Ordination à huis clos On the morning of Saturday, June 13, 2020, full rain clouds filled the skies as the deacons to be, processed to the Chapel in masks and gloves with the ordaining prelate, Mgr. Jean Salomon Lezoutié, Bishop of the diocese of Yopougon in Côte d'Ivoire. The ominous nature of
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An Act of Service
Diaconate Ordination of Evans Appiah, S.J. On Saturday 27th April 2019 - Evans Appiah, SJ joined 20 others, comprising 16 Jesuits and 4 Oblates of St. Francis de Sales, to be ordained deacons at the Institut de Théologie de la Compagnie de Jesus (ITCJ), Abidjan. The Mass, which
The Tale of an Eloquent Jesuit Peasant
Final Vows of Fr. Evaristus Ekwueme, SJ Wednesday of the fourth week of Lent, 2019. It was the third day of the month of April. You could hardly tell that it was Lenten season in the Chapel of the Holy Name at Arrupe Jesuit University. It was a regular Wednesday community Mass for the Jesuits, but
To be with Jesus in order to serve him
Final Vows of Fr. Edmund Agorhom, SJ Two white buses drove into the Holy Cross Brothers parking lot. One of the coaches brought students of Our Lady of Apostles (OLA) College of Education, Cape Coast, Ghana. The other bus had the boys’ choir from St. Augustine’s College, Cape Coast. Fr. Edmund
Have you read what you are about to sign?
Final Vows of Fr. Ikechukwu Chidolue, SJ and Fr. Chikere Ugwanyi, SJ Tuesday, 19 March 2019 - It was a beautiful evening. Priests and religious, students and parishioners, friends and family made their way to the Divine Physician and St. Luke Catholic Chaplaincy (LUTH) Idi-Araba, Lagos to witness
Five new deacons: Call to service
Rev. Christian Okeke SJ, Rev. Collins Obidiagha SJ, Rev. Martin Ihezie SJ, Rev. Reginald Nwakolobi SJ, and Rev. Temple Anuforo SJ March 2, 2019 - Five of our companions: Christian Okeke SJ, Collins Obidiagha SJ, Martin Ihezie SJ, Reginald Nwakolobi SJ, and Temple Anuforo SJ were ordained
From the Eternal City to the Holy Land
The journey from the Eternal City, Rome to the Holy Land, Jerusalem for a semester of studies at the Rothberg International School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was not a pilgrimage of change of cities but one of longing to quench desires seeking to understand the Holy Bible. From 5th