1. Accompanying a group of students from Loyola University Chicago to MAGIS/World Youth Day in Brazil in 2013.
2. Coordinating a 19th annotation retreat for members of Saint Peter’s University.
3. Serving at the Kino Border Initiative for the summer of 2017.
Will do a pastoral year in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia.
Jason G. Downer, S.J., was born and raised in Rochester, New York. In addition to his parents, Jason has two older sisters who are married and have families of their own. He is a proud uncle of five nieces and nephews. He first met the Jesuits at McQuaid Jesuit High School and then continued to be educated by them at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York. Jason did a year of service with Mercy Volunteer Corps after undergrad and before starting grad school at Canisius College. After graduate school, he worked at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut, in student affairs for a few years. Jason loved being a part of the Jesuit mission and Ignatian spirituality, and so in 2008 began a two-year process of discernment. He entered the Jesuits in 2010 and has had a variety of experiences since then, including studying Spanish in Bolivia and Miami and being a chaplain at the Cook County Temporary Juvenile Detention Center. Jason has been blessed to work with young adults in campus ministry at Saint Peter’s University in Jersey City, New Jersey, and to be trained as a spiritual director and accompany people of various ages in the 19th annotation retreat. After ordination, Jason will do a pastoral year in Pohnpei, Micronesia.
Bachelor’s degree, history, Canisius College; Master’s degree, college student personnel administration, Canisius College; Master’s degree in social philosophy, Loyola University Chicago; Master of Divinity, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry; Master of Theology, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry
