Reception: 5:30pm (light food and drinks included)
Panel: 6:00pm
Location: Regents Hall (16th floor, Lewis Towers; 111 E Pearson)

Loyola Phoenix - July 30, 1964 (p. 4)

Join us for the Alumni Excellence Celebration!

Time: 
- 6:30pm - Alumni Reception and University Awards
- 8:00pm – IPS Reunion and Award Presentation

Registration is required! Please visit the Alumni Weekend website for more information and to RSVP.

Location: Kasbeer Hall (15th Floor), Corboy Law Center (25 E Pearson)

Join us during Loyola’s Alumni Weekend! On Friday night, Dr. Mark Reed (University President) will welcome alumni to a reception and award ceremony. When this concludes, the reception will continue and IPS will host an IPS Reunion and Award Ceremony, presenting the “IPS Alumni Award for Leadership and Justice” and celebrating everyone’s accomplishments. Please plan to join us on Friday night! Visit LUC’s Alumni Weekend webpage for a full schedule of events for the weekend.

Loyola Phoenix – May 21, 1971 (p. 6)

Time: 9am to 4pm (Lunch Included)

Location: Information Commons (4th Floor)

Loyola University Chicago, Lake Shore Campus

1032 W Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60660

Cost: FREE!

Click here to register!

We embrace and develop the Mission of the Synod on Synodality and the Pastoral Plan for Hispanic Ministry in the USA as we celebrate the Jubilee Year in Communion, Solidarity, and Hope. Let us ask: How must formation for ministry evolve to meet the needs of multicultural communities and activate this vision of the Church?

Four Panelists  (Sr. Norma Pimentel, Dr. Emilce Cuda, Dr. Javier Orozco, and Fr. Sergio Rivas) will present their hope and vision for Hispanic Ministry in the USA at the conclusion of the Synod on Synodality and the Pastoral Plan for Hispanic Ministry, as we look forward to the Jubilee Year on Hope, Spes non Confundit. Following the panel, we will facilitate small group discussions and a summary plenary on what we’ve heard and discerned together.

The event includes lunch and concludes with mass at 3pm. Parking in the garage on campus will be validated.

Time:  11:00am to 1:00pm Memorial Service with a luncheon to follow
Location:
-    11:00am: St James Chapel, Quigley Center  (835 N Rush St, Chicago, IL 60611)
-    12:00pm: Regent’s Hall (16th floor, Lewis Towers; 111 E Pearson)

Many incredible people helped to shape the Institute of Pastoral Studies throughout the last 60 years. Please join us to remember and honor some of these individuals who have transitioned into the arms of their creator and whose legacies remained imprinted on IPS. We will host a prayer service followed by a luncheon or reception. 

Honoring Fr. Michael Garanzini, SJ

Time: 5:30 to 8:00pm (Reception and Dinner, with an Award Presentation)

Location: Regent’s Hall (16th floor, Lewis Towers; 111 E Pearson)

We are delighted to celebrate Fr. Michael Garanzini by presenting him with the 2025 IPS Aggiornamento Award, honoring his extraordinary accomplishments and extending our gratitude for his contributions to the Institute of Pastoral Studies. We will also annouce a new scholarship inititiave in his honor, about which we are very excited. The event will becgin with a reception at 5:30pm and continue with dinner and the award program at 6:00pm.

Time: TBA 
Location: Loyola University Chicago’s Lake Shore Campus (Roger’s Park)

IPS is partnering with the National Association for Lay Ministry (NALM) to a host a 3-day conference on the future of lay ministry. Plenary and breakout sessions will attend to the history and the present moment of lay ministry in the Catholic Church and then turn to the future. We will look especially at the USCCB‘s “Co-Workers in the Vineyard of the Lord,” published 20 years ago, and ask, “What will the shape of lay ministry be in the future and how can we contribute collectively to an update to this document?”