Jesuit High School of New Orleans

Faith, Fun, and Flores…

“Half and half,” answered campus ministry director Peter Flores ’09, when asked about the tone of the 8th grade retreat held this past Saturday. “It was a great mix of fun activities – like the skit on the life of St. Ignatius and the water balloon launch symbolizing the cannonball that wounded St. Ignatius – and great spiritual moments like praying in adoration and at Mass in our beautiful chapels.” Flores added that the retreat focused on two talks. The first was about Ignatius’ conversion, and the other about Ignatius becoming a Jesuit. The activities concluded with a walking pilgrimage that invited 8th graders to figuratively walk the path of Ignatius in order to grow together as a class, in their faith, and in their knowledge of the founder of the Jesuits.