Timor Leste

Jesuit Education in Timor Leste

Submitted on May 26, 2011 - 11:52 am

The Society of Jesus has administered Colégio de São José at the request of the Bishop of Dili since 1993. However, CSJ is and continues to be a school of the Diocese of Dili.  Direction of CSJ will revert to the Dili Diocese at the end of 2011, but our work in education in Timor Leste will continue.  

Fr Mark Raper SJ has issued a statement in Timor Leste regarding the Society’s position on Jesuit education in the country.

Promoting reconciliation with creation

Submitted on January 16, 2012 - 3:08 pm

How do we promote reconciliation with creation to our fellow Jesuits in Asia Pacific? With imaginative and powerful images as the members of the Scholastics and Brothers Circle showed in the innovative campaign materials they developed during a workshop on Effective Communications held from December 19 to 30, 2011.

Jesuits return school to Dili diocese

Submitted on January 16, 2012 - 2:07 pm

Jesuits serving in Timor Leste have returned a secondary school they set up and managed for 18 years to the diocese of Dili.   Colégio de São José was transferred on December 14 with a mass led by Vicar General Father Apolinario Aparicio Guterres.

During his homily, Fr Guterres thanked the Society for developing both the Church and the nation through the school and praised the Jesuits for teaching young people to be qualified and disciplined individuals. (Source: UCAN) 

Roles in AV production in Timor Leste

Submitted on December 15, 2011 - 11:31 am

Two leadership roles – Director and Executive Producer - are open in Casa de Produção Audiovisual (CPA), the first non-profit audiovisual production house in Timor-Leste. 

Supporting Timor Leste

Submitted on November 22, 2011 - 3:05 pm

More than 200 people from St Canice’s Parish in Sydney turned out for this year’s annual dinner to raise money for people in Timor Leste.

Special guests at this year’s celebration at Bondi Surf Lifesaving Club on October 29 were East Timorese scholastics Dino Sarmento and João dos Santos, who are currently studying at Jesuit Theological College in Melbourne.

The two scholastics entertained the crowd with talks about their home as well as musical performances.

Jesuits to Set Up Educational Institute in Timor Leste

Submitted on September 13, 2011 - 11:41 am

After years of consultation and planning and with the return of Colégio de São José to the Diocese of Dili, the Society of Jesus has decided to establish an educational institute in Timor Leste.

Regency in Railaco

Submitted on September 13, 2011 - 10:12 am

Scholastic Dino SarmentoSJ looks back on his two years of regency in Railaco, Timor Leste and shares some important, beautiful and truly treasured moments. 

Listening to the forest

‘This forest is my life’, said a villager of Bogoran. In that remark he said everything that needed to be said. It confirmed all that the Jesuits studying philosophy in Indonesia had learned from a program concerned with the environment.

Snapshots

Fr Zuloaga honoured in Philippines

Fr Ismael Zuloaga was recently honoured by Xavier School in San Juan City. From 1965 to 1985 he was the director of the school. Subsequently he was named Father General’s delegate to China and, in 1992 he was appointed to the Jesuit Conference for East Asia and Oceania (now the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific). He served as President for twelve years until 2004. He then returned to Xavier School as Chair of the Board.

Journey as a Regent

Submitted on July 26, 2011 - 12:13 pm

Timorese scholastic Ezequiel Ribeiro reflects on his regency in Timor Leste, as he embarks on theology, the next stage of his Jesuit formation.

I cannot imagine my two years of regency went so fast. I still remember vividly how full of confusion I was when I first arrived in Timor Leste. Many questions came into my mind, basically about the work I would carry out for the next two years.

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