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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…
And so we have arrived at the 5th week of Lent. In whatever way we have chosen, we have been praying, fasting and giving alms – all the traditional acts of Lent. They are the ways in which we re-order ourselves to prepare for the…
The deep purples of Lenten repentance and sorrow are changed to a delicate rose colour. They signal that for today the rigours of our Lenten journey can lightened. This Sunday we can stop to rest for a moment and contemplate the goal of our journey – the homecoming of Easter.
Listen here: “All the world’s a stage and men and women are merely players;They have their exits and their entrances;And one man in his time plays many parts…..” William Shakespeare “As You Like It” A little reflection and we can immediately recognise the truth of…
We sometimes think we have only one voice but we have many voices and many languages. Not only do we have words, we have gestures and symbols, we have music and song and we also have silence.
crucified Christ. And so, once we’ve written our list of things we plan to give up, with tentative, cautious steps we can brace ourselves and set out on our Lenten path.
