Ricci Legacy Symposium videos online
21 Nov 2011

Ricci Legacy Symposium videos online

by | posted in: Education, Interreligious Dialogue, Spirituality | 0

Videos from The Ricci Legacy Symposium held in Hong Kong in December 2010 are now available online. 

The four-day symposium on inculturation was collaboration between Xavier House Spiritual Formation Centre in Hong Kong and Georgetown University in the United States. The 300 participants – about 100 from mainland China – heard 10 international experts, including Georgetown’s Fr Howard Gray, SJ, reflect on cultural adaptation of the Gospel and Ignatian Spirituality.

Bridges between the young and the Church
21 Nov 2011

Bridges between the young and the Church

by | posted in: Education | 0

Jesuits need to be “real bridges between the young and the Church”, said Father General Adolfo Nicolás in a letter to the Society written as a synthesis of the ex-officio 2011 letters. 

The ex-officio letters are the annual letters from every Province on a subject which Father General indicates each year. Last year, he asked for information about Jesuit work for youth.

A mini-documentary on the universe
17 Oct 2011

A mini-documentary on the universe

by | posted in: Education | 0

Fr Pedro Walpole SJ and Fr James Reuter SJ provide the narration for a mini-documentary that provides a quick 14-minute tour of the universe.  They describe in simple terms how the Big Bang really occurred and the discovery of neutrinos, galactic super-clusters, cosmic voids, and dark galaxies. Dramatic Hubble space photos are also featured.

Ateneo de Cagayan to be green campus with a blue heart
17 Oct 2011

Ateneo de Cagayan to be green campus with a blue heart

by | posted in: Education, Reconciliation with Creation, Social Justice | 0

 The new President of President of Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan, Fr Roberto “Bobby” Yap SJ began his term with a strong message regarding man’s need to reconcile with recreation.

In his Inaugural Address on August 15, Fr Bobby declared that “care for the environment is certainly one of the most crucial and most challenging” frontiers a university can strive to reach, and announced two environmental stewardship projects he will focus on – making the campus green and adapting to climate change.

A Class of Life
23 Aug 2011

A Class of Life

by | posted in: Education | 0

Fr Daniel Ross SJ, Director of the International Center for the Promotion of Partner Based Learning in Zhuhai, Guangdong, China, shares with us their work and a local student’s account of her experience.  Fr Ross has been teaching at Fu Jen University in Taiwan for the past 39 years and teaches seminars in Zhuhai and Fu Jen.

As Ignatius Would
22 Aug 2011

As Ignatius Would

by | posted in: Education, Migration, Spirituality | 0

Ignatius Loyola’s gift to the Church was about choice: how to make the best decision in our lives. In the celebrations for Ignatius Loyola the readings speak of choice and of the mission that follows the choice.  Ignatius invites us to say ‘no’ to the self that is focused on itself: the surface self, the small, fearful, insecure self.  By contrast the Gospel reveals the sacred, unique, individual self, the person created and sustained in life by God, loved as a son and daughter, whom Jesus wants to be saved.