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CONTACT Australian Jesuits Dear Friends, 20 The Vaucluse On 19 February, Jesuit Superior General Fr Arturo Sosa Richmond Victoria 3121 announced four new Apostolic Preferences for the whole Telephone 03 9421 9666 Society of Jesus for the next ten years.

CALL TO MISSION his had been a task given to him young people in the creation of a hope-filled by General Congregation 36: ‘to future; and to collaborate in the care of our evaluateT progress on our current apostolic common home. preferences and, if appropriate, to identify While variously described as providing new ones. Discernment of such preferences a horizon, a point of reference and an should include the greatest possible orientation, they invite the whole Society of participation of the Society and of those Jesus and its lay companions to continue to involved with us in our mission.’ discern in common how these preferences These preferences are the result of affect our apostolic planning, use of 16 months of conversation and discernment resources, networking and universal mission. involving local communities, regional In this edition of Companions we provide conferences and a final discernment process stories and reflections on how these involving Fr General and his consultants. preferences are already at play in our COVER PHOTOGRAPHY They were signed off by Pope Francis, Province, with a view to exploring how they Louis Maniquet who commented that they ‘are in agreement can be more strongly embedded in the life of Editor Tim Kroenert with the current priorities of the Church as our Province. [email protected] expressed through the ordinary magisterium These preferences ask of each of us to Editorial consultants of the Pope, the Synods, and the Episcopal wholeheartedly welcome this invitation

Michael McVeigh, Andrew Hamilton sj, Conferences, especially since [Francis’ 2013 to be companions of Jesus and servants of

Rob Davoren sj, Chris Horvat sj. apostolic exhortation] Evangelii Gaudium’. his mission of reconciliation. Let us move CONTRIBUTORS Michael McVeigh, The four preferences are: to show the forward in hope to make these preferences

Andrew Hamilton sj, Brian McCoy sj, way to God through the Spiritual Exercises real in our lives, our Province and across the

Steve Sinn sj, Victoria Graham, and discernment; to walk with the poor, whole of the Society of Jesus.

Sue Martin, Julian Butler sj, Frances the outcasts of the world, those whose

Tilly, Sacha Bermudez-Goldman sj, dignity has been violated, in a mission of

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Above: Fr General Arturo Sosa SJ (centre) celebrates the announcement of the UAPs.

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Province News

Above: The five XLC students (front row) join staff and friends of Jesuit Mission.

IMMERSION BUILDS CONFIDENCE One of the students, Chaiwat ‘Xavier Learning Community is very FOR THE FUTURE Sukdenchaikul, said coming to Australia felt important for me because this place A group of five students from the Xavier like ‘coming home’, given how many of the teaches me a lot more than learning Learning Community in Thailand took young people at Cardoner had undertaken or studying’, said one of the students, part in an immersion program in Australia immersion experiences at XLC in Thailand. Rungnapha Mayoe. during February and March 2019, building Coming from a farming family, Chaiwat ‘They teach me to be confident, teach on a relationship that was first established said he hoped his studies in English, me to be proud of myself and teach me to through The Cardoner Project. and experiences in Australia, would be a good person and a person for others The students were given the help him realise his dream to become a … I would like to thank everyone who has opportunity to visit Australia to further flight attendant. contributed to this project and I will try my their studies in English and liberal arts, Another of the students, Yanisa best every day in return for your kindness.’ after winning an essay contest in their Praphakunkaew, was fascinated by the Jesuit Mission CEO Helen Forde said it school community in Thailand. visit to St Aloysius’ College. She said she was a pleasure to host the students. XLC opened its doors in 2017, offering free or subsidised education to disadvantaged minorities such as the Karen, Akha, Lahu and Hmong hill tribes. XLC supports the students to achieve a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, which is seen as a world language and a key to their Above: The students enjoy a talk by Jesuit Mission CEO Helen Forde (right). future careers. In addition, every student undertakes ‘It was one of those rare opportunities was interested to see how the teachers profession-based training, including English when we could directly connect our friends encouraged the students to ask questions, for teaching, eco-tourism and hospitality and companions of Jesuit Mission here with and to think of the answers for themselves. plus sustainable community development. individuals who are participating in Jesuit- She said she had experienced a similar While they were on immersion in run programs overseas.’ approach at XLC in Thailand, which has Australia, the five students were based at teachers from all over the world bringing The Cardoner Project in Sydney. As part Article written with support of new ways of learning with them. Students of the immersion, they worked three days Victoria Graham at Jesuit Mission. also visited Jesuit Mission, which provides a week at Two Wolves Cantina, and visited support for XLC. Students gave a a number of sites around the city, including presentation, answered stories from guests Jesuit Mission and St Aloysius’ College. and shared their hopes for the future.

Companions Winter 2019 3 ‘We love life, we want to live’

Frans Van der Lugt, or ‘Pater Frans’, was a Jesuit priest from the Netherlands who established a community centre and farm near the city of Homs, Syria. There he worked for the betterment of people with disabilities and for harmony among Christian and Muslim people.

n 2014 he made a number of IYouTube videos, asking the international community for help for the citizens of the besieged city.

‘Christians and Muslims are going through a difficult and painful time and we are faced with many problems’, he said. ‘The greatest of these is hunger. People have nothing to eat. There is nothing more painful than watching mothers searching for food for children in the streets … I do not accept that we drown in a sea of hunger … We love life, Clockwise from left: Fr Phil Crotty SJ; Fr Crotty on the streets we want to live.’ of India in his younger days; Fr Steve Sinn SJ (centre) with guests at the St Canice’s soup kitchen. Pater Frans refused to leave Homs, despite the dangerous situation. He was shot and killed around 9.30am on voices of those outside that enclosed, Greenvale, Vic., and established 4Flats Monday 7 April 2014 aged 75. self‑referencing, privileged world. and the work with young people coming The call to accompany the oppressed In Australia the Provincial, Fr Peter out of prison. Novices were encouraged has a pedigree in the Society of Jesus Steele SJ, wrote a letter to the Province to feel the insecurity and cold wind of and in our Province that goes back in about the need for ‘exposure’ to those homelessness when they were sent to more modern times to the 31st General on the margins. As well as maintaining walk from Adelaide to Sevenhill with no Congregation held in 1965. There the our commitment to our institutions — money and no spare tunic. call to faith was linked with justice, and our schools, parishes, university colleges All these initiatives came from the all justice is social, all justice involves and seminaries — the Province began to heart of our calling as Jesuits: to be a working for social change. reach out to those on the margins. counter culture. This insight was an awakening for the Jesuits are a missionary order and I remember Fr Phil Crotty SJ Society. Beginning in South America, the up to the 1960s going to India was [an Australian Jesuit, former director Society moved from being aligned with offered as an option for the poor. of Jesuit Mission and member of the elites and enjoying their privileges to When that door closed, the Province Hazaribag Province in India] once saying hearing the voices of the poor. turned outward in different ways: we to me that all the Jesuits in India had All over the world there was set up Asian Bureau and later began to have had ‘the village experience’ if a breakdown of the old order, a to accompany refugees; scholastics they were to be effective in the more deconstructing of certainties and a backpacked through South East Asia mainstream ministries. challenging of the narratives of meaning during the Christmas holidays; the Otherwise they would not have that had been captured by the privileged. Townsville ministry with Aboriginal anything distinctive to offer the students The Society was called to leave the people was begun as well as the outback and the pull of the prevailing culture corridors of the institutions, to leave ministry in Balgo. would be too strong to counter. that controlled and secure environment, We moved in with homeless, alcoholic To accompany is not to do things and to live closer to and hear the men at Corpus Christi Community in for those we are accompanying or to

4 Companions Winter 2019 WALKING WITH THE EXCLUDED

To accompany is not to do things for those we are accompanying JRS WALKS WITH THE EXCLUDED ‘or to change them. It is to be faithful to them. Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Australia ’ serves and accompanies more than 3000 people seeking asylum every year. In doing so we confront and struggle with the deliberate violations our society has inflicted on the lives and dignity of innocent children, women, and men seeking refuge in our vast and prosperous land.

Reconciliation is at the core of building empathy and positivity towards people seeking asylum in Australia. It is this principle that animates JRS Australia’s presence in Western Sydney, Australia’s multicultural heartland. It inspires our open doors, hospitality, listening, sharing, and material and emotional support for those who have been excluded. Reconciliation is also at the heart of our change them. It is to be faithful to them. ‘My way of being a Jesuit has become advocacy work. We aim to build bridges; When I was at St Canice’s in Sydney greatly simplified by all that I have lived to provide platforms for those with lived Fr Pat O’Sullivan SJ used to come every through in these countries — through experience to dialogue directly with our Saturday and sit in the kitchen with the experiences of suffering, anguish, decision makers; to advocate with, not for. street people as they were having their undeniable beauty, as well as through It was in this spirit that we co-organised lunch. He gave them the most precious contact with the great civilisations and a meeting of leaders seeking asylum, faith gift he could give: his time. religions of Asia. and diaspora representatives with Shadow Fr Pierre Ceyrac was a French Jesuit ‘All this could be summarised in the Minister for Immigration and Border who died on 30 May 2012 in Chennai great axiom of Saint John of the Cross: Protection, Shayne Neumann, and federal at the age of 98. Pierre served with “My only work is to love”.’ MP for Greenway, Michelle Rowland. Jesuit Refugee Service in the camps of JRS Australia has led or participated Cambodian refugees in Thailand from the Fr Steve Sinn SJ in more than 40 of these meetings in early 1980s until the refugees returned the last year on a range of issues. At this to Cambodia in 1993. He once prepared meeting women seeking asylum raised a reflection for the ‘Praying with the The greatest of these is hunger. their concerns and shared stories of the Refugees’ website of JRS: ‘People have nothing to eat. communities they represent. ‘Without any merit on my part, The meeting was a huge success and There is nothing more painful I have lived an extraordinary human and a sure sign of things to come, as our than watching mothers searching religious life for more than 60 years along Universal Apostolic Preferences lend the borders of millennial civilisations. for food for children in the a new inspiration to a tough challenge. I have witnessed situations, whether in streets … I do not accept that India or Cambodia, where the forces of we drown in a sea of hunger … Carolina Gottardo, Nishadh Rego and evil and the forces of good ceaselessly We love life, we want to live. Anne Rutherford on behalf of JRS Australia. confront each other. ’ Companions Winter 2019 5 CARING FOR OUR COMMON HOME Walking with nature, walking with God

Clockwise from left: Sue Martin; the parish building; an 11m didgeridoo is a feature of the parish grounds.

secret spots that she had never been to. This included the garden Fr Jacobs is keen to develop into a contemplation garden. Mia loved that the walk asked some probing questions along the way and that at some of the stop points your imagination was called upon. Such moments are a chance to stop and think what it would have been like living on the site as part of the Darug community, and feeling where the natural streams To go out and find God in all things is often thought of as going out to our would have been, and the flora and fauna pristine landscapes to see the awe and majesty of Creation. This is food for the that would have been there. ‘It made me soul and encouraged across our Province, as seen by the growing Walking with realise how much we have lost’, Mia said. God in Nature program offered at Campion Centre for Ignatian Spirituality. April Bright, in the book Country of the Heart: An Australian Indigenous Homeland, he Earth Ministry team at Holy The walk starts at the parish office with says: ‘If you don’t look after country, TFamily Parish Emerton, NSW, an urban garden, and mentions the solar country will not look after you.’ We all Sue Martin and Fr Gregory Jacobs SJ, panels and the environmental art created need to better care for our common home. wanted to create an experience of by parishioners. Along the way there is an The intention of the Holy Family opportunity to reflect on our ecological ‘finding God in all’ no matter where you Emerton Environment Walk is to teach us responses and how we can care for our are, but especially in the place where to care for and love our place, no matter common home. you are — the church grounds. where it is. It is hoped that the walk can When Mia Jackson, the Kurung be a template for other parishes and And so the Holy Family Environment Walk homework club coordinator, based at schools to take up the challenge to find has been developed for the community to the Baabayn Centre onsite, undertook God in all; to find the awe and majesty of ponder the awe and majesty of Creation the walk, she noted: ‘We need to get the creation at our place. where we are; on Darug country, near young ones out learning about our rubbish South Creek on the Cumberland Plain, and where it goes.’ This was after seeing Sue Martin is the Sustainability Centre with the urban built environment the the Return and Earn bins newly installed Coordinator at Saint Ignatius’ College dominant landscape experience when from Vinnies. Riverview and a member of the Earth Ministry walking around the parish site. Mia also realised that there are some Team at Holy Family Parish Emerton, NSW.

6 Companions Winter 2019 Mining matters

Last November, 547 people from 60 countries travelled to Johannesburg, South Africa to attend a Thematic Social Forum on Mining and Extractives. Attendees represented a wide range of organisations, including faith-based NGOs, networks, indigenous movements and popular organisations.

Julie Edwards, CEO of Jesuit Social Services and leader of the Jesuits’ global Aerial view of mudslides area a day after the collapse of the dam near Brumadinho. Justice in Mining Network, attended the (Pedro Vilela/Getty Images) meeting. She tells Tim Kroenert about the experience, and why mining is of ‘core confirming that this experience [of being What has been happening since the concern’ to the Jesuits. impacted by mining practices] is a global forum that you’d like to highlight? TK: Why did you decide to experience. Regardless of whether you Since then we’ve had the terrible disaster attend this forum? came from the Philippines or a Latin in Brumadinho, Brazil*, which epitomised JE: It was a significant meeting with American country or an African country, some of the worst things that can people from all across the world. Many there was a commonality of experience. happen with unjust mining practices. had direct lived experience of the reality People have rallied together around that Why is this an important issue for of mining in their community, whether particular issue. Jesuit organisations? as defenders of human rights, or as There are also ongoing campaigns When there are not just processes indigenous people or local communities around doing what we can to create in relation to mining, there are many who were feeling the impact of mining on transparency around supply chains for implications. For example there are their day-to-day living. mobile phones and laptops. environmental implications. There are One of our other commitments is What was the overriding mood there? also human rights implications. These are to look for partnerships with Jesuit Anger? Hope? Despair? of core concern to the Jesuits, and that’s universities where we can underpin There was a mixture of feelings been underlined now by the new Universal our advocacy with research and make expressed. I met with people who had Apostolic Preferences. an informed contribution to support experienced the fracturing of families or When you have poor governance of those on the ground doing the direct communities, due to mining companies natural and mineral resources, particularly advocacy work. trying to divide people. They spoke with extractive industries, you often get great sadness about those splits. displacement of people, you often get *On 25 January 2019, the tailings dam of There was also great passion in conflict, there can be exploitation of a deactivated iron ore mine in Brumadinho terms of the courage people felt. Many workers, and exploitation of the land. failed, releasing toxic mud that caused people had had direct experience of When things like free, prior and 117 deaths and countless intergenerational environmental defenders being killed, informed consent are not upheld, when ecological and economic consequences. threatened or assaulted. This was very mining companies aren’t held accountable real for them: it wasn’t just reading about for their labour practices and their use Join the Justice in Mining Network at it, it was people in their communities, or and rehabilitation of the land, the effects justiceinmining.com their husbands or wives. are felt not just in the immediate area There was a lot of joy and hope but well beyond (say, through mass too, about coming together and migration), and inter-generationally too.

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T: (03) 9854 8110; Butler, Julian (8) Mullins, Patrick (17A) com/ F: (03) 9854 8100; Loyola Centre of E: [email protected]; Byrne, Brendan (8) Mullins, Paul (1) Ignatian Spirituality: www.cis.jesuit.org.au/campion-vic Calder, James (18) Murphy, William (8) T: (08) 8364 3834; E: [email protected]; 6A NAZARETH HOUSE Campbell, Antony (6A) Ng Sze Syn, Alvin Frederick (8) www.cis.jesuit.org.au/loyola-sa 16 Cornell Street, Canales Muñoz, Adolfo (17B) Nguyen, Andy (24) Camberwell VIC 3123; Carlson, Guy (6) Nguyen Hoang Trung (7) 1A CATHEDRAL PRESBYTERY T: (03) 9830 1486. 28 Norman Street, Carracedo, Manuel (17C) Nguyen Van Cao (8A) Port Pirie SA 5540; 7 XAVIER COLLEGE Choong, Joshua (16) Nguyen Viet Huy (11) T: (08) 8632 0550; Barkers Road, F: (08) 8632 0599. Kew VIC 3101; Choy, Enoch (8) O’Collins, Gerald (8) Office: Diocese of Port Pirie, College web: www.xavier.vic.edu.au Cribb, Ian (16) O’Kelly, Gregory (1A) PO Box 1206, Community: Port Pirie SA 5540. 12 Stanley Street, Crotty, Phillip (18) O’Neill, Brett (25) Kew VIC 3101; Curtin, Stephen (8) O’Sullivan, Patrick (6) 2 SAINT IGNATIUS’ COLLEGE T: (03) 9854 5433; Manresa Court, F: (03) 9854 5447. Davoren, Robert (7) Otto, John (Jack) (2A) Athelstone SA 5076; Day, Daven (18) Overberg, Theodore (20) College web: www.ignatius.sa.edu.au 8 MELBOURNE HOUSE OF Demase, Isaac (8) Park, Jin-hyuk (8) Community: FORMATION AND SCHOLARSHIP, T: (08) 8337 5254; COLLEGE OF SPIRITUALITY Dinh Trung Hoa (8) Patel, Mukesh (3) F: (08) 8334 9371. 175 Royal Parade, Dooley, Joseph (15) Pereira, Gaetan (5/14) Parkville VIC 3052. 2A HONEYPOT ROAD, Faber House Dwyer, Desmond (5) Pham Minh-Uoc (8) Noarlunga Downs SA 5168; Jesuit College of Spirituality: Fyfe, Paul (14) Pham, Trung (8) T: (08) 8382 1717. T: (03) 9448 8276; www.jcs.edu.au Gill, Kieran (22) Pham Van Ai (8) 3 ST ALOYSIUS’ CHURCH, Jesuit Theological College: Gleeson, J. Christopher (7) Pinson, Matthew (8) RESIDENCE, CENTRE OF IGNATIAN T: (03) 9341 5800; Glyn, Justin (8) Pipins, Bryan (5A) SPIRITUALITY AND CELLARS E: [email protected] Sadler House Hamilton, Andrew (9) Prendiville, John (19C) Box 13, Sevenhill SA 5453; 8A CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE Han, Mariusz (12) Punchathalackal, Rajesh (8) T: (08) 8843 4172. 180 Drummond Street, Sevenhill and Carlton VIC 3053; Hansen, Michael (19) Purcell, Desmond (6) Riverton/Manoora Parishes: T: (03) 9657 0230. Harte, John (6) Radvan, Iain (6 until June, then 9) Tel/F: (08) 8843 5930; E: [email protected] Head, Michael (6) 8B 30 KENSINGTON TERRACE Raper, Mark (31) Sevenhill Cellars: Toowong QLD 4066. Heading, Maurice (8C) Renshaw, Thomas (5) T: (08) 8843 4222; F: (08) 8843 4382; 8C DARWIN RESIDENCE Healy, Gerard (6) Richards, Ramesh (26) www.sevenhillcellars.com.au 1/22 Tipperary Court, Hendriks, Hans (6) Robertson, W. Bruce (16) Sevenhill Centre Stuart Park NT 0820; Hizon, Raymund Benedict (9) Romanin, Celso (6/19) of Ignatian Spirituality: (GPO Box 476 Darwin NT 0801); T: (08) 8843 5935; F: (08) 8942 6060. Holdcroft, David (20) Romanin, Ferruccio (11) E: [email protected]; Horvat, Christopher (10) Rostworowski, Tadeusz (12) www.sevenhillretreat.com.au 9 PARK DRIVE COMMUNITY 140 Park Drive, Hosking, Peter (2) Rourke, Paul (8) Victoria Parkville VIC 3052; Howells, Ian (19A) Rwimo, Edward (8) 4 PROVINCIAL OFFICE, F: (03) 9347 0147. Huddy, Kevin (19) Ryan, David (6) GUEST HOUSE AND SOCIAL MINISTRY 10 NEWMAN COLLEGE Jacobs, Gregory (17A) Ryan, Michael (3 until June, then 6) 130 Power Street, 887 Swanston Street, Jenkins, Christopher (3) Ryba, Ludwik (12) (PO Box 6071), Parkville VIC 3052; Hawthorn VIC 3122; T: (03) 9347 5577; Jones, Ross (16) Shortall, Richard (7) Provincial Office: T: (03) 9810 7300; F: (03) 9349 2592; Kelly, Brendan (17B) Sinn, Stephen (15A) F: (03) 9810 7388; www.newman.unimelb.edu.au E: [email protected]; Kelly, Michael (30) Slowik, Wieslaw (Tony) (12) www.jesuit.org.au 11 ST IGNATIUS’ PARISH, Kelly, Terence (6) Smith, Michael (20) Jesuit Mission (Victoria Office) COMMUNICATIONS 130 Power Street, Hawthorn Vic 3122; Kiesch, Leonhard (32) AND SOCIAL MINISTRY Sobb, Joseph (3) (PO Box 6071, Hawthorn Vic 3122) St Ignatius Church & Residence Kim Seong-ki Andrew (19B) Stoney, Michael (18) T: (03) 9810 7341; 326 Church Street, E: [email protected]; Richmond VIC 3121; Koning, Robin (8) Strong, David (19) www.jesuitmission.org.au T: (03) 8420 6789; Lariosa, Jesús Nicodemus (16) Sumarwan, Antonius (Marwan) (8B) F: (03) 9429 3346; Leonard, Laurence (6) Tanaya, Eka (27) 5 IMMACULATE CONCEPTION E: [email protected]; PARISH www.ignatius.org.au Leonard, Richard (18) Tran Van Minh (11A) 345 Burwood Road, Jesuit Communications L’Estrange, Peter (13/19) Tran Van Tro (17D) Hawthorn VIC 3122. 20 The Vaucluse, (PO Box 553), Community: Richmond VIC 3121; Lim, Stanislaus (1) Uren, William (10) T: (03) 9818 1935. T: (03) 9421 9666; Los, Waldemar (8) Vu Kim Quyen (29) Parish: F: (03) 9421 9600; T: (03) 8862 4000; E: [email protected]; Ma’afu, Tupou (17A) Walsh, Robert (19D) F: (03) 9819 9560; www.jesuitcommunications.com.au Madigan, Daniel (21) Willcock, Christopher (9) E: [email protected]; Jesuit Social Services Martis, John (9) Wong Ting Yuet, Alan (16A) www.immaculateconceptionaust.com 326 Church Street, (PO Box 271), May, John (19) Zecchin, Renato (28) 5A OUR LADY OF THE Richmond, VIC, 3121; Mbugua, William (8) ROSARY CHURCH T: (03) 9421 7600; 61 Edmund Street, (PO Box 595) F: (03) 9421 7699; Caloundra QLD 4551; E: [email protected]; T: (07) 5491 2011. www.jss.org.au 8 Companions Winter 2019 Jesuit Directory 2019

11A ST MACARTAN’S CHURCH 17B NOVITIATE 19D ST PETER’S GREEN 4 Drake Street, 19 Bach Avenue and 3 Felton Avenue, Mornington VIC 3931; 24 Emert Parade, Lane Cove North NSW 2066; T: (03) 5975 2200; Emerton NSW 2770; T: (02) 8413 4000. Jubilarians E: [email protected]. (PO Box 86, Mount Druitt NSW 2770); International 12 ST ANDREW BOBOLA Bach Ave T: (02) 8605 2818; 20 CURIA GENERALIZIA In the Society POLISH CENTRE Emert Parade T: (02) 9628 8340. Borgo S. Spirito 4, 23 Clifton Street, 00193 Roma, Italy; 70 years Richmond VIC 3121; 17C OUR LADY T: +39 06 69868 306 (D Holdcroft); T: (03) 9428 1200; OF CONSOLATION HOUSE T: +39 06 69868 461 (T Overberg); F: (03) 9427 7884. St Helen’s Section, T: +39 06 69868 605 (M Smith). 32 Evans Road, Australian Capital Territory Rooty Hill NSW 2766; 21 JESUIT COMMUNITY 13 XAVIER HOUSE T: (02) 9675 4177. Georgetown University, 122 Empire Circuit, Washington DC 20057–1200, Yarralumla ACT 2600; 17D ST JOSEPH USA; T: (02) 6174 2596. CONFERENCE CENTRE T: +1 202 687 5195. 30 Tyson Road, Br John May 13A SACRED HEART PARISH Bringelly NSW 2556; 22 WALTER CISZEK HOUSE 36 Queen Street, (Mail to: 190a Foster Street, 60 years (PO Box 23) Moruya NSW 2537. 93 The River Road, Brighton, MA 02135 USA. Revesby NSW 2212). New South Wales 23 ST FRANCIS XAVIER HOUSE 14 ST CANICE’S CHURCH 18 OUR LADY OF THE WAY Faber Jesuit Community, AND SOCIAL MINISTRY PARISHES AND 190B Foster Street, St Canice’s Presbytery, SOCIAL MINISTRY Brighton, MA 02135 USA; 28 Roslyn Street, Sacred Heart Residence T: +1-617 779-4226. Elizabeth Bay NSW 2011; and St Francis T: (02) 9358 5229; Xavier’s Church 24 ST ISAAC JOGUES HOUSE F: (02) 9358 3170; 20 MacKenzie Street, St Peter Faber Community, Bp Greg O’Kelly Barry O’Loughlin E: [email protected]; Lavender Bay NSW 2060; 196A Foster Street, (Hazaribag) www.stcanice.com.au (PO Box 189 Brighton, MA 02135 USA. Jesuit Refugee Service North Sydney NSW 2059); 24 Roslyn Street, (PO Box 522), T: (02) 8038 6355; 25 FRANCIS XAVIER HOUSE Kings Cross NSW 1340; F: (02) 8918 4125; 190B Foster Street, T: (02) 9356 3888; E: [email protected]; Brighton, MA 02135 USA. F: (02) 9356 3021; www.northsydneycatholics.com E: [email protected]; Parish Administration 26 BL. MIGUEL PRO HOUSE www.jrs.org.au Ron Dyer Centre, 192B Foster Street, 42 Ridge Street Brighton, MA 02135 USA. 15 SAINT IGNATIUS’ COLLEGE (PO Box 1409), RIVERVIEW North Sydney, NSW, 2059; 27 CHABANEL HOUSE Celso Romanin Wieslaw (Tony) Tambourine Bay Road, T: (02) 8918 4101; 196B Foster Street, Slowik Lane Cove NSW 2066; F: (02) 8918 4125; Brighton, MA 02135 USA. College: www.riverview.nsw.edu.au E: [email protected] 50 years Community: Jesuit Mission 28 LOYOLA HALL T: (02) 9882 8229; (National Office) 28 Warris Road, F: (02) 9882 8206. Ron Dyer Centre, Lahore 54500 Pakistan; 42 Ridge Street, Mail to: PO Box 536, 15A THE BRIDGE COMMUNITY (PO Box 193), Lahore 54500 Pakistan; 14 Brilliant Street, North Sydney, NSW 2059; (in letters omit ‘Rev’ and ‘SJ’); (PO Box 9), Bathurst NSW 2795. T: (02) 8918 4109; T: +92 321 400 3201 E: [email protected]; (Xavier House). 16 ST ALOYSIUS’ COLLEGE www.jesuitmission.org.au 47 Upper Pitt Street, 29 XAVIER JESUIT SCHOOL SVEY Bruce Robertson Joseph Dooley Milsons Point NSW 2061; 19 PYMBLE RESIDENCE SISOPHON College: www.staloysius.nsw.edu.au (INCL AGED CARE), PO Box 0133, Community: IGNATIAN FORMATION Sereisophon Banteay Meanchey, Gonzaga, 36 Jeffreys Street, AND CENTRE OF IGNATIAN Cambodia; Kirribilli NSW 2061; SPIRITUALITY T: +85 595 816 342. T: (02) 9957 3278; 102 Mona Vale Road, F: (02) 9957 2581. Pymble NSW 2073; 30 XAVIER HALL Arrupe House 43 Phahonyothin Road, 16A BELLARMINE HOUSE T: (02) 9488 4500; Victory Monument, Bangkok 202 Broadway, F: (02) 9488 4519. 10400, Thailand. Chippendale NSW 2008; Peter Canisius House Paul Fyfe Paul Mullins (Mail to Jesuit House, PO Box 1001 T: (02) 9488 4524; 31 ST PETER CANISIUS HOUSE Broadway NSW 2007); F: (02) 9488 4586; 17-A Thalawaddy Road, T: (02) 7902 0850; www.petercanisiushouse.com.au Mayangone, Yangon 11061, E: [email protected] Canisius Centre Myanmar. of Ignatian Spirituality: 17 LOYOLA HOUSE, T: (02) 9488 4524; 32 PFLEGEHEIM MARIA FRIEDEN LOYOLA SENIOR E: [email protected]; Ebersteinburgerstraße 8a, HIGH SCHOOL, www.canisiusspirituality.org.au 76530 Baden-Baden, Germany; HOLY FAMILY PARISH Ministry of the T: +49 7221 302399 392. AND NOVITIATE First Spiritual Exercises: Christopher Gaetan Pereira Loyola House: T: (02) 9488 4500; 33 COPLESTON HOUSE 18-20 Dudley Street, E: [email protected] 221-223 Goldhurst Terrace, Willcock Mount Druitt NSW 2770; London NW6 3EP, Tel/F: (02) 9832 1640. 19A ST JOHN’S AGED CARE United Kingdom. In the Priesthood Loyola Senior High School: 11 Exmouth Street, 91 North Parade, Toowong QLD 4066. 50 years (PO Box 145), Mount Druitt NSW 2770; 19B OUR LADY OF DOLOURS College: www.loyolashs.nsw.edu.au CATHOLIC CHURCH 94 Archer Street, 17A HOLY FAMILY PARISH (PO Box 1446); 254 Luxford Road, Chatswood NSW 2067. Emerton NSW 2770; (PO Box 86, 19C MERCY PLACE MONT CLARE Mount Druitt NSW 2770); 9 Dean Street, T: (02) 9628 7272; Claremont WA 6010; Anthony Ryan (Hazaribag) F: (02) 9628 6139. T: (08) 9383 0000 (reception). Companions Winter 2019 9 How the Spiritual Exercises have shaped my ministry

Jesuit Directory We asked two Australian Jesuits at different stages of formation, and a lay Companion continued who works in the Province, ‘How have the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius shaped Recently deceased your ministry?’ Here are their responses.

JULIAN BUTLER SJ (MADE HIS FIRST VOWS ON 2 FEBRUARY 2019) is, in some sense, a ministry of befriending. He doesn’t just befriend those who are easy to accompany, or who have something for him. He does have well placed and well- Anthony Smith 3 June 1947 to-do friends, and he loves them, but his – 18 February 2018 The Spiritual Exercises have changed my life, deeper desire is to be with the excluded, and are continuing to change it. Entering into marginalised and oppressed. St Ignatius’ prayer paradigm, nothing remains The Exercises leave me with a sense that as it was. The reverberations unfold in new the reign of God is built by friendship, that and surprising ways. I suppose that’s what each befriending partakes in God’s reign. If I happens when you fall in love. am befriending authentically, and not just for José-Maria Enedáguila 8 December 1934 The Exercises call the retreatant to my personal needs, then I will be befriending – 20 April 2018 consider who God is, and who the retreatant as Jesus did, stepping into spaces of greater is in relation to that God. Our God, who first need, witnessing the reality that none should loves us, who in Incarnation and Passion gives be excluded, marginalised, oppressed. That all for us, who in Resurrection offers salvific seems to me to be a ministry for a lifetime. hope for all of us. How does the beloved

Geoffrey Schneider respond to one who loves like that? 23 December 1912 I undertook the Exercises as a Jesuit – 8 October 2018 novice. I had enough faith and sense of ‘call’ to turn up at the novitiate door, but it was in walking with Jesus in the Exercises that I found just how much I desire God to be at FRANCES TILLY the centre of my life. I desire that Jesus walks (DEPUTY DIRECTOR, NATIONAL FIRST

Antony Ruhan with me, and slowly I am growing to let him. SPIRITUAL EXERCISES PROGRAM) 2 July 1928 Consciously allowing Jesus to accompany My work is now completely in the ministry of – 23 December 2018 me means nothing can remain untouched, and the Spiritual Exercises and Ignatian Formation, where it does, the Examen prayer calls me giving the First and full Exercises and spiritual to question why I have not let God be with direction. me in that particular place. This is a process The Spiritual Exercises hold me in of integration that allows me to begin to love profound relationship with myself, God and serve with some authenticity. and others. They have helped me find the The relationship with Jesus impels me fundamental orientation of my life. They into relationships with others. Jesus’ ministry embolden me to go wide and deep, affirming

The Exercises leave me with a sense that the reign of God is built by ‘friendship, that each befriending partakes in God’s reign.’ 10 Companions Winter 2019 PROMOTING DISCERNMENT AND THE SPIRITUAL EXERCISES

my love of the large horizon and the many more thing. God is a friend for Ignatius; rejoice intensely because of the great glory ways to God. consoling, intimate, personal. Friendship, and joy of Christ our Lord’. They have taught me to wait in tension, mutual and dynamic, operates across And a bit later he will proclaim his well- name my deep desire, notice shifts of gender, age and culture. known maxim ‘love ought to manifest itself energy and choose the loving way forward. Such humanity is wonderfully at the more by deeds than by words’. They are God has found me through the Exercises, heart of this charism. words of great wisdom, ‘guidelines for life’, surprising me, opening up new possibilities Now my ministry is shaped by the which have shaped the way I try to live my and networks of relationship. transformations offered in the Spiritual life and carry out my work. The Exercises have helped me become more aware of all the good and beautiful They have taught me to wait in tension, name my deep desire, gifts I receive daily from God, and to be notice shifts of energy and choose the loving way forward. ‘ grateful for them, not for God’s sake, ’ but for my own. In giving thanks I can God acts first. My earliest experiences Exercises, with ‘felt-knowledge’ that appreciate the gifts received and reflect of the Exercises came at school and after we are called by God into the healing on God’s love for me. This gratitude calls university, through religious women who and freeing ministry of Jesus. We can forth a response from me. had received them; women of interior encounter God, supremely generous In seeking how to respond, Ignatius freedom. In this flow, somehow, I became giver of gifts, labouring for us in all things, says: ‘follow the example of Jesus and put a schoolteacher myself, teaching languages through Ignatius’ Exercises, which derive it into practice, and do it with compassion and literature. from his lived experience. and with joy, consoling one another and While home with small children, I Many ministry experiences confirm thinking about the needs of others’. discovered communal dimensions of the this. A prison inmate giving a First For me this teaching can be summed Exercises and discernment in Christian Spiritual Exercise to her cellmate, who up in four short phrases: express gratitude, Life Community. This was a taste of the missed the group meeting, is just one. seek beauty, offer service and live in joy. And ‘magnanimity’ beloved by Ignatius, ‘to of course, always seek the will of God and appreciate the small things inside large FR SACHA BERMUDEZ-GOLDMAN SJ let yourself be guided by the Holy Spirit, horizons, those of the kingdom of God’. (ORDAINED TO THE PRIESTHOOD so as to fulfil your mission. Found by God at the washing line. IN JUNE 2007) Ignatius believed that having a mission The opportunity to work as a pastoral gave purpose to our lives. I agree, and so associate in North Sydney Jesuit Parish does Pope Francis: ‘I am a mission on this extended my exposure to Ignatius and the earth; that is the reason why I am here in Exercises: in the people of that community, this world’ (Evangelii Gaudium, 273). receiving the Exercises myself, working For each of us as Christians, this with many Jesuits, learning from them mission is about making the life and action Towards the end of his Spiritual Exercises, and through wider Province relationships, of the Lord Jesus present to others in as we contemplate the appearances of including the Arrupe Program and post- all aspects of our lives: in our work, our Jesus to his disciples after the resurrection, graduate study. relationships, our achievements, and even St Ignatius invites us to ‘consider the The Exercises affirm friendship. Ignatius our challenges and limitations. God can office of consoler which the Lord carries was a tremendous friend. His letters be found in all these things, and this is out, and compare it with the way friends provide many touching examples, even certainly reason enough for me to rejoice! console one another’. by his often adding a ‘P.S.’ to say just one He also invites us to ‘be glad and to

Companions Winter 2019 11 Insights from youth

Journeying with youth means opening ourselves up to their perspectives. The Kircher Collection is one way that these insights are being celebrated and shared in our school communities.

n his letter introducing the Universal Apostolic Preferences, Fr General very essence of the study for the way IArturo Sosa spoke of journeying with young people not only in terms of what it resonates with their inner being’, the Society of Jesus can offer them, but also what they can offer us. says Saint Ignatius’ College Riverview Principal Dr Paul Hine. ‘Youth is the stage of human life when made names for themselves in art, music, ‘The quality of the works in each individuals make the fundamental drama, literature and history. of the fields was truly exceptional, but decisions by which they insert First published in 2014, the Kircher perhaps more important to each and themselves into society, seek to give Collection is an annual publication from every work is the heuristic process that meaning to their existence, and realise Saint Ignatius’ College Riverview that was entered into and the self-discovery their dreams’, Fr Sosa wrote. celebrates the achievements of senior that occurred along the way. ‘Young people continue opening up to students in these fields. It is named for Among the students whose work the future with the hope of building a life Athanasius Kircher SJ (1601-1680), a was included in the Kircher Collection of dignity in a reconciled world that is in Jesuit polymath known as ‘the Master was Xiao Gong. He shared something harmony with the environment. It is the of One Hundred Arts’. This year’s of the creative insights that can take young who, from their perspective, can collection brings together the work of 14 place when one engages in the arts help us to understand better the epochal students in various fields. and humanities. change that we are living and its hope- ‘Throughout Jesuit history, these ‘What we see around us ... is more filled newness.’ fields of pursuit have featured strongly than just exceptional work, more than One of the ways that young people and continue to attract boys to the elegant strokes of the brush, entrancing learn to explore ideas and share their insights about the world is through the arts and humanities. Jesuit schools have Young people continue opening up to the future with the hope of a long tradition of supporting artistic ‘building a life of dignity in a reconciled world that is in harmony endeavours, and many graduates have with the environment.’ 12 Companions Winter 2019 JOURNEYING WITH YOUTH

visuals captured, riveting melodies composed, captivating stories performed or eloquent words written. ‘These are messages from the deepest regions of our subconscious ... where we whisper our deepest secrets, fears and desires — and then gift them to others for them to unlock. And so we ask: where does my soul fit into this?

This became my personal ‘pursuit — understanding myself, and then imprinting myself into every single frame of my work.’ ‘This became my personal pursuit — understanding myself, and then imprinting myself into every single frame of my work. What I learned most about was myself. I am a pragmatist, secretly passionate, sceptical and intellectually rebellious.’ Similarly, Dominic Ephraums’ work Know Thyself prompted its own creative process. ‘Without moments of internal reflection we fail to know ourselves, we become a mere vessel; disseminators of others’ ideas … The black background [of my work] View some more of this year’s Kircher Collection works at serves as a void, a black hole from www.riverview.nsw.edu.au/publications. where one emerges into the light of self awareness.’

In celebrating and sharing the Top left: The 2018 Kircher scholars at the launch of the book in February, works of students, Jesuit schools and accompanied on the left by University of Sydney Associate Professor James Curran and on the right by Riverview Principal Dr Paul Hine. communities are not just accompanying Above: Dominic Ephraums with his artworks, titled Know Thyself. students in a deeper engagement with the world, but also enriching the broader community with their insights.

Michael McVeigh

Companions Winter 2019 13 REVIEWS Book reviews

Terence J. Kelly SJ, Gerald O’Collins SJ, Richard Leonard SJ, The A to Z of Portraits: Popes, Hatch Match & People of Faith Family and Friends, Dispatch: A Catholic and Science, Connor Court Guide to the ATF Theology, Publishing, Sacraments, Paulist ISBN ISBN Press, ISBN 1925643794 9781925826302 9780809106509 In this gem of a book, a wonderful Fr O’Collins complements his earlier In Hatch Match & Dispatch Fr Leonard resource for teachers and a new world autobiographical works by offering short displays his characteristic mixture of to readers for whom science is an portraits of significant people in his life, urgency, jauntiness, clarity, nostalgia for the unexplored mystery, Fr Kelly explores ranging from his parents to popes to old and passion for the new. Those who the relationship between science and a wide range of friends. His portraits have heard him speak will be delighted to religious faith. He does so by discussing of popes are enlivened by accounts of find familiar stories and jokes scattered people with a scientific bent who took his meetings with them and by vivid throughout. They complement his lucid religious faith seriously. He suggests that details that speak more powerfully summaries of the history and church people, both scientists and people of faith, than eulogies. This is a hospitable teaching about the sacraments. He treats have always tried to make sense of the book — a tribute to hosts who have deftly controversial questions, such as world in which they live, asking questions made him welcome during his life, and a the denial of the Eucharist to people both about how it is arranged and about celebration of guests who have found him who are remarried. He draws on Pope why it exists. They have differed among a knowledgeable and friendly companion. Francis’ description of the Church as a field themselves, disregarded one another, and It is filled with stories of meals, good hospital, suggesting the sacraments are have eventually come to some agreement. conversation, humour, and people met in about healing for the wounded, not merely celebration and in grief. for people of untroubled virtue.

OBITUARY

Vale, Fr Antony (‘Tony’) Ruhan SJ

Fr Tony Ruhan SJ died 23 December in Sydney, aged 90 years.

Tony joined the Jesuits in 1947. He of Papua New Guinea (1972–79). They rampant corruption. completed a Bachelor of Science at were volatile times. At one stage he Then he headed for Kampala, Uganda, Melbourne University and spent three found himself trying to keep warring where, as part of JRS Eastern Africa, he years teaching at Saint Ignatius’ College factions apart. tried to help Sudanese refugees (1994–96). in Adelaide. He was ordained in Sydney Tony also worked in nearby villages. For the most part he lived alone near the in 1960. Tony went to Rome to do a It was his first experience of life on the camps until UNHCR pulled workers out in biennium in Philosophy at the Gregorian frontiers. His next was in South Korea, the face of attacks from Idi Amin’s rebels. University. After Tertianship at St Andra where he went in late 1980 to teach He found his final frontier back in i Lavanttal, Karnten, in Austria, he at Sogang University. After a couple of Australia, where he spent the last 22 years undertook a PhD in the History of Ideas years he moved out of there to live with of his life ministering to homeless people and Methods at the University of Chicago. people being evicted by the government. in Sydney, including at St Canice’s, Kings His first enduring appointment was as He remained with them for 12 years, Cross, where he would occupy himself with lecturer in Philosophy at the University living in acute poverty in the face of menial tasks in the soup kitchen.

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Companions Winter 2019 15 REFLECTION

PROMOTING DISCERNMENT WALKING WITH AND THE SPIRITUAL EXCERCISES THE EXCLUDED

JOURNEYING WITH YOUTH

CARING FOR OUR COMMON HOME

The least Society in collaboration with others

‘They are not our preferences. We have followed the Holy Spirit, who has Fr General Arturo Sosa SJ guided and inspired us. We receive them confirmed by the Pope, trusting, Letter to the whole like Ignatius and the first companions, that he is the one who has the best Society of Jesus about the vision of the needs of the world and of the Church. Universal Apostolic Preferences ‘The Universal Apostolic Preferences will help us to overcome every form 2019–2029. of self-centeredness and corporatism, so that we may become authentic collaborators in the Lord’s mission, which we share with so many people inside and outside the Church. ‘The preferences are an opportunity for us to feel that we are the least Society in collaboration with others.’