On the Good Shepherd Sunday Sergio Gadea has been ordained priest by Bishop José Cobo Cano in the Church of the Immaculate Conception and St. Peter Claver. For bishop Cobo it was his first ordination as bishop. He was delighted to ordain a Jesuit a he is a great admirer of two Jesuit Saints, St. Ignatius and St. José Rubio. 

Concelebrating were the provincial of Spain, Antonio España SJ, the vicar of consecrated life, Elías Royón SJ, the rector of Comillas, Julio Martínez SJ and about 80 Jesuits and several priests. He gathered his family, friends and companions who came from the different places where Sergio has been training and serving: his Old Apiary from his childhood, Valladolid, Lleida, Innsbruck... And with them they brought their languages that enriched the liturgy of the word and the songs.

In his homily bishop Cobo stressed that priesthood is a way to hapiness.

On Saturday, April 14, eight young Jesuits were ordained deacons, in the newly refreshed Saint Ignatius church in Paris. The eight new deacons come from 4 different continents : Youssef Abdelnour (Egypt), Vincent de Beaucoudrey (France), Jacob Hembrom and Vasanthakumar Irudayaraj (India), Innocent Kamanzi (Rwanda), Vedaste Nkeshimana (Burundi), Bryan Norton and Timothy O'Brien (USA).

Seven of them are currently studying at the Centre Sèvres in Paris. The eighth one studies Arab in Lebanon. The ordinating bishop was Monseigneur Michel Pansard, Bishop of Evry-Corbeil-Essonnes.

Kaunas archbishop Lionginas Virbalas SJ ordained Eugenijus Puzynia SJ deacon on April 21, the first Holy Orders in the Vilnius University Church of St. John the Baptist and St. John Apostle and Evangelist, more than 100 years since the last ordination in this formerly Jesuit church. Bishop Emeritus Jonas Boruta SJ also imposed hands on the new deacon.