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ContentsSummer 2010 Issue 76

EditorialTim Curtis SJTea and shelter in NyangaParish priest, Fr Matespane Morare SJ, appealsfrom one of the poorest and most dangerousdistricts of South Africa. 4

Chaplaincraft!Fr Simon Bishop SJ’s experience of universitychaplaincies in the USA challenged his view ofbeing Chaplain at the University of Oxford. Plus: Chaplain leads tributes for the fallen ofnorthern France 6

Growing into SilenceMuch of the BBC 2 series ‘The Big Silence’ wasfilmed at St Beuno’s Spirituality Centre. Fr TomMcGuiness SJ, who was one of the spiritualguides for the series, reflects on therelationship between silence and song.Plus: Order your copy of the 44-page bookletpublished to accompany the series. 8

Historic hospital to rise from the ashes Helen Browman of St Joseph Mercy Hospital,Georgetown 10

Beautiful lilies from the muddy watersThe Jesuits in Bangkok provide sanctuary torefugees. 11

Welcome and service at St IgnatiusHow the St Ignatius parish in north London isresponding to the needs of the community itserves: Fr Jim Conway SJ 12

Getting Brother Pozzo into perspective

Dr Lydia Salviucci and Fr Norman Tanner SJ

explain why a 17th century Jesuit artist and

architect was so significant in the Baroque

Church. 14

Jesuits provide stability and support among

the poorest 15

Fr Peter McIsaac SJ, Regional Superior,

Jamaica

Thousands raised, records smashed …

Even the volcanic ash couldn’t stop our

Marathon runners! 16

God blesses, God wants, God demands

Fr Michael Beattie SJ and the Pope’s

Apostleship of Prayer intentions 17

Bits and Pieces

News of awards, concerts and ordinations 18

May they rest in peace

Those who have recently died 20

Recent publications

Fr Arrupe’s retreat notes

George Tyrrell and Catholic Modernism 22

Engaging with contemporary culture. Ngonidzashe Edward SJ(Zimbabwe), Rampe Hlobo SJ (South Africa) and Gilbert Mardai SJ(East Africa) get into the spirit of the World Cup.

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Cover photo: A dance and music group

perform at the MukanzuboKalinda Institute Museum atChikuni Mission, Zambia. By

participating in the group, localpeople are encouraged topreserve their traditions.

Credit: Hania Lubienska/JM

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Saint Mary’s Nyanga lives up to the Jesuit ideal ofbuilding an empowered community of faith. At theheart of this is the need for extensive catechesis,

where the faithful not only grow in faith, but in true Jesuittradition, grow a little bit more in the understanding ofthat faith. Thus the parish is always buzzing with littlegroups huddled all over, engaged in different classes andgroups, ranging from the little tiny ones learning thebasics of the sign of the cross while sitting aroundgrandma, to the converts and adults of variousbackgrounds engaged in RCIA.

Unfortunately, many of these have to congregatewherever they can find space and Sunday mornings getvery noisy in the church. A lack of space and rooms makeslife quite difficult and requires a lot of negotiation of spaceto avoid conflicts. So, the right hand corner of the churchbelongs to the RCIA, the left corner belongs to the firstcommunion group, the front to the little ones, and thekitchenette by the entrance to the confirmation crew whodo not mind sitting on sink-tops and cupboards! Those whowant a quiet time of prayer better come very early tochurch!

By the time this issue ofJesuits and Friends ends upon your mat, the FIFA WorldCup will be coming to aconclusion. I hazard a guessthat if you are not a footballfan, you might be pretty fed upwith it all by now.

Interestingly, the game offootball has a long history. Inmedieval times, a skin of alewas placed midway betweentwo villages, and the object ofthe exercise would be to getthe beer back to one’s own village. The whole villagewould play, and it wasn’t so much the number of goalsthat counted as the number of dead or injured.

Things were not so different in the reign of Elizabeth I,where football was still very popular. The game ismentioned in a letter from Fr Pibush which the JesuitProvincial, Henry Garnet, forwarded to Fr Aquaviva,General of the Society of Jesus in Rome, in 1600.

He writes: “My Father, those who propose to come tothis country and work profitably therein, must bringalong with them vigorous souls and mortified bodies.They must forgo all pleasures and renounce every gamebut that of football, which is made up of pushes andkicks, and requires constant effort, unless one would betrampled underfoot; and in this game they have to risktheir lives in order to save souls.”

I am not sure whether the players in the various WorldCup teams “bring with them vigorous souls andmortified bodies”, but their single-mindedness anddetermination can be an example to us who continue todedicate our lives to the game of “saving souls”.

Fortunately, in this issue of Jesuits and Friends, thereare many examples of those who play this game veryskilfully, and some still risk their lives in doing so. Ihope you enjoy reading these accounts and are inspiredby them. Enjoy your summer.

From the Editor... Tea andshelter inNyanga

The township of Nyanga in Cape Town is describedas one of the poorest and most dangerousdistricts of South Africa. Its parish priest is FrMatsepane Morare SJ, who believes theparishioners’ physical and spiritual needs areboth important.

JM

After Mass, when the wholeparish is hopefully buoyed by thegreat sermon and singing,parishioners wanting tocongregate for a cup of tea andcatch-up on the latest happeningscan do so outside if the Cape windis not gusting and it’s not rainingincessantly. Since Father is also alittle old fashioned, there will beno drinking of tea or coffee insidethe church. The weather in thispart of the country can beabsolutely atrocious during thewintry months, which seem to lastforever. In a community where peoplehave to walk to church in the rain andwind, and are often wet and cold, thelack of a parish hall where people canwarm up and dry themselves, or havea warm cup of tea, means coming tochurch can leave you open topneumonia. In a community alreadyreeling from TB and HIV, this simplefactor rather complicates things a bit.

South Africa’s miserable history hasleft townships as dirty, overcrowdedand unhealthy places, often lackingin dignity and privacy. Thus thechurch becomes a crucial sacredspace where people can find somesilence, regain a bit of their sense ofdignity, and have a bit of peace. If thatsacred space has to double up as aplace for tea and classes, what youlose in the process becomes much

more tragic than you would realise! So the parish has started a process

of raising funds to build a new hall. Atthe pace we are going, we should belucky to raise enough to startbuilding by 2015. That should enableus at least to start building a simpleparish hall; so we definitely need allthe help we can get!

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Photos: Matsepane Morare

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So often when we ask someonehow they are, they say they’re‘busy’. Throughout my visit to theUSA however, I was constantlytaken-aback by the amount of timepeople spent with me. No one gavethe impression of being rushed offtheir feet or of needing to beelsewhere. It reminded me of aphrase of Fr Michael Hollings, onetime chaplain here at Oxford, whenhe wrote in his book on thepriesthood, ‘Priests [chaplains,Christians] should give theimpression of having

nothing to do all day.’

When I asked the chaplains in theStates the million dollar question:“What do you think the mostimportant part of chaplaincy lifeis?” they all replied, ‘personalrelationships and conversations.’The chaplains that I met lived bytheir word.

In this regard, it is perhaps nosurprise, especially as Catholicscentred on the Eucharist, thatmeals play such an essential role inthe life of the chaplaincies. HolyCross in Boston, for example, wouldinvite by personal invitation smallgroups of students and staff for ameal each week. Fr Joe AppleyardSJ, now at Boston College and, co-

incidentally, one timeassistant chaplainwith Fr MichaelHollings at Oxford,reminded me thathe and Fr Michaelwould personallyinvite every singleCatholic studentand member ofstaff for at leastone, small,personal meal per

year. I wonder whether we haveforgotten how to share a meal withone another, including with thosemost in need.

Universities and universitychaplaincies, no less than schools,parishes, retreat centres andfamilies are meant to be placeswhere we create the opportunities –the space where, in the words ofCardinal Newman’s motto: ‘heartspeaks to heart.’ We need to havethe courage to be counter-cultural,to be not busy. And we need tounderstand and take to heart thatwhen St Ignatius speaks ofthe ‘magis’, he does notmean ‘more’ but ratherdepth. ‘For what fillsand satisfies the soulconsists, not inknowing much, but inour understandingthe realitiesprofoundly and insavouring theminteriorly.’ (SpiritualExercises, IntroductoryExplanations, TheSecond)

Chaplaincraft!Before taking on the position of Chaplain to the University of Oxford Catholic Chaplaincy, Fr SimonBishop SJ spent three weeks in the USA, visiting nine universities and their chaplaincies, includingfive universities founded by Jesuits. The experience was thought-provoking and, he says, offerschallenges for our work in chaplaincies in Britain.

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Mission Impossible?

It was staggering to see in someplaces chaplaincy teams of morethan 12 people and, at Holy Cross,for example, a Jesuit university of2,700 undergraduates, a team ofnine chaplains, two Jesuit andseven lay people, including thedirector! This does, indeed, showthe seriousness with which theseuniversities take the spiritual andhuman formation of their students.However, I strongly believe that itcould still be possible to provide anequally vibrant experience of theChurch in the UK.

As soon as I arrived back in

Britain, I travelled to the novitiate inBirmingham for a weekend with agroup of enquirers consideringapplying to the Jesuits. All werevery different, with very differentpersonalities and backgrounds butthere were some key experienceswhich had brought them to life.Guess what they were! • All had been involved in voluntary

service programmes abroad and locally.

• All had and continued to make retreats.

• All were receiving spiritual direction and were now going to be part of a CLC or small church community,

sharing their lives of faith at a human, personal level.

We need in our universitychaplaincies, just as we do in ourparishes, our schools, our retreatcentres, people who are responsiblefor co-ordinating activities like these.

The British Province has staffed the Oxford University CatholicChaplaincy since 2007. TheChaplaincy provides an environmentin which students can grow in theirfaith, socialise, share liturgies andgenerally be supported in theirspiritual journeys.


Oxford University Chaplain, FrRoger Dawson SJ, raisedmore than twice his target for

Help for Heroes this spring. Rogerserved in the Royal Green Jackets(now The Rifles) before entering theSociety of Jesus in 1996. He wasasked to be Chaplain - or the'Pedalling Padre' - to the Help forHeroes Battlefield Bike Ride in May– and raised over £5,000 towardstheir target of £1m for woundedsoldiers from this event.

“Help for Heroes was foundednearly three years ago by my friendsEmma and Bryn Parry for injuredsoldiers returning from Afghanistanand Iraq,” explains Roger. “Brynand I were in the Royal GreenJackets together, and since H4Hwas founded it has raised over£45m!”

One of Roger Dawson's functionson the H4H Bike Ride was to leadsome of the wreath-laying servicesand prayers at the battlefield

memorials from the two World Warsin Northern France. Before headinginto Amiens, he joined other riders -'soggy but still proud' - to pay

respects at the Crouy BritishCemetery Crouy-sur-Somme, wherenearly 800 casualties from the FirstWorld War were laid to rest.

In the ministry of Ignatianspirituality over the past yearswe have seen many new ways of

entering into the Spiritual Exercisesas a deeply human and wholesomeprocess. Many creative approacheshave emerged to help those who aredeepening their life of prayer.Prayer through scripture, poetryand music, art and movement, asense of the sacredness of natureand the universe all help to place usin a space of awareness of a Godwho is very close to us in all aspectsof our lives.

One of the greatest gifts for manypeople is the prayer of silence – a giftthat so many people in our world finddifficult to experience. It is a lovelymoment in a retreat or prayer settingwhen an atmosphere of genuinequietness simply appears like a senseof God among us. Yet equally powerfulis the underlying silence that is at theheart of everything, every day, evenwhen life is busy or stressful. To me itfeels like a hidden stream that nevergoes away and can be tapped into atany time. In fact it only takes a fewseconds to be aware of that level ofquiet at depth, where God is alwayscompletely present to us.

One way of exploring that silencefor me has been through poetry andsong-writing. Early on as a Jesuit, Ifound myself fascinated by the wordswe use to express our deepestdesires and sense of God’s presenceor seeming absence. I found myselfwriting songs that tried to expresssomething of that depth for myself.Later, I found that they couldsometimes be a help for others tofind a language of their own. It iswonderful to find ‘words that work’:catalysts to help draw to the surface

what is already therebut often hidden in eachof us.

I felt both honouredand humbled recentlywhen someone in aretreat group said tome: ‘Your song just putinto words what I feelabout God. My image ofGod has changed overthe years from a Godwho used to be harshand demanding to a Godwho really cares – evenwhen life is a bit of amess.’ Another personin a parish retreat wasable to say: ‘ I ambeginning to find myown words for the firsttime. I’m not thereligious type and don’twant to look too holy orbetter than anyone else.I used to think thatpeople would laugh atme if I said that I sense God’s love forme in a personal and powerful way.’

Silence and scripture, songs andpoetry, art and music have all helpedpeople find ways of expressing, intheir own way, the experience oftheir journey and relationship withGod. They can help us to be in touchwith the best in ourselves as well asacknowledging some of thechallenges in our lives. I have beengrateful for the opportunity toexplore these areas through themedium of reflective song-writingover the years. Some songs last andsome disappear but one that I wrotejust before ordination has lasted along time now and been anencouragement and reminder that

everything is God’s loving andgenerous gift…and such a gift canonly be returned....

Communion Song

I have known you in the balance ofthe slowly moving stars,and I think I've glimpsed yousometimes as the bitter night haspassed.I have sensed you at the momentwhen you still the storm,the moment when you touch ourworld and make us calm again.Oh it's easy then to see you andknow that you are near,It's easy then to know for sure theway ahead is clear

Silence and Song

At the end of 2009, BBC 2 filmed a three-part series on the importance of silence in our lives. Amajor part of the programmes involved St Beuno’s Spirituality Centre in North Wales. Father TomMcGuinness SJ, the Director of the Ignatian Centre in Glasgow, was one of the retreat directors in‘The Big Silence’ and says there is an important relationship between words, music and silence.


In the light of ‘The Big Silence’ onBBC 2, which featured St Beuno’sRetreat and Spirituality Centre, theBritish Jesuits have published abooklet entitled ‘Growing intoSilence’. Written by Fr PaulNicholson SJ, it includes chapters bythe four spiritual guides who tookpart in the three-part series and aforward by Abbot ChristopherJamison OSB who narrated theseries and accompanied thevolunteers on their journeys.

‘The Big Silence’ is a series aboutfive men and women struggling tobuild silence into their daily lives.They all believed that their liveswere too manic, that they needed toslow down and that they had to facesome difficult questions aboutwhere they were heading. They hadlittle or no religious practice butwere open to religious guidance. Forfour months, they were introducedto the practice of daily silence andmeditation, staying at Worth Abbeyand St Beuno’s along the way, allunder the guidance of AbbotChristopher.

“The result is a journey that takesthem from the depths of sadnessthrough anger and frustration to theheights of contemplative bliss,”writes Fr Nicholson in theintroduction to the booklet. “All ofthem were profoundly changed bythe experience. This booklet offersyou the chance to follow up theirexperience in your own life. You can

find out about the spiritual exercisesthat they undertook and considerfollowing them yourself. To help youdeepen some of the insightsexpressed in the series, there’s alsoa booklist that you can explore.”

The ‘Growing into Silence’ booklet

is available from Way Books at £6(UK including postage), £7.50(Europe via Air Mail) and £10 for therest of the world. It can be orderedthrough the ‘Growing into Silence’web site:www.growingintosilence.com

and I have seen the open road before me,heard the words you held behind my eyes.

And I've often heard a fragment of the long-forgotten song and for a moment felt the presence that willlead us on.I've known the heavy fall of silence andmoments of the clearest sight,I've known you in your darkness and I'veknown you in your light,and I know the gift is freely given, hard tounderstand,and I know the gift can only be returned.

I know the gift is freely given, hard tounderstand,and I know the gift can only be returned.


Growing into Silence

Reflection Songs by Tom McGuinness SJ, issued on two cassettessome years ago, are now available for the first time as a double CD,fully re-mastered and re-packaged with a booklet containing thewords of all 19 songs.

Also reprinted is Winter Gifting, a collection of 10 reflection songs,previously issued as a CD which sold out but is now available oncemore.

Both can be ordered through McCrimmon Publishing Co Ltd,[email protected]: 01702 218956

Adevastating fire sweptthrough St Joseph MercyHospital in the Guyanese

capital in May, destroying not onlyits historic wooden structure, butalso much of its contents includingthe emergency room, admissionsand discharge offices, medicalrecords, the hospital chapel, andone of the two operating theatres.The loss of facilities and equipmentwas a huge blow to the hospital, butby the next morning several doctorswere able to continue providingtheir services, after being relocatedtemporarily to the Red Cross andCatholic Relief Services. Nursingstaff continued to care for St JosephMercy Hospital patients at DavisMemorial Hospital, where themajority of the hospital’s patientswere relocated.

The hospital has touched the lives

of many Guyanese, as theirbirthplace, a place where theyworked or trained, a place wherethey were compassionately treatedand healed, or witnessed a loved onedie in dignity. It has over 65 years ofhistory providing compassionate careto all who visit it. One of the keycomponents of the hospital is thecharitable health services it offers tothe many persons who cannot affordhealth care. These charitableprogrammes include:Stemming the Tide: providing freecare and treatment for people livingwith HIV/AIDSMobile clinic: providing free medicalcare, education, and medication tolow income persons at localcommunity sitesWishbone: offering free surgical careto children with cleft lips and cleftpalatesRemote Area Medical: in partnershipwith a US medical team diagnosingcervical cancer and providinggynecological surgeries to womenliving in Guyana’s interior regionCatherine McAuley Fund: which

provides financial assistance forpatients unable to meet theirmedical costs.

The week following the fire,outpatient operations were able toresume but, due to fire damage, thehospital’s remaining operatingtheatre is unusable and still in needof repairs. Once the repairs arecompleted, the hospital will be ableto offer its complete range ofservices to the citizens of Guyanaonce again. The hospital is planningto rebuild the structures lost in thefire, and has begun focusing ondesigning an updated and state of theart ER, operating theatre, and ICU, inaddition to new outpatient offices tobetter serve the needs of patients.

St Joseph Mercy Hospital is nowtrying to regain what it has lost in thefire to continue its work of servingmankind and fulfilling the healingministry of Jesus by looking after allpersons who enter its gates for help.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The estimatedcost to rebuild St Joseph MercyHospital is $600 million (£2m).

Historic hospital to rise from the ashes Helen Browman, CEO of St Joseph Mercy Hospital, Georgetown, Guyana


JM

BEFORE AFTER

Photos: Mercy Hospital


“On the morning of 17 May, Iinvited and assembled a small

team to organize the place ofsanctuary,” explains the JesuitSuperior of Xavier Hall Community,Fr Paul Pollock SJ. “We hadreceived a request the night beforefor the Xavier Hall grounds to beused for this purpose and plannedwhat it would be able to offer: amedical station, food and drink,security, contacts for Red Cross andothers in case of emergency, anoverall coordinator, mats to sleepon – and no weapons.”

When the first group of ‘Bangkokrefugees’ – six women – arrived atthe gates of Xavier Hall to seeksanctuary, women collaboratorsgently asked permission to checktheir belongings for any kind ofweapons before allowing each one toenter the sanctuary. “They came toseek refuge,” says Fr Paul. “They

were visibly distressed. They ranaway from the group of the red-shirtsprotesting. Repeated gun shotsinterspersed with fire crackers andbomb explosions were heardfrequently. At 6.30pm, as some of uswere about to begin Mass, two veryloud explosions were heard justoutside Xavier Hall. We rushed to thegates to see what was happening.People and police retreated quicklyto the fringes of the Monument.”

The commotion contrasted sharplywith the night when a curfew wasimposed from 8pm to 6 am. “Therewas an eerie silence”, reflects theJesuit Superior in Bangkok, “…sodifferent from these past weeks ofloud speeches and applause,sporadic gun shots and blasts andfire crackers. Frequent single gunshots were heard more after thecurfew started with occasional bigblasts. The rest of the night thesilence could be heard!”

A walk around the VictoryMonument, after curfew hours,revealed the damage done to thebuilding and streets … but more so tothe people. On their faces waswritten the sadness and shock atwhat they saw. Burnt-out shops andhouses, streets strewn with rubbishfrom the gatherings of the previousnights, road blocks, visible military

and police presence, fire engines andfire fighters, onlookers andpassersby on cars and motorcycles.There were some signs of normality--the vans used for public transportwere operating and food vendorsprovided for those on their way towork. At the crack of dawn on 20May, birds were singing and chirpinggleefully in their accustomedsanctuary. “This is their dailymorning ritual,” reflects Fr Paul.“Little do they know that others toosought sanctuary for the first time inthis place…running for their lives tosafety.

“The events of the past weeks anddays have been painful and sadmoments for us all. It has woundedour hearts. We search within us andamong us for a meaning in this. It isnot easy. A favourite symbol of minehas been the lotus plant and flower. Itis planted and grows in muddy water.From the muddy water, a beautifulflower grows! We have been plantedthese days into the ‘muddy water’ ofthe sufferings of the people inBangkok and Thailand. We sharethese sufferings. It is ours. We havebeen wounded by all kinds ofviolence these weeks. From thesewounds in our hearts a beautifulflower of peace and compassiongrows in all of us.”

A Jesuit community in Thailandhas opened its doors to providesanctuary for people fleeing frompolitical violence. During theviolent demonstrations last May,Xavier Hall, a Jesuit residence,chapel and spirituality centre forstudents near the VictoryMonument in Bangkok, providedthem with sanctuary. Thefollowing is compiled frominformation received from FrBernard Arputhasamy SJ, theRegional Director of the JesuitRefugee Service, and BritishJesuit, Fr David Townsend SJ, whois based at the Seven FountainsRetreat Centre in Chiang Mai.

Beautiful lilies from the muddy waters


JM


The current parish of St Ignatius inStamford Hill was set up in an erawhich saw rapid social change drivenby industrial growth, urbanisationand immigration. Soon afterHerbert Vaughan becameArchbishop of Westminster in1892, he was petitioned bynearly 300 people for a parishin the Stamford Hill area,where the population hadgreatly increased since thebuilding of the suburbanrailways between 1871 and1891. In response, Vaughaninvited the Jesuits to open aparish, an elementary schooland a secondary school forboys. For the Jesuits, this

was a missionary endeavour – thedevelopment of a pastoral and socialoutreach to new communities withmany needs and the eventualconstruction of a community, churchand school on a landmark site.

More than 100 years later, theparish of St Ignatius still responds tothe needs of the local Catholicpopulation. It draws together aworshipping community of over 2,000on Sundays, spread over sevenMasses, offered in English, Spanishand Polish. Every month, the churchhosts the Ghanaian and the NigerianCatholic Associations and, weekly,

the Latin American Chaplaincy. Itprovides opportunities and space fornumerous other groups who gatherto pray in the church or to discuss,share or socialise in one of the parishrooms. It has a vibrant catecheticaland social outreach programme andboasts seven parish choirs. And itsarmy of altar servers – over 100 ofthem – adorn the sanctuary and, asmembers of St Stephen’s Guild,participate in a number of diocesanevents, including the annual Mass forAltar Servers, celebrated by theArchbishop of Westminster.

The feast of St Ignatius Loyola is theoccasion when theparish celebrates itsdiversity and vitality.Over 50 different ethnicgroups come togetheron 31 July for a Mass ofThanksgiving in honourof the saint andafterwards for a fiesta inthe adjacent schoolplayground. Cuisinefrom around the world,prepared and served byparishioners, music andlots of chat make it a dayto remember and a greatstart to the summerholidays.

Reaching OutSt Ignatius has a long and

admirable history of outreach to theneedy of the neighbourhood. Thewards in which the church is situatedare the poorest in the LondonBorough of Haringey and among themost deprived in England and Wales.Health profiles for Stamford Hill andTottenham confirm the poverty,material and social, of the localcommunity and note its highlytransient nature. So the parish triesto respond the best it can, with its

Welcome and serviceat St IgnatiusAs the Society of Jesus aroundthe world prepares to celebratethe feast of its founder, StIgnatius Loyola, Fr Jim Conway SJof the church dedicated to him innorth London reflects on theparish’s history and how itcontinues to respond to the needsof the community it serves.


own limited resources, to the needsof the poor today. Firstly, it offersimmediate assistance in the form offood and hospitality. Twice a week,two teams of volunteers prepare andserve soup in the parish rooms; onother days they make and offersandwiches and drinks at the frontdoor. The parish has a large numberof homeless people in itsboundaries, many of them heavilydependent on alcohol and usuallywith no access to welfareentitlements.

There are also a large number ofrefused and often destitute asylumseekers, who have no recourse topublic funds. All these people arewelcomed and served by thevolunteers. As a result of their illegalstatus in the UK, undocumentedmigrants are particularlyvulnerable; but, on account of theirfaith background, many of themtrust the church and its outreach. SoSt Ignatius parish helps people toaccess service providers in andbeyond the neighbourhood:specialised agencies like the JesuitRefugee Service (JRS) provides aninvaluable weekly drop-in session atSt Ignatius, and Thames Reach, acharity that works with London’shomeless population. It oftenincludes accompanying those whoare unfamiliar or notconfident with Britishsystems and those whohave difficultycommunicating inEnglish. One youngBrazilian man, forinstance, told me he beenin England for 12 years;he was undocumented buthad been working inLondon: “I was frightenedto tell anyone elsebecause you never knowwhat they will do with theinformation”. His familywas in Brazil. He did threejobs in order to sendmoney back to them. “Ican't trust people,” hecontinued. “But, thank Godfor you. You're a priest andI know that I can trust you

with my story."Finally, through its membership of

London Citizens (a broad and diversealliance of over 100 civicorganisations), the parish is activelyinvolved in community organisingand campaigning for change. Thishelps to affirm a parish identity thatis as much concerned with missionbeyond its boundaries as within andoffers the opportunity forparishioners to work alongsideothers from groups that might nototherwise work so closely together,like schools and colleges, studentsand trade unions, and to unite incampaigning for issues of sharedconcern like the London LivingWage, City Safe which campaigns foryouth safety and Strangers intoCitizens.

The wider communityAs well as responding to local

needs, St Ignatius has always had aneye to the wider community. Forexample, a small but faithful band ofvolunteers do a weekly soup-run toCentral London. Consisting of teamsof sandwich-makers, drivers andhelpers, the group also collectsclothing and organises a Christmasdinner each year for the needy. Andevery spring, parishioners take partin a sponsored 10-mile walk along

the nearby River Lea to raise fundsfor a chosen charity. This year,friends, past and present, and of allgenerations, raised £10,000 for TheAlzheimer’s Society.

Finally, over the years, the parishhas given birth to initiatives thathave now become charities in theirown right, like St Ignatius HousingAssociation This offers housing todisadvantaged individuals andfamilies, including those seekingsanctuary in the UK and singlehomeless persons. It currentlyprovides accommodation for 49people.

Your generosity will enablethe work of Stamford HillSocial Outreach to continue.

Thank you!

Photos: Sarah Booker/St Ignatius parish

One of the highlights of any visit toRome – especially for anyonewho visits sites associated with

the Society of Jesus – is to experiencethe spectacular art of Brother AndreaPozzo SJ. The 300th anniversary of hisdeath was recently marked in the citywith an exhibition entitled Mirabilidisinganni: Marvellous Illusions. On theorganising committee were Dr LydiaSalviucci and British Jesuit, Fr NormanTanner SJ, Dean of the faculty of ChurchHistory at the Pontifical GregorianUniversity in Rome. Here they explainwhy Pozzo was such a significant artistand architect in the late 17th centuryChurch.

Brother Andrea Pozzo SJ is one of themost important artists of the Baroque artof illusion: he created many imaginaryand theatrical paintings, most famouslyhis works in the Church of the Gesù,surrounding the tomb of St Ignatius. Histreatise, Perspectiva pictorum etarchitectorum, was the main topic of theexhibition in Rome, which explored theart and the technique ofperspective he used.

The eyes of visitors to thisRoman exhibition focused onthe Roman masterpieces, threeof them in the Church of theGesù: the spectacular chapel ofSt Ignatius, the amazing illusorydome and, in the same church,the ceiling decoration of themain nave with illusionistfrescoes. These are the mostimportant works of this genialBaroque artist. The illusionaryeffect is very original becausePozzo painted an open architecture witha lot of figures together with allegories ofthe four continents. In the middle of theceiling, the triumph of Jesus isrepresented together with St Ignatius’glory.

The exhibit presented about 160objects: the expressive self-portrait inthe Gesù church in Rome, sketches forpaintings, sculptures, drawings,engravings and books. There was also aremarkable collection series of

mathematical anddrawing tools, and a real17th century laboratoryof practical perspective.

At the exhibition it waspossible to admirePozzo’s original wooden

model, made for the altar of St LuigiGonzaga in the church of St Ignatius,which had a strong visual impact. Somevery fine drawings of the Uffizi Museumof Florence were displayed, showing thecreative genius of the artist. They depict ascenographic apparatus for the“Quarantore” (Forty Hours), that is to say,sacred theatres put up in the churches ofthe Jesuits during the Carnival and theHoly Week and used for displaying theBlessed Sacrament.

Andrea Pozzo was born in Trent in 1642and entered the Society of Jesus in Milanin 1665. He travelled to Genoa, Turin andMondovì, as well as Rome, and spent thelast years of his life in Vienna, at theinvitation of Emperor Leopold and the Jesuits there: he painted the Liechtenstein Palace andUniversitätkirche (University Church).

But it was in Rome that Brother Pozzo’smost celebrated works are to be found. Inaddition to the Gesù, he contributed tothe English College for which hedesigned an impressive fresco for theChapel of St Thomas of Canterbury. Helived at the college from 1681 to 1702 anda opened a school-academy ofperspective, painting, architecture anddrawing there.


Getting Brother Pozzo into perspective


When violence flared up inKingston, Jamaica, earlierthis year, the Jesuits

experienced first hand the pressuresand dangers that gangs andpoverty inflict upon the people.The Regional Superior ofGuyana contacted his oppositenumber in Jamaica, Fr PeterMcIsaac SJ, to enquire whetherthere was anything that couldbe done to help. This wasPeter’s response.

For well over 100 years, StAnne’s Church has been a pillarof the Church in the Archdioceseof Kingston, Jamaica. The Societyof Jesus has always provided its pastor,and recognized it as an importantpriority of the mission of the Jesuits inJamaica. Located in the downtowncore, a two minute walk from KingstonMarket, St Anne’s has witnessed a longhistory of change. For many years aparish of a largely upwardly mobilemerchant class, the area underwentserious decline following independencein the 1960s and 70s.

Today, the “West Kingston” area, theconstituency of the Prime Minister, isan extremely impoverishedpopulation in the heart of the city ofKingston. For over 30 years, it hasdeveloped an independent socialstructure that has been largelycontrolled by networks of highlyorganized gangs, with connections inthe US, Canada and the UK.

Located on the “border” of twocommunities, Hannah Town andDenham Town, with competing ganginterests, St Anne’s has been aflashpoint for escalating violence sincethe 1970s. In 2001, it was the centre of

military action to stabilize thearea that left scores of personskilled. At that time, securityforces intervened in a situationin which many housessurrounding the church andschools were burned andbombed.

More recently, in May 2010,the complicated extradition

process of one of the most powerfulcriminal leaders in Jamaica, himselfbased in West Kingston, eventually ledto a standoff between local gangmembers and government forces.Barricading the community entirely,the local gunmen defied the arrestwarrant. After the Prime Ministerdeclared a state of emergency forJamaica, a swift but lethal response ofsecurity forces on May 24 left over 74people dead, according to officialstatistics. The actual death toll couldbe, by local accounts, almost twice thatnumber. The residents of WestKingston have been left traumatizedand devastated.

For most of its history, St Anne’sChurch functioned as a central parishof the Archdiocese: recording largenumbers of baptisms; running a well-established High School (12 – 17 yearolds), Primary School (ages 6 – 11),and an Infant School (ages 3 – 5); andproviding a chaplaincy for the KingstonPublic Hospital beside the church.

The creation in West Kingston of a

seriously impoverished “garrison”(politically associated area under gangcontrol) with high rates ofunemployment, changed the status ofthe church over the years. Today, witha marginal number of Catholics, muchof the pastoral work of the parish hasbecome focused on the social

dimension of faith: poverty relief,education and skills training. But theenormous respect that was built uponover 100 years of Jesuit labour has notbeen lost. St Anne’s has become animportant “leaven” for the widercommunity. The presence of the Jesuitcommunity beside the church throughall the crises and violence of the lastfew decades has been an importantwitness to the fidelity of the Church andthe Society of Jesus. It has become asymbol for faithfulness, perseveranceand transformative potential.

St Anne’s Church and schools, then,have remained a priority of the Societyof Jesus in Jamaica – though now fordifferent reasons. It is perhaps themost privileged point of contact withsome of the poorest and mostmarginal people of Jamaica. Like allchurches, evangelization remains animportant dimension of the mission ofSt Anne’s, but equally important hasbeen creating structures for the socialdevelopment of the people of the area.The schools are vital institutionalbases for such transformation.

Jesuits provide stability andsupport among Jamaica’s poorest "The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed in withthree measures of flour until all of it was leavened." (Matthew 13:33)

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All completed the gruellingroute and many clocked upsome impressive times. While

donations and sponsorship moniesare still being collected andcounted, their collective target was£57,000.

Runners took part in the Marathon tosupport a number of Jesuit initiativesin Africa, South America and EasternEurope, as well as JRS at home andoverseas. In South Africa, funds willsupport the Duduza Peer to Peer AIDSEducation project, JRS, a programmefor unaccompanied minors, IgnatianSpirituality programmes and theJesuit Institute Bursary Fund. AIDSOrphans at Mlambo House inZimbabwe and an IT project at StPeter's Kubatana will benefit to thetune of £5,000 each as a result of thedetermination and generosity of JMrunners. And £10,000 was raised tohelp finance small communityprojects in Guyana.

The fastest member of the JM teamto pass the finishing line was formerStonyhurst pupil, Dr Brian Thursby-Pelham, with a time of just over 2hrs36mins. He finished 114th out of morethan 36,500 runners and shattered hisprevious record. His closest rival wasRobert Dolinar SJ, followed bydetermined runners from Wimbledonparish, Stonyhurst (past and present -pupils and staff), St Ignatius College

and parish, JM, Heythrop, WimbledonCollege, St Aloysius College and fourrunners from JRS-UK: Alan Murdockand Chris Togwell, who bothcompleted the 26.2 miles in less thanfour hours, were joined at the finishingline by fellow JRS-UK runner, RutaNavyte and Roger Monga.

There were the Wombles, of course:Duncan Byrne and Matthew Wylde.And the team was delighted towelcome Paul Nenjerama fromHartman House in Harare, whomanaged to make it to London despitethe air travel chaos caused by volcanicash. His time was just over 5hrs40mins, about an hour ahead of theother two Jesuits who took part -Anthony Vikram and Gerry Gallen.

To see the full list of the 29 JM andJRS runners, and to make a donation,go to www.gbjm.org

If you want to take part in the 2011London Marathon in support of Jesuitprojects … sorry! All places havebeen taken already. But you canreserve a place for 2012 event.Contact Alan Fernandes at JM fordetails.

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As Jesuits and Friends went topress, JM reported that morethan £49,000 had been donated insupport of the 29 runners whotook part in the 2010 LondonMarathon and who made up theJesuit Missions and Jesuit RefugeeService team.

Thousands raised, records smashed… even the volcanic ash couldn’tstop our Marathon runners!

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Oscar Romero, the Archbishopof San Salvador wasassasinated as he celebrated

Mass on 24 March 1980. His fearlesschampioning of justice for the poorin his own country was the cause ofhis death and work is afoot tointroduce his cause for beatificationand ultimately for canonisation.

Knowing the sort of man he wasand the causes he died for, I think wecan be quite certain that he wouldwholeheartedly give his blessing toand endorse the Holy Father’s

intentions for the autumn months ofthis year. For those of us who try tomake the Apostleship of Prayer areality in our daily lives, it would be agood thing to reflect upon andponder the life of this great archbishop.

Archbishop Romero would resonatewith prayer for the starving and thehomeless. He would wish to see helpgiven to the poorest nations of theworld and he would want to offer thegospel message of Jesus Christ to allthese people. He would be anxious tosee the spread of the gospel throughthe good work of missionaries to thefour corners of the earth in keepingwith the injunction of Jesus at theend of the gospel of St Matthew to“make disciples of all nations”. Hewould bless evangelisation in andamong the highest academic circlesas well as offering it to ordinarypeople everywhere. To pray for asense of unity and caring for allChristians in all the nations of SouthAmerica would be dear to his heart

Oscar Romero’s last words wereaddressed to his congregation in thehospital chapel on that fateful day inMarch in 1980 before the assassinentered the chapel with his bullets.They have been recorded forposterity and they are particularlyapposite for our prayer intentions.

“God's reign is already present onour earth in mystery. When the Lordcomes, it will be brought toperfection. That is the hope thatinspires Christians.

We know that every effort to bettersociety, especially when injusticeand sin are so ingrained, is an effortthat God blesses, that God wants,that God demands of us”.

Michael Beattie SJ

God blesses, Godwants, God demands


For the unemployed and thehomeless, that they may findfriendship, help and good counsel tocope with and to overcome theirdifficulties. For Christians, that theymight welcome and help all whosuffer from discrimination, hungerand the consequences of war.

For poorer countries. May they befired with the Word of God as theystrive for social progress. ThatChristian love will replace wars,conflicts and divisions.

That Catholic universities may beoutstanding in showing to the worldthe harmonious unity of Faith andReason. On World Mission Day forthe work of missionarieseverywhere.

That the generosity of Christians will help those who suffer fromaddictions. For all Christians in LatinAmerica that they may grow in asense of unity and care for eachother.

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The Society of Jesus has beencharged by the Holy Father topromote the Apostleship of Prayerthroughout the Church and morewidely. Here, the NationalSecretary of the Apostleship ofPrayer in Britain, Fr MichaelBeattie SJ, explains why the Pope’sintentions for the next few monthswould resonate with a modern-dayLatin American martyr.


Ordinations – athome and abroad

United in Music

Commonwealth Games role for Glasgow student

Farm Street Church in London welcomed ArchbishopVincent Nichols of Westminster in May for theordination of two Jesuit deacons: Martin Khiet Pham

from the Vietnamese Province and Justin Prabhu (Madurai,but destined for the Guyana Region). They are pictured hereat the end of Mass with the Archbishop.

Other recent ordinations associated with the province werethose of American Jesuit, Charles Gallagher SJ, who studiedtheology at Heythrop College University of London, and wasordained to the priesthood on June 12 at St Ignatius Church,Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. In Malta, Josef Mario Briffa, whoalso studied at Heythrop and was ordained deacon at Farm Streetlast May, was ordained priest on 23 June at the MetropolitanCathedral, Mdina.

Finally, Ladislav Šulík SJ was ordained to the priesthood byArchbishop Carlos Osoro at the cathedral in Bratislava on 26June. Ladislav served his regency in the British Province from2003 to 2006 and was Chaplain at Wimbledon College.

The Vice Captain of St Aloysius’College in Glasgow has beenselected to represent the

city as a British Council Interaction Ambassador to the 2014Commonwealth Games. Chiara Ruddy,who was the only independent sectorrepresentative to make it through therigorous selection process, will spendthis October at the CommonwealthGames in Delhi. The ambassadors willrepresent Glasgow in a wide variety ofevents and activities aimed at shapingpolicy and ensuring that the youngpeople of Glasgow derive maximum

benefit from the legacy of hosting the2014 Games.

Over the four years leading up toGlasgow’s Commonwealth Games,Chiara and the other ambassadors willcontinue British Council training. Theyhave already begun a full programmeof leadership training, developmentworkshops and press events, includingclambering through muddy assaultcourses, climbing 70ft poles andorganising and hosting a successfulreception at Glasgow City Chambersfor parents, head teachers, BritishCouncil delegates and councillors.

Some 400 pupils from seven British Jesuit schoolstook part in a joint Jesuit schools concert in Londonthis spring. Children from Mount St Mary's College

and Barlborough Hall School in Derbyshire, StonyhurstCollege and St Mary's Hall (Lancashire), St John'sBeaumont (Old Windsor), and - from London - WimbledonCollege and St Ignatius College, Enfield, all performed atSt Ignatius Church, Stamford Hill.

The biggest musical challenge was to find a piece ofmusic suitable for this large choir and especiallysomething that the younger pupils of Barlborough HallSchool and St Mary's Hall could master. Eventually,Faure’s Requiem was selected.

The Director of Music for Mount St Mary's College, LucyStirling, said, 'It was a fantastic evening and a greatopportunity for pupils to sing in a large choir and with otherJesuit schools. We hope to have a joint collaboration of thiskind every two years to build on such a great evening ofsinging and music within the Jesuit schools.'

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The former caretaker of StMichael's Catholic College inLeeds has been made a

Member of the British Empire in theQueen's Birthday Honours List. MissBridget Redmond - known as May -was just 16 when she began workingfor the Jesuits at the college in HydePark, having left her native Ireland totravel to Leeds to find work. Startingas a domestic, she worked her wayup to become the caretaker and

bursar, working seven days a weekto ensure the smooth running of theschool. Her many duties includedsupervising the kitchens, lookingafter the administration and evendoing repairs and decorating.

Miss Redmond, a parishioner at StAnn's Cathedral in Leeds, had thehonour of locking up after the schoolofficially closed in 2008 and pupilswere transferred to Mount St Mary'sin Richmond Hill.

Runnersremember tragicasthma victim

Celebrating anarchitectural gem

Dozens of runners from Stonyhurst St Mary'sHall have run in support of Asthma UK inmemory of one of the prep school's pupils

who died from the condition last year. Forty-four young runners aged between three and

seven ran a one-mile mini-marathon around theschool grounds, cheered on by parents and fellowpupils. The children chose to support the asthmacharity in memory of 12-year-old William Magowan, aformer Stonyhurst St Mary's Hall pupil, who died ofan asthma attack in October 2009.

This was followed by two teams of staff fromStonyhurst St Mary's Hall staff taking part in theEdinburgh Marathon, to raise funds for the samecause. The eight runners wore bright yellow shirts,William's favourite colour. 'We wanted to dosomething to celebrate the life of a very special boy,said Garth Turvey, who teaches games at the prepschool. 'We put in hours of training but it's beenworth it.'

Saint Wilfrid’s parish in Preston has produced a full-colourbrochure exploring the history and architecture of thechurch. The 28-page booklet traces the building in

Winckley Square back to its origins in 1773, with author andlocal historian, Stephen Sartin describing it as “one of thefinest architectural gems in the North West”.

The church has gone through many architecturaltransformations in the ensuing 237 years and the outgoingparish priest of St Wilfrid, Fr Chris Dyckhoff SJ, pays tribute inparticular to Fr Joseph Dunn (“who not only built the church andCatholic school in Fox Street, but was also a prime mover inbringing gas lighting to Preston”), Fr Ignatius Scoles (“who wasso instrumental in transforming the church into its presentglory”) and Fr Denis Blackledge, whom Chris credits withimproving the interior of the building and creating the narthex inthe latter part of the 20th century. In his introduction to thebrochure, he writes that he hopes it will be of use to both regularworshippers and visitors. More information is available bywriting to St Wilfrid, 1 Winckley Square, Preston, PR1 3JJ or e-mailing [email protected]

MBE for former Leeds stalwart

DEATHS &OBITUARIES

The hymns of Father James QuinnSJ are found in almost everycontemporary English languagehymnal, taken from the collectionsNew Hymns for All Seasons (1969)and Praise for All Seasons (1994).Describing him as “one of the finestwriters of hymn texts of our time”,his publisher, Selah, said the wordsof his hymns “help us betterunderstand the mystery andpresence of God in our world today.”

James Quinn was born in Glasgow on 21 April 1919. Hewas educated at St Aloysius’ College and GlasgowUniversity, and joined the Society of Jesus in 1939. Afterstudying at Heythrop College, Oxfordshire, he taught at StWilfrid’s School in Preston before being ordained in 1950.He also taught at Wimbledon College and served in SacredHeart parish, Edinburgh.

In the 1960s, Fr Quinn worked on the cause for thecanonisation of St John Ogilvie; he was member of theScottish Religious Advisory Committee of the BBC (1973-1976) and a participant in various ecumenical dialogues forthe British Council of Churches. Fr Quinn also served as aconsultant to the International Commission on English inthe Liturgy (1972-1976) and Secretary on the ScottishCommission for Christian Unity. Between 1976 and 1980 hewas spiritual director at the Beda College in Rome.

Fr James Quinn SJ died on 8 April 2010 at St Joseph’sHouse in Edinburgh, where he had spent the past ten years.

Fr James Quinn SJ

Harold Wong was born in Georgetown, Guyana on 23 July 1930and attended the Sacred Heart School from 1936 to 1943. Hestudied Bookkeeping for two years at the Commercial Academy,Georgetown, before going to England in 1949 to begin training asa priest. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1951 to continue thistraining and, following studies and spiritual formation in the UK,he was ordained as a priest in Heythrop College, Oxfordshire, on31 July 1963.

On his return to Guyana in 1966, Fr Wong worked as a priest inGeorgetown and also was given responsibility for media work,becoming the Editor of the Catholic Standard in 1967, a task heundertook until the mid-70s. He then was appointed asAdministrator of Brickdam Cathedral, a post he held until 1983,before moving to Plaisance in 1983, where he worked for theparish communities of the East Coast Demerara for three years.

In 1986 he was appointed as parish priest in Port Mourant andworked along the Corentyne coast until 1991 when ill-healthfrom diabetes meant that he had to semi-retire to Georgetown.

He continued to play an important partin the life of the Jesuit communityalthough as the following 19 yearspassed, his decreasing mobility meanthe had to withdraw gradually from activeapostolic and sacramental ministry inthe Georgetown parishes.

“He was a much-loved and sought-after counsellor and sustained strongcontacts with his many friends andcolleagues both in Guyana and acrossthe world,” said Regional Superior, FrDermot Preston SJ. “He will be sorely missed.”

Fr Wong was admitted into Mercy Hospital on 31 March where,despite the best efforts of the staff, the continuing ravages of thediabetes had weakened his system too much. He died on GoodFriday, 2 April 2010.

Fr Harold Wong SJ

Peter Orr was born in Malaysia where hisfather was the manager of a rubberplantation. His family were of Irish descentand Peter was educated by the Jesuits atClongowes Wood College in Ireland, fromwhere he went to University College,Dublin. He achieved a BA (Hons) in Legaland Political Science, before entering theSociety of Jesus at Roehampton; fromthere he moved to Heythrop, Oxfordshire,in September 1946. His brother, George,who was seven years Peter’s senior,entered the Society in the same year. George died in 2006.

At Heythrop, Peter Orr studied Philosophy and – from 1955 –Theology. Between the two periods of study, he taught at HodderPlace (the Stonyhurst Preparatory School), Barlborough Hall (theprep school of Mount St Mary’s College) and St John’s Beaumontin Berkshire. Following his ordination to the priesthood in 1958,Peter made his tertianship in St Beuno’s and then taught atWimbledon College for some 11 years. After being awarded anM.Litt by Trinity College, Dublin, in the mid-70s, with a dissertationon Piers Plowman, he spent the next seven years as a universitychaplain – first at Leeds, then Manchester, and finally at Reading.

After supplying in parishes in London in 1984/85, Peter wasappointed to St Catherine’s Church in Edinburgh for a few yearsand there followed other mainly supply work.

In his later years, Fr Orr resided at Campion House, Osterley andPollokshields, Glasgow until its closure. He moved to St Wilfrid’sPresbytery in Preston in 2006, and it was here that he died, on 17April 2010.

Fr Peter Orr SJ


DEATHS &OBITUARIES

Thomas Lakeland was born inPreston on 2 July 1928 – anddied there 82 years later, after62 years in the Society of Jesus.

Educated at Preston CatholicCollege, he entered the novitiatein Roehampton at the age of 20and studied philosophy atHeythrop College, Oxfordshire,from 1950 to ’52. After threeyears’ teaching at St Mary’s Hall,Stonyhurst, he returned toHeythrop for his theological studies, followed bytertianship at St Beuno’s, North Wales. He wasordained priest in July 1958.

In 1960, Fr Lakeland was assigned to St Wilfrid’sparish, Preston, and then to St Francis Xavier’s,Liverpool, where he was Superior and parish priestfrom 1966 to 1977. After two years of directing theSpiritual Exercises at St Beuno’s, he moved toScotland, working in St Joseph’s parish, Aberdeen,and also supplying at St Margaret’s, Lerwick.

Fr Lakeland served at Sacred Heart Church,Wimbledon in1981, and then spent four years in theparish of St Michael and St John, Clitheroe, beforebeing assigned to St Wilfrid’s Church in Preston. Hisfinal 24 years were spent there, working in theparish. He died on 5 May 2010 in the Royal PrestonHospital.

Fr Thomas Lakeland SJ

Fr Kuruvila Cherian SJ taught invarious Jesuit schools in Kerala, India,for three decades, and was Principal ofAKJM (Kanjirappally), and later LoyolaSchool (Trivandrum). During his time asVice-Principal at Loyola, he encouragedstudent representatives to get involvedin decision-making about the school.But he was also perceived among theLoyola staff as a priest who pushedChrist and Christianity.

In 1982, Fr Cherian left for the US andsuccessfully completed a two-year Masters programme inSchool Administration. Although he came back in 1984 toLoyola, he spent much of the late 1980s and 1990s in AKJM.In 1998, he returned to Loyola, this time as Principal.

In May 2000, he left Loyola School and joined the JesuitRefugee Service in Nepal. He served there as the AssistantProject Director of the educational programme, in camps setup for refugees from southern Bhutan, who had beenexpelled from their country in 1991 for being of Nepaleseorigin.

After a stint in East Africa in the Jesuit Refugee Service, FrCherian moved to Guyana, a Region of the British Province inSouth America. There, among other things, he worked inBerbice on the east coast, at the Human Development Centre,a Jesuit training centre for children, young adults, andwomen.

Fr Cherian died in Guyana on 6 March 2010.

Fr Kuruvila Cherian SJ

Mr P McGovern

Col Richard F N Anderson

Mrs Mary Josephine Sudell

Miss Ann Maria Smulders

Mr Maurice Brown

Mr O Cook

Mrs M Parkin

Mr Kingsley da Silva

Mr Thomas Dodds

Mrs Alice Barton

Mr Chris Moss

Mrs Philomena Culver

Mr Peter Hart

Mrs Patricia Mary McDermott

Prof P Higgins

Miss Winifred Horan – Sister of Fr Tony

Horan SJ

Mr Lawrence Mulenga – Brother of

Vincent Mulenga SJ

Mrs Mairi MacGinn – Aunt of Fr Andrew

Cameron-Mowat SJ

Julia - Grandmother of Toon Cavens SJ

Mrs Grace Dawson – Mother of Fr Roger

Dawson SJ

Mr Charles Church – Brother of Fr

Aloysius Church SJ

Dr Iorwerth Huw Thomas – Nephew of Fr

Robert Murray SJ

Mr Fidelis Mado – Uncle of Fr Hector

Mukwato SJ

Mr Desmond O’Callaghan – Brother of

Fr Richard Manners SJ

Mrs Pauline Grant Adamson – Niece of Fr

David Harold-Barry SJ

Heinrich Mueller - Father of Fr Heribert

Muller SJ

Mr Michael Edwards – Province Assistant

for Education

Fr Harold Wong SJ

Fr Kuruvila Nalpathamkalam SJ

Fr James Quinn SJ

Fr Peter Orr SJ

Fr Ambrose D'Mello SJ

Fr Thomas Lakeland SJ

Please pray for those who have died recently.May they rest in peace.


Anew English translation of FrPedro Arrupe’s RetreatNotes from the summer of

1965 has been published by WayBooks. They date from two monthsafter his election, when PedroArrupe went on retreat. Hisnotebook of personal jottings fromthis period give direct testimony tothe God who is passing through hislife, and to what is going on withinhim as God passes. Under the titlePedro Arrupe – Chosen by God,these Retreat Notes have now beentranslated into English by Jesuitwriter, Fr Joseph A. Munitiz SJ,who also provides an introductionto the work.

This unique manuscript in Spanishwas originally authorised forpublication by Fr Arrupe’s successoras Superior General of the Society of

Jesus, Fr Peter-Hans Kolvenbach,and was published in a faithfullytranscribed and annotated edition byFr Ignacio Iglesias SJ. When it wasoriginally published, its Spanishpublisher stated: “More than anyother document, this notebookreflects Fr Arrupe’s state of mindwhen he received his mission asGeneral and when, with completeconfidence in God, he openedhimself up to fulfilling it withoutreserve or delay. In it we see himdeveloping schemes, thinking aboutpeople, and elaborating strategies inorder to confront the challenges thatthe Church and the world have putbefore him.”

Pedro Arrupe, Chosen by God:Pedro Arrupe's Retreat Notes 1965,translated with and introduction byJoseph A. Munitiz SJ is published

by Way Books, price: £8.00. ISBN: 978 0 904717 29 7

“One of the most remarkableJesuits that the English

Province of the Society of Jesus hasever produced.” That is how FrOliver Rafferty SJ describedGeorge Tyrrell last year, to markthe centenary of his death. GeorgeTyrrell and Catholic Modernism isa collection of essays edited by FrRafferty, who teaches ChurchHistory at Heythrop College andalso contributed to the volume.

The book re-evaluates the life andthought of Tyrrell (1861 to 1909),who was dismissed from the Societyof Jesus and excommunicated fromthe Church for his views. Theproblems he tried to grapple with -the relation of science to religion,

questions of meaning andmodernity, issues of thearticulation of Christianideas in modern culture- have a peculiarlycontemporary ring.These articles setTyrrell's work withinthe framework of early20th-century Catholicideas and draw someconclusions about histhinking for present-dayconcerns.

“George Tyrrell was a man ofgreat pastoral sensitivity, widelysought after as a retreat giver,preacher, spiritual guide andconfessor,” writes Fr Rafferty. “He

was also possessed of akeen intellect and deep

insight into the natureand role of religion inlife, amounting towhat has been called'religious genius. Bythe late 19th centuryhe had become,perhaps, the most

important Catholictheologian in England.”Published by Four

Courts Press Ltd ISBN-10: 184682236X; ISBN-13:

978-1846822360. Price: £40

Pedro Arrupe – Chosen by Godtranslated by Fr Joseph A. Munitiz SJ

George Tyrrell and Catholic Modernism

edited by Oliver Rafferty SJ


St Mary’s Nyanga isappealing for help tobuild its new parishcentre and extend itsfacilities. Can you help?

If you would like tosupport the work ofStamford Hill SocialOutreach andensure itscontinuation, pleasemake a donation.

You can send your donations to the address below, or log on to our website whereyou can increase your donation by 28% through the Just Giving scheme. Thank you!

The Jesuits in Burma,Thailand and Jamaica areworking in some of theworld’s hot spots. You cansupport their effortsthrough JM.

Please help StJoseph MercyHospital inGeorgetown toprovide its completerange of services tothe citizens ofGuyana once again.

The JESUIT DEVELOPMENTFUND helps to establish andmaintain churches, schools,retreat centres and apostolicworks of all kinds at home andoverseas. At present thetrustees are assisting thedevelopment of our work inSouth Africa, and providingnursing care and attention forthe elderly Jesuits of the Province.

YOUR GIFTS in response to any appeals, orfor any of our Missions overseas, should besent to JM, which is the central missionoffice. Please make all cheques and postalorders payable to JM.

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A BEQUESTWe would be delighted if you remember JMor the appeals mentioned here in your Will.We shall be happy to send you details of theofficial wording.

How Can I ? HelpThe JESUIT SEMINARY ASSOCIATIONhelps to defray the expensive cost oftraining Jesuit priests and brothers.



“The lotus plant grows in muddy water.From the muddy water, a beautifulflower grows! We have been plantedthese days into the ‘muddy water’ ofthe sufferings of the people inBangkok and Thailand. We share thesesufferings. They are ours. We havebeen wounded by all kinds of violencethese weeks. From these wounds in ourhearts a beautiful flower of peace andcompassion grows in all of us.”

Fr Bernard Arputhasamy SJ

Jesuits and Friends

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