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This 5-days experience, from July 10 to 14, was planned especially for work directors and collaborators of the Provincial House. The aim was to discover – or rediscover – the  roots of the Society. A group of 52 Jesuits and lay people participated at this adventure.

It were days of grace: a beautiful mixture of tourism, spiritual experience, liturgies, mutual discovery, which has strengthened the bonds in the apostolic body made up of Jesuits and lay partners…

Impressions, by Gilles Barbe sj

Passionate hearts, yesterday and today

When he was welcomed, Fr. François Boëdec told us: "It is a holiday... but not totally, a retreat... but not totally, a seminar... but not totally..." One thing is certain: on the train, the unknown faces on the way back have become familiar, relaxed and laughing.

Here is the effect of the four days spent meeting us at the invitation of the Provincial, in Loyola, then in Javier, on the steps of two of the founders of the Society of Jesus. The setting lends itself to a real change of scenery. Spanish time also helps. Everyone here is a participant in a work of the Society in the EOF Province, and in everyone's heart is overwhelmed with enthusiasm to witness the good news in settings that often exceed the Society.

As the conversations progress, passionate hearts discover each other, one sharing an innovative educational project, another a taste for leading group discernments in Brussels and beyond. Another confided his commitment to a political party in a disadvantaged suburb of Paris. Often accompanying their husbands or wives, spouses enrich diversity and give a very special warmth. After a presentation and discussion of the Society of Jesus today under the prism of the four apostolic priorities, we leave what had become our castle in Spain, and which was before us that of Francis Xavier.

 

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