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Office of Mission and Formation

Jesuit High School’s Office of Mission and Formation (formerly Campus Ministry) coordinates campus liturgies, prayers at daily Convocation, the Peer Ministry club, the spiritual renewal program on campus, the Community Service Program, the RCIA Program (Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults), and retreats, with some 20 retreats annually and every Jesuit student and staff member participating in at least one retreat. Campus Ministry provides spiritual direction and guidance for students, helping Jesuit fulfill its mission of forming "Men for Others."

Assistant Principal for Mission - Jimmy Mitchell

Before his start at Jesuit High School during the 2020-21 school year, Jimmy Mitchell’s gifts of storytelling and piano-playing brought him to every corner of the world, including Tampa. Beginning in 2014, Mitchell was a regular guest on Jesuit's campus, leading retreats and pilgrimages for the school for several years before eventually moving to Florida in 2020 to serve as the school's Director of Campus Ministry, then in 2024 becoming the Assistant Principal for Mission. From leading retreats and speaking at conferences to actively mentoring young men in virtue for the past 20 years, Mitchell's greatest joy is helping others fall in love with God. Mitchell graduated with a B.S. in Human and Organizational Development from Vanderbilt University and a M.A. in Moral Theology from Holy Apostles College & Seminary. He’s also the founder of Love Good, a Tampa-based subscription company that empowers everyday Catholics to evangelize culture through beauty. 

Mitchell can be contacted at jmitchell@jesuittampa.org, or at (813) 877-5344, ext. 110.

Assistant Campus Minister - Thomas Killackey

From his studies at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas to his time in Weeze, Germany attending the Catholic Worldview Fellowship, Tommy Killackey fell deeply in love with the questions and topics that are most deeply embedded on the human heart. Spending the next four years in Nashville, he served as a House Director for a gap-year program and later served as the Director of Youth Ministry for a parish in Franklin, Tenn. During this time, Killackey was also heavily involved in Fraternus, a ministry for mentoring boys into virtuous Catholic men. Serving as an Assistant Campus Minister and Theology Teacher at Jesuit, Killackey is privileged to walk alongside so many young men on and off Jesuit’s campus engaging in “the Great Dialogue.”

 

Assistant Campus Minister - Patrick Phelan

Patrick Phelan has been working in youth ministry in the Tampa Bay area since 2016, initially coming to Tampa on assignment from his University of Notre Dame graduate program. He served as a youth minister at Nativity Catholic Church in Brandon in addition to two years as assistant campus minister at the Academy of the Holy Names. Phelan began teaching theology full time at Jesuit in 2022, and he is excited to use his prior youth ministry experience to assist the spiritual needs of Jesuit's students in the office of Mission and Formation. Phelan’s first lesson to his freshmen theology classes is having the students reflect on the meaning of the popular Jesuit phrase A.M.D.G.  This phrase is important to him personally, as all aspects of the world – sports, music, friendships, etc. – point us to the glory of God. It is through this lens that Phelan desires to minister as the Assistant Campus Minister at Jesuit.