Office of Mission and Ministry, in collaboration with the Student Government Association, is coming together to celebrate Loyola Week with the Loyola community.

The event will be held Nov. 1-7 and is organized annually to teach students Jesuit values through various activities.

Ken Weber, university minister for liturgy and music, said the week-long celebration is held to commemorate Loyola’s Jesuit, Catholic identity.

“Since everything we do at Loyola flows from that identity, we find it valuable to explicitly recognize and celebrate at least a few of the ways we express it on campus and in the community,” Weber said.

This year the university is focused on branding and wants students and faculty know about the festivities that will be taking place, for active participation.

Several departments such as the Women’s Resource Center, the Student Success Center, and the Department of Design will take part in the event and each department will contribute to the different areas.

“Since that identity is expressed in hundreds of various ways through the life of the Loyola community, it’s appropriate that Loyola Week remain an occasion to celebrate those expressions in all their diverse forms,” Weber said.

Loyola Week’s main focus is students and each activity and program is designed to teach them the Jesuit traditions and have them participate as well.

Citlali Mascorro, criminal justice senior, said Loyola Week emphasizes on the same values that she was taught in her Catholic high school.

“The activities allow us students to take a break from our daily routine and either learn something, or just simply have fun,” Mascorro said.

Some of the activities during the week will include Iggy Fest, which will take place on Nov. 3, “Wolfpack Walkaway Second-line,” which is scheduled to take place on Nov. 6, as well as several painting contests, dinner, and a Mass.

Loyola Week will begin with an opening Mass set to take place on Nov. 1