Thursday, March 19th
Scranton Preparatory School
5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Please join us as we honor:
- Honorable Robert P. Casey, Jr. For only the third time in the 30-year history of the national Ignatian Volunteer Corps program, IVC National will present the Honorable Robert P. Casey, Jr. with IVC’s Pedro Arrupe, SJ Award for Exemplary Public Service.
- This National Award is named as a tribute to the late Pedro Arrupe, S.J., who served as the 28th Superior General of the Society of Jesus from 1965 to 1983. Arrupe coined the phrase “men and women for others” in 1973 when he said, “gifted with conscience, intelligence, and power, each of us is indeed a center. But a center called to go out of ourselves to give ourselves to others in love.” For Arrupe, the commitment to others meant undertaking a willingness to pay attention to the injustices around us and develop a “firm resolve to be agents of change in society; not merely resisting unjust structures and arrangements but actively undertaking to reform them.”
- Past recipients include:
- 2022: Dr. Anthony Fauci Dr. Christine Grady
- 2025: Ms. Kerry Alys Robinson
- Scranton Jesuit Community will receive the IVC Northeastern Pennsylvania Madonna Della Strada Award. This award is presented to an individual or organization reflecting the Ignatian value of transformative service grounded in justice, mutuality, and equality.
- NativityMiguel School of Scranton will receive the IVC Northeastern Pennsylvania Community Award. This award is presented to an IVC NEPA partner agency that has had a direct and measurable impact on our IVC NWPA program, members, and those we serve.
