We, the European Formation Delegates, had our annual meeting as a Eurogroup of 19 people in Dublin from 15 to 20 of April 2018. It was a traditional meeting that fosters the relationships among the Provinces of the Conference, actually Europe and Middle East, on the formation of the Jesuits. This year we faced once again the question of the European Formation Centers, namely those we should run at interprovincial level since 2008: recently we got a letter from Father General pushing us to clarify our situation in order to share more through a process of discernment. Indeed the 4 Centers for Philosophy, 2 for Theology and 1 for both are under the responsibility of the Province that hosts the Center, and we still fail in sharing staff and money as we would do.

The experience of Dublin has been very consoling on the will of more collaboration, because the main 2 themes that came to light were more collaboration and sharing of responsibilities.

About going to Ireland for our meeting, we choose Dublin to become conscient of the changes a very catholic country did and is still doing in becoming a secularized society. We took also the opportunity to visit the only house of formation under the responsibility of the Conference President: the European Tertianship in Manresa House, the retreat house and spirituality center.