From Thursday, March 31 to Sunday April 3 the Loyola Spirituality Center celebrated the first meeting of the Spain Province, an event that reunited 170 Jesuits and laypersons who came from all the local platforms of the Spanish Province of the Society of Jesus. The event constituted a milestone in the brief trajectory of the province that was born in 2014.

The meeting had three objectives: to promote the sense of the body of the Province, to deepen the three calls that the Provincial Congregation proposed to the whole Society, and to collect some of the echoes and lines of force that illuminate the Province regarding these three calls.
The three calls proposed by the Provincial Congregation, which constitute the three great themes of the meeting, are the following:

1. To go to the frontiers and peripheries. Those frontiers spotlight the world of immigration, displaced persons, and refugees, and the digital world emerges anew. This call requires that we draw closer, with mercy, establishing networks, practicing the work of reconciliation, and the care of victims.

2. To renew the service of faith. It is a call to renew the service of faith before the processes of secularism, de-Christification, and religious pluralism of the western societies, arousing people to experience the God of Jesus and the rise of new vocations.

3. To deepen our Jesuit being. The Jesuit is called to cultivate his interior life, to be a master of discernment, and to live in integrity as an evangelical person, inspiring others to want to unite themselves with this style of life.
During the three days of the meeting there were round table discussions, workshops, presentations, and personal testimonies. There were also prayer and celebration, as well as the more playful moments.
The local platforms, which grouped together works and communities from each territory, prepared for their participation in the meeting by considering over the past few months the Provincial’s request that the results be “incarnated in contexts where we live out the mission of the Society of Jesus within the Province. The first Province meeting was a great opportunity to make present the riches of the Society’s apostolate.

Bulletin of the Spanish Province of the Society of Jesus – special edition:

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April 1

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