We Are Never Walking Alone: RiSG Reflection

By Celia E. Ceballos, 2025 RiSG participant Opening GroundingI live and work on Lenapehoking, the unceded homeland of the Lenape people. This groundingmatters because place matters. The land beneath us holds history, memory, struggle, resilience, andstory. And so much of Rooted in Sacred Ground invited me to return to that truth: that who we are,where […]

Service Shapes Futures: Something Was Missing

Sure, I had a great job using my talents and skills. Sure, I was a member of a terrific parish community,making new friends, growing in my faith, and yet, something was missing.  At a faith-sharing group onenight, I simply admitted I truly felt nothing, that I couldn’t discern God’s presence.  And a wise friendreplied, well, get […]

Service Shapes Futures: A Year That Shaped Everything

By Victor Jose Jaimes, Jesuit Volunteer Corps Alum Many of my college friends entered Catholic volunteer programs after graduation. As a Lasallian university grad, most of them joined the Lasallian Volunteers — but I yearned for something bigger. I decided to join the Jesuit Volunteer Corps and journey to Philadelphia. What drew me there was […]

Service Shapes Futures: A Yes That Became a Way of Life

Ignatian spirituality has quietly shaped the way I see and move through the world. From an early age, I learned that faith is not something to hold but something to live—faith as action, as presence, as service. Over time, I discovered that this action springs from a deeper movement: to praise, reverence, and serve God […]

Spring Newsletter

Holy Week brings us to the center of our faith, where love is made visible through service, sacrifice, and self-gift. As we follow Christ’s example, we are reminded that service does not only meet immediate needs but shapes lives, communities, and the future we are building together. In this newsletter you can find: New CVN […]