On November 16, 2021, Father Josef Briffa SJ, director of the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Jerusalem, delivered a fascinating lecture entitled: “Beyond the hype: Archaeology and the Bible in 2021”. The lecture was delivered as part of the series “Tuesdays at Tantur” in the Tantur Ecumenical Institute”, situated midway between Jerusalem and Bethlehem.
Excellency, Mr. Consul General,
Dear Sisters and Fathers,
Dear friends,
I thank you, Mr. Consul General, for your kind address.
I am confused but proud of the honor that has been bestowed upon me.
Continue reading “Father Luc’s address on receiving the Medal of Honor”On November 3, 2021, in a moving ceremony at the French Consulate in Jerusalem, Consul General René Troccaz bestowed the Medal of Honor for Foreign Affairs on Father Luc Pareydt SJ, advisor for religious affairs at the French Consulate.
Our friends from the Teresian community in Jerusalem gave us two presents; a wonderful cloth for the altar and a batik fabric to cover it when there is no mass being celebrated. Both items are produced in the Philippines and were brought back by Filipina members of the Teresian community as gifts.
Father David Neuhaus SJ, superior of the Jesuit community in the Holy Land, is the representative of the male religious in the Holy Land for the Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land. In their recent meeting in Nazareth, on October 5 and 6, the Catholic ordinaries appointed Father David facilitator of the synodal process for the Catholic dioceses of the Holy Land (Latin, Greek Catholic, Maronite, Syrian and Armenian).
Father George Schultze SJ, minister in the Jesuit community, gave the main lecture at the Dies Academicus at the Studium Theologicum Salesianum in Jerusalem on October 16, 2021.
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.
Continue reading “Jesuit 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.
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.
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.
Continue reading “Memorial to the Jesuit Righteous Among the Nations”
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