The Week Ahead …
Please pray for James McGivney, SJ, one of six Midwest Jesuits who will be ordained to the priesthood on June 14, 2025. jesuitsmidwest.org/ordination25
Jim first encountered the Jesuits through his grandmother’s cousin, Paul Besanceney, SJ, and later at Saint Ignatius High School in Cleveland. He received a bachelor’s degree in accounting at the University of Dayton and earned a master’s degree in accounting from the University of Notre Dame.
After working for a year at a Big Four accounting firm, he began discerning a vocation to religious life and entered the Jesuits in 2014.
As a novice, Jim taught English and math to adult immigrants, volunteered as a chaplain at Ramsey County Jail, and worked with service learning and entrepreneurship programs at the University of Detroit Mercy. After taking first vows, he studied philosophy and earned a master’s degree in education at Fordham University. Jim spent part of his first year of regency as a hospital chaplain doing Clinical Pastoral Education at Loyola Medical Center in Chicago prior to the pandemic and then two years teaching social studies and religion at Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School in Indianapolis.
He later attended the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University in Berkeley, California, where he completed a Master of Divinity degree. While there, he served as a deacon and assisted with the OCIA (Order of Christian Initiation of Adults) team at St. Mary Magdalen parish in Berkeley. After ordination, Jim will join the faculty and staff at Walsh Jesuit High School in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
Jim first encountered the Jesuits through his grandmother’s cousin, Paul Besanceney, SJ, and later at Saint Ignatius High School in Cleveland. He received a bachelor’s degree in accounting at the University of Dayton and earned a master’s degree in accounting from the University of Notre Dame.
After working for a year at a Big Four accounting firm, he began discerning a vocation to religious life and entered the Jesuits in 2014.
As a novice, Jim taught English and math to adult immigrants, volunteered as a chaplain at Ramsey County Jail, and worked with service learning and entrepreneurship programs at the University of Detroit Mercy. After taking first vows, he studied philosophy and earned a master’s degree in education at Fordham University. Jim spent part of his first year of regency as a hospital chaplain doing Clinical Pastoral Education at Loyola Medical Center in Chicago prior to the pandemic and then two years teaching social studies and religion at Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School in Indianapolis.
He later attended the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University in Berkeley, California, where he completed a Master of Divinity degree. While there, he served as a deacon and assisted with the OCIA (Order of Christian Initiation of Adults) team at St. Mary Magdalen parish in Berkeley. After ordination, Jim will join the faculty and staff at Walsh Jesuit High School in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
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