Ignatian Volunteer Corps

IVC supports members of its corps through monthly faith sharing meetings, occasional retreats, and opportunities for one on one spiritual reflection in the Ignatian tradition.

IVC now works with the alumni associations of Jesuit colleges, universities, secondary schools, and other programs to recruit new service corps members.

IVC members commit to 600 hours a year (roughly two days a week) of skilled service with local charities.

In 2002, Jim Conroy stepped down from the executive director position in order to continue his Jesuit mission of service elsewhere.

Ignatian spirituality is the practice of taking time to reflect and pray, to imitate Jesus and to discern God's calling.

IVC borrows much from St. Ignatius of Loyola - his commitment to people who are marginalized and abandoned, his compassion and his desire to bring about reconciliation in the world through love.

Ignatius writes in The Spiritual Exercises, "Consider the address which Christ our Lord makes to all his servants and friends whom He sends on this enterprise, recommending to them to seek to help all, first by attracting them to the highest spiritual poverty, and should it please the Divine Majesty, and should he deign to choose them for it, even to actual poverty."