Community Advent Prayer 2025 ~ Comunidades Hispanas Ignacianas with Father Jorge Ochoa, SJ
por Zandra Schiemann
On November 21, 2025, nearly 80 members of the Comunidades Hispanas Ignacianas and other programs participated in a gathering of faith, community, and inner renewal, guided by Father Jorge Ochoa, SJ.
Through prayer, music, and the Ignatian Examen, Father Jorge led us to prepare our hearts in the spirit of St. Ignatius and to welcome this season of Advent. He left us with a special reflection: that despite all the difficulties we may face, we dare to “Launch ourselves into love, so that trials do not steal our soul…” and to pray in this Advent season: “Lord, help me to love with you.”
Fr. Jorge Ochoa, SJ, a Jesuit born in Mexico, is well known for his Ignatian spirituality materials shared on social media, his concerts, and the Spiritual Exercises that our office coordinates together with the Ignatian Spirituality Center, Casa Kino in San Diego, CA.
For more than 25 years, he has integrated art and music into prayer, reminding us that Ignatian spirituality is life, hope, and mission, and that faith is also sung and celebrated.
May God bless you in this Advent!