In November, members of the Loyola School community again participated in the Ignatian Family Teach-in For Justice and SOA Watch Vigil at Fort Benning.  The weekend, which was focused on the integration of justice and faith, began in Atlanta with a morning spent at the Martin Luther King, Jr. historic site and birthplace.  At the Ignatian Family Teach-in, the group joined representatives from other Jesuit High Schools, colleges and universities, as well as Jesuit retreat houses and parishes, for a program focused on the Ignatian tradition of bearing witness to our faith through the promotion of justice.  Issues discussed at the Teach-in ranged from stewardship of the environment to the legacy of the Jesuit martyrs of El Salvador, and speakers ranged from students to theologians--including Fr. Jon Sobrino, S.J., whose Jesuit community was massacred in San Salvador in 1989.  The Teach-in ended with a liturgy later described by one of the Loyola students as "exhilarating."  At the gates of Ft. Benning, the group joined Fr. Sobrino and thousands of others for a prayer vigil commemorating the thousands of Latin American people who, like the Jesuit martyrs of El Salvador,  were victims of graduates of the School of the Americas, housed at Ft. Benning.

The eleven students who joined Ms. Baber and Mr. Bludgus for this trip were living examples of the Grad at Grad during a weekend that demanded not only a commtment to justice, but intellectual excellence and openness to growth as well, all in the context of a loving and religious community. Those who gathered at the Teach-in and at Ft. Benning came together to learn, to celebrate, to remember, and to pray.  Seniors Katie Davey, Erin Kavanagh, Ayanna Legros, Kristen Miano and Kristin Schwam, juniors Sonia Banegas, Ali Catherall, Tori Curbelo, and Katie O'Brien, and sophomores Cara Esposito and Miranda Stefan all accepted the challenge to put their faith into action, to grapple with difficult questions, and to raise their voices on behalf of the voiceless.

 

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