The President

• April 15 – 16: JCEAO Consult Meeting, JCEAO Office
• April 17 – May 20: Sabbatical
• May 21 – 27: In Cambodia for Jub Phokthavi’s Priesthood Ordination
• June 3 – 9: In Rome
• June 19 – 28: East Timor visit
• June 29 – July 6: In Sydney, Australia for Province Gathering

• March 13 – 17: With Jesuits in Thailand for the Regional Discernment
• March 18 – 21: With Jesuits in Cambodia for Jesuit Service Cambodia Planning
• March 23 – 25: Visit to Zamboanga City, Philippines
• March 27 – April 5: In Australia
• April 15 – 16: JCEAO Consult Meeting, JCEAO Office
• April 17 – May 20: Sabbatical
• May 21 – 27: In Cambodia for Deacon Jub Phokthavi’s Priesthood Ordination

Newly appointed Jesuit Conference for East Asia and Oceania (JCEAO) President Fr. Mark Raper, SJ bikes around the Ateneo de Manila campus and understandably, speaks with a distinctive Australian twang. Father Raper, in an interview with The Windhover’s Frank Savadera, SJ speaks to us about his experience of the 35th General Congregation, his work with the refugees and the evolving challenges being faced by the entire East Asia and Oceania Assistancy.

• February 20–23 in Bangkok to attend Thailand’s Regional Discernment
• February 23–March 02 in Phnom Penh to join the Cambodia Jesuit Mission discernment and planning.
• March 14 in Thailand for the continuing regional discernment.

• November 3–14: Visitation with Arrupe scholastics. Some of these days will also be spent on visitations with EAPI Jesuit community and staff.
• November 14–16: Talk to the theologians at the LHS triduum; presides at their renovation mass in the morning of November 17.
• November 17–25: Travels to Phnom Penh in the afternoon of Nov. 17 for the Regional Meeting of the Jesuits in Cambodia on November 18–21. Proceeds to Nagasaki, Japan for the Beatification of Martyrs on November 24.

• October 4–5: Meeting of Consult, Secretaries and Directors of Work.
• October 5–6: Meeting of President with Consultors.
• October 14–22: Fr Mark travels to China to attend The Beijing Center (TBC) Board Meeting, TBC 2nd Decade Celebration, TBC Conference on the Qing Dynasty, and a Meeting on Higher Education in China
• October 26–Nov 1: Fr Mark travels to Bangkok for Thailand’s Regional Gathering

The world has changed a lot for us here at the office of JCEAO since the General Congregation began two months ago. Suddenly we lost a boss – Fr Adolfo Nicolás was elected Superior General—and then we gained another one.