The 400th Anniversary of the death of Fr Matteo Ricci will be celebrated in Hong Kong with an Ignation Symposium, The Ricci Legacy: Finding God in Cultures. It will be held on 2 – 5 December 2010. It aims to explore inculturation of various facets of Ignatian spirituality in different environments with special emphasis on personal experience and story; and with special reference to Chinese culture.
In remembrance of Bishop Francisco Claver who passed away last 1 July 2010, we publish here an interview of ESSC with the Bishop in March 2008 where he generously shared his sharp and wizened thoughts on questions of culture and environment, especially in the Cordillera, his cultural origin.
The year of 2010 is a special year for Studio Audio Visual (SAV) Puskat. In this year SAV Puskat celebrates the 40th anniversary (1970-2010). The celebration is on every 15th of August.
‘By the end of my Indonesian Immersion Experience, I knew that I had found what I was looking for’, writes Erina Sharp, one of a group of young adults who recently travelled to Yogyakarta with MAGiS, the Ignatian young adult ministry. Here, Erina recounts an experience which enabled her to overcome obstacles and, in so doing, learn something new about herself.
Aug 30 – Sep 02 Treasurers’ Circle Meeting, Macau
Sep 13 – 18 JCIM Meeting on Indigenous Youth, Chaing Mai, Thailand
Oct 21 – 23 JCAP Extended Consult, Quezon City, Philippines
Nov 14 Arrupe International Residence 20th Anniversary
Sep 13 – 17 In Chiang Mai, Thailand with the JCIM Meeting for Indigenous Youth
Sep 18 – 26 In Rome, Meeting of Conference Presidents with Fr General
Oct 04 – 11 In Melbourne, Australian Province Consult and Ministries Commission
Oct 14 – 17 In Beijing, China for The Beijing Center Board Meeting
A group of scholastics recently spent four days with some communities in Wonosobo District uplands learning about how local families draw a livelihood from the land while keeping a forest canopy that protected the soil, water and nutrient cycles. In … Continued
In recent years, we had used the term Jesuit Conference of East Asia and Oceania to define organisational arrangements covering our life and service in the Asian countries to the east from Myanmar and in the Pacific Islands. In order to achieve the greater mandate we had been given, however, we felt that we had to see ourselves in a new, more readily understandable light in today’s world, as the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific (JCAP).
The Chinese Province of the Society of Jesus hopes that Matteo Ricci and his Chinese collaborator Paul Xu Guangqi can be canonized together. This is not only in line with the modern Church's trend of cooperation between priests and lay people, but would also encourage young Chinese men to consider religious vocation and perhaps even join the Jesuits, said Fr Louis Gendron, Provincial of Chinese Province.
Rampant consumerism and religious extremism pose a dual threat to Indonesia's national character; Fr Franz Magnis-Suseno (IDO) of Jakarta's Driyarkara School of Philosophy warned speaking to about 80 participants at a June 2 symposium in Jakarta organized by the Democratic National, an organization dedicated to creating integral freedom in Indonesia.