Giovanni Antonio Solinas, our new Blessed, was beatified on 2nd July 2022, in Argentina. His feast-day is 16th November. [auth] Giovanni Antonio Solinas (1643-1683), an Italian Jesuit, was massacred on 27th October 1683, in Zenta,…

God has been so great in accompanying me all these years. I have felt His constant guidance in making me what I am today. I thank everyone who has played his or her part in…

The inimitable Jesuit practice of poverty has two entwined threads ‘spiritual’ and ‘actual’ (Sp. Ex. 98, 146), the attainment for which Grace every Jesuit intentionally and actively prays and deliberately chooses. Actual poverty is relinquishing…

The letter written on 7th August 1547 by St. Ignatius to the Jesuits of Padua, highlights the inner spirit with which one is invited to live a life of poverty. The context of this communication…

Poverty as a choice [auth] In the letter on the need to examine our vow of Poverty, Fr General wrote: “It is not the lack of many material goods that we recognize Jesus poor and…

I had the privilege of getting educated in a Salesian School, and was closely associated with the Salesian Sisters and Fathers right from my childhood, and have worked in close collaboration with them. Moreover, I’m…

The dawn has come for the Society of Jesus in South Asia with the venturing of a school of Environmental Science at SJU, Bengaluru. The new university has established PG and Research Programs in Environmental…

Have we ever wondered, ‘How did Francis Xavier, and his saint-confreres (Faber, Canisius, Kostka, etc.,) pray?’ or ‘Who was responsible, under God, for training them in holiness and prayerfulness?’ The answer, of course, is that…