George Collins , S.J.
Seminarian

George is the seventh of nine children of George E. and Helen T. Collins. He was born and raised in the Mission Hill section of Roxbury, Massachusetts where he and his family were members of the Mission Church Parish. George and his family later moved north of Boston to Reading, Massachusetts.

A 1978 graduate of St. Mary's High School Seminary in Northeast, Pennsylvania, George went on to graduate from Boston College with a bachelor's degree in Accounting. He worked at Boston Edison for fifteen years in various capacities and was active in labor-management relations. George also worked for a medical software company and traveled around the country demonstrating various financial packages that were part of a complete hospital information system.

In January of 1999, George left his full-time job and returned to Boston College to pursue a M.A. in Pastoral Ministry from the Institute of Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry.

In August of 2000, George entered the Society of Jesus as a member of the New England Province. He completed his two-year novitiate in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. During this two-year period George completed the various experiments required of a Jesuit Novice. Included in these experiments were the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola which George made in January 2001. George also spent four months teaching English to Christian and Muslim girls in grades 7 through 11 in Zarka, Jordan at a Latin-Rite school. Additionally, he spent six months working as a hospital Chaplain at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C. After the novitiate George was missioned by the Society of Jesus to study philosophy at Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois where in May of 2004 he earned his M.A. in Philosophy.

As part of his Jesuit formation George was again missioned by the Society of Jesus on August 1, 2004 to complete his two-year regency as a campus minister and pastoral associate here at St. Thomas Aquinas at the University of Connecticut.

After a year at St. Thomas and much to the dismay of our parishioners, George was called to serve at a Jesuit