• Even though as Jesuits the world is our home, I hold dear my hometown in Goa, India. I grew up a few miles from the final resting place of St Francis Xavier, one of the greatest missionaries of the Catholic Church. I am grateful to my family who gave me the Catholic faith, sent me to a Jesuit school (Loyola High, Margao Goa), and taught me how to love and to be loved. I can honestly say that I won the birth lottery. #jesuits #jesuit #religiouslife #beajesuit #catholic #vocation #religiousvows #menforothers #amdg #jesuiteducated#ignatianspirituality #yosemite #indianwear #loyolahighschool #firstcommunion
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    Even though as Jesuits the world is our home, I hold dear my hometown in Goa, India. I grew up a few miles from the final resting place of St Francis Xavier, one of the greatest missionaries of the Catholic Church. I am grateful to my family who gave me the Catholic faith, sent me to a Jesuit school (Loyola High, Margao Goa), and taught me how to love and to be loved. I can honestly say that I won the birth lottery. #jesuits #jesuit #religiouslife #beajesuit #catholic #vocation #religiousvows #menforothers #amdg #jesuiteducated#ignatianspirituality #yosemite #indianwear #loyolahighschool #firstcommunion
  • As a novice, I had the privilege of working and living with people with intellectual disabilities at L'Arche Tahoma Hope @larchetacoma. I had often prized the intellect above everything else previously, especially as an engineer in Silicon Valley. L'Arche taught me that humans are more than their intellect, and the goal of life is to love freely. We love because God loved us first. I also had a great time teach Math at Loyola High School @loyolahigh, Los Angeles. Who says you cannot find God in the beauty of calculus? Religion and science are often portrayed as rivals in contemporary culture. I believe that science describes the beauty of the universe, which lifts our minds and hearts to praise God. #jesuits #jesuit #religiouslife #beajesuit #catholic #vocation #religiousvows #menforothers #amdg #jesuiteducated #ignatianspirituality #loyolahighschool #gocubs #math #larche #love #service #c4l
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    As a novice, I had the privilege of working and living with people with intellectual disabilities at L'Arche Tahoma Hope @larchetacoma. I had often prized the intellect above everything else previously, especially as an engineer in Silicon Valley. L'Arche taught me that humans are more than their intellect, and the goal of life is to love freely. We love because God loved us first. I also had a great time teach Math at Loyola High School @loyolahigh, Los Angeles. Who says you cannot find God in the beauty of calculus? Religion and science are often portrayed as rivals in contemporary culture. I believe that science describes the beauty of the universe, which lifts our minds and hearts to praise God. #jesuits #jesuit #religiouslife #beajesuit #catholic #vocation #religiousvows #menforothers #amdg #jesuiteducated #ignatianspirituality #loyolahighschool #gocubs #math #larche #love #service #c4l
  • My vow class (took vows on 8/11/18 @santaclarauniversity) will always have a special place in my heart. They say if you have met one Jesuit, you have met one Jesuit. Ten men, whose paths would not have crossed in ordinary circumstances, were brought together when they answered Jesus' call to follow him. In the words of St. Ignatius, we are friends in the Lord. These men love me and inspire me to do great things for Jesus. We also enjoy eating tacos and playing volleyball. @jesuitswest @tonycortesesj @bakerkylej @davmsj @daniel.mascarenhas.sj @fcsaldivar @bachiebach @federicogianellisj @myleskelley @odmr85 #jesuits #jesuit #religiouslife #saintlouis #beajesuit #catholic #vocation #tacos #santaclarauniversity #religiousvows #herbgarden #chickens #menforothers #amdg #jesuitswest #poverty #chastity #obedience #perpetualvows
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    My vow class (took vows on 8/11/18 @santaclarauniversity) will always have a special place in my heart. They say if you have met one Jesuit, you have met one Jesuit. Ten men, whose paths would not have crossed in ordinary circumstances, were brought together when they answered Jesus' call to follow him. In the words of St. Ignatius, we are friends in the Lord. These men love me and inspire me to do great things for Jesus. We also enjoy eating tacos and playing volleyball. @jesuitswest @tonycortesesj @bakerkylej @davmsj @daniel.mascarenhas.sj @fcsaldivar @bachiebach @federicogianellisj @myleskelley @odmr85 #jesuits #jesuit #religiouslife #saintlouis #beajesuit #catholic #vocation #tacos #santaclarauniversity #religiousvows #herbgarden #chickens #menforothers #amdg #jesuitswest #poverty #chastity #obedience #perpetualvows
  • It is a joy to be on campus at Saint Louis University @slu_official , a Jesuit university. I love hanging out with students and getting to know them at our weekly free coffee event, @javawiththejesuits_slu . They have inspired me to work for justice, to care for creation, and to make this world a better place. I hope I have inspired them to find God in the people they meet and in the things they do. @_sarahejones_ @allisonsmith0 @mantas.mileris_sj @annika.hylen @gaby_lawson @liamdjohn @joe_laramie_sj @dominicanvocations @daniel.mascarenhas.sj #slu #javawiththejesuits #jesuits #jesuit #coffee #religiouslife #saintlouis #beajesuit #catholic #saintlouisuniversity #jesuiteducated #billiken #bishop #dominicans #vocation #colorrun #amdg
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    It is a joy to be on campus at Saint Louis University @slu_official , a Jesuit university. I love hanging out with students and getting to know them at our weekly free coffee event, @javawiththejesuits_slu . They have inspired me to work for justice, to care for creation, and to make this world a better place. I hope I have inspired them to find God in the people they meet and in the things they do. @_sarahejones_ @allisonsmith0 @mantas.mileris_sj @annika.hylen @gaby_lawson @liamdjohn @joe_laramie_sj @dominicanvocations @daniel.mascarenhas.sj #slu #javawiththejesuits #jesuits #jesuit #coffee #religiouslife #saintlouis #beajesuit #catholic #saintlouisuniversity #jesuiteducated #billiken #bishop #dominicans #vocation #colorrun #amdg
  • Love and laughter. Yes, it is a cliche. But it describes life at the Bellarmine House Jesuit community where I currently live. Our intramural volleyball team @slu_official is called Bellarmine Spikers, even though we probably average less than one spike per season. #slu #jesuits #jesuit #religiouslife #saintlouis #beajesuit #catholic #saintlouisuniversity #volleyball #vocation #indianwear #brotherhood #cassock @cavsj613 @jorgerocque @daniel.mascarenhas.sj @bachiebach @mantas.mileris_sj @peterbell_sj
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    Love and laughter. Yes, it is a cliche. But it describes life at the Bellarmine House Jesuit community where I currently live. Our intramural volleyball team @slu_official is called Bellarmine Spikers, even though we probably average less than one spike per season. #slu #jesuits #jesuit #religiouslife #saintlouis #beajesuit #catholic #saintlouisuniversity #volleyball #vocation #indianwear #brotherhood #cassock @cavsj613 @jorgerocque @daniel.mascarenhas.sj @bachiebach @mantas.mileris_sj @peterbell_sj
  • I am a Jesuit Scholastic from the @jesuitswest province, currently studying philosophy and theology at Saint Louis University @slu_official. Over the next few days, I will be posting some snapshots of my life as a Jesuit, my discernment process, and my family. After this week, you can reach me @daniel.mascarenhas.sj "Man is created to praise, honor, and serve God, and thus to save his own soul." In the ebb and flow of life, this principle and foundation mapped out by Ignatius functions as the road map to my life. I have often deviated from the path, but God's mercy and grace continue to guide me gently along the journey of life. Jesus invites me to be a companion for others in this journey of saving souls. Often the people around me have pointed out the right direction, and I hope I have pointed out the right direction for others. A little about me, I was born and raised in Goa, India. I moved to the US for graduate school in mechanical engineering at the @universityofminnesota. I then worked in semiconductors for a few years, before I entered the Society of Jesus. I love biking, tennis, photography and making ice cream. Cake credit - Fr. Jim Coughlin SJ #beajesuit #jesuit #jesuits #religiouslife #catholic #catholicchurch #cake #saintlouisuniversity #slu #vocation
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    I am a Jesuit Scholastic from the @jesuitswest province, currently studying philosophy and theology at Saint Louis University @slu_official. Over the next few days, I will be posting some snapshots of my life as a Jesuit, my discernment process, and my family. After this week, you can reach me @daniel.mascarenhas.sj "Man is created to praise, honor, and serve God, and thus to save his own soul." In the ebb and flow of life, this principle and foundation mapped out by Ignatius functions as the road map to my life. I have often deviated from the path, but God's mercy and grace continue to guide me gently along the journey of life. Jesus invites me to be a companion for others in this journey of saving souls. Often the people around me have pointed out the right direction, and I hope I have pointed out the right direction for others. A little about me, I was born and raised in Goa, India. I moved to the US for graduate school in mechanical engineering at the @universityofminnesota. I then worked in semiconductors for a few years, before I entered the Society of Jesus. I love biking, tennis, photography and making ice cream. Cake credit - Fr. Jim Coughlin SJ #beajesuit #jesuit #jesuits #religiouslife #catholic #catholicchurch #cake #saintlouisuniversity #slu #vocation
  • It has been pleasure sharing some of the important people and experiences in my spiritual journey. In this last post, I’d like to talk about my novitiate classmates, the best friends I have made in the Society of Jesus. We have accompanied each other in our pursuits of Jesuit vocation. The Jesuit Novitiate is for two years, during which a novice is formed and transformed into a Jesuit. One important aspect of it is the community living. I entered the Jesuit Novitiate Syracuse, NY in 2014 with these wonderful young men. We worked, prayed, and lived together and got to know each other well. Together we learn to be Jesuits, and two years later, together we took the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience and promised to serve God in the Society of Jesus for the rest of our lives. These vows were indeed serious and could be daunting at times, but everyday we continue to grow into this vowed life. There has been so much joy of being a Jesuit, but undeniably there has also been real challenges along the way that deepened my relationship to God. These friendships sustain me in my vows as a Jesuit. Today we are in different places across the country living our different missions but we have managed to get together as often as we can. We are friends in the Lord and brothers for life. These men are God's special gifts for me. -CY @cykao #BeAJesuit #Jesuits #Vocation #JesuitEducated #IgnatianSpirituality #ReligiousLife #ReligiousOrder #Catholic #AMDG #Jesuit #Jesuits #SyracuseNY #jesuitnovitiate
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    It has been pleasure sharing some of the important people and experiences in my spiritual journey. In this last post, I’d like to talk about my novitiate classmates, the best friends I have made in the Society of Jesus. We have accompanied each other in our pursuits of Jesuit vocation. The Jesuit Novitiate is for two years, during which a novice is formed and transformed into a Jesuit. One important aspect of it is the community living. I entered the Jesuit Novitiate Syracuse, NY in 2014 with these wonderful young men. We worked, prayed, and lived together and got to know each other well. Together we learn to be Jesuits, and two years later, together we took the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience and promised to serve God in the Society of Jesus for the rest of our lives. These vows were indeed serious and could be daunting at times, but everyday we continue to grow into this vowed life. There has been so much joy of being a Jesuit, but undeniably there has also been real challenges along the way that deepened my relationship to God. These friendships sustain me in my vows as a Jesuit. Today we are in different places across the country living our different missions but we have managed to get together as often as we can. We are friends in the Lord and brothers for life. These men are God's special gifts for me. -CY @cykao #BeAJesuit #Jesuits #Vocation #JesuitEducated #IgnatianSpirituality #ReligiousLife #ReligiousOrder #Catholic #AMDG #Jesuit #Jesuits #SyracuseNY #jesuitnovitiate
  • Born and raised a Catholic in Taiwan, I am blessed to be formed in my Catholic faith by Chinese Jesuits and foreign missionaries, tracing their history all the way back to 430 years ago the greater Jesuit Matteo Ricci’s first arrival at Macao. Following their footsteps, now I myself have become a Jesuit. I feel deeply grateful for these selfless disciples of Christ who travel far away from their homes to this foreign land of Matteo Ricci and continue carrying out his dreams of bridging cultures and spreading the Gospel. Numerous Jesuit missionaries commit their lives to serving the people far away, to the point that they eventually die and are buried in this foreign land they call home. These wonderful individuals in the photos are the reason I became a Jesuit. They planted the seeds of Jesuit vocation in me since I was little. I desire to join and be part of this great mission of 430+ years, being a man of dialogue and cultural humility like them. -CY @cykao #BeAJesuit #Jesuits #Vocation #JesuitEducated #IgnatianSpirituality #ReligiousLife #ReligiousOrder #Catholic #AMDG #Jesuit #Jesuits @amdgchn #matteoricci
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    Born and raised a Catholic in Taiwan, I am blessed to be formed in my Catholic faith by Chinese Jesuits and foreign missionaries, tracing their history all the way back to 430 years ago the greater Jesuit Matteo Ricci’s first arrival at Macao. Following their footsteps, now I myself have become a Jesuit. I feel deeply grateful for these selfless disciples of Christ who travel far away from their homes to this foreign land of Matteo Ricci and continue carrying out his dreams of bridging cultures and spreading the Gospel. Numerous Jesuit missionaries commit their lives to serving the people far away, to the point that they eventually die and are buried in this foreign land they call home. These wonderful individuals in the photos are the reason I became a Jesuit. They planted the seeds of Jesuit vocation in me since I was little. I desire to join and be part of this great mission of 430+ years, being a man of dialogue and cultural humility like them. -CY @cykao #BeAJesuit #Jesuits #Vocation #JesuitEducated #IgnatianSpirituality #ReligiousLife #ReligiousOrder #Catholic #AMDG #Jesuit #Jesuits @amdgchn #matteoricci
  • Happy Fourth of July! Today I would like to share some photos of a memorable experience--as these photos showed up on my Facebook as something I did on this day three years ago. Three years ago I visited Lima, Peru, staying with young Jesuits in formation from Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador. They were very hospitable for three of us American Jesuits and threw a barbecue party to celebrate the Fourth of July with us. I remember that it blew my mind to learn the Jesuit connection transcends cultural boundaries! All of the Jesuits around the world--and across 480 years of history--share the same formation, have done the same Spiritual Exercises, and live the same mission and constitutions! The shared mission and experience bind all Jesuits together, regardless of our ages, nationalities, cultures or languages. In my short time as a Jesuit, I've had the opportunity to connect with and be warmly received by Jesuits from different cultures. As Jerónimo Nadal, one of Ignatius’s earliest companions, said: “El mundo es nuestra casa!” (The world is our house!) Jesuits are not monks but missionaries who go into the world and proclaim the Gospel! -CY @cykao #BeAJesuit #Jesuits #Vocation #JesuitEducated #IgnatianSpirituality #ReligiousLife #ReligiousOrder #Catholic #AMDG #Jesuit #Jesuits #serjesuita #jesuitasperu @serjesuita @jesuitasperu
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    Happy Fourth of July! Today I would like to share some photos of a memorable experience--as these photos showed up on my Facebook as something I did on this day three years ago. Three years ago I visited Lima, Peru, staying with young Jesuits in formation from Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador. They were very hospitable for three of us American Jesuits and threw a barbecue party to celebrate the Fourth of July with us. I remember that it blew my mind to learn the Jesuit connection transcends cultural boundaries! All of the Jesuits around the world--and across 480 years of history--share the same formation, have done the same Spiritual Exercises, and live the same mission and constitutions! The shared mission and experience bind all Jesuits together, regardless of our ages, nationalities, cultures or languages. In my short time as a Jesuit, I've had the opportunity to connect with and be warmly received by Jesuits from different cultures. As Jerónimo Nadal, one of Ignatius’s earliest companions, said: “El mundo es nuestra casa!” (The world is our house!) Jesuits are not monks but missionaries who go into the world and proclaim the Gospel! -CY @cykao #BeAJesuit #Jesuits #Vocation #JesuitEducated #IgnatianSpirituality #ReligiousLife #ReligiousOrder #Catholic #AMDG #Jesuit #Jesuits #serjesuita #jesuitasperu @serjesuita @jesuitasperu