Fr. Casey Beaumier, S.J.

What's the best part about being a Jesuit, Casey?

My name is Father Casey Beaumier, S.J.  I've been a Jesuit for 14 years--I entered right out of undergraduate study when I graduated from Marquette University in 1993.  I'm from North Dakota.  As a Jesuit I've studied at Creighton University, Saint Louis University, Weston Jesuit School of Theology.  Currently I'm a doctoral student in American history at Boston College.

I was inspired to join the Society of Jesus primarily because of my undergraduate experience at Marquette.  I served as a Resident Advisor in O'Donnell Hall and we had a Jesuit chaplain, Father William Leahy, who was very present in our lives as students.  He had a tremendous capacity to engage us in conversation and he was an attentive listener.  I admired the way he lived his life--he spoke of God with familiarity, he loved education, and he was spending his life on others.  Those were qualities that I found attractive--and gradually it appeard that God was introducing me to the Society of Jesus.  It became very clear to me as a senior in college that the Jesuit vocation was what God was offering me.

What I love about the Society of Jesus is that we attract wonderful people--both within the Society itself, and in our schools, parishes, and retreat houses.  The highlight of the formation time was teaching high school at Creighton Preparatory in Omaha.  I love teaching and I loved teaching the young men at Prep.  In fact I still keep in touch with many of the students and teachers I knew from those years.  And now I'm delighted to serve Christ as a Catholic priest.  We Jesuits have the wonderful opportunity to be present in people's lives in myriad ways--graduations, service trips, illnesses, marriages, deaths, baptisms--to name a few.  It's a challenging, exciting, and joyful life--worthy, I would say, of your serious consideration.

Father Casey Beaumier, S.J.
The Boston College Jesuit Community

Chestnut Hill, MA

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