Welcome Bienvenido Bienvenue www.educatemagis.org Para leer el boletín informativo en español, haga clic aqui o vea más abajo Pour lire le bulletin d'informations en français, cliquez ici ou faire défiler vers le bas Jesuit Education Updates 'Igniting Ignatian Values’ – an eight day school plan As Ignatian Schools and Institutions worldwide prepare to celebrate the Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola on July 31st, we are happy to share an excellent resource prepared by the JEA entitled “Igniting Ignatian Values”. This eight day programme, featuring Ignatian themes such as ‘Know St. Ignatius of Loyola’; ‘Finding God in all things’; ‘AMDG’; ‘Magis’; ‘Promoting Justice’, is especially primed for secondary schools and includes an activity and reflection for each day. Its main objectives are to encourage an awareness of Ignatian values amongst teachers and students and
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Jesuit Education Updates
'Igniting Ignatian Values’ – an eight day school plan
As Ignatian Schools and Institutions worldwide prepare to celebrate the Feast of St.
Ignatius of Loyola on July 31st, we are happy to share an excellent resource
prepared by the JEA entitled “Igniting Ignatian Values”. This eight day programme,
featuring Ignatian themes such as ‘Know St. Ignatius of Loyola’; ‘Finding God in all
things’; ‘AMDG’; ‘Magis’; ‘Promoting Justice’, is especially primed for secondary
schools and includes an activity and reflection for each day. Its main objectives are
to encourage an awareness of Ignatian values amongst teachers and students and
to promote this ethos in the schools. Please feel free to adapt this plan to your own
school's context. Download resource here.
Ignatian Spirituality on the go - A different way to prepare for the
Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola
We have collected a number of ‘spiritual’ apps and websites that allow for a mobile
and fun way to prepare for the Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola.
The Jesuit Prayer app offers daily Ignatian reflections and prayer on mobile
devices. The app also features Scripture readings of the day, downloadable
prayer cards and a link for prayer requests. It is maintained by the Jesuits of
the Midwest Province and is available on: www.jesuitprayer.org
Pray As You Go is for those who prefer listening to reading… for the
contemplatives in action… PAYG offers a daily prayer session, designed for
use on portable MP3 players, to help you pray whenever you find time.
Lasting between ten and thirteen minutes, it combines music, scripture and
some questions for reflection. It can be downloaded as a podcast or as a
mobile app from www.pray-as-you-go.org. It is produced by Jesuit Media
Initiatives a work of the Jesuits in Britain.
Sacred Space offers a very simple way to pray in front of your computer
screen or using your smartphone. The pages of the site offer to guide you
through a session of prayer, in six stages, including preparing your body and
mind, and culminating in reflection on a scripture passage chosen especially
for the day. Sacred Space is a work of the Irish Jesuits www.sacredspace.ie
and is available in 22 languages.
For the social network literati out there, why not have some fun
with ‘Find Your Inner Iggy’ a quirky way to nourish and share your
own experience of Ignatian spirituality. It is a creation of Loyola Press and
the website is available here.
Upcoming Meetings – From the Jesuit Education Secretariat
JECSE Delegates Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal, 2015, 25-28 November
2015.
International Meeting of Directors of FLACSI Schools, Bogotá,
Colombia, 8-11 September 2015.
World Congress "Educating Today and Tomorrow. A renewing
passion", International Catholic Education Office (OIEC), Rome, Italy, 18-
21 November 2015.
Around the Globe - News from the Networks
Africa – Jesuit Superiors of Africa and Madagascar Education
Commission (JESAMED)
Jesuit Memorial College: Tragedy Transformed
Situated in the heart of the beleaguered Niger Delta is the New Shoot blossoming
out of the ashes of the unfortunate incident of the plane crash of December 10, 2005
which claimed the lives of 60 students of our school, Loyola Jesuit College (LJC),
Abuja. This New Shoot, the Jesuit Memorial College (JMC), Port Harcourt, is a direct
result of our collective efforts to immortalize our “Sixty Angels.”
The idea is not simply to immortalize our “Sixty Angels” in marble and granite, but to
honour them in the living memorial of other children who will live out the
vision/mission embodied by them. This, no doubt, will provide an ongoing healing
for the bereaved families. Ours has become tragedy transformed!
Construction work at the school was planned for three phases, and we have
completed phase one, enabling the school to begin in October of 2013. The second
and the third phases are becoming more daunting than envisaged. The second
phase for instance, will include the boy’s dormitory, class room block B with eight
class rooms, the laboratories – science, basic technology, home economics and art
labs, ICT and library and a playing field, as well as the sisters’ and Jesuit residences.
Our most concerted efforts to raise funds to continue with phase two have thus far
yielded minimal fruits. This is because most of the corporate organizations and
companies in the oil sector that could be of help do not, as a matter of policy, support
Church based/religious affiliated schools. This has made our situation very
critical. Our current construction project, class room block B and the laboratories
block, are near completion; we hope to put them to use by the beginning of the next
academic session in September of 2015.
(Source: Fr. Ikenna Ikechi, SJ, Jesuit Memorial College (JMC), Port Harcourt, Nigeria).
Asia Pacific – Jesuit Conference Asia Pacific (JCAP)
Two new schools in the Jesuit Asia Pacific Conference
The recent Education Secretaries meeting in Macau shared updates from the region
and also discussed areas of collaboration and common concern. Progress on the
two new schools was highlighted. “Our two new schools in the Jesuit Asia Pacific
Conference – in Timor Leste and Cambodia – are making very good progress, the
fruit of many years of careful planning and strong support in the Conference. Their
newness is a sign of new life and hope for the future” – said Chris Gleeson SJ, JCAP
Secretary.
In a report on the JCAP meeting we read: “According to Fr Roberto Boholst SJ,
Colégio de Santo Inácio de Loiola, the new school in Timor-Leste, now has six
buildings with four classrooms each, and it can now take 105 students instead of 90
in each of the three year levels. Preparations are also moving along for Instituto São
João de Brito, the teacher training institute that is adjacent to the school and the
other component of the Jesuit education project in Timor-Leste. Construction will
soon begin on the teacher training institute but already it is planned that classes will
begin next year using some of the Colégio de Santo Inácio de Loiola buildings.
In Cambodia, work on the Xavier Jesuit School Project is going well, and its director,
Fr Ashley Evans SJ, provided details of the four stages for the new school: a
community learning centre, kindergarten, primary section and secondary section”.
For full article please see the JCAP website. (Source: Chris Gleeson SJ, JCAP
Secretary for Secondary Education and JCAP News).
Europe – Jesuit European Committee for Primary and Secondary
Education (JECSE)
And the winner is… Jesuit Schools European Sports Tournament (JESET 2015)
Smiles, dedication and lots of fun: these were the key elements of the third edition
of JESET, which took place in Milan and Caorle (a small town near Venice) between
June 21st and 27th. 2015. The 400 high school students from all over Europe and
Egypt participated with great enthusiasm in the many activities offered by the
Organizing Committee of JESET 2015. JESET was launched in Milan with the
celebration of the Eucharist on Sunday 21st June at Istituto Leone XIII. Director of
JECSE, Marie-Thérèse Michel, was also present to welcome the delegations.
The first two days were dedicated to the Expo Milano 2015 and the main topic
of Exposition: “Feeding the Planet, Energy for life”. The delegations highly
appreciated both the Roundtable organised in the Institute and the visit to the Expo
site.
On June 22nd the delegations moved to Caorle, for the sports program, which
included the following disciplines: football, basketball, volleyball, swimming, athletics
and beach volley. The most beautiful evening of the week was the one dedicated to
the Flags Parade, which led through the historic centre of Caorle. Songs and
choruses from each institution accompanied the parade, under the curious glances
of tourists.
After epic challenges both on land and at sea, on the waves of the Adriatic Sea, on
the athletics tracks and on the sand, at the end of the week the winner of JESET
2015 was declared…
The trophy, made especially by the artist Sheila De Paoli, went to the Institute of St.
Blasien, Germany, who deserve to be congratulated! The second place went to the
boys of the Ignatian Educational Centre of Palermo and the Lithuanian school of
Kaunas came third. (Source: Dott. Roberto Nardio, Sport Coordinator, Istituto Leone
XIII news).
Latin America – Federación Latinoamericana de Colegios de la
Compañía de Jesús (FLACSI)
International Arrupe Workshop 2015 - "Love and Service to Others"
The International Arrupe Workshop IV (CTI Arrupe) took place on the San José de
la Esperanza farm in Colombia from the 23rd of May to the 6th of June, 2015.
Between students and mentors, over 90 people from 7 countries (Bolivia, Brazil,
Chile. Guatemala, Paraguay, Peru and Colombia) and 22 FLACSI schools took part
in this experience.
The workshop (CTI Arrupe) was carried out in three stages. The first 7 days focussed
on formation and sharing of experiences which allowed participants to begin to get
to know themselves, to establish a relationship with their surroundings, their country,
Latin America, the world and ecology as well as the social reality in which they have
developed as human beings. These first few days were the preparation for the
second stage of the workshop which took place over 5 days, in which the participants
experienced immersion in highly complex social contexts; with communities that
have had to deal with the effects of armed conflicts, violence and state neglect;
getting to know the reality of the country, working with different populations and
experiencing a sense of community between the different mission groups. Finally,
participants returned to San José de la Esperanza farm where the conclusion and
closing of the workshop took place on the 5th and 6th of June.
FLACSI’s presence at the CTI Arrupe Workshop
Father Hugo Alexis, Moreno, SJ, the president of FLACSI, spoke to the participants
by way of a letter which was read out at the beginning by the Head of the Pastoral
Care Network, Lina Marcela Talero, where he highlighted the importance of these
experiences of collaborating in a network as they give value to belonging to a large
continental network. Together with these words he presented each participant with
a bracelet with inspirational quotes on Ignatian pedagogy, with the invitation at the
end of the letter to ‘remember throughout the workshop that we are here to serve