Lenten Homilies

Address held on Saturday 25 March 2017 for the Feast of the Annunciation in the church of the Collège Notre Dame of Jamhour in Beirut (Lebanon) [row] [column sm=”8″] Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Alumni, Dear Friends I am very pleased to meet you on this 25th of March on the occasion of the Feast of…

Having learned the news of the death of Father Alexandre Bassili SJ, from the coronavirus, on Wednesday, April 1, 2020, at the age of 75, WUJA offers its most sincere condolences to the Collège Notre-Dame of Jamhour from whose ranks he came (class of 1964), for which he served from 1980 to 2009 as spiritual…

WUJA expresses its deep condolence and reach out to the victims with a Compassionate Heart.   Letter from Fr. Sunny Jacobs, Secretary of JEA (Jesuit Educational Association in India): Dear Friends This is the hour of crisis in Nepal. Even in our country’s Border States are affected very much. Let us, Jesuit educationists and our…

Today we celebrate the feast of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. It is an important symbolic date for all those who are linked in one way or another with Jesuit works and the Ignatian spirit. On this occasion, we invite you to discover a brief reflection addressed to us by Father Bill Muller S.J., the new…

Expelled from several countries in the second half of the eighteenth century, they had been suppressed in the whole world in 1773. During the suppression and after the restoration, the Jesuits have shown tremendous resilience, first through surviving in different places, especially in Russia, then reorganizing themselves as of 1814 with surprising dynamics, made of…

Dear Alumna, dear Alumnus, On the eve of the feast of the birth of the Redeemer, I was thinking about the universal character of his message of peace, directed at all men of good will. This message makes of all men a great brotherly community, even if division is alas well rooted among us. In…