Fr. Arturo Sosa, SJ, the Jesuit General, has called this year, 2021-2022, “the Ignatian Year”, as it marks the 500th anniversary of the conversion of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Fr. General invites us ‘to see all things new in Christ’. After he recovered from his injury received at the battle of Pamplona, on May 21st, 1521, Ignatius set out towards Barcelona hoping to go to the Holy Land. On the way, he stopped at Manresa where he had a number of transformative, spiritual experiences so that “all things looked (or seemed) new to him” (Auto.N.30).
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The author is currently serving at Snehasadan Institute for the Study of
Religion, Pune.
