Today, April 3, is the 150th anniversary to the day that the New Jersey Legislature awarded Saint Peter’s College a license to open in the Paulus Hook section of Jersey City with a preparatory department, now known as St. Peter’s Prep.
Cardinal Joseph Tobin will preside at a 1 p.m. Mass today at St. Aedan’s: The St. Peter’s University Church, now run by the Jesuits.
The one difference is the reduction in the number of Jesuits priests and brothers. In our time, there were about 100 total living in two communities uptown and Downtown; today there are about 15. Some students never encounter a Jesuit, and that is sad. But the Society of Jesus embarked on a mission to educate the faculties and staffs at both schools to embrace the Jesuit charism “to be men and women for others.
One of Loyola’s successors, Arrupe, visited the Jesuit communities in Jersey City back in 1972 when the schools marked their centennial. My classmates and I were college sophomores. The Glee Clubs joined together to perform for Arrupe at St. Aloysius Church, a few blocks down from the college on West Side Avenue. Milano and I, along with another graduate of both schools, Gregory Arnold, participated. We sang Haydn’s “Te Deum Laudamus.
I was the first in my family to go to college and later as a part-time teacher of theology for 20 years at St. Peter’s was inspired to teach more non-Christian and minority students and impart the importance of a subject few heard of before.
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