Jesuit programs 2022

Jerusalem lay at the heart of Ignatius’ life journey. He visited the Holy Land and Jerusalem as a pilgrim in 1523, and it remained the destination for him and for the first companions at their vows at Montmartre in 1534, had Divine Providence not led them otherwise.

The encounter with Christ through the Gospels — asking for “interior knowledge of the Lord, who for me has become man, that I may love and follow him more” [Spir. Ex. 104] — lie at the very heart of the Exercises. As for Ignatius, the encounter with Christ takes places in history, in a particular land. A God who encounters humanity in history, through the Incarnation.

Walking and praying the Holy Land is a powerful reminder of this truth.

Encounter programs 2022

The Jesuit community of the Holy Land proposes a series of encounter programs to get to know better the three great religious traditions of the Holy Land: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. A period of ten days spent with the Jesuit community in Jerusalem provides the occasion to study in depth each one of these religious traditions, encountering members of the religious community and visiting their central sites and the institutions that they administer. In the course of the program, members of the Jesuit community share their experiences and knowledge of these communities in the context of the Holy Land today.

Visit to the Franciscan museum of archaeology

At the invitation of Monica Valley, the director of education programs at the Terra Sancta Museum, Frs. D. Neuhaus, J. Briffa, R. Wtorek, W. Jonczyk, and G. Schultze visited the new archeological wing of the Museum.  Our tour guide was Fr. Eugenio Alliata, OFM, the director of the Archeological Section and an archeologist.  

 

Memorial to the Jesuit Righteous Among the Nations

Fifteen Jesuits have been recognized as Righteous among the Nations by Yad Vashem, the Israeli national memorial for the victims of the Shoah. About twenty-five-thousand individuals constitute this group of courageous men and women, who, risked their lives to save Jews from the hands of the Nazis during the Shoah.