Formation

The cycle of meetings at the Curia is in fast-track mode. During the week of 6-10 November the six Delegates for Formation, one from each Conference, met with Father General’s Assistant for Formation, Fr Mark Ravizza.

The Ciszek Hall Jesuit Residential College: a “living-learning community,” where Jesuits in formation integrate their academic, ministerial, social and spiritual lives within the context of the Bronx.

We asked the superior of the community, Jorge Alberto Camacho, to tell us about the challenges faced by Jesuit students during their first years of formation. He also told us about the joys he himself experiences in his responsibility as formator.

One of the great traditions of the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific is the SBC: the Scholastics and Brothers Circle. The tradition had been threatened by the pandemic: the last edition took place in 2019. But on 19 to 26 December 2022 the Circle took shape again.

November 13th is the feast of St. Stanislaus Kostka, patron saint of Jesuit novices. This young Pole wanted to join the Jesuits at the tender age of 14, but candidates so young were not admitted. At the age of 17, however...

In the course of the formation of all Jesuits, the Society seeks to confirm and support the call that the Jesuit in formation has heard. What call exactly?

Fr. Arturo Sosa spoke with six young Jesuits - one from each of the six Jesuit Conferences - about the meaning of the Universal Apostolic Preferences for them, about the future of the Society...