Street Retreat expands from Twitter to print
23 Aug 2011

Street Retreat expands from Twitter to print

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When Fr In-young Albert Cho SJ came up with the idea of taking retreats to the people, he chose to use Twitter, which make sense in Korea with its high use of the Internet and mobile phone. 

Now his Street Retreat is expanding into print.From September, the Catholic Times in Koreawill bepublishing the weekly tweets of the Street Retreat in its print edition.  The tweets will be printed along one of the edges of the newspaper so that readers can tear them off to carry them around with them.

Fr In-young is very pleased with this development. 

As Ignatius Would
22 Aug 2011

As Ignatius Would

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Ignatius Loyola’s gift to the Church was about choice: how to make the best decision in our lives. In the celebrations for Ignatius Loyola the readings speak of choice and of the mission that follows the choice.  Ignatius invites us to say ‘no’ to the self that is focused on itself: the surface self, the small, fearful, insecure self.  By contrast the Gospel reveals the sacred, unique, individual self, the person created and sustained in life by God, loved as a son and daughter, whom Jesus wants to be saved. 

Connecting with the poor through dance
25 Jul 2011

Connecting with the poor through dance

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INDIA − Jesuits are known for striving to be on the frontiers, not just geographically but across ministries.   In India, Fr. Prashant Olalekar SJ epitomises this missionary spirit with his work with a “movement meditation” called Interplay in Mumbai. 

A member of the team at Retreat House Bandra in Mumbai, Fr Prashant learnt about Interplay, an Eastern-based practice, during a visit to the United States.  He now conducts classes with Interplay India, bringing movement and dance to those seeking spiritual guidance and connections. 

On Ignatian spirituality and vocations
25 Jul 2011

On Ignatian spirituality and vocations

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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. 

Ignatian Symposium on Matteo Ricci
5 Oct 2010

Ignatian Symposium on Matteo Ricci

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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.

Finding God in Cultures
19 Aug 2010

Finding God in Cultures

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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.

The making of Seek God Everywhere
5 Mar 2010

The making of Seek God Everywhere

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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.

Spiritual Exercises in Spain
21 Apr 2009

Spiritual Exercises in Spain

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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.