Last European Jesuits in Formation (EJIF) meeting took place in Denmark. After one week of focusing on the topic of collaboration in Copenhagen and another week of Annual Retreat in Maribo, Luis Busto de Moner (ESP), Paul Rousselot (EOF) and Gabrielius Zaveckas (ECE) were appointed as the members of the next Coordination Committee (CoCo), having Luis as the chairman. Therefore, following the tradition, three scholastics came to Brussels to organize EJIF 2025 with Fathers Dalibor Renić SJ, President of the Jesuit Conference of European Provincials (JCEP), and Herminio Rico, Socius and Treasurer, as well as János Lukács, Formation Delegate of the Conference, who joined the discussions online.

Before seeing each other in Brussels, the Coordination Committee had several online meetings to recognize the common vision of what topics would be possible, what place would be suitable, and which accents would be important for EJIF 2025. The discussions in the Belgian capital brought fruit: as the Jesuit formation ought to prepare the members of our Order to serve the others and as working with those closest ones to ourselves are the other fellow Jesuits, the topic was chosen accordingly: Companions called to serve together. 

The meeting will take place in Marseille, from August 1st to 20th. This year, every Province will be invited to appoint one scholastic as a delegate.

After “crystallizing” the topic, the place and the date, the distribution of further tasks between the three young companions became possible. Finally, the encounter itself, the time of Christmas and the opportunity to visit Brussels, city of many European institutions, were good reasons take a long walk through the mixture of traditional and modern architecture, to visit the cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula, the Grand Square and the City Hall… and of course, to discover some Belgian specialties.

CoCo of EJIF 2025
Luis, Paul and Gabrielius
January 2025