We are very glad to welcome you on our new website. With a revamped style and a mobile-friendly design, this is the richest source of information about the Jesuit Alumni worldwide movement. Under the impetus of its president Alain Deneef, WUJA wanted to build a stronger presence on the Internet in order to inform…
On this day of the feast of St. Ignatius, we unite in the joy to all the Jesuits in the world to tell them our gratitude to know them. We think particularly of two of them: Jorge Mario Bergoglio, our pope, and Paolo Dall’Oglio, detained for two years in Syria. May the Jesuit Alumni give…
The World Union of Jesuit Alumni (WUJA) holds its new Council meeting in Montevideo, Uruguay, on 17 and 18 July. This yearly planned meeting is the place by excellence where the global direction for WUJA’s action is being decided. The Council of WUJA is elected during the general assembly held at the occasion of world…
On June 10, the premiere took place of the ‘Mass for pope Francis at the occasion of the bicentennial of the restoration of the Society of Jesus’. This mass was specially composed by an illustrious Alumnus of the Jesuits of the Istituto Massimo in Rome: Ennio Morricone. The maestro directed himself the orchestra and two…
Dear Friends Alumni/æ We were struck by the catastrophe in Nepal. The Nepalese Jesuits are calling upon us to show our solidarity. Please find hereafter the link to the web page of the Curia (http://www.sjweb.info/news/) and to the Facebook page of the Earthquake Relief by Nepal Jesuits Here comes their bank account : Bank Name:…
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…
Exercises in liturgical preaching for Ash Wednesday and for the five Sundays in preparation for Easter. From the archive of Benedict XVI. In obedience to Pope Francis. Link
Pedro Arrupe World Association February 2015 For the Pedro Arrupe World Association, 2014 was a transitional year pending a greater involvement in Haiti on a proposal from the World Union’s President (in collaboration with a Belgian foundation) which did not materialise during 2014. It therefore limited itself to its continued financial commitment to a scholarship…
Dear Alumnae and Alumni, I wish you all a Merry Christmas! We celebrate Christmas and its rejoicing, its hope for Peace on our war-torn planet. We celebrate it under the form of a fragile and innocent newborn, as we all know that fragility can subvert force and innocence can disarm violence. Let’s get ourselves wrapped…
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…