May 11, 2020 — On Saturday May 9, following the advice of public health officials and other experts, the Jesuits of Canada have made the decision to temporarily close René Goupil House, the Jesuit infirmary community in Pickering, Ontario, and to transfer most residents to two facilities with specialized COVID-19 care wings. The temporary move will …
As new information emerges, updates are added towards the end of this page. May 3, 2020 – On April 20, the Durham Region Health Department declared a COVID-19 outbreak at René Goupil House, the Jesuit infirmary community in Pickering. Despite the center’s thorough prevention and management efforts, as in many other facilities across the …
Mer et Monde souhaite favoriser l’exercice de la solidarité entre les personnes et les peuples, en encourageant l’émergence d’un réseau d’artisans, qui osent des gestes significatifs pour la dignité de tous les humains aspirant à la liberté, à la justice, à la paix.
Villa Loyola, under the direction of the Jesuits of Sudbury, was built as a retreat centre in 1962 on 12 acres of land on the south shore of Long Lake.
Puisant sa source dans une histoire de plus de 150 ans et dans les valeurs de base des jésuites, le Gesù a toujours été un lieu de rencontre signifiant, inclusif, ouvert à l’humain. Aujourd’hui l’ensemble du lieu comprend l’église, les salles dont le grand amphithéâtre et une résidence.
Fondé par le père Jacques Beaupré, S.J. et les Fils de la Charité de Pointe-Saint-Charles, le camp a pour mission d’offrir à des jeunes de milieux défavorisés la possibilité de vivre une expérience de camp loin des pressions de la ville. Il offre aux étudiants du collège Jean-de-Brébeuf l’occasion de vivre l’expérience du don, du service, du partage, de la fraternité et de l’ouverture vers l’autre.
Des années trente à nos jours, la bibliothèque a pris une grande extension. Elle compte aujourd’hui près de 200 000 volumes.
Today, people living in what we now call Canada are faced with Covid-19, but it is far from being the first epidemic to attack those living on this continent. For the first few centuries after the arrival of Europeans in the Americas, up to 95% of the Indigenous populations lost their lives, in a large …
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Sixty or seventy years ago we were blessed with many novices and young religious in formation. Some of us of a certain vintage can remember these “good old days”, but they are gone. Are there factors that point to life or death for a religious community?
Led by his interest in art history and aesthetics, he also studied at the École du Louvre in Paris in 1982 and undertook a research project in philosophy on the theme of symbols at the Université de Montréal in 1988. Eventually moving towards aesthetic theology, his exploration of Hans Urs Van Balthazar’s work “Aesthetic aspects of revelation” earned him a Master’s degree in 1991. Upon graduation, an internship opportunity took the artist to Egypt, where he immersed himself in Egyptian culture and art.