From the Curia:
· Colloquium for Spanish Speaking Major Superiors
From June 13 to 25, the Colloquium for Spanish Speaking Major Superiors appointed during the past year will be held at the General Curia. The purpose of the meeting is to provide group reflection, with the participation of Father General, on important issues of the Provincial government, such as the statement of conscience and the personal accompaniment, the communitarian animation, the insertion into the reality of the local Church, the mission to the frontiers and the interprovincial and international collaboration. The colloquium is useful also to illustrate to the new superiors the various offices and services of the General Curia and to have a personal contact with the staff of Father General in the government of the universal Society. The colloquium has always an international character. This time the participants are 10 major superiors from Latin America, Spain and Germany. At the end of the colloquium the Provincials will visit and celebrate the Eucharist in the Rooms of St. Ignatius, as a sign of real commitment to the charism and mission of the Society.
· Third Pan-African meeting of the Apostleship of Prayer
From June 14 to 21, the Third Pan-African meeting of the Apostleship of Prayer and the Eucharistic Youth Movement (E.Y.M.), the youth branch of the Apostleship of Prayer will be held in Kinshasa (Congo Democratic Republic). The first was in Lagos (Nigeria), in 2002, the second in Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania), in 2009. This time, about 25 delegates, including Jesuits, religious sisters and lay collaborators, from 15 African countries, will meet for a week under the theme Towards the re-creation of the Apostleship of Prayer and the and the E.Y.M. in the Church of Africa today. The meeting will be an important boost to the promotion of this spiritual way that helps millions around the world, and especially for the Youth branch, very lively and widespread in Africa.
During the upcoming World Youth Day in Madrid (Spain), the Eucharistic Youth Movement will have a privileged moment during what is called the “Youth Festival”. On Wednesday August 17th they will share with all those interested the richness and joy of their Eucharistic-grounded and Ignatian inspired formation program for children and young people. The Movement is today very much alive in nearly 50 countries in the world.
· Global Ignatian Advocacy Network
For the first time ever, all the members of the Global Ignatian Advocacy Network(GIAN) will come together from 18-23 June in the retreat house near the birth place of St Ignatius in Loyola. The five leaders and twenty core group members of the global networks for Ecology, Right to Education, Migration, Peace and Human Rights, and Governance of Natural and Mineral Resources will spend six days learning about advocacy and networking, and discerning the way forward for their networks. All Conferences are represented in the group, which will be supported by the Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat, and two experts of Alboan, the Jesuit NGO of the Loyola Province. The workshop in Loyola will be followed by a worldwide mapping of Jesuit institutions that are currently engaged in advocacy. You are invited to follow the meeting through the GIAN website: http://www.ignatianadvocacy.org/
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Appointments |
Father General has appointed:
– Father John Lee Hua Provincial of China. Father John, currently Delegate for Mainland China, was born in 1966, entered the Society of Jesus in 1992 and was ordained a priest in 2002.
– Father Jeyaraj Veluswamy Provincial of Calcutta (India). Fr. Jeyaraj, up to now Novice Master of the same Province, was born in 1961, entered the Society of Jesus in 1983 and was ordained a priest in 1994.
– Father Adelson Araújo dos Santos Regional Superior of Amazzonia (Brasil). Father Adelson Araújo, up to now Spiritual Director of the Philosophate of Belo Horizonte, was born in 1964, entered the Society of Jesus in 1986 and was ordained a priest in 1997.
– Father Paul Martin Regional Superior of Guyana. Father Paul, currently coordinator of Ministries in South Pakaraimas, Diocese of Georgetown, was born in 1960, entered the Society of Jesus in 1984 and was ordained a priest in 1996.
– Father Michael J. Garanzini, of the Missouri Province (USA), as Secretary for Higher Education, succeeding to Father Ronald J. Anton. This appointment will take effect on 1st September 2011. Father Michael, President of the Loyola UniversityChicago, was born in 1948, entered the Society of Jesus in 1971 and was ordained a priest in 1980. “Among other duties, Father Garanzini will have responsibility for the creation and maintenance of networks of research and common action among Jesuit higher education institutions throughout the world, for the promotion of the Jesuit identity in these institutions, and for the development of means of sharing the knowledge and research of Jesuit universities with those who have limited access to education.”
… Jesuits around the world, Rome, June 6 and 20, 2011