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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.