Vocations

Father General Arturo Sosa, SJ, has announced the launch of the Collaborative Theology Initiative (CTI), a groundbreaking partnership between Jesuit theology centres worldwide. The initiative is a response to Pope Francis’ vision, as laid out in...

During the Jubilee Year 2025, the Church has set aside a number of days to celebrate different groups of people and various ministries. 21 -23 February has been designated as the Jubilee of Deacons. In this article, Serge Kasiama, SJ, shares his experience...

Let us pray that the ecclesial community might welcome the desires and doubts of those young people who feel a call to serve Christ’s mission in the priesthood and religious life.

On 25 January, the International Commission on the Jesuit Brother (ICJB) completed its inaugural meeting in Rome. The week-long meeting launched an ambitious three-year process to deepen the identity, formation, and vocation promotion...

The General Curia of the Society of Jesus in Rome is hosting this week the inaugural meeting of the International Commission on the Jesuit Brother (ICJB). The commission, which reflects the diversity and universality of the Society of Jesus, brings together...

“This month of discernment was an invitation for me to seek again the footprints of the Divine in my vocation. Like a river flowing effortlessly to its source, I found myself surrendering to the gentle currents of contemplation and discernment, in the footsteps of St Ignatius.”

The story of my vocation as a Jesuit Brother is tied in with my joining the Church. I did not grow up a Catholic but was baptized at the age of twenty-two. After completing my undergraduate degree in Classics and Religion, I remained at the university to earn a graduate degree...

The song “You Are Mine” set the tone for the seven-day Ignatian retreat for Jesuit Brothers from the Conference of Asia Pacific (JCAP). The words reminded us that we belong to the Lord, who “will come to us in the silence”, as we seek to enter into a deeper union with Him.

In a significant step to deepen and promote more Brother vocations in the Society, Father General Arturo Sosa, on 31 October 2024, established an International Commission on the Jesuit Brother (ICJB). The ICJB builds on the work of the International Assembly of Jesuit Brothers...

“The first step, for the candidate as well as for us, the moderators, is to clarify the deep motivations behind the desire to be a Jesuit. When they arrive, candidates express very simple motivations such as wanting to have a happy life, inner peace and the desire to serve God...”

It’s a fact that in most countries of the world, vocations to the religious life are few and far between, given the social, cultural and religious context of today’s world. There is, however, one notable exception to this trend: Vietnam. The number of young Vietnamese entering the Jesuit novitiate...

16 July 2024 will be remembered as a momentous occasion in the history of Bangladesh Jesuit Mission of Calcutta Jesuit Province because for the first time ever, two second-year novices pronounced their First Vows in the Society of Jesus at Arrupe Jesuit Novitiate, Mathbari, Gazipur.