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Dear friends and colleagues, dear alumni My words these days with the arrival of Christmas and this new life of peace are of great joy, which I want to share with the memory of the moments lived together in Barcelona and especially with the words of illusion and commitment that we received of the General…
World Union of Jesuit Alumni Builds Global Jesuit Network
“Go forth and set the world on fire.” Students at Jesuit schools hear this over and over, but out in the real world, after graduation, it can be easy to feel like you’re living the Ignatian values alone. Every four years, the World Union of Jesuit Alumni (WUJA) brings together Jesuit friends and alumni for…
Message for Christmas and New Year
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…
200th Anniversary of the Restoration of the Society of Jesus
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…
Mass for pope Francis
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…
New Executive Committee of the World Union
On August, 17th 2013, the World Union of Jesuit Alumni held its General Assembly in Medellin (Colombia) and elected its new Council. The new Executive Committee counts the following members: Alain Deneef, Belgium (President), Sina Buraimoh-Ademuyewo, Nigeria (Vice-President), Carlos Gianicolo, Argentina (Secretary) and Ronald D’Costa, India (Treasurer). The Jesuit Councillor remains Fr. William Currie S.J.,…