What's In Your Heart?
Teacher, Scholar, Doctor, Lawyer, Actor, Artist, Builder, Retreat Director, Journalist, Counselor, Spiritual Director and more.

Bro. Pete Zagone S.J. is House Minister for his community, and is now working in the parish’s Finance Office assisting the bookkeeper. He continues to teach Confirmation classes, helps with building and facility maintenance and purchasing, and volunteers as an Electrical Journeyman and construction apprentice with Habitat for Humanity on his days off.

Sometimes our hearts desire more than a job.

Sometimes our hearts desire companions on the spiritual journey. Are you thinking of becoming a brother? If so, the Jesuits offer many joyful opportunities for service. We would be honored to hear what you feel in your heart. Click here for more info.

Welcome to the National Jesuit Brothers Committee Web Site!

Jesuit Brothers proclaims the good news of Jesus Christ by working in such fields as drama, technology, engineering, manual labor and social ministries. They staff retreat houses, mission centers and parishes. Brothers work as administrators, carpenters, computer technicians, chaplains, food managers, fundraisers, gardeners, printers, and retreat directors. In schools, they serve as teachers, infirmarians, librarians and coaches. These are only a few of the many ministries of the Jesuit Brother. What determines the choice of ministry? The changing needs of the Society of Jesus and the Church of the 21st Century.

What's In Your Heart?

What's in your heart? Sometimes our hearts desire more than a job. Sometimes our hearts desire companions on the spiritual journey. Check out the new webpage that will showcase men whose hearts desired more than a job and so they became companions of Jesus as Jesuit brothers.

The Jesuit Brother is primarily, and completely, a Jesuit. He is a man committed to the service of the people of God as a member of the Society of Jesus through the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. The Brother has responded to a special call from the Lord. His goal is to further the work of God's Church among the men and women of his time. Like all Jesuits, the Brother is especially prepared for this task by the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. The Brother is continually supported and motivated by his Jesuit companions, by his personal prayer and daily participation in the Eucharist.  More than a job.

Jesuits and the Sciences Conference

The National Jesuit Brothers Committee sponsored "Jesuits and the Sciences - Putting Faith and the Sciences Together" conference from June 18 to 23, 2011 at the Manresa Center at St. Louis University.  This conference was open to all Jesuit brothers, priests, and scholastics.  The presenters gave a history of Jesuits and the sciences and also what Jesuits are working on in the sciences today.  Click here for more info