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Responding to Call Ordinations â&#x20AC;˘ Mercy in Motion

message from the provincial

Dear Friends, In early May, Father Adolfo Nicolás, our Superior General, embarked on one of his last trips before the General Congregation gathers this fall. He visited El Salvador to meet with the 20 provincials from the Americas. He then traveled to New Orleans for a quick visit with 50 Jesuits for Mass, brunch and conversation, and then with 20 of our lay colleagues from southern Louisiana. As always, his words consoled and challenged us. He asked us to think broadly, beyond our usual concerns. One quote stands out for me: “We are thinking of institutions when we know that the Kingdom of God always needs collaborators.” His way of phrasing that hit me. Our institutions do great work, as you will see in this magazine, but the call of God and the needs of the people of our day and age are always so much greater. How shall we respond? We have the great grace of the many women and men who work with us, people who dedicate themselves wholeheartedly to the work of God and help us extend our vision. Many of you collaborate with us through various kinds of support, in prayers, with financial support, and by promoting vocations to the Society of Jesus. We are so grateful for all of you! As you read these pages, we ask you to let the Spirit touch your hearts and minds to see that broader call of God that extends to all the people of the world and invites us all to work with God. We ask you to pray for us as we Jesuits enter the 36th General Congregation and discern how God calls us to serve His Kingdom today.

Fr. Ronald A. Mercier, SJ Provincial, USA Central and Southern Province

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Queridos amigos, Al principio del mes de Mayo, Padre Adolfo Nicolás, nuestro Superior General, realizó uno de sus últimos viajes, antes de la Congregación General en el Otoño. Visitó El Salvador para reunirse con los 20 Provinciales de las Américas. Luego viajó a Nueva Orleans en una visita corta con 50 Jesuitas para celebrar misa, almorzar y conversar, antes de reunirse con 20 de nuestros colegas laicos del Sur de Luisiana. Como siempre, sus palabras nos alentaron y presentaron retos. El P. Nicolás quiere que pensemos en términos amplios y generales, más allá de nuestras preocupaciones normales. Una cita del encuentro que se me ha quedado grabada fue: “Estamos pensando en instituciones, cuando sabemos que el reino de Dios, siempre necesita colaboradores.” Esa frase me impactó. Nuestras instituciones hacen un gran trabajo, como verán en la revista, pero el llamado de Dios y las necesidades de la gente en nuestro tiempo son mucho más grandes. ¿Cómo debemos responder? Contamos con la tremenda bendición de la ayuda de abundantes mujeres y hombres que trabajan con nosotros; gente que se han dedicado de todo corazón al trabajo de Dios y que nos ayudan a expandir nuestra visión. Muchos de ustedes colaboran con nosotros de varias formas de apoyo, a través de sus oraciones, con ayuda económica y promoviendo las vocaciones de la Compañía de Jesús. Estamos muy agradecidos por todo lo que ustedes hacen! Al leer estas paginas, les pedimos dejar que el Espíritu toque sus corazones y mentes, para que vean esa llamada ámplia que Dios extiende a todos en el mundo y nos invita a trabajar a su lado. Les pedimos su oración ahora que como Jesuitas entramos a la 36° Congregación General y discernimos cómo Dios nos llama a servir en Su Reino en la actualidad.

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feature stories 8 | Celebrating Ordinations Five become priests 2 | Refugee Crisis 1 JRS Responds 16 | World Jesuits Gather Charting the Future 0 | Father General 2 Pastoral Visit

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2 | Companions Gathering 2 Day of Reflection

Editor Therese Fink Meyerhoff Associate Editor Cheryl Wittenauer Designer Tracy Gramm Advancement Director John Fitzpatrick Jesuits is published and distributed by the Jesuits of the Central and Southern Province of the Society of Jesus. 4511 West Pine Boulevard St. Louis, Missouri 63108-2191 314-361-7765 Please address all correspondence about stories to the editor: UCSCommunication@jesuits.org Send all correspondence about addresses, memberships, and bequests to the Advancement Office: UCSAdvancement@jesuits.org

Cover: Jesuit Refugee Service has launched a $35 million campaign to raise money for education. Cover photo courtesy of Jesuit Refugee Service.

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26 | At Work: Bart Geger, SJ

27 | Formation: Michael Wegenka, SJ 30 | In Memoriam

Fr. De Smet's Traveling Crucifix

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Reliquary owned by Fr. De Smet

De Smet Exhibit

"Augustin" by Nicolas Point, SJ

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The Caermersklooster Provincial Cultural Centre in Ghent, Belgium, recently hosted an exhibition featuring a wide array of artifacts and documents from the Jesuits Archives of the Central United States. The Call of the Rockiesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Pierre-Jean De Smet and the Native Americans ran from Feb. 4 until May 1. More than 15,000 people viewed the exhibition. The display included documents, letters, rare books, maps, drawings, watercolors and other artifacts, more than 60 of which came from the archives located in St. Louis. In January, Archivist David Miros escorted a large crate from St. Louis to Ghent and oversaw the installation of its contents in the museum display. He returned in May to retrieve the archivesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; treasures. Belgian native Fr. Peter De Smet, SJ, figured prominently in 19th Century America, not only as a missionary, but also as a defender of Native Americans, a story told in the exhibit. He advocated for peace and negotiated with the United States government. He described in first-hand accounts the marginalization of indigenous people and the subsequent loss of their time-honored, traditional way of life.

Leader for Colegio San Ignacio

Father Flavio Bravo, SJ, has been appointed president of Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The appointment was effective in March. Father Bravo works with the school’s board of directors to ensure the excellence of the school’s academic programs and the advancement of its Jesuit Fr. Flavio Bravo Catholic mission. Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola is a Jesuit all-male high school offering a comprehensive Catholic college preparatory education for grades 7-12. The school works to develop young men of competence, conscience, compassion and commitment to justice. “The Colegio San Ignacio has a long and illustrious history of serving the San Juan community, educating young men who are ‘strong in faith,’ wellequipped to meet the challenges of contemporary life,” Fr. Provincial Ronald Mercier, SJ, said. “Fr. Bravo, working with the board of trustees and the whole school community, will help that legacy grow even stronger.” A native of Nicaragua, Fr. Bravo entered the Society of Jesus in 1992. Following ordination in 2005, he was assigned to Strake Jesuit College Prep in Houston, where he served as chaplain, director of pastoral ministry and rector until his appointment as superior of the Jesuit Community of Puerto Rico in July 2015.

Jesuit School Leaders Meet in Puerto Rico

Cassock of Peter J. De Smet, SJ

A leadership group of educators from USA Central and Southern Province met recently at Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola, one of Puerto Rico’s premiere academic institutions. The 64-year-old, all-boys college prep school in San Juan hosted the province’s High School Leadership Group at its meeting in February. The visit was the group’s first look at the school since the former Puerto Rico Region joined the province in December 2014. The school, whose graduates often go on to top-ranked colleges and universities in the mainland U.S., has long been a member of the Latin American network of Jesuit schools. Among other things, the Latin American schools are assessing the quality of their academic programs. They also facilitate students talking to each other across schools on issues of justice and the environment. Summer 2016

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Vocation Promoter Named

An Examen App

In 2015, Fr. Mark Thibodeaux, SJ, novice director for the Jesuits USA Central and Southern Province, wrote Reimagining the Ignatian Examen to help readers journey through the five steps of Ignatian prayer in ways that felt new. This year, he released an accompanying app for the benefit of those who prefer to pray the Examen on a digital device. The Examen is a 500-yearold spiritual tool for examining the day and finding where God has been in it. St. Ignatius encouraged his followers to pray the Examen daily. This five-step prayer includes giving thanks for God’s love; praying to understand God’s acting in one’s life; reviewing the day; reflecting on actions, words and thoughts; and looking to the next day. Loyola Press’ editorial team designed and created the app, which is available for free on iTunes or Google Play. On the app, each day’s Examen has six to eight slides with questions to contemplate and answer. For more information, visit: reimaginingexamen.ignatianspirituality.com

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Father Randall Gibbens, SJ, has been named the new coordinator for vocation promotion for the USA Central and Southern Province, effective July 1. He replaces Fr. Drew Kirschman, SJ, who has served in that role since 2012. A native of Metairie, La., Fr. Gibbens graduated from Jesuit High School, New Orleans, and earned Fr. Randall Gibbens a bachelor’s degree in agronomy from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. While working in the Dominican Republic, he began to discern his vocation to the priesthood. He returned to the U.S. and worked at Casa Juan Diego, the Catholic Worker House in Houston, for two years. He entered the Society of Jesus in 2004 and was ordained in 2015. As a Jesuit, he has served in Guadalajara and at Jesuit High School, Tampa, where he taught biology and theology and served in campus ministry. While earning his Master’s of Divinity at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University in Berkeley, Calif., he also served as deacon at San Quentin State Prison. Since ordination, he has served at Parroquia Santiago in Yoro, Honduras. Fr. Gibbens can be reached at UCSVocationsCoordinator@Jesuits.org.

Putthoff to Lead Toledo School

Father Jeffrey Putthoff, SJ, a Central and Southern Province Jesuit who founded and led a youth job-training program in one of the nation’s poorest cities, will lead a Jesuit high school in Toledo, Ohio, Fr. Jeffrey Putthoff starting in July. Father Putthoff will be the 11th president of St. John’s Jesuit High School & Academy. He spent 16 years building Hopeworks ‘N Camden, which has trained thousands of young people in website design, geographic locater systems and other technology for jobs that have transformed their lives. The enterprise is based in Camden, N.J., a poor city across the Delaware River from Philadelphia with one of the highest crime rates in the U.S. He also has served as a retreat director, associate pastor and high school teacher. The 51-year-old Kansas City, Mo., native said he looks forward to returning to the Midwest and leading St. John’s as it enters its next 50 years.

Jesuit Educators Gather for Diversity Conference

Fifty educators from 30 Jesuit schools across the United States this spring attended the Jesuit Schools Network Diversity Directors Conference in Philadelphia. Together they engaged in critical conversations about equity, inclusion, diversity and social justice, and shared concrete strategies for implementing a diversity and inclusion strategic plan. Father Provincial Ronald Mercier has made racial inclusion a priority for schools in the USA Central and Southern Province. This conference is one tool among many under development for improving racial equality in Jesuit institutions. Ten schools from the province sent representatives, accounting for 42 percent of the conference participants. “It was wonderfully confirming to see that Jesuit high schools have

JSRI Releases JustSouth Index

The Jesuit Social Research Institute at Loyola University New Orleans has unveiled its first analysis

progressive-thinking individuals who are doing all that they can to make Jesuit institutions culturally relevant and inclusive spaces,” said Elbert Williams, III, director of graduate support for Loyola Academy of St. Louis. Pete Musso, director of school support for the USA Central and

Southern Province, was the facilitator for this conference, on behalf of the Jesuit Schools Network of North America. The UCS Province will hold its own meeting on diversity and admissions in March 2017.

of how the Gulf states are doing in the areas of poverty, racial disparity and exclusion of immigrants. The JustSouth Index measures nine ways in which Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas made progress or lost ground in such sub-categories as average household income, health insurance coverage, school segregation, wage equity and other criteria. By measuring and comparing all 50 states and Washington, D.C., on nine social justice indicators, the

JustSouth Index provides a strong starting point for advocacy and action. Intended to stimulate dialogue, foster accountability and shape solutions, the report includes not only an analysis of each area of study, but action steps needed for a more just society. The Jesuit Social Research Institute is a collaboration of Loyola and the USA Central and Southern Province. The report can be seen here: http://bit.ly/1TyTPOJ.

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Five Ordained to Priesthood

ive men of the USA Central and Southern Province have been ordained to the priesthood. The Most Reverend Robert Carlson, Archbishop of St. Louis, presided at the sacred liturgy of ordination on June 11 at St. Francis Xavier College Church in St. Louis. Jesuit Fathers Jason Brauninger, Roy Joseph, Juan Carlos Rivera Castro, AndrĂŠs Vall-Serra and Samuel Wilson have studied at Jesuit schools and served in Jesuit apostolates. Now, after years of study and practicing what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned, and with the approval of their superiors, the Roman Catholic Church and their brothers in the Society of Jesus, they are Jesuit priests. Beautiful in its simplicity, ordination is a rite of the Roman Catholic Church and occurs within a Mass. Following the Gospel, each man was called by name and presented by Provincial Superior Ronald Mercier to Archbishop Carlson. Archbishop Carlson questioned each as to his readiness to accept the responsibilities of ordination; when he announced his approval, the congregation of about 1,000 responded with enthusiastic applause. During the rite, the five candidates lay prostrate on the floor in a gesture of humility while the congregation prayed the litany of the saints. The consecration included a laying on of hands, first by the archbishop, then by other priests present. Each man received a stole and chasuble, or vestment, and his hands were anointed. Then the five new priests joined the Archbishop in consecrating the gifts of bread and wine for the very first time. The five are among 20 new Jesuit priests ordained in the United States and Canada this year. They will serve in pastoral ministry for the year following ordination.

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Jason E. Brauninger, SJ, 34, grew up in St. Rose, La., where he attended St. Charles Borromeo grade school, served as an altar boy and considered becoming a priest. He earned a bachelor’s degree in fire science engineering at Eastern Kentucky University and in 2005, entered the Jesuits. At Saint Louis University, he completed an accelerated one-year bachelor’s degree in nursing while also taking the philosophy courses required for Jesuit formation. He worked for three years in Denver at St. Anthony Hospital’s cardiac telemetry unit and emergency department while teaching clinical nursing and completing medical mission trips to Nepal and Haiti. He studied at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, where he earned a Master of Divinity degree and a master’s degree in theology while working part time for Tufts Medical Center’s emergency department. Fr. Brauninger will serve as parochial vicar at Immaculate Conception Jesuit Church in New Orleans.

Roy M. Joseph, SJ, 40, is the son of immigrants from India, members of the SyroMalabar Catholic Church. A native of Atlanta, he graduated from Emory University, then earned a medical degree at the University of Szeged in Hungary, where he met the Jesuits. He entered the Society of Jesus in 2005. He has worked as a prison and hospital chaplain, worked with the poor in Tijuana, Mexico, and lived in a L’Arche community. He earned a master’s degree in applied philosophy and bioethics from Loyola University Chicago, then taught science for three years at Strake Jesuit College Preparatory in Houston. He earned a Master of Divinity degree from the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry and served as deacon at St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Church. He will be a bi-ritual priest in the Latin and Syro-Malabar traditions. His first assignment is at St. Ignatius Loyola Parish in Denver.

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Juan Carlos Rivera Castro, SJ, 31, was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He began actively discerning his vocation after high school, but put his discernment on hold so he could study art at Escuela de Artes PlĂĄsticas in San Juan. He entered the novitiate in the Dominican Republic, and served at Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola in San Juan. He went to the Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca in Spain to study philosophy and earned a licentiate degree. He then taught religion and philosophy for two years at the Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola. He earned a Master of Divinity degree and a masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in theology from the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. Ordained a deacon in October 2015, he served at Mary Immaculate of Lourdes Parish in Newton, Mass. He has been missioned to St. Francis Xavier College Church in St. Louis. 10 Jesuits

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Andrés Maria Vall-Serra, SJ, 38, was born in Bogotá, Colombia, but moved with his family to Houston at the age of 4, and later relocated to Wichita, Kan. He served as a mechanic in the U.S. Navy for three years in the Persian Gulf, Southeast Asia and the Mediterranean, later discerning his vocation while studying at Wichita State University and working part time. He entered the Jesuits in 2004 and earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Saint Louis University, while serving at Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish and ministering to prisoners. He taught for two and a half years at Instituto Loyola, a Jesuit school in Managua, Nicaragua, and as a consultant on Ignatian spirituality at Our Lady of Guadalupe School in Denver. He earned a Master of Divinity degree from the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. He will serve in Punta Gorda, Belize.

Samuel M. Wilson, SJ, 44, was born in Orange County, Calif., and moved with his military family every few years. He earned a bachelor’s degree in history from St. Mary’s College of Maryland and a master’s degree in English from the University of South Alabama. He taught English at the University of South Alabama for three years before entering the Society of Jesus in 2005. He served on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota, then studied philosophy at Saint Louis University. He taught English and theology at Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas. He earned a Master of Divinity degree from the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University in Berkeley, Calif., and served as a deacon at St. Patrick Catholic Church. He studied Spanish in Guatemala and lived with the L’Arche community in the Dominican Republic. He will be missioned to San Juan, Puerto Rico. summer 2016

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Refugee Crisis

A World of Need By Cheryl Wittenauer

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n a refugee camp in a desolate part of the world, a “classroom blackboard” is often a 3-foot by 3-foot piece of plywood, painted black, and hung from a tree, around which refugee kids sit on makeshift seats of rocks or logs. But this education, despite its humble packaging, is refugee children’s passport to a future, without which they might end up trafficked, married off in adolescence, manipulated into fighting as child soldiers, or wither from boredom and lack of stimulation and skills, only to be mired in intractable poverty as adults. For those reasons and more, Jesuit Refugee Service has launched a campaign to raise $35 million – $1 million for each of JRS’ years of existence – in order to double the number of refugees it reaches with education.

The world’s most famous Jesuit, Pope Francis, asked JRS to undertake this global education initiative as part of the 2016 Jubilee Year of Mercy. The JRS campaign, dubbed “Mercy in Motion,” plays on the theme of mercy for people who are on the move because of war and politics that uproot them from their homes. While placement in camps may save refugees from imminent threats, individuals may be stuck in them for years, even decades, without education and other resources that much of the world takes for granted. In the worst refugee crisis since World War II, upwards of 2.6 million Syrian refugee children, potentially a lost generation, are out of school. In an address to Jesuit Refugee Service and its friends last fall, Pope Francis said the agency offers “hope and prospects to refugees” through education, its primary service in the camps. “. . . An education,” he said, “is about much more than dispensing concepts. It is something which provides refugees with the wherewithal to progress beyond survival, to keep alive the flame of hope, to believe in the future and to make plans. To give a child a seat at school is the finest gift you can give.” JRS’ work in education is aimed at helping refugees grow in self-confidence, realize their potential and be able to defend their rights, he said. Founded by the late Jesuit Superior General Pedro Arrupe in 1980, Jesuit Refugee Service each year provides emergency relief, psychological help, advocacy and

education to 750,000 refugees in dire need in 45 countries. But education is its primary service. With this campaign, and with its partners, JRS said it wants to double the number of refugees it serves in camps and cities to more than 220,000 by the year 2020, with education services ranging from preschool to online and distance-learning college courses, teacher training and vocational education, and with particular emphasis on girls, who are seen in some cultures as not warranting an education.

An education is about much more than “dispensing concepts. It provides refugees with the wherewithal to keep alive the flame of hope, to believe in the future

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and to make plans.

~ Pope Francis

Organizations like the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) establish emergency camps and provide food, water and other humanitarian assistance. JRS staff and volunteers, meanwhile, focus on education and counseling to help people recover from the trauma of displacement. JRS trains both former teachers and others from within the refugee ranks to serve as teachers in the camps. JRS considers education a life-saving intervention.

In communities around Lebanon, Jesuit Refugee Service creates schools for Syrian children. (photo by: Zerene Haddad — Jesuit Refugee Service). Opposite page: Primary school students in Gendrassa camp, South Sudan. Jesuit Refugee Service’s commitment to provide education in emergencies gives hope to those displaced by civil strife. (photo by: Angela Wells — Jesuit Refugee Service). Summer 2016

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Father Hung Pham, SJ, a Vietnamese immigrant to the U.S., worked as a teacher trainer in the Burmese refugee camps of northern Thailand’s deep jungle from 1999 to 2000. People in the camps volunteered to teach children. “They had a good heart but no training,” he said. So, he trained them in method and practice, for example, encouraging interactive learning rather than rote memorization. “For children and (adults) in the camps,” he said, “education is everything. It connects them to the bigger world. “They want to dream, have training for a better life. It’s a matter of survival.” An education stays with them for a lifetime. Father Pham recalled that while UNHCR provided rice, beans, oil and shelter, the people said that without education, they felt like pigs, mere livestock without human intelligence. “Education allows them to open themselves to the world,” said Fr. Pham, who teaches Ignatian spirituality at the Jesuit school of theology at Santa Clara, Calif., and who was so moved by the refugee camp experience, he said he would return, if asked. Father Jeff Harrison, SJ, did two stints with JRS in East Africa during the 1990s, arriving in the wake of the Rwanda genocide. He was based in Kenya but traveled for work to Uganda and Tanzania from 1994 to ’96; he worked in Sudan in 1998-99. Today, he teaches at Regis Jesuit High School in Denver.

For children and (adults) in the camps, “ education is everything. It connects

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them to the bigger world.

~ Fr. Hung Pham

He and other JRS staff and volunteers didn’t teach; they trained local people to teach, set up schools and records, and set up sports programs. “Education is our thing,” he said of the Jesuits, “and there was always a pastoral component to it. “You’d start with a blackboard under the trees, then gather bricks and grass to build a school with a roof. Sometimes, we were able to provide textbooks.” 14 Jesuits

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However, he did teach one boy in Sudan, a herder who became curious when he heard Fr. Harrison click the keys of his manual typewriter. He poked his head in to the priest’s “office,” then ran away, too timid to speak. After several similar encounters, the two began to talk, and Fr. Harrison taught the boy how to type. That was in 1998. Today, the young man uses a computer for his work for UNHCR in Juba, the capital of South Sudan. He has his own family. The two stay in touch by email. Father Harrison also tried to teach Sudanese refugees about snow before they left for resettlement in Edmonton, Canada. He led them through exercises on flying in an airplane and using a restroom, and explained the importance of not starting a fire to cook food on the plane. He said most Sudanese can start a fire with three sticks. But education went both ways. When he worked with urban refugees in the vast slums of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, Fr. Harrison wanted to arrange for the kids to have Christmas presents. The parents, to his surprise, smiled and politely said, “We want books. We want our kids to have an education.” JRS divides its work between projects it is directly responsible for running, such as schools in Chad, Malawi, Lebanon and Jordan, and projects it supports through teacher training, distribution of materials and

Increasing access to education keeps children safe by providing an alternative to child marriage for girls and labor exploitation for boys. (Photo left by Zerene Haddad — Jesuit Refugee Service) Jesuit Refugee Service serves the most vulnerable in Lubushere camp, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Peter Balleis SJ — Jesuit Refugee Service)

either building or rehabilitating schools in Thailand, the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan and South Africa. These days, more refugees are in urban areas than in camps, and JRS helps them prepare for public schools in cities. While continuing its existing work in regions throughout the world, Jesuit Refugee Service said it has identified pressing areas of concern, including: • a crisis of nearly three million refugees in South Sudan and neighboring countries • the exodus of nearly 12 million Syrians forced from their homes, including displaced children in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Turkey • a refugee crisis in Central African Republic and the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. JRS said it will work to address the needs of young children, teenagers and adults needing post-secondary education, as well as provide long-term teacher-training programs. Colleen Sinsky, a Jesuit-trained volunteer who worked with Syrian refugees at Idomeni, the unofficial refugee camp on the Greece-Macedonia border, said the need for access to stable education is huge and obvious.

“I’m a big fan of the work that Jesuit Refugee Service is doing, and am excited to hear about the initiative,” she wrote in a message from Greece, where authorities began to remove refugees forcibly from Idomeni on May 24. Sinsky studied economics at Santa Clara University and did a year of service with Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest in Portland, Ore., after graduation. While on a backpacking trip through Europe last summer, she changed plans and plunged in to help with the refugee crisis. She assisted refugees in Greece through the Norwegian non-governmental organization, A Drop in the Ocean. “I know that the statistics for Syria’s ‘lost’ generation are pretty dire,” she said. “These kids are so bored and so intelligent. I have a little Arabic-English dictionary I use, and it’s always getting passed around frantically by kids and teens. Providing structure and intellectual stimulation is one of the biggest things I wish for these kids.”

For more on the “Mercy in Motion” campaign, or to donate to the campaign, go to:

www.jrsusa.org/mercy

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Elect a Leader, Chart a Path By Cheryl Wittenauer

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n October, roughly 200 Jesuits from throughout the world will gather in Rome to elect their new leader and consider the state of the Society of Jesus and its future. General Congregation 36, consisting of provincials and Jesuits elected from each province, was summoned in December 2014 when Superior General Adolfo Nicolás, SJ, announced his wish to resign at age 80. And while the election of his successor may garner the most attention, GC36, as it is known, also will look at other matters of importance to Jesuits. For example, after the Second Vatican Council, the Society grappled with how to adapt to the then-new and sweeping changes in the Catholic Church. In the 1990s, the Society renewed its own constitutions and decrees in accordance with Church law. As a conversation starter for GC36, Fr. Nicolás asked each Jesuit, and each province, to reflect and discern the three most important calls God makes to the Society today. Congregation delegates also might be asked to reflect on Pope Francis’ call for Jesuits to go to the “frontiers and peripheries of the world,” said Fr. Orlando Torres, SJ, one of four delegates representing USA Central

A congregation is “ summoned only to elect

a new Superior General when one has died or wishes to resign, or to address matters of great importance.

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GC36 at a Glance What is it? The General Congregation, when in session, is the supreme governing body of the Society of Jesus, even superior to the Superior General himself. Delegates lose that authority the moment the congregation ends. GC36 will mark the 36th time the congregation has met in the Society’s nearly 500-year history.

Why does it meet? The General Congregation is called for two reasons only: to elect a new Superior General when one has died or wishes to resign, or when the General decides action is needed on serious matters that he cannot or does not want to decide alone.

Where is it? Jesuits will meet in the Aula (Latin for hall), a large meeting room that can hold 250 delegates each seated at a small desk, as well as a long table for the Superior General and staff assisting him. The Aula is the top floor of a building tucked in between the Curia, or Jesuit administrative offices, and another building that houses Jesuits. The Aula, which is getting a technology retrofit for this general congregation, has offices, computers and meeting space on the ground level. It is rarely used for any other business.

When was the last congregation? In 2008, when Superior General Adolfo Nicolás was elected to succeed Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, SJ.

Who gets to go? Every provincial, along with a proportionate number of Jesuits from each province who are elected by their peers in a secret ballot. About 200 Jesuits are expected to attend.

UCS Delegates include Provincial Ron Mercier and Fathers Tom Greene, Orlando Torres and Hung Pham.

Who is eligible to succeed Adolfo Nicolás? Any Jesuit who has taken the vows of poverty, chastity, obedience, and special obedience to the pope for mission. Not every Jesuit takes the latter. The successor need not be a delegate in attendance, but always has been.

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and Southern Province, along with Provincial Ron Mercier, SJ, and Jesuit Fathers Tom Greene and Hung Pham. Delegates were selected by secret ballot last June at province congregations. Fr. Ron Mercier, SJ Fr. Orlando Torres, SJ Individual Jesuits and provinces from throughout the world also were asked to recommend postulates or areas they felt needed to be examined or discussed at GC36. First-time delegate Fr. Greene is on an Fr. Tom Greene, SJ Fr. Hung Pham, SJ advance committee sifting through all those suggestions that relate to matters of governance, community life and social issues. A General Congregation is the supreme governing body of the Society of Jesus. It meets rarely; this is only the 36th gathering since 1556. While in session, it has even greater authority than Father General himself. A congregation is summoned only to elect a new Superior General when one has died or wishes to resign, or to address matters of great importance, said Jesuit historian Fr. John Padberg. A general cannot of his own accord resign. The General Congregation starts Oct. 2 with an opening Mass, and could last one to two months, or longer. Yet, that’s not likely this time. Much of the preparatory work is being done by commissions working remotely and occasionally meeting in Rome. Tablet computers will be issued to delegates when they arrive for this “paperless” conference in Rome. “A long congregation is helpful to no one, unless there is a real need, as when the Society had to deal with the implications of Vatican II or the new Code of Canon Law,” Fr. Mercier said. “Technology makes it possible to do some of the work ahead of time.” In the months leading up to GC36, committees have been at work: • coordinating the event that will take place in the Aula or hall, a large U-shaped meeting room next door to the Jesuit Curia or administrative offices in Rome,

• looking at the state of the Society, the issues before it, and the qualities needed in a superior at this time, • considering governance, or rules for running the Society of Jesus,

• evaluating the Society’s mission.

After the opening Mass, Fr. Nicolás, the 80-year-old outgoing superior general, will address the congregation on “The State of the Society.” That will be followed by a period of prayerful discernment of possible candidates, including the delegates’ quiet, one-on-one consultations known as the murmuratio. Campaigning for the world’s top Jesuit job, or attempting to persuade someone to vote a certain way is strictly forbidden. Rather, the murmuratio is a prayerful exercise that combines insights into a potential successor from those who know him well, with the movement of the Spirit, Fr. Mercier said. That’s followed by the voting for a new superior general; the whole process takes about a week. But whoever is elected, he need not be in the Aula. “Anyone can get a call that says, ‘come to Rome,’” Fr. Mercier said. Pope Francis will be notified immediately and asked to give his blessing. After the election, the delegates will discuss and debate Fr. Nicolás’ question about the three calls as well as topics suggested by individual Jesuits and provinces. For their part, the Jesuits of the Central and Southern Province said they feel called to • be more free and agile to respond to the needs of today, • engage in the work of reconciliation in a poor and violent world, and

• care for and encounter the excluded, and be changed by them. General Congregations regularly issue decrees or documents that help shape the lives of Jesuits and their mission. “We may or may not have a decree (or decrees) come out of this congregation,” Fr. Mercier said. “Maybe we just need to live the ones we have.”

When does it start and end? GC36 will open with a Mass on Oct. 2, 2016 and end when the work is done. Some congregations have lasted for months – and one, GC31 in 1965-66, met for several months, broke for more than a year, and resumed for two more months. A new rule allows committees to work ahead of the actual start date for greater efficiency and preparation.

When will the new Superior General be announced? The election process could take only days, and as soon as the pope has been informed of the Superior General-elect (by messenger or phone), his name will be announced. The rules don’t require the pope’s approval, but he always has given his blessing.

How long has GC36 been planned? Since Adolfo Nicolás called the congregation in December 2014.

How will the Jesuits in attendance communicate? Simultaneous translations in English, French and Spanish are provided for the larger meetings.

Has an American ever held the position of Superior General? No Heavy Lifting. Once a new Superior General has been elected, delegates will tackle matters of mission, governance, and the state of the Society. Topics could range from the Society’s changing demographics to challenges in world-wide ministries, to the Jesuit (and Pope Francis-inspired) response to a rapidly changing world, environmental concerns, poverty and violence.

Paperless. Delegates to GC36 will use tablet computers to vote on various documents and a successor.

Confidential. The rules say all matters in GC36 are confidential – “What happens in the Aula stays in the Aula” – but news will be released when appropriate.

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Superior General Adolfo Nicolás Visits Province Fr. General Adolfo Nicolás spent time getting to know the novices and answering their questions.

ather General Adolfo Nicolás, SJ, Superior General of the Society of Jesus, made a brief pastoral visit to the USA Central and Southern Province early in May. On Saturday, May 7, Fr. Nicolás met in New Orleans with about 50 Jesuits and 20 lay leaders of Jesuit apostolates, or ministries, in the region. Father Nicolás traveled to New Orleans with Fr. Provincial Ronald Mercier, SJ, and former Missouri Provincial Douglas Marcouiller, SJ, who now serves in Rome as a General Counselor and Regional Assistant for the United States and Canada. All three men had attended a weeklong meeting in El Salvador of the leaders of the provinces in Latin America, the United States and Canada. This apostolic visit included Mass, a meal and an informal conversation with the Jesuits living in New Orleans. Jesuits from Mobile, Ala., 20 Jesuits

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Convent, La., and Grand Coteau, La., traveled to New Orleans to meet with Fr. Nicolás. They included men studying at the novitiate. “The visit had a huge impact on the novices,” said Fr. Mark Thibodeaux, SJ, director of novices. “They were deeply moved and

languages that God’s people have used throughout the ages: the languages of identity, prophecy, and wisdom. The language of identity brought the people of God together, the language of prophecy called God’s people to conversion and a deepening relationship with

We must find people who have “ our heart for mission. ”

~Father General

inspired by it. The fact that Father General would spend so much private time exclusively with them made them feel valued by the Society of Jesus. It was a day that they will never forget.” Novice Ian Peoples said, “The generous spirit with which Fr. Nicolás interacted with all who were present at the gathering was a consoling experience. He spoke of the

the Lord, and the language of wisdom, Fr. Nicolás said, is what we as the people of God need to learn to speak to encounter a world that is becoming more secularized.” Novice William Manaker added: “One of the things that struck me most about Father General’s visit was the number of times that he stressed the importance of ‘depth.’ He explained that it is instrumental

for being able to dialogue with others, especially when they are coming from a perspective or background that is non- or even anti-Christian.” Father Nicolás’ sermon, and later his talk to the Jesuits, emphasized not only the desirability of collaborating with lay colleagues, but the necessity of doing so. “We must find people who have our heart for mission,” he said, acknowledging that the United States is ahead of other parts of the world in the inclusion and formation of lay partners. “Father General emphasized the great gift of our lay colleagues,” Fr. Mercier said. “Their commitment to our mission and the talents they bring make possible the extension of the mission of the Society beyond what we could do alone, even if our numbers were 10 times greater than they are. He called us Jesuits to a fuller appreciation of God’s work through our colleagues.” In the afternoon, Fr. Nicolás met with lay leaders from Jesuit apostolates in the area: in New Orleans, Holy Name of Jesus Parish,

Fr. General Adolfo Nicolás presided at a liturgy in New Orleans.

Immaculate Conception Parish, Jesuit High School and Loyola University; Manresa Retreat House in Convent, La.; and Our Lady of the Oaks Retreat House in Grand Coteau, La., as well as several members of the province staff. He made a short presentation, offered a moving and sincere expression of thanks, then responded to specific questions. Katy Quigley, director of grants for USA Central and Southern Province, said, “What I took away from the meeting with Father General is that the high importance

– even the necessity – of collaborative laity in animating the mission of the Society of Jesus goes all the way back to St. Ignatius. The historical interdependence resonated with me. Father General is unpretentious, humorous, and a great storyteller. The entire afternoon was a blessing!” Robert “Bob” Thomas, Professor and Loyola Chair in Environmental Communication at Loyola University New Orleans, represented the university’s faculty senate. He said that Fr. Nicolás’ remarks during the meeting reinforced his own understanding of the cornerstones of Jesuit education. “That Ignatian tradition of intellectual inquiry combined with social responsibility, this is what attracts me to Jesuit education,” he said, “applying the power of the Jesuit way of thinking and Jesuit spirituality to making the world a better place.” This was most likely Fr. Nicolás’ final visit to the United States as Superior General. Now 80 years old, he has offered his resignation as Superior General, a request that delegates to the Society’s General Congregation 36 will consider this fall in Rome. But the message he left with those he met in New Orleans will no doubt resonate for decades. Novice Ian Peoples said, “I am filled with consolation that the Society of Jesus continues to go out to the margins of the Church so that we may bridge the divide between God and the world.”

Jesuits Ronald A. Mercier (left) and Ted Dziak (right) were in the novitiate together 40 years ago. Today, Fr. Mercier serves as provincial and Fr. Dziak is vice president for mission and ministry at Loyola University New Orleans. Fr. General Adolfo Nicolás is in the center.

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Companions By Therese Fink Meyerhoff

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he day began foggy, but eventually grew sultry – a typical spring day in Convent, Louisiana. On this particular Tuesday, more than 100 friends and donors to the USA Central and Southern Province gathered at Manresa House of Retreats for a daylong retreat with Fr. Francis “Billy” Huete, SJ. One would be hard-pressed to find a more beautiful spot for this “Companions Day of Reflection,” and Fr. Huete gave three inspiring talks on “Faith, Hope and Love in a Modern World.” The food was good, and the company excellent. But what else drew these people to devote a day of their time to a retreat? Manresa was already familiar to many of those in attendance. Each year, the retreat staff welcomes more than 6,200 men for three-day retreats. Many of these

Our benefactors are very “ forcefully putting their money where their faith is. Where would we be without their help? ~ Fr. Gene Martens

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men have been coming for years – decades, even – usually on the same week every year. And many wanted to share their love of this place with someone else. With a couple of exceptions for hurricanes, Ed Giroir has made a retreat at Manresa every year since 1970. The Companions Day of Reflection allowed him to bring his wife, Janet, to experience the beauty and peace of Manresa for the day, something she’d long wanted to do. “When he came home (from his three-day retreats) on Sundays, his faced just glowed, especially back when he was still working,” Janet Giroir said. “His annual retreat at Manresa was like filling the tank for the rest of the year.” Other men had similar stories of coming year after year; with the passing of time, some found the special joy of sharing their tradition with sons. Summer 2016

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The Jesuits have always been a big part of the lives of Jay and Noel Poché, shown enjoying the beauty of Manresa Retreat’s grounds.

The chapel at Manresa welcomes retreatants with quiet peace.

Francis “Jay” Poché attended the Day of Reflection with his wife, Noel. He has been connected to the Jesuits from birth, and his middle name, Jay, comes from the Blue Jays of Jesuit High School in New Orleans, where his older brother Louis was studying when Jay was born. Louis Poché is now a Jesuit priest, a member of the Central and Southern Province. You might say there’s a history with Manresa as well: Jay and Louis’ father attended the second retreat ever held at Manresa, back in 1931, when the Jesuits first bought the property.

Clearly, visitors to Manresa come away feeling they’ve gained something. Perhaps it’s a sense of peace, a closer relationship with God, a better understanding of themselves. Many of the people at the Day of Reflection expressed gratitude for what they found there – and for the Jesuits who made it possible. Edgar Saunders and his wife, Melsy, note that their ties with Jesuits are an essential fact of their lives. Melsy Saunders first met the Jesuits when she began going on retreats in the seventh grade. Her cousin, Fr. Ted Arroyo, SJ, is a member of this province. Edgar attended Jesuit High School and like his wife, Loyola University. They both have a great appreciation for the work of the Jesuits, and support that work financially. “They have been such a blessing,” she said. In calling this retreat a “Companions Day of Reflection,” the province used the word “companions” as St. Ignatius Loyola called his friends and collaborators. In this case, many of those in attendance were also donors. The province recognizes its donors as companions. “We couldn’t do what we do without their assistance,” said Fr. Gene Martens, SJ, who served for many years in the development office for the former Missouri Province. “Our benefactors are very forcefully putting their money where their faith is. Where would we be without their help?” This is the essence of the synergistic relationship so on display at this retreat – and at nearly every gathering

Gratitude to God for what “ He does for us is very Ignatian.

If people have profited from our ministry, one way for them to show gratitude is to support the same things for others. ~ Fr. Francis Huete

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Growing up in Convent, Jay Poché served Mass at Manresa twice a day, every day, from the age of 10 until he graduated from high school. As an adult, he comes for retreats. “These guys are wonderful,” he said. “Every year, I think it can’t be as good as the year before … but it always is!” 24 Jesuits

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Don Lindemann’s first retreat at Manresa House of Retreats was in 1951, when he was a senior at Jesuit High School. Carol Bordelon accompanied him to the Companions Day of Reflection.

of Jesuits and companions. Certainly, the Society of Jesus depends on the generosity of donors. It is no less certain that people who visit Jesuit retreat houses, attend Jesuit schools or interact with Jesuits in other ways gain from their experiences. As Fr. Huete said, “Gratitude to God for what He does for us is very Ignatian. If people have profited from our ministry, one way for them to show gratitude is to support the same things for others.” The advancement office is exploring ways to make Companion Days of Reflection available in other parts of the province. They are the province’s gift to its benefactors, an expression of gratitude and Jesuit spirituality. Another Companions Day of Reflection is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016 at Regis University, Denver. “We give thanks to God always for all of you, remembering you in our prayers …” (1 Thessalonians 1:2) Mark your calendars for our next

Manresa House of Retreats is located in Convent, La., on the banks of the Mississippi River midway between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. It offers three-day preached retreats for men, made in silence, based on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola. For more information, visit ManresaLA.org.

Companions Day of Reflection Saturday, September 17, 2016 Regis University / Denver, Colorado

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Starting times and additional information will be posted at Connect.JesuitsCentralSouthern.org. Or email UCSAdvancement@jesuits.org or call 800-325-9925. Father Francis "Billy" Huete leads retreatants at the Companions Day of Reflection. His talks are available on the UCS Jesuits account on YouTube.com. summer 2016

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Barton Geger: Always Ignatian

art Geger, SJ, approaches his Jesuit way of proceeding, and to work from a very Ignatian other issues relevant to Jesuits and perspective. Of course, the same their colleagues. In 2013, Jesuit might be said of most Jesuits, but Studies published two issues on in Fr. Geger’s case, he strives at all Writings on Jesuit Spirituality by times to imagine what Ignatius one Jorge Mario Bergoglio, SJ, now Loyola would have thought. known as Pope Francis. But most “One of the challenges to essays are written by U.S. Jesuits. understanding what Ignatius has Father Geger was named general to say is that our language and our editor in February after serving ways of thinking have changed so three years as a member of the much in the past 500 years,” “Seminar,” or editorial board, Fr. Geger said. “When we which is comprised of both U.S. read Ignatius, we often and Canadian Jesuits. As editor, assume we know what he he wants the Seminar to engage means, but the underlying in long-term planning of future concepts have changed. It’s issues, and also to develop important to understand him younger Jesuits as writers. in his own context.” The Seminar currently meets This mindful search for twice a year to discuss board truth seasons Fr. Geger’s members’ submissions and to writing, teaching and preachidentify other suitable writers ing, and will undoubtedly for particular subjects. impact the tone of Studies in A native of Arnold, the Spirituality of Jesuits, the Mo., just south of St. Louis, quarterly journal for which Fr. Geger entered the Jesuit Fr. Geger is general editor. novitiate in Denver and was Jesuit Studies, as it is ordained in 2001 at St. Francis ~Fr. Bart Geger, SJ commonly called, was begun Xavier College Church in St. in 1969, shortly after the Louis. He did his doctorate in Second Vatican Council, Jesuit studies and spirituality as a way for Jesuits in the United States to rediscover at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid. He the Society’s original charism. Father Geger says it is is coming to the end of his service as rector of the “a way for Jesuits to really dig deep into our own Jesuit communities at Regis University and St. Ignatius spirituality. It’s not strictly academic; it also draws Loyola Parish in Denver and is director of Ignatian from Jesuits’ experience and acquired wisdom. It Programming at Regis University, where he also examines what we need to know to serve the people teaches and works in campus ministry. He is a frequent of God better.” contributor to Regis’ online journal Jesuit Higher Each issue is usually a single essay on themes Education: A Journal. His latest work is Myths, Misquotes ranging from the vows, to lay collaboration, to the and Misconceptions about St. Ignatius Loyola.

“ One of the challenges to understanding what Ignatius has to say

is that our language

and our ways of thinking have changed so much

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Michael Wegenka: Planning MAGIS

ichael Wegenka, SJ, will be a long way from Strake Jesuit College Preparatory this summer when he travels to Poland for MAGIS 2016 and World Youth Day, but the lessons he learned in high school will be with him. MAGIS 2016 is a Jesuit program taking place during the two weeks preceding World Youth Day this July. More than 1,650 young adults from Jesuit schools and parishes around the world will participate, including 141 from the United States. Of the U.S. participants, 24 are from Saint Louis University and Regis University in the USA Central and Southern Province. MAGIS participants will gather for the three days, July 15-18, in Łódź (pronounced “wooge”) in central Poland, before departing for five-day experiments in Poland, Lithuania, Slovakia or the Czech Republic. In Ignatian formation, “experiments” are opportunities to learn about one’s self and others while drawing closer to God – through experience. The experiments will focus on spirituality, pilgrimage, service, social issues or art. MAGIS participants will regroup July 23-25 in Czestochowa, Poland, to reflect on their experiences before heading to Krakow for World Youth Day, July 26-31, where they will join tens of thousands of other pilgrims from around the world. Brad Held, SJ, is the MAGIS project director for the United States, and Wegenka assists him, handling many of the technical and financial details. Both men are studying theology at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. Planning MAGIS is just part of their apostolic ministry. This July, they will arrive in Poland a week ahead of MAGIS participants, where they will master the local logistics. They will then spend two weeks welcoming, directing, helping, connecting, responding to crises and sharing stories

on social media. (Follow MAGIS 2016 on Twitter and Facebook.) “MAGIS is ultimately a pilgrimage, an experience of prayer,” Wegenka said. He is looking forward to sharing it with young people, because teaching and bringing young people to God are at the heart of his Jesuit vocation. When Wegenka was in high school and began seriously considering his future, he looked at the men he admired, including his father and friends of the family. “Then I thought of the priests I knew, including my parish priest and the Jesuits at Strake,” he said. “The more I thought and prayed about it, the more the priesthood seemed to be right for me. That prospect gave me life; it gave me joy.” He entered the novitiate in 2005, just a few months after graduating from Strake Jesuit. Following several years of study, Wegenka taught for three years at Regis Jesuit High School in suburban Denver before beginning his theology studies at Boston College in 2014. Now assigned to the Catholic Chaplaincy at Boston University, Wegenka spent last year in pastoral ministry and found he missed teaching. This year, he taught RCIA, or the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, accompanying a group who joined the Church at Easter. As a result, his affinity for teaching has broadened to include young adults. “If you form young people well when they are seeking, you set them up for a life of faith,” he said.

Learn more about MAGIS 2016 at magis2016.org

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donors Companions Honor Roll

We are grateful to all who support the Society of Jesus through their gifts of prayer, time and resources. The following donors have joined the Companions of St. Ignatius, St. Francis Xavier, St. Peter Faber, St. Aloysius Gonzaga and St. Stanislaus Kostka through their contributions from January to April 2016. The entire list of donors for this period can be viewed on the province website: jesuitscentralsouthern.org/supportus

Companions of

St. Ignatius Loyola ($5,000 or more) Anonymous Estate of Mary H. Arroyo Estate of Jacqueline P. Bishop Estate of Andrew J. Bosch Mr. Charles Chelliah Dr. Deborah J. Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Raymond T. Hyer, Jr Estate of Myrtle J. Kane Mrs. Marietta Munkers Mr. and Mrs. John E. O’Shea Estate of Marie Ross Mr. Daniell L. Schaeffer

Anonymous (2) Eye, Ear, Nose & Throat Foundation Koch Foundation, Inc. Mildred B. Bancroft Trust Nelson Family Foundation

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St. Francis Xavier ($1,000 to $4,999) Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Auffenberg Mr. William M. Barbieri Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Castellano Estate of Barbara S. Colvin Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Daly Mr. and Mrs. David O. Danis, Sr Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Danis Mr. and Mrs. Leo P. Dressel Mrs. Adrian G. Duplantier Dr. and Mrs. John P. Goltschman Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Gorman, Jr Mr. and Mrs. Arnold A. Griffin Mr. James R. Guthrie Mrs. Joan H. Herbert Michael F. Horaist, MD Mr. and Mrs. John A. Hummel Mrs. Ursula H. Kaley Dr. Robert R. Kanard Mr. Karl K. Kloster Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Kochanski Dr. George E. Maha Ms. Ellen D. McCarthy Mr. and Mrs. Steven N. McCarty Mr. Lawrence A. McConville Mr. and Mrs. Edward N. Morris, Jr Mr. and Mrs. Herbert W. Mundhenke Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Murphy, Jr Mr. and Mrs. William F. O’Hara Ms. Kathleen M. Osberger Mr. and Mrs. James R. Perlitz Mr. and Mrs. Martin D. Pinne Mr. Robert R. Planthold Dr. Jill Raitt

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Mr. and Mrs. George E. Reid Mr. and Mrs. Brad B. Rigdon Estate of Helen and Marie Rotterman Dr. and Mrs. Lucio Sanchez Mr. and Mrs. John J. Schneider Mr. Timothy D. Schofield Mr. and Mrs. Andrew F. Shannon, Jr Mr. and Mrs. George G. Shaw Mr. Joseph E. Snyder Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Sweeny Mr. and Mrs. John C. Vatterott, Sr Rev. John J. Wade Mr. and Mrs. Hunter O. Wagner, Jr Ms. Martha E. Walsh Mrs. Ellen Warner Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Woods Dr. and Mrs. Darrell E. Zeller Mr. Ronald C. Zingaro Court Reina Isabel la Catolica Immaculate Conception Church St. Joseph’s Congregation St. Thomas Aquinas Parish St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Church

Companions of

St. Peter Faber ($500 to $999) Mr. J. Timothy and Dr. Nancy H. Blattner Mr. Thomas R. Blum Dr. and Mrs. Robert E. Butler Dr. and Mrs. Charles P. Cavaretta Mrs. Suzanne M. Collmer Mrs. Margaret A. Crimmins Mr. and Mrs. John R. Cuddihee Rev. Edward J. Degeyter Mr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Didier Mr. Christopher Fleischhut Ms. Elizabeth A. Fuchs Mr. and Mrs. John F. Fuller Mrs. Maryann D. Helffrich Mrs. Rosemary Kilker Mr. John T. Mannhaupt Mr. and Mrs. Leandro L. Martinez, Jr Mr. and Mrs. Jack Merkel Mr. and Mrs. Roger Mesker Mr. Jose F. Montes Mr. and Mrs. M. James Schott Ms. Kathleen A. Simar Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Votruba Dr. and Mrs. James P. Walterbach Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Whitehead

Greater Kansas City Community Foundation Holy Apostles Catholic Church Regis Jesuit High School – Girls Division

Saint Dominic Savio Catholic Church Saint Jude Catholic Church Stemmans, Inc.

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St. Aloysius Gonzaga ($100 to $499) Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Ackels Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence E. Ackels, Jr Mr. and Mrs. Donald D. Adrian Ms. Nancy Alchediak Mr. and Mrs. William G. Anderson Dr. and Mrs. Charles H. Andrus Mr. Thomas F. Anselmo Ms. Pamfila F. Apolonio Mr. Robert Astroth Mr. and Mrs. Gary L. Austin Mr. and Mrs. Harold I. Bahlinger, Sr Mr. George A. Bannantine Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin A. Banning Mr. and Mrs. Herman L. Bastian, Jr Mr. and Mrs. Scotty J. Baudoin Dr. Mariette P. Baxendale Dr. and Mrs. Walter R. Beaver Mr. and Mrs. James W. Beck Dr. and Mrs. Ralph L. Biddy Mrs. Lynne Bock-Willmes Mr. Robert E. Boehm Mr. William J. Bollwerk Ms. Ellen E. Bonacorsi Mr. and Mrs. Ulf R. Borg Mr. and Dr. Michael S. Bourg Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Bourgeois, Sr Mrs. Margaret S. Boveri Mr. and Mrs. Sidney R. Bowden, Sr Mr. and Mrs. Mike Bowman Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Brase Ms. Linda Breving Mr. Joseph F. Brinley Mrs. Martha A. Brophy Mr. Thomas M. Brow Dr. Oswald D. R. Brown Ms. Helen L. Bruck Miss Mary A. Bruemmer Mr. and Mrs. James H. Bullock Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Buras Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Burnett Mr. and Mrs. Jim Burnham Mrs. Barrie S. Byrnes Mr. and Mrs. Vito Calcara Mr. and Mrs. John Caldarera, Jr Mrs. Virginia J. Cannon Mr. Terry W. Cardwell Dr. and Mrs. Edward P. Carlin Mr. James Carriere Mr. John J. Casey Mr. Robert R. Casey Mr. Ramon Casillas Dr. and Mrs. Robert H. Charbonnet Mrs. Loretta C. Clark Mr. and Mrs. Mike J. Clark Mr. Robert J. Clarke Ms. Gail C. Clerc Dr. Jesus L. Climaco Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Cloninger Mrs. Sally C. Coleman Dr. and Mrs. Chet C. Coles Mr. Donald O. Collins and Mrs. Mary K. Burns Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Concannon, Jr Mr. Robert Concha Mr. David B. Conner Mr. and Mrs. Joseph V. Cordella, II Mrs. Regina A. Cox Mr. Timothy A. Crain Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Cronin

Mrs. Patricia Crum Mrs. Dora C. Cuddihee Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy L. Dauzat Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Davenport Mr. Hugh Davlin Ms. Katherine L. de Montluzin Dr. Robert J. Dean Mr. and Mrs. David G. Dehaemers, Jr Mrs. Gail I. Delaney Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Delatte Mr. and Mrs. Alvin T. Devillier, Jr Mr. Chris Diaz Mr. and Mrs. Mark K. Donohue Mr. and Mrs. William H. Dooley, Jr Mrs. Charlene P. Dorsey Ms. Peg Dove Mr. and Mrs. William J. Dowie Mr. and Mrs. John L. Downes Mr. and Mrs. James Doyle, III Cmdr. and Mrs. Daniel Duda Mr. Oliver A. Dulle, Jr Mr. and Mrs. John K. Dunlap Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Dupont Mr. and Mrs. Harold D. Dupuy Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Dwyer Mr. Sherif A. Ebrahim Mr. and Mrs. Gerald G. Eckert Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Ecuyer, Jr Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence J. Ecuyer Dr. and Mrs. Stephen E. Ellender, Jr Mr. and Mrs. David P. Elliott Mr. and Mrs. Dan J. Entrup Mr. and Mrs. Donald H. Espenan Mr. Lawrence H. Essmann Mr. and Mrs. John R. Evans Mr. John F. Ewens Mr. John F. Falke Mr. Terry Farris Mrs. Jean M. Feldmeier Mr. and Mrs. Lee C. Ferrenbach, Jr Mr. and Mrs. William J. Fienup Prof. Susan A. FitzGibbon Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Fitzpatrick Mr. Cletus G. Fleming, Jr Dr. and Mrs. Dennis R. Floyd Mr. and Mrs. Dennis P. Frauenhoffer Mr. and Mrs. Eugene F. Freeman, Jr Mrs. Lucille F. Fuegner Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Fugate Ms. Naomi Gamer Ms. Julia H. Geheeb Mrs. Tonia Gentry Mr. and Mrs. James E. Georgen Mr. Michael A. Gerritzen Mr. Peitro G. Gianfrancesco Mrs. Janice O. Giffin Mr. and Mrs. Anthony P. Gillman Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Giroir Mr. Richard J. Glaser Mrs. Martha A. Goetz Mr. Joseph M. Gorman Mr. William E. Gorton Mr. Roger D. Grandy Mr. and Mrs. Stephen H. Gross Mr. and Mrs. Eugene J. Gruenenfelder Ms. Paula Guillot Mrs. Mary E. Haake Mr. and Mrs. Jorge Hadad Mr. and Mrs. Marshall W. Hales Mr. and Mrs. William B. Hamilton Mrs. Evelyn J. Hancock Mr. and Mrs. Robin W. Hanemann Dr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Hanley Mrs. Mary E. Harden Mrs. Dorothy J. Heagney Rev. Mr. and Mrs. J. John Heithaus Dr. and Mrs. Frank L. Herbert

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Hetzler Mr. and Mrs. William E. Hickman Mrs. and Mr. Carolyn Y. Higgins Mr. Louis D. Higgs Ms. Jennifer L. Hodges Mr. Lester L. Hohl Mrs. Suzanne M. Holt-Savage Ms. Mary L. Horvat Mrs. Joan M. Houck Mr. and Mrs. John W. Hough Mr. and Mrs. Carl J. Howat, Sr Msgr. Michael A. Howell Mr. Dennis M. Hughes Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Hutchison Mr. Forrest L. Ingram Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand J. Iseringhausen, Sr Mr. Willard C. Johnson, Jr Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Joice Dr. and Mrs. James A. Junker Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Kaiser Dr. Audrey J. Kalafatich Mrs. Joan P. Kane Mr. and Mrs. Timothy S. Kearns Mr. Thomas H. Keiser Mr. Joseph F. Kelley Mrs. and Mrs. Denise Keogh Mrs. Carla P Kernan Mr. Harvey G. Kessler Dr. and Mrs. Yong B. Kim Dr. and Mrs. Creston A. King, Jr Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Kinney Mr. and Mrs. Melvin C. Klump Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Komos Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Konersmann Mr. and Mrs. Karl F. Kottenstette Mr. and Mrs. Terry W. Kowalsky Mr. and Mrs. Helmut F. Kramer Mr. and Mrs. Mark T. Kramer Mr. and Mrs. Jerry D. Laird Dr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Lamendola, Jr Ms. Linda W. Landry Mrs. Shirley B. Landry Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Larsen Mr. Ronald J. LaVallee Mrs. Patricia A. Lawless Mr. John D. Leary Ms. Dolores LeBlanc Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. LeBlanc Mr. and Mrs. David M. Leung Ms. Marie M. Lies Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Lorio, Sr Mrs. Irene E. Mackenroth Estate of Carol R. Madden Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Martin, Jr Mr. Andre J. Mathurin Ms. Karen A. Maxey Mr. and Mrs. Edwin J. Mazoue, Jr Mr. Joseph J. McGill Dr. and Mrs. Francis K. McGoey, Jr Mrs. Mary C. McGranahan Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. McGuire, III Mrs. Jeanne McLaughlin Dr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Meek, Jr Dr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Merrill Mr. and Mrs. Grant Messick Mr. and Mrs. Eugene P. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Forrest E. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Martin O. Miller, II Mr. and Mrs. James S. Minogue, III Dr. and Mrs. James E. Moorman Dr. and Mrs. Frank C. Morrone Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Morrow Mr. and Mrs. John L. Moseley, Jr Ms. Alyson M. Mount Miss Jeanette M. Mueller Dr. and Mrs. Leonard A. Mueninghoff

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Brother Robert C. Snyder

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Robert Snyder died March 6, 2016 in St. Louis. He was 87 years old and a Jesuit for 49 years. Born in Kansas City, Mo., on Aug. 21, 1928, the son of Verl C. Snyder and Bertha Felling Snyder, he had one sister, Sr. Jane De Chantal, CSJ, who preceded him in death. Brother Snyder served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, then worked for 15 years at Ameren Electric. He entered the novitiate in Florissant, Mo., in 1967, took first vows in 1970 and final vows in 1977. He was ordained to the permanent diaconate in 1978. He worked at De Smet Jesuit High School for 18 years, in the finance office and as a counselor. He worked for 10 years at Saint Louis University Hospital as a patient transporter. He had a certificate in accounting from Washington University in St. Louis and a bachelor of arts from Fontbonne College, St. Louis.

Robert Weiss died June 9, 2016 in St. Louis. He was 91 years old, a Jesuit for 69 years and a priest for 56 years. Following graduation from St. Louis University High School in 1942, he served in the army during World War II. He entered the Society in Florissant, Mo., on Aug. 18, 1946. After first vows, he studied at Saint Louis University, where he earned a bachelor of arts in Greek and Latin, master of arts in education and philosophy, and a Ph. L. in philosophy. He taught at Rockhurst High in Kansas City, Mo., from 1953 to 1956. After earning a licentiate in sacred theology, he was ordained June 16, 1959. He pronounced final vows in 1964, then spent a year at Saint Louis University as executive vice president and assistant to the president. He earned his Ph.D. in education at the University of Minnesota. He taught and served as assistant dean and dean at Rockhurst University, then Rockhurst College, 1964-73. He acted as province consultor 1970-76. He served as president at both St. Louis University High School (1973-77) and Rockhurst University (1977-88). He served the former Missouri Province as treasurer and assistant for higher education before beginning work in the advancement office, which he continued until his death. He served on countless boards over the years. Born in St. Louis on Aug. 27, 1924 to Frank L. G. Weiss and Helen Beck Weiss, he was predeceased by his parents, his brother, Kenneth, and sisters Carol Spies and Jan Huelskoetter. He is survived by a sister-in-law, Dora Weiss, and several nieces and nephews.

Father Denis E. Daly Denis Daly died March 27, 2016 in St. Louis. He was 85 years old, a Jesuit for 63 years and a priest for 51 years. Born May 31, 1930 in Casper, Wyo., to Denis J. Daly and Josephine Mahoney Daly, he is survived by his sister, Jo Anne Kolasinski and his nieces and nephews. He entered the Society in Florissant, Mo., in 1952 and pronounced first vows two years later. He was ordained on June 16, 1964 and took final vows in 1977. Father Daly served for 15 years as director of the Sacred Heart Program, a radio program operated by the Jesuits. For nine years he was director and superior at White House Retreat in St. Louis and then worked in various capacities at Saint Louis University. He earned a bachelor of arts from Regis University in Denver, and a licentiate in philosophy and a master of arts in English from Saint Louis University. 30 Jesuits

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