AUSTRALIA − Fr John Reilly SJ speaks to Richard Fidler of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation about retreats, Ignatian spirituality and his vocation. Fr John is the Superior of the Jesuits in Queensland and a member of the team at the Faber Centre of Ignatian Spirituality.
Listen to the 1-hour interview on ABC’s Conversations with Richard Fidler aired on July 1, 2011.
Xavier House–Ignatian Spirituality Centre, Hong Kong is organizing an Ignatian Symposium in December, in memory of the 400th anniversary of the death of Matteo Ricci. It will be held in Hong Kong from Dec 2-5. It will focus on three aspects of Ricci’s legacy in related to Ignatian Spirituality, namely, Affectivity, Cultures mediating God, and Apostolic Creativity and Leadership.
Jesuits and lay people working in Ignatian Spirituality ministries have begun efforts to increase collaboration across the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific (JCAP), following a meeting at the Canisius Centre of Ignatian Spirituality in Sydney last month.
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.
Fr Gerry O’Collins (ASL) writes: The story of my 54th book, Seek God Everywhere (New York: Doubleday) seems worth telling. In late 1975 at his Sadhana Institute (near Pune), Fr Tony de Mello SJ ran a course on the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius for seven Jesuit priests and seven religious sisters. Two or three times a week he gave hour-long talks that were taped. Several members of the group then typed out the talks and gave the others a carbon copy. Thirty years later one of the group made his copy available to me and two American Jesuits.
Fr Francesc Riera Figueras, Superior of the Community at the Cave of St. Ignatius in Manresa, Spain sends this invitation to all Jesuits, religious and lay people who are looking for a place to have their spiritual exercises, “We would like that our ‘holy place’, the birth-place of Ignatian spirituality where Ignatius wrote the core of the Exercises, could become a home for all Jesuits and other religious or lay people in order to practice the Spiritual Exercises for a full month.
Fr. Arnulfo Bugtas, SJ, Director of the Center for Ignatian Spirituality – Philippines would like to invite you to visit their website: http://www.cisphil.blogspot.com
We are very excited to be able to inform you the the Australian Province of the Society of Jesus has just launched a website for our Centres of Ignatian Spirituality in Australia. As a joint ministry, we plan to work together, program together and share our resources. So now if you are interested in making a retreat in Australia, you need only go to one site.
The address is http://www.cis.jesuit.org.au