Mission Week Keynotes

Starting in its inaugural year in 2019, Mission Week welcomes each of us – students, faculty, staff and alumni – to reflect on and engage with Creighton University's mission. Mission Week is held in the fall at the beginning of each academic year and is filled with a variety of programming on both the Omaha and Phoenix campuses.

Visit the Creighton University Mission Week website for more information on the traditions and full scheduled programming:

"As a Jesuit, I am moderately versed in the Ignatian principles which undergird "our way of proceeding." It has become a Jesuit tenet in our institutions of learning, for example, that at graduation, we hope to have produced men and women for others." This call to service of others is obviously noble. The problem comes, I think, in setting it as our goal. It is not. Service is but a prelude, the passageway which leads to the Grand Room we are all hoping to enter—a community of kinship such that God might recognize it. Jesus was not a man for others, after all. He was one with others. There is a world of difference in that. Jesus stood with the easily despised and the readily left out to announce the good news of belonging."

--- Gregory Boyle, "The Voice of Those Who Sing" in Spiritus

This year's Mission Week Keynote Address by the Rev. Greg Boyle, SJ, HON’09  was held on Monday, Aug. 26, in the Harper Center, Ahmanson Ballroom as well as livestreamed. 

See our 2024 Mission Week page in the lefthand navigation to view the full recording.