The Division of Mission and Ministry offers a range of programs designed to assist students, faculty, and staff in self-reflection, community-building, and faith exploration.
Our Programs
19th Annotation
<p>The 19th Annotation is a "retreat in daily life" to go through the Spiritual Exercises: meditations, prayers and contemplative practices, developed by St. Ignatius Loyola, to help deepen your relationship with God.</p>
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48hours
<p>48hours is a weekend experience open to all first-year students who are interested in taking advantage of BC's intellectual, social, and spiritual resources.</p>
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4Boston
<p>4Boston is BC's largest weekly service organization. Volunteers serve with community partners and engage in group reflection centered on community, social justice, and spirituality.</p>
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Academic Convocation
<p>The First Year Academic Convocation is a signature freshman academic event and beloved tradition that melds our Jesuit, Catholic mission and heritage with our commitment to the liberal arts and formative education.</p>
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Alpha Sigma Nu
<p>Alpha Sigma Nu is the honor society of Jesuit institutions of higher education which recognizes those students who distinguish themselves in scholarship, loyalty, and service.</p>
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Appa Volunteers
<p>Appa Volunteers is a service-immersion program committed to working with under-resourced populations in the United States via shared service and direct encounter.</p>
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Arrupe International Encounters
<p>Arrupe International, named for the late Pedro Arrupe, S.J., is a faith, peace and justice program that creates a culture of encounter, inviting students to a faith that seeks global justice. </p>
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Ascend
<p>Ascend is a program for first-year women where you meet new peers, engage in meaningful conversations about life at BC, and connect with upperclass women mentors.</p>
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Axios
<p>Axios is a supportive, inclusive and affirming space for LGBTQ+ and questioning undergraduate students to reflect, in an ongoing peer community, on the intersection of sexuality and spirituality in their lives.</p>
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BC Bigs
<p>BC BIGS offers students the opportunity to serve as youth mentors, become immersed in the Boston community, and meet other like-minded students who share similar passions.</p>
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Belonging & Becoming
<p>Belonging & Becoming is a day-retreat for first year students to reflect on new beginnings, transitions, and what community and faith might look like for them in college.</p>
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Breathe
<p>Breathe is a half day retreat where participants get to take a break from their lives. It is a day of silence, reflection and quiet. A day to clear one’s mind and thoughts.</p>
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Center
<p>Center is a free, six-week spiritual mindfulness group for undergraduate and graduate students. Learn spirituality-connected mindfulness skills with a supportive community of peers</p>
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Christian Life Community
<p>Christian Life Community offers students a space to engage in weekly intentional and reflective conversations with peers.</p>
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Civitas Faculty Lunch
<p>Civitas faculty lunches are held regularly during the academic year, intended to foster conversations and connections with colleagues in a great setting. </p>
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Common Room
<p>Common Room is a seminar-like retreat where colleagues gather in a peaceful setting to discuss the vocation of working at a university.</p>
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Compania Pilgrimage
<p>Administrators and faculty involved in the Compañía Pilgrimage travel to Spain and Rome to retrace some of the key steps in the unfolding life journey of Ignatius Loyola.</p>
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Compass Mentoring Program
<p>In the Compass Mentoring Program, first-year AHANA+ students can connect with upperclass mentors, develop friendships, and gain a strong sense of community as they navigate their first semester. </p>
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Discernment in the Workplace
<p>Discernment in the Workplace is a six-week program to help you understand the art and skills of discernment as an organic part of your work life. </p>
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Eagle Volunteers
<p>Eagle Volunteers work with students in local schools assisting classroom work, providing tutoring support, being a pen pal, or putting together packages for children spending time in hospitals.</p>
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Forefront Social
<p>Forefront Social is a casual presentation where members of the faculty share their experiences with the mission of teaching and explore the question: What might a more holistic and interconnected approach to whole-person education look like?</p>
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Foundations
<p>Foundations helps people explore the basics of Ignatian prayer. The program is divided in 6 sessions that take place at noon. Each hour-long session includes a presentation on an Ignatian theme, followed by a discussion.</p>
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Freshman League
<p>The Freshmen League is a mentorship program where first-year men can learn the ropes at BC, connect with upperclassmen mentors, and take part in off-campus outings with a group of friends.</p>
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Frontier Fellowship
<p>The Frontier Fellowship seeks to assist Montserrat students in expanding their experience in areas outside of their major or educational aspirations.</p>
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Gratia Plena
<p>The purpose of Gratia Plena is to build a community of women who are committed to learning about and growing in their Catholic faith together.</p>
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Habitat for Humanity
<p>BC’s campus chapter of Habitat for Humanity supports housing construction and rehabilitation efforts in the Greater Boston area.</p>
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Halftime
<p>Halftime invites you to step back from your busy life and think about how your major and future career fit in with who you really are, while having conversations with students, faculty, and staff about finding and pursuing passions.</p>
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Ignatian Colleagues Program
<p>The Ignatian Colleagues Program is a national program of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities designed to educate and form administrators and faculty more deeply in the Jesuit Catholic tradition of higher education.</p>
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Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice
<p>Coordinated by the Ignatian Solidarity Network, the Teach-In brings together Jesuit colleges, high schools, parishes, and others to learn, reflect, pray, network, and advocate together.</p>
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Ignatian Silent Retreat
<p>The Ignatian Silent Retreat offers relevant presentations based on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius followed by suggestions for prayer and abundant time for reflection.</p>
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Ignatian Society
<p>The Ignatian Society of Boston College promotes the spirit and tradition of St. Ignatius and the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) by keeping graduates from Jesuit high schools connected to their BC peers and promoting the tenets of Jesuit spirituality across the wider BC campus.</p>
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Imagine: Creativity and Ignatian Spirituality
<p>The Imagine retreat offers an opportunity to step away from the typical rhythms of life and engage in prayer, reflection, and contemplation through creative practices.</p>
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Jamaica Magis
<p>Jamaica Magis allows BC students to live and serve in solidarity with people in Jamaica who have faced social, political, and economic oppression. </p>
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Jamaica Mustard Seed
<p>Jamaica Mustard Seed is a service trip to Jamaica held over spring break during which a team of BC students volunteers at Mustard Seed Communities, a nonprofit ministry committed to caring for the country’s most vulnerable.</p>
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Jesuit Fellow
<p>The in-residence “Jesuit Fellow” position is available to any Jesuit around the world interested in spending four to nine months at Boston College during the academic year (September-May) collaborating with The Center for Ignatian Spirituality and other pastoral ministries. </p>
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Kairos
<p>Kairos—meaning “God’s Time” in Greek—is a student-facilitated weekend retreat that allows for intentional reflection on one's relationship with God, self, and others away from the chaos of campus.</p>
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Knights of Columbus
<p>The Boston College Knights of Columbus is a fraternal service organization committed to faith in action, forging Catholic men for lives of distinguished service for and with others.</p>
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Kolvenbach Grants Program
<p>The Kolvenbach Grants Program provides an opportunity for faculty and administrators to incorporate a meaningful aspect of a retreat or trip into their academic work.</p>
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Lecture Series
<p>The Center for Ignatian Spirituality offers lectures about the Jesuit mission and its relationship with culture and other religious traditions. </p>
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Magis Civil Rights
<p>The Magis Civil Rights Immersion Trip is a six-day tour through the South with stops at major sites related to the civil rights movement.</p>
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Manresa Silent Retreat
<p>Manresa is a silent retreat based on St. Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises held each year during winter break at the Connors Family Retreat Center.</p>
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Marriage Preparation
<p>Campus Ministry holds a Marriage Preparation Program for members of the Boston College community and St. Ignatius Parish, Chestnut Hill. The program consists of a series of presentations about realities common to most marriages and exercises designed to help the engaged couples to reflect on the topics highlighted by the married couples.</p>
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Montserrat Dinner Club
<p>A mentor program that matches small groups of Montserrat sophomores with Boston College faculty and staff members to receive guidance and engage in discussions about topics that matter to them.</p>
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Mosaic: A Grief Retreat
<p>A retreat for undergraduate and graduate students who have experienced loss and are carrying grief.</p>
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Multi-Faith Retreat
<p>The Multifaith Retreat brings together students of different faiths, traditions, and worldviews to find common values, share in friendship and experience, and become advocates for interfaith cooperation.</p>
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Pause and Pray
<p>Pause and Pray is a weekly, outdoor “retreat moment” for students to exhale, to reflect, and to be spiritually renewed through the end of the semester.</p>
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Peer Grief Support Network
<p>A network of peer support made up of students who’ve experienced loss in their lives and are looking to connect with other students who are carrying loss.</p>
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Prayers at the Center
<p>Prayer is at the center of the Christian and Ignatian experience. Following a long-time tradition, The Center for Ignatian Spirituality will once again offer noontime prayer sessions during the liturgical season of Lent. These sessions will take place in person at our retreat space, 36 College Road. Lunch will be available at 11:45. </p>
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Prison Arts Outreach
<p>The Prison Arts Outreach program offers students interested in the arts and prison reform opportunities to lead art workshops at a women’s prison in Framingham, Mass.</p>
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Rebuilding Together Boston
<p>Each semester, students partner with a local nonprofit to help renovate a house belonging to people unable to pay for essential repairs.</p>
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Relay for Life
<p>Relay For Life is an overnight fundraising event where participants honor those who have been affected by cancer. </p>
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Saint Thomas More Society
<p>Named after the English martyr who was chancellor of England under Henry VIII, the St. Thomas More Society (STM) is a student organization dedicated to promoting the rich heritage of the Catholic faith on campus. All students are welcome to participate in any activities of STM regardless of religious affiliation.</p>
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Sons of St. Patrick
<p>The Sons of St. Patrick, a society of Catholic men at Boston College, is dedicated to fostering a community of virtue, character, and faith amongst our peers and surrounding society.</p>
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Stride
<p>Stride combines an academic, social, and spiritual approach to help second-year students integrate different aspects of their lives on campus.</p>
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Study by the Sea
<p>Study, write papers, and reflect on your semester while on the beautiful shores of Cohasset, Mass.</p>
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The Trail
<p>The Center for Ignatian Spirituality, Intersections, and the Museum of African American History invite you to walk the Black Heritage Trail and Museum to reflect about change, challenge, and transformation.</p>
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Three Day Sabbatical
<p>Three Day Sabbatical is a time to reflect upon and reinvigorate your professional and personal life through whatever activity inspires feelings of renewal.</p>
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Together
<p>Together is a student-centered grief support group for undergraduate students at Boston College.</p>
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Villa Faculty Writing Retreat
<p>The Villa Faculty Writing Retreat allows faculty to get a jump start on summer projects while getting to know colleagues and their work in a beautiful and serene setting. </p>
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Welles Crowther Red Bandanna 5k
<p>One of the University's proudest traditions, the Welles Crowther Red Bandanna Run is a five-kilometer race held annually to honor 9/11 hero Welles Remy Crowther '99.</p>
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