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Pre-Novitiate Directors and Vocation Promoters Meet

NewsFebruary 10, 2023

The annual meeting of the Vocation Promoters and the Pre-Novitiate Directors of the Jesuit Conference of South Asia was held at Matigara. Thirty-eight Jesuit Vocation Promoters and Pre-Novitiate Directors took an active part in the…

A Jesuit to lead the Xavier Board of…

NewsFebruary 10, 2023

The 24th Triennial National Conference of the Xavier Board of Higher Education in India (XBHEI) was held from the 22nd to 24th October, 2022, at St. Joseph Vaz Spiritual Renewal Centre, Old Goa, on the…

Fr. Abraham Adappur, SJ (KER) 1926-2022

ObituaryFebruary 10, 2023

Fr. Adappur engaged in constant dialogue with the secular world.  Aged 96, he died in Christ Hall, Kozhikode.  His convictions, opposition to communism, and sense of justice, made him a philosopher-ascetic. He presented Christian doctrines in a secular style.…

Fr. Ekka Marcel, SJ (MAP) 1952-2022

ObituaryFebruary 10, 2023

Fr. Ekka Marcel SJ, participated in a fellowship programme in Social Management in Ahmedabad in 1985, and in 1986 involved himself in training the Balwadi Activists, organizing protest rallies against the Semarsot Wildlife Sanctuary project…

Fr. Victor D’Silva, SJ (KAR) 1942-2022

ObituaryFebruary 10, 2023

Fr. Victor Eugene D’Silva was born at Bondel, Mangaluru, on 23rd August, 1942. He was the fourth among five children. He did his initial schooling at St. Lawrence Higher Primary School, Bondel. He completed his…

Fr. Ornellas Coutinho, SJ (GUJ) 1942-2022

ObituaryFebruary 10, 2023

Fr. Ornellas Coutinho (GUJ), affectionately called ‘Orny’, was born on 6th August 1942, in Goa; joined the Jesuits on 20th June 1961, pronounced his first vows on 21st June 1963 at Vinayalaya, Bombay; ordained a…

Fr. George Nedungatt, SJ (KER) 1932-2022

ObituaryFebruary 10, 2023

Fr. George Nedungatt passed away on 26th October 2022 at Christ Hall, Kozhikode. Born in Peringuzha near Muvattupuzha, Fr Nedungatt began exhibiting his talents already in his school-days by organising the Marian Sodality in his…

A Lay Society of Jesus!

New Wine, New SkinsFebruary 10, 2023

As the context for the reflections stated ahead, at the outset let me state that I have spent 22 years as an ex-Jesuit after being in formation for 15 years. The context I want to…

Lord, Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace

Pathway to GodFebruary 10, 2023

Desmond Mpilo Tutu (1931-2021), “Africa’s Peace Bishop,” was a man of God and of letters. A long, eventful life of this Nobel Laureate can best be summarised as an idea whose time was ripe. He…