Message from Cristina Sison: (see mailing list for more details and contact info)

Recently, there has been a clamor among Ateneans and their friends and families for opportunities for a deeper exploration of our faith and the question

of what it is to continue to live out Ateneo’s four guiding principles:

academic excellence

spiritual maturity

social awareness

cultural rootedness

 

and the lifelong question “What is it to be a man/woman-for-others?”

 

To begin and for many, to re-begin or continue this journey, we would like to start by inviting everyone to come together as a group for prayer and the Celebration of the Holy Eucharist as a community.

 

We hope for this to be the beginning of more opportunities for individual spiritual formation.  We look forward to everyone’s inputs, thoughts and needs, to discern as a community what we are called to do as individuals and as a community as we live and work in this area.

   

To celebrate the Feast Day of our Patron Saint

St. Ignatius of Loyola

the Ateneo Alumni of the DC/VA/MA (AAAMWDC)would like to invite all of you to celebrate

the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

with us

 

on

 

August 2, 2008

 

6:30 p.m.

 

To be concelebrated by

Fr. Peter Pojol, SJ

and

Fr. Arnel Aquino, SJ

 

At

 

Our Lady of Good Counsel

8601 Wolftrap Rd
Vienna, VA 22182
(703) 938-2828
Get directions

If anyone is interested in participating and/or organizing the choir, and participating in the Offertory or Prayers of the Faithful please contact the following:

Gina Alfonso

Gerry Berdan

 

 

 

 

We will have time for a short discussion after the Holy Mass to gather suggestions and inputs in order to design a longer term formation program for all who are interested.  

 

 

 

TIDBITS ON ST. IGNATIUS

 

St. Ignatius was born in the family castle in Guipúzcoa, Spain, the youngest of 13 children, and was called Iñigo. When he was old enough, he became a page, and then a soldier of Spain to fight against the French. A cannon ball and a series of bad operations ended his military career in 1521. While St. Ignatius recovered, he read the lives of the saints, and decided to dedicate himself to becoming a soldier of the Catholic Faith. Soon after he experienced visions, but a year later suffered a trial of fears and scruples, driving him almost to despair. Out of this experience he wrote his famous “Spiritual Exercises”. After traveling and studying in different schools, he finished in Paris, where he received his degree at the age of 43. Many first hated St. Ignatius because of his humble Lifestyle. Despite this, he attracted several followers at the university, including St. Francis Xavier, and soon started his order called The Society of Jesus, or Jesuits. There are 38 members of the Society of Jesus who have been declared Blessed, and 38 who have been canonized as saints. He died at the age of 64.

 

Born 24 December 1491(1491-12-24), Loyola (Azpeitia) Died 31 July 1556 (aged 64), Rome Venerated in Catholic Church Beatified 27 July 1609 by Paul V Canonized 12 March 1622, Roma by Gregory XV Feast 31 July Attributes Eucharist, chasuble, book, cross Patronage Basque country, Dioceses of Donostia and Bilbao, Spain, Military Ordinariate of the Philippines, Society of Jesus, soldiers, Biscay

P.S.  Many thanks to  Juancho Cajayon who helped facilitate the venue  for this occasion.

Cristina Sison