As part of our continued efforts to strengthen connections for
our senior parishioners, St. Ignatius Loyola Parish formed
Quest. This group holds 12 meetings annually, offering
opportunities for personal enrichment and service activities.
In recent years St. Ignatius has seen an increase in the number
of families in our community who require financial assistance to
send their child to our parish school. In response to this need,
St. Ignatius Parish School initiated a Tuition Assistance Fund
that will provide financial grants for students, ensuring their
dreams of a Catholic education are realized.
In the early 1950s, the Most Reverend Robert J.Armstrong, Bishop
of the Diocese of Sacramento, realized that the once rural
parishes of St.Philomene and Our Lady of the Assumption were
overflowing with Catholic families. He reconfigured the
area and created a new parish – St.Ignatius. The growth of
Sacramento had stretched the ranks of the diocesan priests.
Bishop Armstrong invited the Jesuit provincial to send priests to
staff the new parish, build a school, and eventually build a
Jesuit high school. In 1954, the provincial sent Father
Fred Cosgrove, S.J., Prefect