British and Croatian province celebrate.

Philip Harrison SJ of the British Province was ordained to the diaconate on Saturday 25th November by Bishop Juan Vicente Córdoba Villota SJ, in the Iglesia de San Ignacio, Bogota Columbia, along with five other Jesuit scholastics from Mexico, Columbia, Brazil and Argentina-Uraguay.

In his homily, the Bishop reminded those being ordained that the deaconate, which means service, would continue for rest of their lives because a priest is called always to serve. He concluded his homily with the words of St Ignatius taken from the Spiritual Exercises, that in the ordained ministry they might love and serve in all things.

On Saturday, September 30, in Zagreb Cathedral, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Zagreb, Ivan Šaško ordained sixteen new deacons. Among them was one Jesuit, Petar Klarić. He was born on February 8, 1987, in Vidovice, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He entered the Jesuit novitiate in Split, Croatia in 2012. Before entering the novitiate, Petar studied theology in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. After the novitiate, he finished his studies in Zagreb. During magisterium he helped editing Jesuit magazine „Obnovljeni život“. Now he serves as a deacon in Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Zagreb.