For three weeks this past July, Maria Ochoa and Matthew Pyrc, S.J. traveled alongside a group of thirteen Seattle University students and alumni to embark on a journey of living the Magis. They participated in MAG+S, a pastoral experience of Ignatian immersion for pilgrims from Jesuit institutions leading up to World Youth Day. Among 2,000 other students, alumni, Jesuits and lay partners hailing from over 50 countries, the experience is hard to fully describe.

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Father and Son, Stan and David Lance, share more than an affinity for blue blazers, they embrace cura personalis and prioritize lives of faith, justice and lifelong learning.

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Heather Thomason and Aubrey Thonvold met while attending Seattle University's School of Theology and Ministry, so they are thankful for a shared Jesuit education for many reasons. "Our Jesuit experience gave us the gift of being able to be fully ourselves and to live out the callings God has placed in our lives."

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Jeremy Orbe is a Saint Louis University graduate now serving as a Jesuit Volunteer in Seattle. In addition to his work at Lifelong AIDS Alliance as the Public Policy and Advocacy Coordinator, Jeremy serves on the Magis Advisory Board.

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What do a full time high school teacher, bike aficionado, Contemplative Leaders in Action participant and brewery founder/owner have in common? A Jesuit education. Seattle University alumna Haley Woods is crunched for time, but finding meaning among her commitments.

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This month’s featured Alumni Living the Mission, Brendan Busse, S.J., first graduated from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and says, “I made a good decision and a bad discernment… I consulted my head while absolutely ignoring and perhaps even silencing my heart.” As a now Jesuit and current professor of Ignatian Spirituality at Seattle U, he reflects on how sometimes our doing less enables our being more.

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Zach Gerdes (SU, 2011), Bethany Kelsch (SU, 2011) and Michelle Miller (SU, 2012) shared a common passion for working with incarcerated youth and feared “this flame was going to be extinguished simply by evolving away from our Jesuit institution.” So they found a way to keep the flame lit and started a mentoring program for incarcerated youth that now is a service bridge for people seeking to support at-risk youth in our community.

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AMDG can be found on many Jesuit University campuses and is a concept embraced by Jesuit-educated alumni well beyond their years in school. This month’s featured Alumni Living the Mission are brothers Job, Abe and Pedro Romo. While their inspirations from this phrase vary individually from business to personal wellness, to engineering, collectively they all integrate Ignatian ideals into their professions and personal lives.

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"Want the change. Be inspired by the flame / where everything shines as it disappears." This introduction by Rainer Maria Rilke seems appropriate for Jocelyn Tidwell, Seattle University 2011 alumna, to borrow when she thinks about what her Jesuit education has meant.

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For our family, Jesuit friends and Jesuit education have been a wellspring of wisdom and inspiration adding to what our parents gave us as a foundation for faith and service. Through the years, each of us has brought Jesuit values home, stimulating amazing dinner table conversations about justice, gender, vulnerability, and finding God in all things.

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Jesuit education, and in particular the commitment and lessons of Jesuit educators, have deeply affected me. Most particularly, in adult life, Father Tom Cummings, S.J., who as President of Rockhurst High School in Kansas City (where my sons attended high school), challenged me when he spoke to the students and parents emphatically stating that “a talent is not a gift until it is given away.”

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For me, education is more than just mental stimulation or rigorous academic study. It’s about engaging the whole person to ask the challenging questions of our past, of our world and society and to seek "the more" in life and to be who it is that God is calling us to be.

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The Jesuits have greatly impacted and enhanced our lives over the past decade. In fact, we have the Jesuits to thank for our relationship as we first met at orientation for Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC).

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