The Secretariat for the Service of the Faith is re-establishing the CIS conferences on Ignatian Spirituality. In the past, these have provided an important opportunity for scholars and practitioners to spend time exploring the riches of Ignatian Spirituality and the foundational texts of the Society. The…
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What is Pope Francis’ vision of theology? Marking the 10th anniversary of his election, in this article James Hanvey SJ explores what the Pope understands theology to be at the service of the Church. The article will appear in Italian in Civiltà Cattolica. “I think…
The new JCEP Network of Delegates for Spirituality had its first presential meeting in Rome, invited by the Secretary for the Service of the Faith in the General Curia, James Hanvey. To help the group reflect on the general topic of secularization, Cardinal José Tolentino…
Adviento celebra el advenimiento, la llegada de Jesús. Es un tiempo precioso en que la Liturgia –a través de las lecturas y símbolos- nos invita a renovar la esperanza porque Dios nunca nos abandona. Las lecturas bíblicas nos hablan de un Dios justo y amoroso…
Advent is a beautiful time. It is filled with many themes of waiting and expectation, of promises about to be filled, of time, journeys, visions, hopes, peoples in various forms of darkness waiting for the light, of creation itself caught in its own waiting and…
The General’s international advisory group for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue met from the 5th to the 8th of September 2022. The annual meeting took place at the Curia Generalis SJ in Rome. The ecumenical part of the meeting had the theme ‘Synodality in an ecumenical…
It seemed as if some sort of stability might finally arrive. The British government had been in a terminal state since Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s “partygate.” The Downing Street “Covid jollies” stood in contrast to the dignified but lonely presence of Queen Elizabeth II at…
🇬🇧 Human being: place of love (of God) We live today in a society of fatigue, a society that invites us not to sit still, to add more and more speed to our actions and consumption, so as not to stop feeling “alive”. But in…
“Early in the morning, on the first day of the week…..” This is how the Easter narrative begins. There is something beautiful and strange about this simple matter-of-fact sentence. The beginning of another week, another day; the familiar cycles of life and time continue. Its ordinariness is oddly comforting. When the security of our world has been shattered by violence and death, we long for the ‘ordinary’, the ‘normal’, the familiar, even the banal. Yet, this sentence is anything but ‘ordinary.’ It quietly opens into a new time and a new world: a world that is now defined, saturated, by the resurrection.
This Holy Week, we invite you to reflect and pray with audio reflections entitled “Women of the Cross”. We wish this time to be spiritually fruitful. Jesuits in Britain · Women of the Cross If you have not yet listened to our meditations for the…
