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Jesuits and Friends A faith that does justice Summer 2010 Issue 76

ÂŁ2 million appeal for Guyana hospital Page 10

Hope in Cape Town township Page 4

Ser ving the needs of North London community Page 6

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US example inspires Oxford chaplain

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“May the Virgin Mary, who promptly answered the call of the Father saying, ‘Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord’ (Luke 1: 38), intercede so that the Christian people will not lack servants of divine joy: priests who, in communion with their Bishops, announce the Gospel faithfully and celebrate the sacraments, take care of the people of God, and are ready to evangelize all humanity.”

Have you or someone you know considered life as a Jesuit priest or brother?

For more information, contact: BRITAIN – Fr Matthew Power SJ Loyola Hall, Warrington Road, Prescot L35 6NZ Tel: + 44 (0)151 426 4137, matthew.power@jesuits.net GUYANA – Fr Edwin Thadheu SJ Jesuit Residence, PO Box 10720, Georgetown, Guyana Tel: + 592 22 67461, getedwinsj@gmail.com SOUTH AFRICA – Fr Russell Pollitt SJ Holy Trinity, PO Box 31087, Johannesburg 2017, South Africa, Tel: + 27 (0)11 339 2826, rp@sj.org.za

Pope Benedict XVI

Or visit www.jesuitvocations.org.uk

“Why do we want to love the poor, to help the lonely, to console the sad, to heal the sick and to bring freedom to the oppressed?

Simply because this is what God does, nothing else.”

From Father General’s homily at General Congregation 35, 6 March 2008

JESUIT REFUGEE SERVICE – UK JRS-UK provides support for completely destitute asylum seekers left in the UK with no status, no benefits and no permission to work. Many have not seen their families for years.

Please help us show that someone cares and help us provide hope along with the grants we give for food, bus tickets, or other essential items like spectacles and medicine.

Please send your donation to JRS, 6 Melior Street, London SE1 3QP or email on uk@jrs.net for more information about our work.

Contents

Summer 2010 Issue 76 Cover photo: A dance and music group perform at the Mukanzubo Kalinda Institute Museum at Chikuni Mission, Zambia. By participating in the group, local people are encouraged to preserve their traditions.

Credit: Hania Lubienska/JM

Jesuits and Friends is published three times a year by the British Province of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), in association with JM. Tim Curtis SJ Executive Editor Ged Clapson Editor Editorial group: Denis Blackledge SJ Dushan Croos SJ Alan Fernandes Jane King Siobhan Totman

Engaging with contemporary culture. Ngonidzashe Edward SJ (Zimbabwe), Rampe Hlobo SJ (South Africa) and Gilbert Mardai SJ (East Africa) get into the spirit of the World Cup. Editorial Tim Curtis SJ Tea and shelter in Nyanga Parish priest, Fr Matespane Morare SJ, appeals from one of the poorest and most dangerous districts of South Africa.

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Getting Brother Pozzo into perspective Dr Lydia Salviucci and Fr Norman Tanner SJ explain why a 17th century Jesuit artist and architect was so significant in the Baroque Church.

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Chaplaincraft!

Fr Simon Bishop SJ’s experience of university chaplaincies in the USA challenged his view of being Chaplain at the University of Oxford.

Plus: Chaplain leads tributes for the fallen of northern France 6 Growing into Silence Much of the BBC 2 series ‘The Big Silence’ was filmed at St Beuno’s Spirituality Centre. Fr Tom McGuiness SJ, who was one of the spiritual guides for the series, reflects on the relationship between silence and song.

Plus: Order your copy of the 44-page booklet published to accompany the series.

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Jesuits provide stability and support among the poorest

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Fr Peter McIsaac SJ, Regional Superior, Jamaica

Thousands raised, records smashed …

Even the volcanic ash couldn’t stop our Marathon runners!

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God blesses, God wants, God demands Fr Michael Beattie SJ and the Pope’s Apostleship of Prayer intentions

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process to produce fully recyclable material in accordance with an Environmental Management System conforming with BS EN

Historic hospital to rise from the ashes Bits and Pieces Helen Browman of St Joseph Mercy Hospital, Georgetown 10 News of awards, concerts and ordinations

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Beautiful lilies from the muddy waters May they rest in peace The Jesuits in Bangkok provide sanctuary to refugees.

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Welcome and service at St Ignatius Recent publications How the St Ignatius parish in north London is Fr Arrupe’s retreat notes responding to the needs of the community it serves: Fr Jim Conway SJ 12 George Tyrrell and Catholic Modernism

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From the Editor...

By the time this issue of Jesuits and Friends ends up on your mat, the FIFA World Cup will be coming to a conclusion. I hazard a guess that if you are not a football fan, you might be pretty fed up with it all by now.

Interestingly, the game of football has a long history. In medieval times, a skin of ale was placed midway between two villages, and the object of the exercise would be to get the beer back to one’s own village. The whole village would play, and it wasn’t so much the number of goals that counted as the number of dead or injured.

Things were not so different in the reign of Elizabeth I, where football was still very popular. The game is mentioned in a letter from Fr Pibush which the Jesuit Provincial, Henry Garnet, forwarded to Fr Aquaviva, General of the Society of Jesus in Rome, in 1600.

He writes: “My Father, those who propose to come to this country and work profitably therein, must bring along with them vigorous souls and mortified bodies.

They must forgo all pleasures and renounce every game but that of football, which is made up of pushes and kicks, and requires constant effort, unless one would be trampled underfoot; and in this game they have to risk their lives in order to save souls.”

I am not sure whether the players in the various World Cup teams “bring with them vigorous souls and mortified bodies”, but their single-mindedness and determination can be an example to us who continue to dedicate our lives to the game of “saving souls”.

Fortunately, in this issue of Jesuits and Friends, there are many examples of those who play this game very skilfully, and some still risk their lives in doing so. I hope you enjoy reading these accounts and are inspired by them. Enjoy your summer.

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Tea and shelter in Nyanga

The township of Nyanga in Cape Town is described as one of the poorest and most dangerous districts of South Africa. Its parish priest is Fr Matsepane Morare SJ, who believes the parishioners’ physical and spiritual needs are both important. aint Mary’s Nyanga lives up to the Jesuit ideal of building an empowered community of faith. At the heart of this is the need for extensive catechesis, where the faithful not only grow in faith, but in true Jesuit tradition, grow a little bit more in the understanding of that faith. Thus the parish is always buzzing with little groups huddled all over, engaged in different classes and groups, ranging from the little tiny ones learning the basics of the sign of the cross while sitting around grandma, to the converts and adults of various backgrounds engaged in RCIA. Unfortunately, many of these have to congregate wherever they can find space and Sunday mornings get very noisy in the church. A lack of space and rooms makes life quite difficult and requires a lot of negotiation of space to avoid conflicts. So, the right hand corner of the church belongs to the RCIA, the left corner belongs to the first communion group, the front to the little ones, and the kitchenette by the entrance to the confirmation crew who do not mind sitting on sink-tops and cupboards! Those who want a quiet time of prayer better come very early to church!

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After Mass, when the whole parish is hopefully buoyed by the great sermon and singing, parishioners wanting to congregate for a cup of tea and catch-up on the latest happenings can do so outside if the Cape wind is not gusting and it’s not raining incessantly. Since Father is also a little old fashioned, there will be no drinking of tea or coffee inside the church. The weather in this part of the country can be absolutely atrocious during the wintry months, which seem to last forever. In a community where people have to walk to church in the rain and wind, and are often wet and cold, the lack of a parish hall where people can warm up and dry themselves, or have a warm cup of tea, means coming to church can leave you open to pneumonia. In a community already reeling from TB and HIV, this simple factor rather complicates things a bit.

South Africa’s miserable history has left townships as dirty, overcrowded and unhealthy places, often lacking in dignity and privacy. Thus the church becomes a crucial sacred space where people can find some silence, regain a bit of their sense of dignity, and have a bit of peace. If that sacred space has to double up as a place for tea and classes, what you lose in the process becomes much

more tragic than you would realise!

So the parish has started a process of raising funds to build a new hall. At the pace we are going, we should be lucky to raise enough to start building by 2015. That should enable us at least to start building a simple parish hall; so we definitely need all the help we can get!

Photos: Matsepane Morare

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Chaplaincraft!

Before taking on the position of Chaplain to the University of Oxford Catholic Chaplaincy, Fr Simon Bishop SJ spent three weeks in the USA, visiting nine universities and their chaplaincies, including five universities founded by Jesuits. The experience was thought-provoking and, he says, offers challenges for our work in chaplaincies in Britain.

So often when we ask someone how they are, they say they’re ‘busy’. Throughout my visit to the USA however, I was constantly taken-aback by the amount of time people spent with me. No one gave the impression of being rushed off their feet or of needing to be elsewhere. It reminded me of a phrase of Fr Michael Hollings, one time chaplain here at Oxford, when he wrote in his book on the priesthood, ‘Priests [chaplains, Christians] should give the impression of having nothing to do all day.’

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When I asked the chaplains in the States the million dollar question: “What do you think the most important part of chaplaincy life is?” they all replied, ‘personal relationships and conversations.’

The chaplains that I met lived by their word.

In this regard, it is perhaps no surprise, especially as Catholics centred on the Eucharist, that meals play such an essential role in the life of the chaplaincies. Holy Cross in Boston, for example, would invite by personal invitation small groups of students and staff for a meal each week. Fr Joe Appleyard SJ, now at Boston College and, coincidentally, one time assistant chaplain with Fr Michael Hollings at Oxford, reminded me that he and Fr Michael would personally invite every single Catholic student and member of staff for at least one, small, personal meal per

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year. I wonder whether we have forgotten how to share a meal with one another, including with those most in need.

Universities and university chaplaincies, no less than schools, parishes, retreat centres and families are meant to be places where we create the opportunities – the space where, in the words of Cardinal Newman’s motto: ‘heart speaks to heart.’ We need to have the courage to be counter-cultural, to be not busy. And we need to understand and take to heart that when St Ignatius speaks of the ‘magis’, he does not mean ‘more’ but rather depth. ‘For what fills and satisfies the soul consists, not in knowing much, but in our understanding the realities profoundly and in savouring them interiorly.’ (Spiritual Exercises, Introductory Explanations, The Second)

xford University Chaplain, Fr Roger Dawson SJ, raised more than twice his target for Help for Heroes this spring. Roger served in the Royal Green Jackets (now The Rifles) before entering the Society of Jesus in 1996. He was asked to be Chaplain - or the 'Pedalling Padre' - to the Help for Heroes Battlefield Bike Ride in May – and raised over £5,000 towards their target of £1m for wounded soldiers from this event.

“Help for Heroes was founded nearly three years ago by my friends Emma and Bryn Parry for injured soldiers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq,” explains Roger. “Bryn and I were in the Royal Green Jackets together, and since H4H was founded it has raised over £45m!”

One of Roger Dawson's functions on the H4H Bike Ride was to lead some of the wreath-laying services and prayers at the battlefield

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Mission Impossible?

It was staggering to see in some places chaplaincy teams of more than 12 people and, at Holy Cross, for example, a Jesuit university of 2,700 undergraduates, a team of nine chaplains, two Jesuit and seven lay people, including the director! This does, indeed, show the seriousness with which these universities take the spiritual and human formation of their students.

However, I strongly believe that it could still be possible to provide an equally vibrant experience of the Church in the UK. As soon as I arrived back in

memorials from the two World Wars in Northern France. Before heading into Amiens, he joined other riders 'soggy but still proud' - to pay

respects at the Crouy British Cemetery Crouy-sur-Somme, where nearly 800 casualties from the First World War were laid to rest.

Britain, I travelled to the novitiate in Birmingham for a weekend with a group of enquirers considering applying to the Jesuits. All were very different, with very different personalities and backgrounds but there were some key experiences which had brought them to life.

Guess what they were!

• All had been involved in voluntary service programmes abroad and locally.

• All had and continued to make retreats.

• All were receiving spiritual direction and were now going to be part of a CLC or small church community,

sharing their lives of faith at a human, personal level.

We need in our university chaplaincies, just as we do in our parishes, our schools, our retreat centres, people who are responsible for co-ordinating activities like these.

The British Province has staffed the Oxford University Catholic Chaplaincy since 2007. The Chaplaincy provides an environment in which students can grow in their faith, socialise, share liturgies and generally be supported in their spiritual journeys.

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At the end of 2009, BBC 2 filmed a three-part series on the importance of silence in our lives. A major part of the programmes involved St Beuno’s Spirituality Centre in North Wales. Father Tom McGuinness SJ, the Director of the Ignatian Centre in Glasgow, was one of the retreat directors in ‘The Big Silence’ and says there is an important relationship between words, music and silence.

Silence and Song n the ministry of Ignatian spirituality over the past years we have seen many new ways of entering into the Spiritual Exercises as a deeply human and wholesome process. Many creative approaches have emerged to help those who are deepening their life of prayer.

Prayer through scripture, poetry and music, art and movement, a sense of the sacredness of nature and the universe all help to place us in a space of awareness of a God who is very close to us in all aspects of our lives.

One of the greatest gifts for many people is the prayer of silence – a gift that so many people in our world find difficult to experience. It is a lovely moment in a retreat or prayer setting when an atmosphere of genuine quietness simply appears like a sense of God among us. Yet equally powerful is the underlying silence that is at the heart of everything, every day, even when life is busy or stressful. To me it feels like a hidden stream that never goes away and can be tapped into at any time. In fact it only takes a few seconds to be aware of that level of quiet at depth, where God is always completely present to us.

One way of exploring that silence for me has been through poetry and song-writing. Early on as a Jesuit, I found myself fascinated by the words we use to express our deepest desires and sense of God’s presence or seeming absence. I found myself writing songs that tried to express something of that depth for myself.

Later, I found that they could sometimes be a help for others to find a language of their own. It is wonderful to find ‘words that work’: catalysts to help draw to the surface

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what is already there but often hidden in each of us.

I felt both honoured and humbled recently when someone in a retreat group said to me: ‘Your song just put into words what I feel about God. My image of God has changed over the years from a God who used to be harsh and demanding to a God who really cares – even when life is a bit of a mess.’ Another person in a parish retreat was able to say: ‘ I am beginning to find my own words for the first time. I’m not the religious type and don’t want to look too holy or better than anyone else.

I used to think that people would laugh at me if I said that I sense God’s love for me in a personal and powerful way.’

Silence and scripture, songs and poetry, art and music have all helped people find ways of expressing, in their own way, the experience of their journey and relationship with God. They can help us to be in touch with the best in ourselves as well as acknowledging some of the challenges in our lives. I have been grateful for the opportunity to explore these areas through the medium of reflective song-writing over the years. Some songs last and some disappear but one that I wrote just before ordination has lasted a long time now and been an encouragement and reminder that

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everything is God’s loving and generous gift…and such a gift can only be returned....

Communion Song

I have known you in the balance of the slowly moving stars, and I think I've glimpsed you sometimes as the bitter night has passed.

I have sensed you at the moment when you still the storm, the moment when you touch our world and make us calm again.

Oh it's easy then to see you and know that you are near, It's easy then to know for sure the way ahead is clear

In the light of ‘The Big Silence’ on BBC 2, which featured St Beuno’s Retreat and Spirituality Centre, the British Jesuits have published a booklet entitled ‘Growing into Silence’. Written by Fr Paul Nicholson SJ, it includes chapters by the four spiritual guides who took part in the three-part series and a forward by Abbot Christopher Jamison OSB who narrated the series and accompanied the volunteers on their journeys.

‘The Big Silence’ is a series about five men and women struggling to build silence into their daily lives.

They all believed that their lives were too manic, that they needed to slow down and that they had to face some difficult questions about where they were heading. They had little or no religious practice but were open to religious guidance. For four months, they were introduced to the practice of daily silence and meditation, staying at Worth Abbey and St Beuno’s along the way, all under the guidance of Abbot Christopher.

“The result is a journey that takes them from the depths of sadness through anger and frustration to the heights of contemplative bliss,” writes Fr Nicholson in the introduction to the booklet. “All of them were profoundly changed by the experience. This booklet offers you the chance to follow up their experience in your own life. You can

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find out about the spiritual exercises that they undertook and consider following them yourself. To help you deepen some of the insights expressed in the series, there’s also a booklist that you can explore.”

The ‘Growing into Silence’ booklet

and I have seen the open road before me, heard the words you held behind my eyes.

And I've often heard a fragment of the longforgotten song and for a moment felt the presence that will lead us on.

I've known the heavy fall of silence and moments of the clearest sight, I've known you in your darkness and I've known you in your light, and I know the gift is freely given, hard to understand, and I know the gift can only be returned.

is available from Way Books at £6 (UK including postage), £7.50 (Europe via Air Mail) and £10 for the rest of the world. It can be ordered through the ‘Growing into Silence’ web site: www.growingintosilence.com

Reflection Songs by Tom McGuinness SJ, issued on two cassettes some years ago, are now available for the first time as a double CD, fully re-mastered and re-packaged with a booklet containing the words of all 19 songs.

Also reprinted is Winter Gifting, a collection of 10 reflection songs, previously issued as a CD which sold out but is now available once more.

Both can be ordered through McCrimmon Publishing Co Ltd, sales@mccrimmons.com Phone: 01702 218956

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Historic hospital to rise from the ashes Helen Browman, CEO of St Joseph Mercy Hospital, Georgetown, Guyana

devastating fire swept through St Joseph Mercy Hospital in the Guyanese capital in May, destroying not only its historic wooden structure, but also much of its contents including the emergency room, admissions and discharge offices, medical records, the hospital chapel, and one of the two operating theatres.

The loss of facilities and equipment was a huge blow to the hospital, but by the next morning several doctors were able to continue providing their services, after being relocated temporarily to the Red Cross and Catholic Relief Services. Nursing staff continued to care for St Joseph Mercy Hospital patients at Davis Memorial Hospital, where the majority of the hospital’s patients were relocated.

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of many Guyanese, as their birthplace, a place where they worked or trained, a place where they were compassionately treated and healed, or witnessed a loved one die in dignity. It has over 65 years of history providing compassionate care to all who visit it. One of the key components of the hospital is the charitable health services it offers to the many persons who cannot afford health care.

These charitable programmes include: Stemming the Tide: providing free care and treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS Mobile clinic: providing free medical care, education, and medication to low income persons at local community sites Wishbone: offering free surgical care to children with cleft lips and cleft palates Remote Area Medical: in partnership with a US medical team diagnosing cervical cancer and providing gynecological surgeries to women living in Guyana’s interior region Catherine McAuley Fund: which

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provides financial assistance for patients unable to meet their medical costs.

The week following the fire, outpatient operations were able to resume but, due to fire damage, the hospital’s remaining operating theatre is unusable and still in need of repairs. Once the repairs are completed, the hospital will be able to offer its complete range of services to the citizens of Guyana once again. The hospital is planning to rebuild the structures lost in the fire, and has begun focusing on designing an updated and state of the art ER, operating theatre, and ICU, in addition to new outpatient offices to better serve the needs of patients.

St Joseph Mercy Hospital is now trying to regain what it has lost in the fire to continue its work of serving mankind and fulfilling the healing ministry of Jesus by looking after all persons who enter its gates for help.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The estimated cost to rebuild St Joseph Mercy Hospital is $600 million (£2m).

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Beautiful lilies from the muddy waters

A Jesuit community in Thailand has opened its doors to provide sanctuary for people fleeing from political violence. During the violent demonstrations last May, Xavier Hall, a Jesuit residence, chapel and spirituality centre for students near the Victory Monument in Bangkok, provided them with sanctuary. The following is compiled from information received from Fr Bernard Arputhasamy SJ, the Regional Director of the Jesuit Refugee Service, and British Jesuit, Fr David Townsend SJ, who is based at the Seven Fountains Retreat Centre in Chiang Mai. On the morning of 17 May, I invited and assembled a small team to organize the place of sanctuary,” explains the Jesuit Superior of Xavier Hall Community, Fr Paul Pollock SJ. “We had received a request the night before for the Xavier Hall grounds to be used for this purpose and planned what it would be able to offer: a medical station, food and drink, security, contacts for Red Cross and others in case of emergency, an overall coordinator, mats to sleep on – and no weapons.”

When the first group of ‘Bangkok refugees’ – six women – arrived at the gates of Xavier Hall to seek sanctuary, women collaborators gently asked permission to check their belongings for any kind of weapons before allowing each one to enter the sanctuary. “They came to seek refuge,” says Fr Paul. “They

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were visibly distressed. They ran away from the group of the red-shirts protesting. Repeated gun shots interspersed with fire crackers and bomb explosions were heard frequently. At 6.30pm, as some of us were about to begin Mass, two very loud explosions were heard just outside Xavier Hall. We rushed to the gates to see what was happening.

People and police retreated quickly to the fringes of the Monument.”

The commotion contrasted sharply with the night when a curfew was imposed from 8pm to 6 am. “There was an eerie silence”, reflects the Jesuit Superior in Bangkok, “…so different from these past weeks of loud speeches and applause, sporadic gun shots and blasts and fire crackers. Frequent single gun shots were heard more after the curfew started with occasional big blasts. The rest of the night the silence could be heard!”

A walk around the Victory Monument, after curfew hours, revealed the damage done to the building and streets … but more so to the people. On their faces was written the sadness and shock at what they saw. Burnt-out shops and houses, streets strewn with rubbish from the gatherings of the previous nights, road blocks, visible military

and police presence, fire engines and fire fighters, onlookers and passersby on cars and motorcycles.

There were some signs of normality-the vans used for public transport were operating and food vendors provided for those on their way to work. At the crack of dawn on 20 May, birds were singing and chirping gleefully in their accustomed sanctuary. “This is their daily morning ritual,” reflects Fr Paul.

“Little do they know that others too sought sanctuary for the first time in this place…running for their lives to safety.

“The events of the past weeks and days have been painful and sad moments for us all. It has wounded our hearts. We search within us and among us for a meaning in this. It is not easy. A favourite symbol of mine has been the lotus plant and flower. It is planted and grows in muddy water.

From the muddy water, a beautiful flower grows! We have been planted these days into the ‘muddy water’ of the sufferings of the people in Bangkok and Thailand. We share these sufferings. It is ours. We have been wounded by all kinds of violence these weeks. From these wounds in our hearts a beautiful flower of peace and compassion grows in all of us.”

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Welcome and service at St Ignatius As the Society of Jesus around the world prepares to celebrate the feast of its founder, St Ignatius Loyola, Fr Jim Conway SJ of the church dedicated to him in north London reflects on the parish’s history and how it continues to respond to the needs of the community it serves.

The current parish of St Ignatius in Stamford Hill was set up in an era which saw rapid social change driven by industrial growth, urbanisation and immigration. Soon after Herbert Vaughan became Archbishop of Westminster in 1892, he was petitioned by nearly 300 people for a parish in the Stamford Hill area, where the population had greatly increased since the building of the suburban railways between 1871 and 1891. In response, Vaughan invited the Jesuits to open a parish, an elementary school and a secondary school for boys. For the Jesuits, this

was a missionary endeavour – the development of a pastoral and social outreach to new communities with many needs and the eventual construction of a community, church and school on a landmark site.

More than 100 years later, the parish of St Ignatius still responds to the needs of the local Catholic population. It draws together a worshipping community of over 2,000 on Sundays, spread over seven Masses, offered in English, Spanish and Polish. Every month, the church hosts the Ghanaian and the Nigerian Catholic Associations and, weekly,

the Latin American Chaplaincy. It provides opportunities and space for numerous other groups who gather to pray in the church or to discuss, share or socialise in one of the parish rooms. It has a vibrant catechetical and social outreach programme and boasts seven parish choirs. And its army of altar servers – over 100 of them – adorn the sanctuary and, as members of St Stephen’s Guild, participate in a number of diocesan events, including the annual Mass for Altar Servers, celebrated by the Archbishop of Westminster.

The feast of St Ignatius Loyola is the occasion when the parish celebrates its diversity and vitality.

Over 50 different ethnic groups come together on 31 July for a Mass of Thanksgiving in honour of the saint and afterwards for a fiesta in the adjacent school playground.

Cuisine from around the world, prepared and served by parishioners, music and lots of chat make it a day to remember and a great start to the summer holidays.

Reaching Out St Ignatius has a long and admirable history of outreach to the needy of the neighbourhood. The wards in which the church is situated are the poorest in the London Borough of Haringey and among the most deprived in England and Wales.

Health profiles for Stamford Hill and Tottenham confirm the poverty, material and social, of the local community and note its highly transient nature. So the parish tries to respond the best it can, with its

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own limited resources, to the needs of the poor today. Firstly, it offers immediate assistance in the form of food and hospitality. Twice a week, two teams of volunteers prepare and serve soup in the parish rooms; on other days they make and offer sandwiches and drinks at the front door. The parish has a large number of homeless people in its boundaries, many of them heavily dependent on alcohol and usually with no access to welfare entitlements.

There are also a large number of refused and often destitute asylum seekers, who have no recourse to public funds. All these people are welcomed and served by the volunteers. As a result of their illegal status in the UK, undocumented migrants are particularly vulnerable; but, on account of their faith background, many of them trust the church and its outreach. So St Ignatius parish helps people to access service providers in and beyond the neighbourhood: specialised agencies like the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) provides an invaluable weekly drop-in session at St Ignatius, and Thames Reach, a charity that works with London’s homeless population. It often includes accompanying those who are unfamiliar or not confident with British systems and those who have difficulty communicating in English.

One young Brazilian man, for instance, told me he been in England for 12 years; he was undocumented but had been working in London: “I was frightened to tell anyone else because you never know what they will do with the information”. His family was in Brazil. He did three jobs in order to send money back to them. “I can't trust people,” he continued. “But, thank God for you. You're a priest and I know that I can trust you

with my story."

Finally, through its membership of London Citizens (a broad and diverse alliance of over 100 civic organisations), the parish is actively involved in community organising and campaigning for change. This helps to affirm a parish identity that is as much concerned with mission beyond its boundaries as within and offers the opportunity for parishioners to work alongside others from groups that might not otherwise work so closely together, like schools and colleges, students and trade unions, and to unite in campaigning for issues of shared concern like the London Living Wage, City Safe which campaigns for youth safety and Strangers into Citizens.

The wider community As well as responding to local needs, St Ignatius has always had an eye to the wider community. For example, a small but faithful band of volunteers do a weekly soup-run to Central London. Consisting of teams of sandwich-makers, drivers and helpers, the group also collects clothing and organises a Christmas dinner each year for the needy. And every spring, parishioners take part in a sponsored 10-mile walk along

the nearby River Lea to raise funds for a chosen charity. This year, friends, past and present, and of all generations, raised £10,000 for The Alzheimer’s Society.

Finally, over the years, the parish has given birth to initiatives that have now become charities in their own right, like St Ignatius Housing Association This offers housing to disadvantaged individuals and families, including those seeking sanctuary in the UK and single homeless persons. It currently provides accommodation for 49 people.

Your generosity will enable the work of Stamford Hill Social Outreach to continue.

Thank you!

Photos: Sarah Booker/St Ignatius parish

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ne of the highlights of any visit to Rome – especially for anyone who visits sites associated with the Society of Jesus – is to experience the spectacular art of Brother Andrea Pozzo SJ. The 300th anniversary of his death was recently marked in the city with an exhibition entitled Mirabili disinganni: Marvellous Illusions. On the organising committee were Dr Lydia Salviucci and British Jesuit, Fr Norman Tanner SJ, Dean of the faculty of Church History at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. Here they explain why Pozzo was such a significant artist and architect in the late 17th century Church.

Brother Andrea Pozzo SJ is one of the most important artists of the Baroque art of illusion: he created many imaginary and theatrical paintings, most famously his works in the Church of the Gesù, surrounding the tomb of St Ignatius. His treatise, Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum, was the main topic of the exhibition in Rome, which explored the art and the technique of perspective he used.

The eyes of visitors to this Roman exhibition focused on the Roman masterpieces, three of them in the Church of the Gesù: the spectacular chapel of St Ignatius, the amazing illusory dome and, in the same church, the ceiling decoration of the main nave with illusionist frescoes. These are the most important works of this genial Baroque artist. The illusionary effect is very original because Pozzo painted an open architecture with a lot of figures together with allegories of the four continents. In the middle of the ceiling, the triumph of Jesus is represented together with St Ignatius’ glory.

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mathematical and drawing tools, and a real 17th century laboratory of practical perspective.

At the exhibition it was possible to admire Pozzo’s original wooden model, made for the altar of St Luigi Gonzaga in the church of St Ignatius, which had a strong visual impact. Some very fine drawings of the Uffizi Museum of Florence were displayed, showing the creative genius of the artist. They depict a scenographic apparatus for the “Quarantore” (Forty Hours), that is to say, sacred theatres put up in the churches of the Jesuits during the Carnival and the Holy Week and used for displaying the Blessed Sacrament.

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Andrea Pozzo was born in Trent in 1642 and entered the Society of Jesus in Milan in 1665. He travelled to Genoa, Turin and Mondovì, as well as Rome, and spent the last years of his life in Vienna, at the invitation of Emperor Leopold and the Jesuits there: he painted the Liechtenstein Palace and Universitätkirche (University Church).

But it was in Rome that Brother Pozzo’s most celebrated works are to be found. In addition to the Gesù, he contributed to the English College for which he designed an impressive fresco for the Chapel of St Thomas of Canterbury. He lived at the college from 1681 to 1702 and a opened a school-academy of perspective, painting, architecture and drawing there.

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Jesuits provide stability and support among Jamaica’s poorest "The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed in with three measures of flour until all of it was leavened." (Matthew 13:33)

hen violence flared up in Kingston, Jamaica, earlier this year, the Jesuits experienced first hand the pressures and dangers that gangs and poverty inflict upon the people.

The Regional Superior of Guyana contacted his opposite number in Jamaica, Fr Peter McIsaac SJ, to enquire whether there was anything that could be done to help. This was Peter’s response.

For well over 100 years, St Anne’s Church has been a pillar of the Church in the Archdiocese of Kingston, Jamaica. The Society of Jesus has always provided its pastor, and recognized it as an important priority of the mission of the Jesuits in Jamaica. Located in the downtown core, a two minute walk from Kingston Market, St Anne’s has witnessed a long history of change. For many years a parish of a largely upwardly mobile merchant class, the area underwent serious decline following independence in the 1960s and 70s.

Today, the “West Kingston” area, the constituency of the Prime Minister, is an extremely impoverished population in the heart of the city of Kingston. For over 30 years, it has developed an independent social structure that has been largely controlled by networks of highly organized gangs, with connections in the US, Canada and the UK. Located on the “border” of two communities, Hannah Town and Denham Town, with competing gang interests, St Anne’s has been a flashpoint for escalating violence since the 1970s. In 2001, it was the centre of

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military action to stabilize the area that left scores of persons killed. At that time, security forces intervened in a situation in which many houses surrounding the church and schools were burned and bombed.

More recently, in May 2010, the complicated extradition

process of one of the most powerful criminal leaders in Jamaica, himself based in West Kingston, eventually led to a standoff between local gang members and government forces.

Barricading the community entirely, the local gunmen defied the arrest warrant. After the Prime Minister declared a state of emergency for Jamaica, a swift but lethal response of security forces on May 24 left over 74 people dead, according to official statistics. The actual death toll could be, by local accounts, almost twice that number. The residents of West Kingston have been left traumatized and devastated.

For most of its history, St Anne’s Church functioned as a central parish of the Archdiocese: recording large numbers of baptisms; running a wellestablished High School (12 – 17 year olds), Primary School (ages 6 – 11), and an Infant School (ages 3 – 5); and providing a chaplaincy for the Kingston Public Hospital beside the church.

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seriously impoverished “garrison” (politically associated area under gang control) with high rates of unemployment, changed the status of the church over the years. Today, with a marginal number of Catholics, much of the pastoral work of the parish has become focused on the social dimension of faith: poverty relief, education and skills training. But the enormous respect that was built upon over 100 years of Jesuit labour has not been lost. St Anne’s has become an important “leaven” for the wider community. The presence of the Jesuit community beside the church through all the crises and violence of the last few decades has been an important witness to the fidelity of the Church and the Society of Jesus. It has become a symbol for faithfulness, perseverance and transformative potential.

St Anne’s Church and schools, then, have remained a priority of the Society of Jesus in Jamaica – though now for different reasons. It is perhaps the most privileged point of contact with some of the poorest and most marginal people of Jamaica. Like all churches, evangelization remains an important dimension of the mission of St Anne’s, but equally important has been creating structures for the social development of the people of the area.

The schools are vital institutional bases for such transformation.

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Thousands raised, records smashed … even the volcanic ash couldn’t stop our Marathon runners!

As Jesuits and Friends went to press, JM reported that more than £49,000 had been donated in support of the 29 runners who took part in the 2010 London Marathon and who made up the Jesuit Missions and Jesuit Refugee Service team. ll completed the gruelling route and many clocked up some impressive times. While donations and sponsorship monies are still being collected and counted, their collective target was £57,000.

Runners took part in the Marathon to support a number of Jesuit initiatives in Africa, South America and Eastern Europe, as well as JRS at home and overseas. In South Africa, funds will support the Duduza Peer to Peer AIDS Education project, JRS, a programme for unaccompanied minors, Ignatian Spirituality programmes and the Jesuit Institute Bursary Fund. AIDS Orphans at Mlambo House in Zimbabwe and an IT project at St Peter's Kubatana will benefit to the tune of £5,000 each as a result of the determination and generosity of JM runners. And £10,000 was raised to help finance small community projects in Guyana.

The fastest member of the JM team to pass the finishing line was former Stonyhurst pupil, Dr Brian ThursbyPelham, with a time of just over 2hrs 36mins. He finished 114th out of more than 36,500 runners and shattered his previous record. His closest rival was Robert Dolinar SJ, followed by determined runners from Wimbledon parish, Stonyhurst (past and present pupils and staff), St Ignatius College

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and parish, JM, Heythrop, Wimbledon College, St Aloysius College and four runners from JRS-UK: Alan Murdock and Chris Togwell, who both completed the 26.2 miles in less than four hours, were joined at the finishing line by fellow JRS-UK runner, Ruta Navyte and Roger Monga.

There were the Wombles, of course: Duncan Byrne and Matthew Wylde.

And the team was delighted to welcome Paul Nenjerama from Hartman House in Harare, who managed to make it to London despite the air travel chaos caused by volcanic ash. His time was just over 5hrs 40mins, about an hour ahead of the other two Jesuits who took part Anthony Vikram and Gerry Gallen.

To see the full list of the 29 JM and JRS runners, and to make a donation, go to www.gbjm.org If you want to take part in the 2011 London Marathon in support of Jesuit projects … sorry! All places have been taken already. But you can reserve a place for 2012 event.

Contact Alan Fernandes at JM for details.

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God blesses, God wants, God demands The Society of Jesus has been charged by the Holy Father to promote the Apostleship of Prayer throughout the Church and more widely. Here, the National Secretary of the Apostleship of Prayer in Britain, Fr Michael Beattie SJ, explains why the Pope’s intentions for the next few months would resonate with a modern-day Latin American martyr.

scar Romero, the Archbishop of San Salvador was assasinated as he celebrated Mass on 24 March 1980. His fearless championing of justice for the poor in his own country was the cause of his death and work is afoot to introduce his cause for beatification and ultimately for canonisation.

Knowing the sort of man he was and the causes he died for, I think we can be quite certain that he would wholeheartedly give his blessing to and endorse the Holy Father’s

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intentions for the autumn months of this year. For those of us who try to make the Apostleship of Prayer a reality in our daily lives, it would be a good thing to reflect upon and ponder the life of this great archbishop.

Archbishop Romero would resonate with prayer for the starving and the homeless. He would wish to see help given to the poorest nations of the world and he would want to offer the gospel message of Jesus Christ to all these people. He would be anxious to see the spread of the gospel through the good work of missionaries to the four corners of the earth in keeping with the injunction of Jesus at the end of the gospel of St Matthew to “make disciples of all nations”. He would bless evangelisation in and among the highest academic circles as well as offering it to ordinary people everywhere. To pray for a sense of unity and caring for all Christians in all the nations of South America would be dear to his heart Oscar Romero’s last words were addressed to his congregation in the hospital chapel on that fateful day in March in 1980 before the assassin entered the chapel with his bullets.

They have been recorded for posterity and they are particularly apposite for our prayer intentions.

“God's reign is already present on our earth in mystery. When the Lord comes, it will be brought to perfection. That is the hope that inspires Christians.

We know that every effort to better society, especially when injustice and sin are so ingrained, is an effort that God blesses, that God wants, that God demands of us”.

Michael Beattie SJ

August For the unemployed and the homeless, that they may find friendship, help and good counsel to cope with and to overcome their difficulties. For Christians, that they might welcome and help all who suffer from discrimination, hunger and the consequences of war.

September For poorer countries. May they be fired with the Word of God as they strive for social progress. That Christian love will replace wars, conflicts and divisions.

October That Catholic universities may be outstanding in showing to the world the harmonious unity of Faith and Reason. On World Mission Day for the work of missionaries everywhere.

November That the generosity of Christians will help those who suffer from addictions. For all Christians in Latin America that they may grow in a sense of unity and care for each other.

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Commonwealth Games role for Glasgow student he Vice Captain of St Aloysius’ College in Glasgow has been selected to represent the city as a British Council Interaction Ambassador to the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Chiara Ruddy, who was the only independent sector representative to make it through the rigorous selection process, will spend this October at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi. The ambassadors will represent Glasgow in a wide variety of events and activities aimed at shaping policy and ensuring that the young people of Glasgow derive maximum

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benefit from the legacy of hosting the 2014 Games.

Over the four years leading up to Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games, Chiara and the other ambassadors will continue British Council training. They have already begun a full programme of leadership training, development workshops and press events, including clambering through muddy assault courses, climbing 70ft poles and organising and hosting a successful reception at Glasgow City Chambers for parents, head teachers, British Council delegates and councillors.

United in Music ome 400 pupils from seven British Jesuit schools took part in a joint Jesuit schools concert in London this spring. Children from Mount St Mary's College and Barlborough Hall School in Derbyshire, Stonyhurst College and St Mary's Hall (Lancashire), St John's Beaumont (Old Windsor), and - from London - Wimbledon College and St Ignatius College, Enfield, all performed at St Ignatius Church, Stamford Hill.

The biggest musical challenge was to find a piece of music suitable for this large choir and especially something that the younger pupils of Barlborough Hall School and St Mary's Hall could master. Eventually, Faure’s Requiem was selected.

The Director of Music for Mount St Mary's College, Lucy Stirling, said, 'It was a fantastic evening and a great opportunity for pupils to sing in a large choir and with other Jesuit schools. We hope to have a joint collaboration of this kind every two years to build on such a great evening of singing and music within the Jesuit schools.'

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Ordinations – at home and abroad arm Street Church in London welcomed Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster in May for the ordination of two Jesuit deacons: Martin Khiet Pham from the Vietnamese Province and Justin Prabhu (Madurai, but destined for the Guyana Region). They are pictured here at the end of Mass with the Archbishop.

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Other recent ordinations associated with the province were those of American Jesuit, Charles Gallagher SJ, who studied theology at Heythrop College University of London, and was ordained to the priesthood on June 12 at St Ignatius Church, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. In Malta, Josef Mario Briffa, who also studied at Heythrop and was ordained deacon at Farm Street last May, was ordained priest on 23 June at the Metropolitan Cathedral, Mdina.

Finally, Ladislav Šulík SJ was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Carlos Osoro at the cathedral in Bratislava on 26 June. Ladislav served his regency in the British Province from 2003 to 2006 and was Chaplain at Wimbledon College.

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Celebrating an architectural gem aint Wilfrid’s parish in Preston has produced a full-colour brochure exploring the history and architecture of the church. The 28-page booklet traces the building in Winckley Square back to its origins in 1773, with author and local historian, Stephen Sartin describing it as “one of the finest architectural gems in the North West”.

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The church has gone through many architectural transformations in the ensuing 237 years and the outgoing parish priest of St Wilfrid, Fr Chris Dyckhoff SJ, pays tribute in particular to Fr Joseph Dunn (“who not only built the church and Catholic school in Fox Street, but was also a prime mover in bringing gas lighting to Preston”), Fr Ignatius Scoles (“who was so instrumental in transforming the church into its present glory”) and Fr Denis Blackledge, whom Chris credits with improving the interior of the building and creating the narthex in the latter part of the 20th century. In his introduction to the brochure, he writes that he hopes it will be of use to both regular worshippers and visitors. More information is available by writing to St Wilfrid, 1 Winckley Square, Preston, PR1 3JJ or emailing info@saintwilfrid.org.uk

Runners remember tragic asthma victim ozens of runners from Stonyhurst St Mary's Hall have run in support of Asthma UK in memory of one of the prep school's pupils who died from the condition last year.

Forty-four young runners aged between three and seven ran a one-mile mini-marathon around the school grounds, cheered on by parents and fellow pupils. The children chose to support the asthma charity in memory of 12-year-old William Magowan, a former Stonyhurst St Mary's Hall pupil, who died of an asthma attack in October 2009.

This was followed by two teams of staff from Stonyhurst St Mary's Hall staff taking part in the Edinburgh Marathon, to raise funds for the same cause. The eight runners wore bright yellow shirts, William's favourite colour. 'We wanted to do something to celebrate the life of a very special boy, said Garth Turvey, who teaches games at the prep school. 'We put in hours of training but it's been worth it.'

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MBE for former Leeds stalwart he former caretaker of St Michael's Catholic College in Leeds has been made a Member of the British Empire in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. Miss Bridget Redmond - known as May was just 16 when she began working for the Jesuits at the college in Hyde Park, having left her native Ireland to travel to Leeds to find work. Starting as a domestic, she worked her way up to become the caretaker and

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bursar, working seven days a week to ensure the smooth running of the school. Her many duties included supervising the kitchens, looking after the administration and even doing repairs and decorating.

Miss Redmond, a parishioner at St Ann's Cathedral in Leeds, had the honour of locking up after the school officially closed in 2008 and pupils were transferred to Mount St Mary's in Richmond Hill.

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DEATHS & OBITUARIES

Fr James Quinn SJ

Fr Peter Orr SJ

The hymns of Father James Quinn SJ are found in almost every contemporary English language hymnal, taken from the collections New Hymns for All Seasons (1969) and Praise for All Seasons (1994).

Describing him as “one of the finest writers of hymn texts of our time”, his publisher, Selah, said the words of his hymns “help us better understand the mystery and presence of God in our world today.”

James Quinn was born in Glasgow on 21 April 1919. He was educated at St Aloysius’ College and Glasgow University, and joined the Society of Jesus in 1939. After studying at Heythrop College, Oxfordshire, he taught at St Wilfrid’s School in Preston before being ordained in 1950.

He also taught at Wimbledon College and served in Sacred Heart parish, Edinburgh.

In the 1960s, Fr Quinn worked on the cause for the canonisation of St John Ogilvie; he was member of the Scottish Religious Advisory Committee of the BBC (19731976) and a participant in various ecumenical dialogues for the British Council of Churches. Fr Quinn also served as a consultant to the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (1972-1976) and Secretary on the Scottish Commission for Christian Unity. Between 1976 and 1980 he was spiritual director at the Beda College in Rome.

Fr James Quinn SJ died on 8 April 2010 at St Joseph’s House in Edinburgh, where he had spent the past ten years.

Peter Orr was born in Malaysia where his father was the manager of a rubber plantation. His family were of Irish descent and Peter was educated by the Jesuits at Clongowes Wood College in Ireland, from where he went to University College, Dublin. He achieved a BA (Hons) in Legal and Political Science, before entering the Society of Jesus at Roehampton; from there he moved to Heythrop, Oxfordshire, in September 1946. His brother, George, who was seven years Peter’s senior, entered the Society in the same year. George died in 2006.

At Heythrop, Peter Orr studied Philosophy and – from 1955 – Theology. Between the two periods of study, he taught at Hodder Place (the Stonyhurst Preparatory School), Barlborough Hall (the prep school of Mount St Mary’s College) and St John’s Beaumont in Berkshire. Following his ordination to the priesthood in 1958, Peter made his tertianship in St Beuno’s and then taught at Wimbledon College for some 11 years. After being awarded an M.Litt by Trinity College, Dublin, in the mid-70s, with a dissertation on Piers Plowman, he spent the next seven years as a university chaplain – first at Leeds, then Manchester, and finally at Reading.

After supplying in parishes in London in 1984/85, Peter was appointed to St Catherine’s Church in Edinburgh for a few years and there followed other mainly supply work.

In his later years, Fr Orr resided at Campion House, Osterley and Pollokshields, Glasgow until its closure. He moved to St Wilfrid’s Presbytery in Preston in 2006, and it was here that he died, on 17 April 2010.

Fr Harold Wong SJ Harold Wong was born in Georgetown, Guyana on 23 July 1930 and attended the Sacred Heart School from 1936 to 1943. He studied Bookkeeping for two years at the Commercial Academy, Georgetown, before going to England in 1949 to begin training as a priest. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1951 to continue this training and, following studies and spiritual formation in the UK, he was ordained as a priest in Heythrop College, Oxfordshire, on 31 July 1963.

On his return to Guyana in 1966, Fr Wong worked as a priest in Georgetown and also was given responsibility for media work, becoming the Editor of the Catholic Standard in 1967, a task he undertook until the mid-70s. He then was appointed as Administrator of Brickdam Cathedral, a post he held until 1983, before moving to Plaisance in 1983, where he worked for the parish communities of the East Coast Demerara for three years.

In 1986 he was appointed as parish priest in Port Mourant and worked along the Corentyne coast until 1991 when ill-health from diabetes meant that he had to semi-retire to Georgetown.

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He continued to play an important part in the life of the Jesuit community although as the following 19 years passed, his decreasing mobility meant he had to withdraw gradually from active apostolic and sacramental ministry in the Georgetown parishes.

“He was a much-loved and soughtafter counsellor and sustained strong contacts with his many friends and colleagues both in Guyana and across the world,” said Regional Superior, Fr Dermot Preston SJ. “He will be sorely missed.”

Fr Wong was admitted into Mercy Hospital on 31 March where, despite the best efforts of the staff, the continuing ravages of the diabetes had weakened his system too much. He died on Good Friday, 2 April 2010.

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Fr Thomas Lakeland SJ

Fr Kuruvila Cherian SJ

Thomas Lakeland was born in Preston on 2 July 1928 – and died there 82 years later, after 62 years in the Society of Jesus.

Educated at Preston Catholic College, he entered the novitiate in Roehampton at the age of 20 and studied philosophy at Heythrop College, Oxfordshire, from 1950 to ’52. After three years’ teaching at St Mary’s Hall, Stonyhurst, he returned to Heythrop for his theological studies, followed by tertianship at St Beuno’s, North Wales. He was ordained priest in July 1958.

In 1960, Fr Lakeland was assigned to St Wilfrid’s parish, Preston, and then to St Francis Xavier’s, Liverpool, where he was Superior and parish priest from 1966 to 1977. After two years of directing the Spiritual Exercises at St Beuno’s, he moved to Scotland, working in St Joseph’s parish, Aberdeen, and also supplying at St Margaret’s, Lerwick.

Fr Lakeland served at Sacred Heart Church, Wimbledon in1981, and then spent four years in the parish of St Michael and St John, Clitheroe, before being assigned to St Wilfrid’s Church in Preston. His final 24 years were spent there, working in the parish. He died on 5 May 2010 in the Royal Preston Hospital.

Fr Kuruvila Cherian SJ taught in various Jesuit schools in Kerala, India, for three decades, and was Principal of AKJM (Kanjirappally), and later Loyola School (Trivandrum). During his time as Vice-Principal at Loyola, he encouraged student representatives to get involved in decision-making about the school.

But he was also perceived among the Loyola staff as a priest who pushed Christ and Christianity.

In 1982, Fr Cherian left for the US and successfully completed a two-year Masters programme in School Administration. Although he came back in 1984 to Loyola, he spent much of the late 1980s and 1990s in AKJM. In 1998, he returned to Loyola, this time as Principal.

In May 2000, he left Loyola School and joined the Jesuit Refugee Service in Nepal. He served there as the Assistant Project Director of the educational programme, in camps set up for refugees from southern Bhutan, who had been expelled from their country in 1991 for being of Nepalese origin.

After a stint in East Africa in the Jesuit Refugee Service, Fr Cherian moved to Guyana, a Region of the British Province in South America. There, among other things, he worked in Berbice on the east coast, at the Human Development Centre, a Jesuit training centre for children, young adults, and women.

Fr Cherian died in Guyana on 6 March 2010.

Please pray for those who have died recently.

May they rest in peace.

Miss Winifred Horan – Sister of Fr Tony

Mr Desmond O’Callaghan – Brother of

Col Richard F N Anderson

Horan SJ

Fr Richard Manners SJ

Mrs Mary Josephine Sudell

Mr Lawrence Mulenga – Brother of

Mrs Pauline Grant Adamson – Niece of Fr

Miss Ann Maria Smulders

Vincent Mulenga SJ

David Harold-Barry SJ

Mr Maurice Brown

Mrs Mairi MacGinn – Aunt of Fr Andrew

Heinrich Mueller - Father of Fr Heribert

Mr O Cook

Cameron-Mowat SJ

Mrs M Parkin

Julia - Grandmother of Toon Cavens SJ

Mr Kingsley da Silva

Mrs Grace Dawson – Mother of Fr Roger

Mr Thomas Dodds

Dawson SJ

Mrs Alice Barton

Mr Charles Church – Brother of Fr

Mr Chris Moss

Aloysius Church SJ

Mrs Philomena Culver Mr Peter Hart

Dr Iorwerth Huw Thomas – Nephew of Fr Fr James Quinn SJ Fr Peter Orr SJ Robert Murray SJ

Mrs Patricia Mary McDermott

Mr Fidelis Mado – Uncle of Fr Hector

Fr Ambrose D'Mello SJ

Prof P Higgins

Mukwato SJ

Fr Thomas Lakeland SJ

Mr P McGovern

Muller SJ Mr Michael Edwards – Province Assistant

for Education Fr Harold Wong SJ Fr Kuruvila Nalpathamkalam SJ

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Pedro Arrupe – Chosen by God translated by Fr Joseph A. Munitiz SJ new English translation of Fr Pedro Arrupe’s Retreat Notes from the summer of 1965 has been published by Way Books. They date from two months after his election, when Pedro Arrupe went on retreat. His notebook of personal jottings from this period give direct testimony to the God who is passing through his life, and to what is going on within him as God passes. Under the title Pedro Arrupe – Chosen by God, these Retreat Notes have now been translated into English by Jesuit writer, Fr Joseph A. Munitiz SJ, who also provides an introduction to the work.

This unique manuscript in Spanish was originally authorised for publication by Fr Arrupe’s successor as Superior General of the Society of

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Jesus, Fr Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, and was published in a faithfully transcribed and annotated edition by Fr Ignacio Iglesias SJ. When it was originally published, its Spanish publisher stated: “More than any other document, this notebook reflects Fr Arrupe’s state of mind when he received his mission as General and when, with complete confidence in God, he opened himself up to fulfilling it without reserve or delay. In it we see him developing schemes, thinking about people, and elaborating strategies in order to confront the challenges that the Church and the world have put before him.”

Pedro Arrupe, Chosen by God: Pedro Arrupe's Retreat Notes 1965, translated with and introduction by Joseph A. Munitiz SJ is published

by Way Books, price: ISBN: 978 0 904717 29 7

£8.00.

George Tyrrell and Catholic Modernism edited by Oliver Rafferty SJ One of the most remarkable Jesuits that the English Province of the Society of Jesus has ever produced.” That is how Fr Oliver Rafferty SJ described George Tyrrell last year, to mark the centenary of his death. George Tyrrell and Catholic Modernism is a collection of essays edited by Fr Rafferty, who teaches Church History at Heythrop College and also contributed to the volume.

The book re-evaluates the life and thought of Tyrrell (1861 to 1909), who was dismissed from the Society of Jesus and excommunicated from the Church for his views. The problems he tried to grapple with the relation of science to religion,

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questions of meaning and modernity, issues of the articulation of Christian ideas in modern culture - have a peculiarly contemporary ring.

These articles set Tyrrell's work within the framework of early 20th-century Catholic ideas and draw some conclusions about his thinking for present-day concerns.

“George Tyrrell was a man of great pastoral sensitivity, widely sought after as a retreat giver, preacher, spiritual guide and confessor,” writes Fr Rafferty. “He

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was also possessed of a keen intellect and deep insight into the nature and role of religion in life, amounting to what has been called 'religious genius. By the late 19th century he had become, perhaps, the most important Catholic theologian in England.”

Published by Four Courts Press Ltd ISBN10: 184682236X; ISBN-13: 978-1846822360. Price: £40

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“The lotus plant grows in muddy water.

From the muddy water, a beautiful flower grows! We have been planted these days into the ‘muddy water’ of the sufferings of the people in Bangkok and Thailand. We share these sufferings. They are ours. We have been wounded by all kinds of violence these weeks. From these wounds in our hearts a beautiful flower of peace and compassion grows in all of us.”

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