Frascati: A Province meeting to recognize each other

It’s Tuesday afternoon, the morning’s lessons are over and lunch at San Saba is finishing. The members of the community belonging to the Euro-Mediterranean Province of the Society of Jesus – six scholastics, one brother and three fathers – are preparing to leave for Frascati, where a three-day assembly open to the whole body of the Province is being held (26-28 October). Among the topics planned are the Ignatian Year and its activities, the de statu of the Province and the realities of Malta and Romania. The questions and the enthusiasm of the participants made it possible to expand the agenda. In fact, there were almost one hundred Jesuits present, with different backgrounds and even more diverse ages.

Almost all the communities of the Province were represented, and certainly all the stages of formation and the different ministries entrusted. It was a time dedicated to meeting and sharing, which had no specific objective, other than that of being together, sharing, getting to know each other and understanding each other better, spending different times together: plenary assemblies, sharing in small groups, meals and social moments, as well as spontaneous meetings and face-to-face sharing, also made possible by the time available.

The Eucharistic celebrations were then an occasion to give thanks to the Lord of life for having come together as a body in this form, and to nourish ourselves together with His body and His blood, which make us a one and same apostolic body, capable of discerning, hoping, continuing to think and reworking projects that help souls for the greater glory of God.

Gugliemo Scocco, Scholastic