Life on Himes Historic Mass Jesuit returns to its downtown origins 8 JESUIT PERSPECTIVES • FALL 2017 for a special Baccalaureate Mass 2017 For the fi rst time in 55 years, Jesuit High School celebrated Baccalaureate Mass at historic Sacred Heart Church in downtown Tampa on May 22. With the Chapel of the Holy Cross, Jesuit’s new on-campus chapel, currently under construction, the school returned to its roots for the Class of 2017’s fi nal Mass. Sacred Heart Church was completed by the Jesuits in 1905 and is the oldest Catholic Church on Florida’s west coast. It was built adjacent to Jesuit High School, which was originally known as Sacred Heart College when the school was founded downtown in 1899. From 1912 through 1962, Baccalaureate Mass was celebrated for 51 consecutive years at Sacred Heart. For the next 54 years, from 1963 until last year, St. Anthony’s Chapel on Jesuit’s Himes Avenue campus – where the school had moved in 1956 – hosted the annual Baccalaureate Mass. For this past school year only, with the Chapel of the Holy Cross under construction as part of Phase I of the school’s Campus Master Plan, Jesuit returned to the gorgeous, 112-yearold Sacred Heart Church in the heart of downtown. The special Votive Mass of the Sacred Heart was celebrated by
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