Visit www.jcu.edu/footprints for more information.

This two-hour interactive multi-media presentation, "Behind the Swoosh: Sweatshops and Social Justice", includes slide shows, role-playing, powerful video footage, and a Question-Answer period. The presentation details the month EFJ Director, Jim Keady spent in an Indonesian factory workers' slum living on $1.25 a day, a typical wage paid to Nike's subcontracted workers. Along with personal accounts of lived solidarity, the presentation includes the latest information on Nike's labor and environmental practices that EFJ-sponsored teams researched in Indonesia from 2000 to the present.

EVER THOUGHT ABOUT A YEAR OF VOLUNTEER SERVICE?

During a year of volunteer service you could be of assistance to other people in need, experience life, culture, and a location somewhere in the United States or abroad develop skills that could be helpful for your future, learn about social issues facing our world, live in community with other volunteers, and have an additional year to decide your next step in  life.  

Come meet representatives from over 40 post-graduate volunteer service organizations.  Information about student loan payments will also be available.

More than 40 students, team leaders, and staff will gather on October 6-7th for a fun and faith-filled weekend at the Environmental Education Center in the Cuyahoga Valley National Forest in Peninsula, OH. 

This retreat offers students an opportunity to explore in more depth some of life's ultimate questions - Who am I? What are my priorities?  How do I maintain a sense of balance in my life?  Where and how has God been present in my life?

The retreat is rooted in and introduces students to Ignatian spirituality. (Manresa is one of the places where St. Ignatius stopped on his journey, and it was at Manresa that the ideas for what are now known as the Spiritual Exercises began to take shape.)

Join other JCU community members concerned with human rights in Latin America to call for a close to the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (formerly known as the School of the Americas).  The JCU group will travel to Columbus, Georgia to participate in the Ignatian Family Teach-In, a educational workshop for students from Jesuit high schools and universities, and then to protest the presence the U.S. tax-payer funded training school in western Georgia.  The Latin American graduates of the U.S. tax-payer funded school have been associated with hundreds of human rights abuses in their home countries.  SOA Watch, led by Fr. Roy Bourgeois has been advocating for the school's closure since 1989 when six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper, and her daughter were assassinated at the Jesuit University in El Salvador. 

Please join us for an Advent Prayer Service and opportunity for individual confession.

JCU has been a pioneer in offering an eight-day silent retreat to college students.  The retreat is based on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola which has profoundly influenced the lives of countless people since the sixteenth century.  Registration for the retreat will begin in late-October.