Ignatian Year 2021-2022
From May 2021 until July 2022, the Society of Jesus is celebrating an Ignatian Year. What is an Ignatian Year? May 20, 2021, marked the 500th anniversary of St. Ignatius’ conversion — that fateful day when Ignatius the soldier, struck by a cannonball, began his transformation into Ignatius the pilgrim.
“It is my desire that at the heart of this Ignatian year we will hear the Lord calling us, and we will allow him to work our conversion inspired by the personal experience of Ignatius,” wrote the Superior General of the Jesuits, Fr. Arturo Sosa, S.J. in his letter to the whole Society on September 27, 2019. The celebration is themed, “To see all things new in Christ'' and is an invitation to the whole Society to “‘be renewed’ by the Lord himself” and “an opportunity to know, to love, and to follow the Lord of all things,” wrote Fr. Sosa.
The peak of the celebration will fall on March 12, 2022, the fourth centenary of the canonization of St Ignatius with St Francis Xavier, St Teresa of Jesus, St. Isidore Labrador, and St Philip Neri. The Ignatian year is a call to allow the Lord to work on our conversion. “We ask for the grace to be renewed by the Lord and wish to discover a new apostolic enthusiasm inside ourselves, a new life, new ways to follow the Lord,” said Fr. Sosa.
The whole year will be guided by the Universal Apostolic Preferences which were announced in 2019 and continue until 2029. We know that assimilating them means conversion for each one of us, for our communities, our institutions, and our apostolic works.
“The Universal Apostolic Preferences (2019-2029) have confirmed the call to our personal, community, and institutional conversion, which is necessary for our greater spiritual and apostolic freedom and adaptability,” said Fr. Sosa. “Let us take this opportunity to let God transform our life-mission, according to his will.”
God continues to invite each of us into a deepening relationship, to ongoing conversion. We believe that by embracing this invitation, we embrace our God who calls us to act in new, bold ways that reconcile our world, bringing about justice, peace, and compassion.
Read more about the Ignatian Year by visiting www.jesuits.org/ignatianyear. Click here to see pictures from the special assembly held on campus on May 20th.
BELEN JESUIT PREPARATORY SCHOOL
500 SW 127th Avenue, Miami, FL 33184
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500 SW 127th Avenue, Miami, FL 33184
phone: 305.223.8600 | fax: 305.227.2565 | email: communications@belenjesuit.org
Belen Jesuit Preparatory School was founded in 1854 in Havana, Cuba, by Queen Isabel II of Spain. The task of educating students was assigned to the priests and brothers of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits), whose teaching tradition is synonymous with academic excellence and spiritual discipline. In 1961, the new political regime of Cuba confiscated the school's property and expelled the Jesuit faculty. The School was re-established in Miami the same year, and over the next decade, continued to grow. Today, Belen Jesuit is situated on a 34-acre site in western Dade County, just minutes away from downtown Miami.