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Four minute Ignatian RetreatS for Parents and Alumni for the 2024-2025 School Year

Every month during this school year, a reflection will be offered on the different meditations of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. The Spiritual Exercises are a pattern for a spiritual retreat based on St. Ignatius’ experience of growing in union with God.  

Each of the presentations will be an opportunity to make a four minute retreat. It will consist of a brief reflection, a short scripture or passage from Ignatius’ book, a reflection question and an action item. It will be an opportunity to pause, take a deep breath, and let your soul and spirit be nourished by God.
 

For What Should I Be Grateful?

He is Risen! He is truly Risen!

Why did Jesus Suffer and Die?

What is Friendship with Christ?

Who Remembers their Baptism?

Magnificent

Mary's Yes

Sin and Forgiveness

Getting God's Perspective on Our Lives

Marquette High Faith resources

If you have a favorite online resource you would like to share with the MUHS community, send your suggestions to: kofler@muhs.edu 

Adult Ministry Team

Father Doug

Fr. Doug Leonhardt, S.J. is a Milwaukee native and graduated from Marquette High in 1956. He entered the Jesuits right after high school and was ordained in 1969. He has. Masters Degrees in Education and in Spirituality. His first assignment was Principal of Marquette High in Milwaukee. After that, he held other administrative posts: President of Marquette High, Associate Vice President for Mission and Ministry at Marquette University. Pastor of Gesu Church in Milwaukee and in the Society of Jesus as Director of Novices, Director of Jesuit Formation for the province, and superior of the community Jesuits in Assisted Living at St. Camillus. Currently he is Mission Associate at Marquette High and Alumni Chaplain. He loves giving retreats, spiritual direction, and talks on Ignatian Spirituality.

Janice Kofler outside of MUHS

Janice Kofler currently serves as the Employee Chaplain at Marquette High. Certified as a spiritual director though Fairfield University, Janice completed the Spiritual Director’s Workshop offered by the Loyola House at Ignatius Jesuit Centre in Guelph, Canada, and studied at the Spiritual Direction Program sponsored by Creighton University. In her 33rd year of service at MUHS, she has taught theology and AP Psychology. Janice is married and has two grandchildren.

"Did you know" series by Fr. doug leonhardt. S.J.

This is a series of short reflections on Jesuit Education, Ignatian Spirituality, the Society of Jesus, and the Social Justice Teaching of the Catholic Church by Fr. Doug Leonhardt, S.J.  The reflections are intended to be a brief introduction to a topic that might lead to pursuing it more in more depth.

Jesuit Education and Marquette High

  1. How the Jesuits got into education  

  2. Core Values of Jesuit Education

  3. Jesuit Education: 1969 Identity Crisis

  4. Spiritual legacy of St. Ignatius at Marquette High

  5. Jesuit code words

  6. The Graduate at Graduation—Open to Growth

  7. The Graduate at Graduation—Intellectually Competent

  8. The Graduate at Graduation—Religious

  9. The Graduate at Graduation—Loving

  10. The Graduate at Graduation—Committed to Justice

  11. Controls to keep a Jesuit school Jesuit

  12. Fr. Jaques Marquette

 
Social Justice

  1. Development of Catholic Social Teaching

  2. The meaning of Social Justice

  3. The Jesuits and Social Justice

  4. Social Justice at Marquette High

Saturdays with Ignatius

This is a program offered to parents and alumni. There are six Saturdays each academic year. In one hour, there is a Mass with a twenty minute homily, and a ten minute prayer/reflection period. Fr. Doug Leonhardt, S.J. is the presenter.

Saturdays with Ignatius, 2023-2024

Reflections on the Resurrection Appearance of Jesus and how the Resurrected Jesus invites us to live with hope and joy.


Saturdays with Ignatius, 2022-2023

Reflections on six Gospel personalities, how Jesus related with them, how they responded, and how Jesus relates with us in similar ways.


Saturdays with Ignatius, 2021-2022

A series of topics based on the Spiritual Exercises.

Ignatian Moments

Eight Days after Easter
Eight Days after Easter

By The Rev. Doug Leonhardt, S.J.

The apostle Thomas was not in the barricaded room with the other apostles when Jesus appeared to them on Easter Sunday. So, when they told Thomas they had seen the Lord, he refused to believe. He said that “unless I see the marks of the nails in Jesus’s hands and put my finger into the wounds and my hand into the wound in his side, I will not believe.”

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