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Promoting the Pope's Monthly Prayer Intentions newsletter of the office of advancement WINTER 2019 IN THIS ISSUE Letter from the Director of the Office 2 of Advancement Father General 3 visits Canada Scotch Nosing 6 and Dinner 12 In Memoriam Promoting 14 Scholarships the Pope’s 15 Enrollment Cards monthly prayer intentions FEATURES he Pope's Worldwide Prayer prayer, as well as to develop prayer Network (PWPN) - formerly known habits such as the Morning Offering and Tas the Apostleship of Prayer - the Examen. This responsibility primarily promotes a way of engaging the urgent pertains to PWPN's ministry with young needs of the world through grounding adults, a demographic that is sometimes 8 DONOR PROFILE ourselves in prayer. PWPN specifically forgotten amidst other apostolic priorities. promotes the monthly intentions of the Many EYM groups are often founded upon Pope, allowing us to both pray and think a common ethnic background. Ministering with the Church. PWPN’s two principal to the different EYM groups is also a way digital means are the App “Click to Pray” for us to serve the different immigrant and the Pope Video, the latter being a brief populations in the Church, a sector that 9 explanation given by the Pope himself on greatly contributes to the vitality of the JESUIT PROFILE the particular monthly prayer intention. local Church in Canada. The youth branch of PWPN is called For more information, please visit the Eucharistic Youth Movement (EYM). them online at: popesprayerusa.net or In carrying out the vision of PWPN, in Canada please contact: Fr. Edmund EYM journeys with young people by Lo, SJ, national coordinator of PWPN at 11 encouraging them to develop a personal [email protected] APOSTOLATE PROFILE relationship with Jesus Christ through Jésuites du Canada / Jesuits of Canada ◆ 43 Queen's Park Cres. E., Toronto, ON M5S 2C3 ◆ www.jesuits.ca JESUIT JESUIT newsletter of the LETTER FROM THE office of advancement DIRECTOR Director: Barry J. Leidl Contributors: Dear Friends of the Jesuits, Edmund Lo, SJ, Michael Swan, Theresa Rowat, The Archive of the Jesuits Our team at the Office of Advancement hopes you enjoy this issue of our newsletter, the in Canada/Archives des jésuites au first issue of the new Jésuites du Canada/ Jesuits of Canada Province of the Society of Jesus. Canada, Erica Zlomislic In this issue, we feature a profile of Gail and Bruce Young, valued and committed supporters Graphic Design: of the Jesuit ministry in Canada, who share some of the reasons for their commitment to the Camille Legaspi Jesuits. You will also find a profile of Father Winston Rye, SJ, whom many of you know from his ministry in high schools, at the Provincial Curia, as superior of several Jesuit communities, Photography: and of course, as a former Director of the Jesuit Development Office. Jude Aloysius, Don Doll, SJ, Robert Du Broy, Hombeline Dumas, Our apostolate feature highlights the Jesuit Archive in Montreal, which is truly a fascinating Fotoreflection/Moussa Faddoul, repository of Jesuit works and collections, since their first arrival to Canada in 1611. Far from Jane Lee, Michael Swan, Mother Teresa being a dusty old library today’s Archive is full of life, artifacts, and many stories. Often times Middle School, The Archive of the its staff works with researchers and students, both religious and lay, seeking to learn more Jesuits in Canada/Archives des jésuites about the innumerable contributions of the Jesuits to Canada. au Canada, Roei Weiss As well, we hope you enjoy the profiles of our ordained Jesuits, along with perhaps some fond memories of Jesuits who have recently died. The Jesuit is published two times Finally, we are pleased to give you a short recap of our annual events since the last newsletter, per year (summer and winter) by including two exciting new pilgrimages, one here and one abroad, which we hope you will the Jesuits of Canada - Office of consider as another way to learn about the Jesuits and support our ministry. Advancement. All rights reserved. Reproduction of any material Thanks as always for your prayers and generous support. The Jesuits and their lay staff never appearing in this newsletter in any form fail to remember their benefactors and friends each day. is forbidden without prior consent of the Office of Advancement. God bless you abundantly. For additional copies, address changes, and to stay connected with us, please contact the Jesuit Office of Advancement Sincerely, at: Sacred Heart House 43 Queen’s Park Cres. E. Toronto, ON, M5S 2C3 Barry J. Leidl Canada Director of Advancement Directeur de développment www.jesuits.ca T: 416.481.9154 F: 416.962.4501 E: [email protected] 2 Father General visits Canada ather Arturo Sosa Abascal, SJ, the 31st Superior General of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) visited Canada from May 18 – 30, 2018. On his Ffirst official visit to Canada, Fr. General met with all provincial superiors of the Society of Jesus in Canada and the United States. His itinerary also included attending the ordinations of Jesuit priests and deacons in Toronto and Quebec City, visits to Martyrs’ Shrine and Sainte-Marie among the Hurons in Midland, Ontario, Loyola High School in Montreal, Campion College and Mother Teresa Middle School in Regina, Regis College in Toronto, and other apostolates of the Jesuits throughout Canada. Born in Venezuela in 1948, Father Sosa is the first Latin American Superior General of the Society of Jesus, the largest religious order of priests and brothers in the Catholic Church with more than 16,000 members. For more details about Fr. General’s trip to Canada please visit us online at Jesuits.ca. 3 JESUIT Christopher Ewing Alex Anthony Cazcarro university. The more Edmund learned Grodecki, SJ grew up Llanera, SJ was born in about the Jesuits, the more he felt called in Winnetka, IL. He San Jose, CA and was to a vocation. After graduation, he worked attended Georgetown raised in Sacramento, as a neuroethics research intern for six University, earning his CA. He attended Jesuit months before joining the Jesuits in undergraduate degree in English and High School and graduated in 2005. 2008. As a novice, Edmund spent several German and an MA in German. Chris He completed a bachelor's degree in months in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in 2010 remained in Washington, DC, working political science and theology from Loyola and was teaching there when the massive as a writer/researcher for a non-profit Marymount University in Los Angeles earthquake struck. For the next few public interest law firm until he entered in 2008. That same year he entered the months, he helped with relief efforts and the Jesuit novitiate in 2009. As part of his California Province Novitiate in Culver later taught English to young Haitians. Jesuit formation, Chris earned an MA City. He took First Vows in 2010 and Missioned next to Regis College, he in Philosophy from Loyola University completed his philosophical studies and a earned a diploma in philosophical studies Chicago and a Master of Divinity from master's in political science at Saint Louis in 2012. He then taught science and ethics Regis College, Toronto. During his time University in Missouri in 2013. He's at Campion College in Regina, SK, for in Chicago, Chris was a catechist in a worked at Saint Ignatius College Prep in two years. At Regis College, he received a parish-based catechesis program for San Francisco and Homeboy Industries in Master of Divinity degree and finished his developmentally disabled Catholics, an Los Angeles. Alex completed his Master Licentiate in Sacred Theology. Since the RCIA catechist at St. Procopius Parish, of Divinity from Regis College in 2018. fall of 2018, he has been promoting Jesuit and chaplain to the LUC women’s soccer He is continuing his theological education vocations in Western Canada. team. During his regency at Saint Joseph’s pursuing a Licentiate in Sacred Theology “My journey as a Jesuit has been both University in Philadelphia, Chris taught at the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa formative and enriching in every way undergraduate philosophy courses and Clara University. imaginable. I hope that my priesthood will directed the campus RCIA program. "Jesuit formation is about discovering how help to bring others closer to Jesus Christ, who Chris has also taught at Washington to serve the Church with authenticity and is the source of all reconciliation and hope.” Jesuit Academy and Yap Catholic High compassion. I pray that I will be able to School in Micronesia; engaged in retreat preach the Gospel with the heart of Christ to Edward Dawson ministry and carried out pastoral ministry those that I encounter in my ministry." Penton, SJ was born at St. Anthony’s Parish in Oceanside, and raised in Ottawa. NY. Since Fall 2018, he has been at Edmund He first met the Jesuits Regis College studying for a Licentiate in Kwok-Fai Lo, SJ was through the Jesuit Sacred Theology. born in Hong Kong and Volunteer Corps. He “It is a great joy to be a Jesuit knowing that moved with his family volunteered for the Farmworker Unit of to go out to the peripheries requires that we to Vancouver when he Legal Aid of North Carolina, leading paradoxically must enter ever more deeply was 13. He attended the outreach to migrant workers across the into the knowledge and service of the heart of University of British Columbia, receiving state to educate them about their rights. Christ and his Church on earth. For one can a bachelor’s degree in cell biology and Inspired by this work to study law, he only give what one has received, and every genetics in 2004 and a master’s degree in went on to complete a JD at Harvard grace a Jesuit receives is ultimately meant neuroscience in 2008.
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