“This year Loyola colleagues have been joined by members of our Ignatian family throughout the greater Los Angeles region of the Jesuits West Province to share reflections that bring this mystery into our midst by way of the written word. Each writer contemplates “God with us” in and through very real circumstances of life. Routines and rituals, surprises and delights, struggles, worries, and challenges are the context for this wonderment.

As you savor their ruminations, we hope you will also wonder at the invitation. How do you experience “God with you” and “in all things?” How are you “for and with” one another in light of this bidding? What is the invitation in your life circumstance to help build communities of hope and reconciliation?
May this Advent season be a time of quiet waiting and invitation to embrace the mystery of God with us”.

– Ann Holmquist
Vice President for Mission
Loyola High School
Los Angeles, USA