Fr Nicolás: ‘The globalisation of superficiality’
Jesuit Superior General Adolfo Nicolás speaks to Jesuits in Belgium about how our modern world is giving us less time for what really matters in life.
Book Review
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A Jesuit in the Forbidden City: Matteo Ricci 1552-1610
by R. Po-chia Hsia
Reviewed by Thomas McCoog SJ, Archivist for the British Province of the Society of Jesus.
Ecology and Jesuits in Communication
We are pleased to invite you to subscribe to Ecology and Jesuits in Communication, an e-newsletter of Jesuits and friends, as we respond to the global invitation (GC35 Decree 3) to understand the universal importance of engaging in ecological concerns and the need for reconciliation with creation.
The World Mobilised
On November 9, Fr Mark Raper spoke at a conference held at the Pontifical Gregorian University to mark 30 years of Jesuit service to refugees. The conference was organised by three Jesuit organisations, Jesuit Refugee Service International, Centro Astalli and Magis as a part of a calendar of events held in Rome between November 9 – 14.
Introducing Ricci to schools
The Jesuits in Ireland have published an education pack for Junior cycle religion and history students, as part of the commemoration celebrations of Matteo Ricci, who died 400 years ago. Click on http://jesuit.ie/matteo-ricci-for-schools for the 24-page education pack and a video on Matteo Ricci by Fr Antoni Üçerler. The Irish Jesuits have also produced a poster of Ricci.
MAGiS 2011 in Madrid
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The MAGiS 2011 experience is divided into three different geographical and pastoral stages, with different activities in each of them keeping the core elements because the magis starts in the prior of the WYD but it continues during the days in Madrid and we hope that it goes on in their daily lives back home. The three stages that make MAGiS 2011 are: the Ignatian gathering in Loyola, the experiments throughout Spain and Portugal, and the WYD at Madrid.
Matteo Ricci at UNESCO in Paris
UNESCO celebrated the 400th anniversary of Matteo Ricci's death with a symposium and the opening of an exhibition. More than 700 people convened for the celebration on February 16 at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris.
Climate Conference in Copenhagen
Two Jesuits from OCIPE in Brussels, Frs. José Ignacio Garcia (CAS) and Jacques Haers (BSE), are present at the COP15 Climate Conference in Copenhagen as NGO observers, part of a team of Franciscans International. They keep up a blog, with posts in English and in Spanish, reflecting their personal reflections and experiences. This blog can be visited at http://ignatianeconet.wordpress.com.
Asia Pacific SJs in London
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On Friday, 25 September, British Provincial Fr Michael Holman hosted Mass and dinner at the Provincial Curia on Farm Street to welcome the Jesuits who have recently arrived in London for studies (around 30 Jesuits from all over the world!). Those who belong to the (soon to be) renamed Asia Pacific Conference (plus one!), residing in different communities in London but more or less previously acquainted because of Conference activities, celebrated their friendship with this photograph.
Spiritual Exercises in Spain
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.