Jesuits & Friends - Winter 2023

November 22, 2023

Contents

04 Meet our new provincial, Peter Gallagher SJ.

05 Kensy Joseph SJ is grateful for the fruits of July's province retreat.

06 World Youth Day and the Magis programme left a lasting impression on pilgrims Matthew O'Dowd and Allena Andress.

08 JRS UK's refugee friends have shared joyful experiences with their local community, as Mark Dunn tells us.

10 Paul Chitnis unveils Jesuit Missions' new look, and David Harold-Barry SJ reflects on what 'mission' means.

12 What is discernment of spirits all about? John Paul de Quay gives us a visual guide.

14 Patrick Kenny helps us get to know a World War I chaplain whose cause for canonisation opened last year: Fr Willie Doyle SJ.

16 Life at St Aloysius' College, Glasgow, is shaped by the retreat programme that Tony McBride describes.

17 Euan McArthur describes how the UK was encircled in a ring of prayer during a sailing voyage this spring.

18 A pilgrimage in honour of Bl. Edward Olcome SJ brought Frank Tota much encouragement; and Phil McCarthy points any would-be pilgrims in the right direction.

21 Postcard from Guyana; what did Rebecca Somerset uncover in Georgetown?

22 Praying with the pope: Eddy Bermingham SJ.

23 Obituaries.

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Homily for the Requiem Mass of Fr Michael Beattie SJ

January 27, 2023

This homily was given by Fr Michael Holman SJ at Mount St Mary's College Chapel on 25th January 2023

Jesuit school students demand climate justice in ‘Fridays for the Future’ demo

September 23, 2025

Students from St Ignatius College went to Whitehall where they prayed for the future of our planet

Jesuit Refugee Service UK responds to reports of soaring homelessness among refugees

February 17, 2026

Government data shows a five-fold increase in number of refugees exposed to homelessness

The Jesuits in Britain welcome the appointment of the new Archbishop of Westminster

December 19, 2025

A statement from the Provincial Superior of the Jesuits in Britain, Fr Peter Gallagher SJ