Our Jesuit life is a call to apostolic service under the banner of the cross. This way of proceeding is our pathway to God. The grace we receive from God is for the salvation and spiritual good of both ourselves and others. The apostolic service of the Society of Jesus is the principle that regulates the entire formation of our members. As we know, ?mediocrity has no place in Ignatius‘ world …
In early 1958, a regional newspaperbased in Puno ran a series on villages aban-doned by the central government. How could it be that Lima is paved with luxury construction, parks and twenty-story buildings while the people of thesoutheast-ernmost region of Peru lived “with a paleolithic backwardness of more than a cen-tury”? Residents of Nuñoa, located on the wide nort…
In 1682 the Flemish Jesuit Philippe Couplet returned from a twenty-two-year stay in China. He arrived in Holland with heavy lug-gage. Among his many objects were several gifts donated by Candida Xu (1607–1680), an eminent Catholic lady of Songjiang (today part of Shang-hai city). The gifts included textiles, such as Mass vestments and altar cloths embroidered by Candida and her d…