A quick word of welcome to our website and blog. We, the Jesuits in the Holy Land — a community of Jesuits from many different nations — are very happy to share with you our vision and our mission. May these pages and posts serve as a spring-board for encounter!
A Mission of Reconciliation and Justice (Webinars)
Father David Neuhaus has been invited by the Jesuits in Canada to share on the Jesuit mission of reconciliation and justice in Israel/Palestine today. Two webinars will be consecrated to this theme. In a first webinar on Tuesday September 13, 2022 at 19.00 (Jerusalem time), he will address the theme: “The history and development of the conflict in Israel/Palestine since 1917”. In a second webinar on Tuesday, September 20 at 19.00 (Jerusalem time), he will address the theme “Where we are and where we might be going in relation to Israel/Palestine”.
To register: https://buff.ly/3HTCL5p
St Ignatius Day 2022
With sacred ritual and festive joy, the 2021-2022 Ignatian Year came to a close on Sunday, July 31 at the Pontifical Biblical Institute. The year commemorated the 500th anniversary of the conversion of St. Ignatius of Loyola.
Continue reading “St Ignatius Day 2022”Holy Land Jesuits Hold Synod Encounter on the Road to Emmaus
In the Church of Jerusalem, the scripture account of the road to Emmaus thematically represents the Synodal process, asked for by the Holy Father, Pope Francis. The Jesuits in the Holy Land spent a morning and afternoon in recollection in the town of Abu Ghosh, one of the possible locations of Emmaus, to reflect on our discipleship and discuss the questions of today’s world and church.
Father Doan leaves Jerusalem
After thirteen years in the Jesuit community of the Holy Land, Father Joseph Nguyên Công Doan, known simply as Father Doan, leaves Jerusalem for Rome, the departure set for December 27, 2021. The community said its farewells at lunch on Christmas day, expressing profound appreciation for his years of service.
Christmas 2021 in the Jesuit community
“Christ is born, let us glorify him – Halleluiah!”
Members of the Jesuit community went to Bethlehem on the Christmas morning to celebrate mass in the Basilica of the Nativity, in the Chapel of Saint Helena. Six Jesuits were present as the others were busy with their various apostolates.
Teaching about Christians in a Jewish school
Over the past number of years, Father David Neuhaus, superior of the Jesuit community in the Holy Land, has been invited by a Jewish Israeli teacher of Jewish Heritage to come to his classes and speak to fifth and sixth grade pupils about Christianity. He spent the day in the school on December 22, 2021, just a few days before Christmas.
Good Shepherd community caroling
On Saturday evening, December 18, 2021, members of the Good Shepherd Filipino Community in Jerusalem visited the Jesuit community. They animated the evening mass, ate dinner with the community and then sang Christmas carols.
Father Bernauer SJ’s book commended by Yad Vashem
Among the those considered in the International Book Prize competition of the Shoah memorial in Israel, Yad VaShem, was Jesuit professor of philosophy James Bernauer SJ of Boston College. The press release from Yad Vashem said, “The panel of judges found special interest in the book by Prof. James Bernauer, S.J., Jesuit Kaddish: Jesuits, Jews, and Holocaust Remembrance (University of Notre Dame Press, 2020).”
Dr. Mellie’s Support of the Jesuit mission
Dr. Mellie Brodeth brought her Teresian Association spiritual life and work ethic to the Pontifical Biblical Institute last March. The Teresian Association is an international lay ecclesial community, founded by Saint Pedro Poveda in 1911, in Covadonga, Asturias (Spain). St. Pedro Poveda, a martyr during the Spanish Civil War, wanted the laity to bring faith, human development, and social development to the world each day.
Father Bill Fulco SJ RIP
Father Bill was a regular sojourner in the Holy Land, for many years curator of the museum in Jerusalem’s Pontifical Biblical Institute and its archaeological collection. He passed away on November 29, 2021 at the age of 85.
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