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In 2006 the Conference of European Provincials opened a new Tertianship in Dublin under the presidency of Mark Rotsaert. In the grounds of Manresa House Spirituality Centre there was an old novitiate that was completely reformed as a new Tertianship. The first instructors for the formation programme were Jan van de Poll (ELC) and Joseph Dargan (HIB) – who passed away in 2014, being his successor Paul Pace (EUM). Team-work guiding tertians has been one of the main characteristics in this program and now its time to thank Jan van de Poll for his twelve years of outstanding service and to announce the new Tertianship Instructor: Tom McGuinness, from the British Province, who has been working as a Retreat Team member of Manresa House Spirituality Centre in Dublin. 

Tom McGuinness, Born in 1947, a Jesuit since 1965 have been working in the field of Ignatian spirituality since 1978, shortly after ordination, in most of the retreat or spirituality centres of the Jesuits in Britain. His final formation year as a Jesuit was spent in an international group in Japan and the Philippines. Where he was drawn to the shared insights of the Ignatian spirituality and Zen practice. Tom has spent most of his ministry engaged with directing the Spiritual Exercises. He gave special attention to music and art. He has written and recorded a number of reflection songs as one way of exploring the spirituality of St Ignatius.  He was recently Chair of the Catholic Network for Retreats and Spirituality (CNRS). This is part of a larger ecumenical network, which offers support, information and opportunities to people across many traditions. From 2008-14 he was director of the Ignatian Spirituality Centre in Glasgow, joining the Retreat Team in Manresa in 2015. He will begin as Tertianship Instructor in September 2018.  We would like to thank him and his provincial for their availability for this formation mission in the Society of Jesus. 

In all fairness, on behalf of the Jesuit Conference of European Provincials, we would also like to express our most sincere gratitude to Jan van de Poll as founder and instructor for twelve years in the European Tertianship in Dublin. His life experience of many years in Indonesia, his work as novice master and Provincial, his involvement in General Congregation 35, among many other gifts, have been a grace that he has shared helping more than a hundred tertians during these years, enlarging and deepening their understanding of the universal vocation to the Society of Jesus. We wish the best for Jan in his future mission. 

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