The Center for Ignatian Spiritualityenhances the human and religious environment of Boston College by promoting conversation about the Jesuit mission and its relationship with culture and with other religious traditions.

Center for Ignatian Spirituality Programs

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Ignatian Colleagues Program

ճis a national program of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU) designed to educate and form administrators and faculty more deeply in the Jesuit Catholic tradition of higher education.

The goal of our program is to provide a solid intellectual foundation as well as opportunities for participants to personally experience and appropriate their significanceso they may better articulate, adapt, and advance the Jesuit Catholic mission of their campuses.

Participation in the Ignatian Colleagues Program is an incredible opportunity not only to take a deep dive into learning and experiencing many aspects of our Jesuit Catholic identity, charism, tradition, and spirituality, it also provides the opportunity to form meaningful relationships with colleagues working in senior leadership roles throughout our 28 Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States.

Alpha Sigma Nu, Boston College Chapter

is the honor society of Jesuit institutions of higher education which recognizes those students who distinguish themselves in scholarship, loyalty, and service. Founded in 1915, ΑΣΝ encourages its members to a lifetime pursuit of intellectual development, deepening Ignatian spirituality, service to others, and a commitment to the core principles of Jesuit education. Inductees demonstrate an intelligent appreciation of and commitment to the ideals—intellectual, social, moral, and religious—of Jesuit higher education. Selection to Alpha Sigma Nu is one of the highest honors that can be given on a Jesuit campus.

Who is eligible to join? Any student of a Jesuit college or university is eligible. At Boston College, third-year undergraduate students who are in the top 15 percent of their class academically and have a demonstrated record of service and loyalty to the Jesuit ideals of education are considered for membership. Only 4 percent of those candidates from each class may be inducted.

Officers

President: Jackson Claflin
Vice President + Director of Programming: Anastasia Coclin
Director of Outreach: Nicole Rausa
Director of Service and Mission: Grace Wagner

The Last Lecture Series

Last lecture is a series sponsored by the Center for Ignatian Spirituality andAlpha Sigma Nu Honors Society. Select the links below to view video from past events.





CIS Talks

Where BC faculty give passionate talks on topics that inspire them

Ignatius Loyola encouraged the first Jesuits to share their deepest desires and aspirations with other fellow Jesuits. For him that constant communication would unite, console, and edify them deeply (Constitutions VIII, 673).

With CIS Talks, the Center for Ignatian Spirituality wants to emulate this practice by inviting BC faculty to share with their peers those topics, desires, and passions that inspire and motivate them.

CIS Talks will take place at the BC Club, 100 Federal Street 36th Floor, in Boston. Dates for CIS Talks for the 2022-2023 academic year will be posted by the beginning of September. This event is by invitation only. Information about the specific topic of the talk and presenter is forthcoming.

Faculty interested in participating in one of our CIS Talks can send us an email expressing their interest at.

Jesuit Fellow

The Center for Ignatian Spirituality is pleased to announce an in-residence “Jesuit Fellow” position available for any Jesuit around the world interested in spending four to nine months at Boston College during the academic year (September - May) collaborating with the work of The Center and other pastoral ministries. Jesuits who are interested must directly contact the director to explore conditions and availability. In your initial contact to the director,,please include your CV and a brief explanation of your intentions while at Boston College.

The candidate must have a proficient English level and a fervent desire to exercise his ministerial talents in our community. The Center will provide all the necessary means to succeed in such enterprise.

This program is a joint initiative of The Center for Ignatian Spirituality and Boston College’s Jesuit Community.

Nicolas C. Steeves, S.J.

Nicolas C. Steeves, S.J.

Nicolas C. Steeves was born in Paris, France in July 1973, to a Frenchmother (from Burgundy) and an American father (from Boston). A month later, all three moved to Brattleboro, VT, then, in1978, to Sudbury, MA (where young Jesuit priests from Weston supplied at Our Lady of Fatima.) In 1982, the family moved back permanently to Burgundy and grew.

In 1991, Nick joined Lycée Sainte-Geneviève, the Jesuit boarding school in Versailles, and entered HEC Paris Business School in 1992. He simultaneously studied law at Paris (XI and II) University Law School. After double graduation, he spent more than three years working as a business lawyer in Prague (Czech Republic) and Paris.

In 2000, he entered the French Province of the Society of Jesus. He studied philosophy and theology at Centre Sèvres (Paris), Heythrop College (London), and the Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome), and worked as a campus minister during regency, returning to both Sainte-Geneviève and HEC Paris. In 2011, he was ordained a priest in Paris, where he also completed his Doctorate in Fundamental Theology in 2014. That same year, he started teaching fundamental theology at the Greg, where he becameprofessor extraordinariusin 2021. In June 2024, he completed his six-year term as Moderator of the First Cycle of theology (Dean of Studies). He professed Final vows in Rome in 2019, after Tertianship in Portland, OR, and parish work in Salem, NH (2017-8).

His theological endeavors have heretofore chiefly dealt with the role of the imagination in fundamentaltheology (Revelation, faith, and cultures), as well as imaginative preaching.

He is fluent in English, French, and Italian, and can manage some German and Spanish.

Fr. Steeves will be the Jesuit Fellow at the Center for Ignatian Spirituality from July 30, 2024 to February 15, 2025. He is greatly looking forward to experiencing thechilly New England fall and winter once more, ministering on campus at BC, and hopes to do research in fundamental integral ecology, on the notion of creation.


Loyola, Spain

Compañía Pilgrimage

The Center for Ignatian Spirituality and Intersections offers to faculty and administrators of Boston College this pilgrimage seminar,Compañía, to explore the context in which they live out their vocation as educators—the developmental phases of adulthood, the spiritual life whether explicitly religious or not, family and personal relationships, career trajectories, the work/life balance—and what resources a Jesuit university might provide to help us integrate these dimensions of our lives.

The program will begin in the Spring semester with a retreat, followed by three on-campus meetings. The Fall semester will have two on-campus meetings.

The metaphor of pilgrimage will take a very concrete form midway through the seminar. In June, the group will travel to Spain and Rome for nine days to retrace some of the key steps in the unfolding life journey of Ignatius Loyola. Spending these days together—as pilgrims, not just tourists—gives deeper insights into who he was, time and leisure for reflecting on one’s experiences and life journeys, and plenty of opportunity to share reflections overvinoandtapas.

Contact Tomeu by mail at estelric@bc.eduin order to express your interest in the pilgrimage.

"Three Things I Learned About St. Ignatius While on Pilgrimage"
— Marina McCoy, featured on

Learn more about the pilgrimage seminar on the Intersections website.