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Munich - A digital pilgrimage through Central Europe, 33 stations and a variety of exciting stories, games and puzzles - the new Jesuit app "Canisius Pilgrim Passport" invites you to a spiritual adventure through the new Central European Province of the Jesuits, which unites the previous Jesuit provinces of Austria, Germany, Lithuania-Latvia and Switzerland. The app 'Canisius Pilgerpass” is available free of charge in the google and apple app stores.

Pilgrimage

Individual Jesuits are making a representative pilgrimage along parts of the Canisius Way, thus combining the analogue pilgrimage with the digital one - micro-pilgrimage in times of the Corona lockdown. They report live on the pilgrimage action on the social media channels of the Jesuit Order. "One for all and all for one" they walk the path for all those who cannot walk and can be accompanied online. On the homepage canisius.world, users can tour the pilgrimage sites online and experience them interactively. The Facebook group 'Canisius Community' is the digital pilgrim's hostel during the journey. Pilgrims are to meet here, exchange experiences, give impulses and motivate each other. Seeking and finding God together in all things is also possible digitally.

 

A road through the countries of a new Jesuit province

The 33 stations on the Canisus Way lead from Vilnius in Lithuania to Fribourg in Switzerland and through all the countries of the new Province, which also includes locations in Sweden and Chicago/USA. "In Riga, for example, we learn about the importance of the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises for ecumenism. In Hamburg we meet a Jesuit who is an enthusiastic drummer." Users can immerse themselves in the life, work and spirituality of local Jesuits and experience what it means to seek and find God in all things. "At each stop there is a small task to solve to get the stamp for our digital pilgrim passport. But the pilgrimage can also be a journey to oneself and to God," explains Pia Dyckmans, Jesuit Public Relations Officer. "The Pilgrim Passport is not just a gaming app, but deliberately sets spiritual impulses and also includes a personal prayer corner, where the spiritual battery set up especially for it can be filled up in the course of the pilgrimage."

A spiritual journey

"The prolonged lockdown and the uncertainty of how things will continue despite Corona is taking its toll on the souls of many," knows Fr. Martin Stark SJ, Head of Communications & Fundraising, from his experience of online pastoral care. "So it's good to set off together virtually with the 'Canisius Pilgrim Passport' and to find time to recharge and take a deep breath through spiritual impulses." Getting to know all Jesuits, co-workers and friends and the exchange in the new Central European Province should also be promoted and strengthened by the pilgrimage action.

The Central European Province of the Jesuits will be solemnly founded on 27 April 2021. The Provincial will be Father Bernhard Bürgler SJ, who until then was Provincial of the Jesuits in Austria. The new Province will comprise 424 Jesuits at 36 locations in Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland and the USA.

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