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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The mystery object found in church

August 6, 2021

A strange wooden object has been found at a Jesuit church in Liverpool.

Jesuit Refugee Service calls on new government to create a "just and humane" asylum system

July 22, 2024

An open letter has been sent to the newly-appointed Home Secretary, Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP.

Jesuits to leave St Francis Xavier Church in Liverpool

December 3, 2022

The next parish priest will be a member of the Archdiocesan clergy.

SFX - the end of an era

April 16, 2023

Brother Ken Vance SJ talks to BBC Radio on the day the Jesuits leave SFX Church in Liverpool