eNews Bulletin August 2011
We are pleased to inform you that the new website for the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific is now live. The intent of the new website is to present the areas in which the Jesuits within the Conference work and the people we support and journey with, as we endeavour to live a faith that does justice.
We invite you to browse through the website - www.sjapc.net. We will continue to refine and add to it, and any comments or suggestions can be sent to comms@sjapc.net.
In addition, the latest issue of Flame is now available on our website.
| Message from the President | ||||||||||||
As Ignatius Would Ignatius Loyola’s gift to the Church was about choice: how to make the best decision in our lives. In the celebrations for Ignatius Loyola the readings speak of choice and of the mission that follows the choice. Ignatius invites us to say ‘no’ to the self that is focused on itself: the surface self, the small, fearful, insecure self. By contrast the Gospel reveals the sacred, unique, individual self, the person created and sustained in life by God, loved as a son and daughter, whom Jesus wants to be saved. Read more | ||||||||||||
Flights for Forests
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| From the Ministries | ||||||||||||
Ecology meeting along the Mekong
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Workshop, also a Retreat Scholastic Jun-G Bargayo SJ reflects on his experience of the first JCAP meeting on Ecology, which was an experiential workshop at Kampong Cham, along the Mekong River. Read more | ||||||||||||
| Across the Provinces | ||||||||||||
Street Retreat expands from Twitter to print
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Privileged Encounters with Fr Luis Ruiz Renowned Jesuit missionary Fr Luis Ruiz Suarez SJ passed away at the age of 97 in Macau on 26 July 2011. Fr Louis Gendron SJ, Provincial of the Chinese Province, remembers his privileged encounters with Fr Ruiz, who he says enriched the name of “Ricci”. Read more | ||||||||||||
A Class of Life Fr Daniel Ross SJ, Director of the International Center for the Promotion of Partner Based Learning in Zhuhai, Guangdong, China, shares with us their work and a local student’s account of her experience. Fr Ross has been teaching at Fu Jen University in Taiwan for the past 39 years and teaches seminars in Zhuhai and Fu Jen. Read more | ||||||||||||
Urgent appeal for Somalis Jesuit Mission and JRS Australia have pledged their support to an urgent appeal by the Jesuit Province of East Africa and JRS East Africa. Funds are desperately needed to help victims of a severe famine that has been triggered by the worst drought in half a century in the Horn of Africa. Read more | ||||||||||||
| Beyond Asia Pacific | ||||||||||||
Magis and Ecology Magis is a pastoral experience organized by the Society of Jesus and other religious organisations for the days leading up to World Youth Day (WYD) celebrations, which this year were from 16 to 21 August in Madrid, Spain. Read more | ||||||||||||
| Conference Calendar | ||||||||||||
JCAP Upcoming Events September - October 2011
The complete JCAP calendar can be viewed here. |
The Jesuits in the Asia Pacific region have initiated a carbon-offset scheme to reduce the impact of air travel on the environment. Flights for Forests was presented and approved at the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific (JCAP) assembly in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand, in July.
Close to 40 Jesuits, religious and lay companions from across the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific gathered in Kompong Cham, Cambodia, from 11 to 15 July for the first JCAP meeting on ecology.
When Fr In-young Albert Cho SJ came up with the idea of taking retreats to the people, he chose to use Twitter, which make sense in Korea with its high use of the Internet and mobile phone.
