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In the following homily from 1973, Pedro Arrupe asks that people embrace the most authentic expression of devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus by sharing effective love with one another. Such sharing would be a suitable response to the “sign of love” Jesus gave from the cross. For more sources from Arrupe, please visit The

Pedro Arrupe delivered the following homily on the Feast of the Sacred Heart in June 1975. Months before, Pope Paul VI published an apostolic exhortation, Gaudete in Domino (Christian Joy). Here, Arrupe responds to false devotion to the Sacred Heart. He asks if the feast day was one of sorrow and sadness or one of

The following are notes, rather incomplete yet intimate ones, written by Pedro Arrupe before his stroke in August 1981. The Jesuits’ Superior General describes celebrating Mass, alone, in his private chapel reserved at the Curia in Rome. He provides glimpses of his passionate intimacy with the Eucharist and of his burdens of his office: “the

Pedro Arrupe delivered a stirring and personal address to the celebration hosted by the Eucharistic Youth Movement in September 1979. In the edited text below, Arrupe provides examples of his own experiences of the Eucharist—from witnessing a miracle at Lourdes to witnessing the aftermath of the atomic explosion in Hiroshima. “Our Lord, through contact with

The Synod of Bishops on Catechesis took place in October 1977. Superior General Pedro Arrupe delivered two addresses during the meetings, the first of which appears below. The remarks address the relationship between catechesis and inculturation. “The absence of inculturation,” Arrupe states, “is one of the main obstacles to evangelization.” To assist, he identifies some

The Ignatian Center for Spirituality in Rome closed a five-week conference on Ignatian Spirituality on February 18, 1978, with Pedro Arrupe delivering the following remarks. The Superior General of the Society of Jesus based his remarks on a phrase from the Jesuits’ Formula, approved by Pope Julius III in 1550.  For Arrupe, the phrase “To

Nicolás delivered the following homily in Rome’s Church of the Gesù on January 20, 2008. The day before, the 217 members of General Congregation 35 had elected Nicolás, the former provincial of Japan and president of the Conference of Major Superiors of East Asia and Oceania, as their order’s new general. For more from the

In their first ballots, the delegates of the 33rd General Congregation elected Peter-Hans Kolvenbach their new superior general. After, the former the vice-provincial of the Near East offers this homily. For more from the 33rd General Congregation of the Society of Jesus, please consult this page.     September 16, 1983   As we take up