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.

You can read the online version of Jesuits & Friends here

‍

Jesuit priest working in Syria shares news of ongoing earthquake impact

February 6, 2024

In this interview with the BBC, Fr Tony O'Riordan speaks from Aleppo

LSRI’s Henri de Laulanié Prize opens for student innovators in Agroecology

February 22, 2026

£5,000 prize for student-led projects with real-world impact

The Ignatian Year - what is it and how can you get involved?

October 1, 2021

Check out our new webpage dedicated to Ignatian Year events.

The Chaplain

January 23, 2023

In this film we meet Matthew Power who is a Chaplain at Oxford University