The Center for Ignatian Spirituality at Boston College is an enterprise that
fosters the integration of Ignatian spirituality with the structures, programs
and life of the University. The Center has four basic goals:
- to develop programs that enable the faculty and staff to have a basic literacy about Ignatian education and spirituality;
- to enable those faculty and staff who wish to integrate these Ignatian values into their professional and personal lives;
- to encourage and to support those faculty and staff who want to go further and are ready to assume leadership in this process in their own schools, departments and staff assignments; and,
- to serve as a resource for faculty,
staff and students representing other religious or cultural traditions interested
in Jesuit values.
The formation of the newly created Center has been influenced by one of Boston College's platforms in its University Academic Planning Committee Report which seeks development of strategies for fostering and maintaining the spiritual well being of members within the Boston College community at all levels and the creation of strategies for healing in times of spiritual crisis; creation of leadership opportunities on all levels for special programs in cura personalis. The Center also embodies one of the central themes of GC34, that the Jesuit Community engage the culture precisely as servants to Christ's mission to renew the world faithfully and justly.
The Center has been funded by a gift from the Jesuit Community to be matched by the University.
The Center for Ignatian Spirituality is not an academic center but stands as a resource to enhance University initiatives that address spiritual matters.
The expertise of the center will be available to other universities and religious.