Partners & Affiliates
A Spiritual Journey
Companions in Ignatian Service and Spirituality is a partner with Santa Clara University's Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education (ICJE), and an "endorsed work" of the California Province of the Society of Jesus, within the Social Ministries Office. The Companions is also affiliated with Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County, the Diocese of San Jose's Institute for Leadership in Ministry, and the Santa Clara University’s Jesuit School of Theology (JST) in the East Bay, where in the Fall of 2010, the Companions was started. These organizations provide invaluable support and resources for the program.
Santa Clara University
Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education
The Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education (ICJE) seeks to preserve and extend the Catholic identity and Jesuit mission of Santa Clara University. Dedicated to advancing the University’s strategic vision of “educating citizens and leaders of competence, conscience, and compassion” on the campus as a whole, the Center serves students, faculty, staff, and community partners. It does this by facilitating a pedagogy of engagement through community-based learning and immersion experiences, encouraging faculty and staff participation in the Jesuit higher educational mission, supporting faculty teaching and scholarship that advances the University’s Catholic and Jesuit character, and promoting Ignatian spirituality within an interreligious context. In so doing the Center seeks to create opportunities for global conversation about Jesuit higher education and to share its best practices with other universities.
Jesuit School of Theology
The Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University (JST-SCU) is a theological school faithful to the intellectual tradition and the apostolic priority of the Society of Jesus: reverent and critical service of the faith that does justice. ST-SCU achieves its mission primarily through the academic, pastoral, and personal formation of Jesuits and other candidates for ministry, ordained and lay, in the Roman Catholic Church. As an Ecclesiastical Faculty of Theology, it prepares men and women to serve the Church as scholars and teachers. It fulfills this mission in the ecumenical and interfaith context of the nine-member Graduate Theological Union and the adjacent University of California at Berkeley.
The California Province of the Society of Jesus
The California Province brings together people from many cultures to worship and work in partnership. The Province's service area encompasses Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, and Utah. In addition, individual California Province Jesuits serve in ministries throughout the United States and abroad, including Africa, Asia, and Central and South America.
Social Ministries - Our Jesuits provide guidance to various ministries--Homeboy Industries, Jesuit Volunteer Corps Southwest, PICO National Network, Proyecto Pastoral--engaged in empowering people, pursuing social justice, and improving communities.
Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County
Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County changes lives for good. We help people of all cultures and beliefs rise up out of poverty and overcome the barriers to self-sufficiency. Because most lives are a complex pattern of choices and circumstances, we take a holistic approach to helping people change their lives, taking into account the whole person as well as their family and life situations.
Diocese of San Jose
Institute for Leadership in Ministry
The Institute for Leadership in Ministry responds to the reality that all of us, clergy and lay, are called by virtue of our baptism, to use our gifts to build the reign of God. Those whose talents include the ability to lead must be theologically trained and pastorally formed.
The Institute for Leadership in Ministry provides theological education, leadership training, and pastoral/spiritual formation for those in the Church of San Jose who have demonstrated the ability or the potential to serve as leaders. Through classes, readings, written assignments, workshops, reflection, prayer, discussion groups, consultations with faculty and administration and membership in the Institute community, students come to a knowledge and appreciation of what it is to be Catholic and are prepared to exercise servant leadership in the Diocese and in their parish communities.