Parish volunteers assist with Spiritual Exercises retreats as retreat companions for persons in homelessness seeking change and growth to overcome homelessness.

Parish volunteers provide lunch monthly to assist persons in homelessness with histories of emotional and/or mental challenges participating in Tender Mercies permanent housing and supportive services.

Parish volunteers and others present an introductory 3-day retreat weekend in Christian faith and personal growth for local prison inmates.

Gesu Church is a member of the Interfaith Hospitality Network (IHN) – a coalition of area churches, syna­gogues, and places of worship, which provide temporary overnight housing for homeless families at periodic weekly intervals during the year. Volunteers are needed to provide meals and companionship during times when Gesu hosts IHN guests in McAuley Hall.

MARCC is a Coalition, a way of enabling these 17 Jewish, Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Muslim, and Protestant Judicatories to work together on a few, agreed-upon, local social Concerns to make life better for people in metropolitan Cincinnati.

In the language of sacred texts, the religious community can work on social problems in three ways:

• Prophetic (holding up the absolute standards of God or spiritual well being),
• Priestly (caring for each individual child),
• Sovereignty (or politically, choosing the best possible solution).

Peace and Justice Programs aims to promote personal and social transformation. Towards the end of achieving these two objectives our work begins through the promotion of relationships. Through facilitating service, education and immersion experiences, we aim to actively engage the Xavier community in the lives of local, national and international communities. As students, faculty and staff get caught up in the lives of our local and global neighbors, in particular the lives of those individuals and communities who reside on our world’s social, economic and political margins, our programs foment and inform the desire and imperative to respond. In order to promote effective responses (and responders) we promote social analysis.

A group of Gesu parishioners provide and serve a hot meal once a month at St. Patrick’s Hunger Center.

The membership of this society is made up of Gesu parishioners whose work is to assist the needy of our par­ish family and support the diocesan efforts to help the poor of the city. The Society is a small group of people who respond to the Pastor’s request for assistance.