Welcome to Congregatio Jesu

During his visit to Hungary on the occasion of the World Eucharistic Congress, Pope Francis also paid special tribute to the sisters of the Congregatio Jesu.

Dear readers,
this website will be on holidays until mid September 2021. Thus, there will be no updates in the News section or in the Blog. Meanwhile, we do heartily invite you to explore the other content on this website and to find out more about Mary Ward women worldwide.

On every 23rd, we pray for the cause of Mary Ward.

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the CJ mission in Zimbabwe – the Platinum Anniversary of the birth of the Region, which now numbers 46 members. The Region has produced a 70th anniversary edition of its newsletter and we are very happy to share this now with all of you.

Students of Mary Ward schools have undertaken impressive acitivites on this year’s World Nature Conservation Day. They present it in this video. Enjoy!

On 31.07.2021, six prepostulants entered into their postulancy. The short ceremony was held in the chapel at Nirmala Convent, Jhansi.

We warmly invite you to pray with us and to join the livestream of the closing ceremeny of our Online Discernment Process on Sunday, 8 August 2021. It will begin at 16:00 Central European Time (Rome time) and finish at approximately 16:40.

On Saturday 31 July, the feast of St Ignatius, there will be a celebration of St Ignatius by Zoom. It is centred on the CJ pre-GC event, but all members of both congregations are most welcome to join in, and we hope there will be many of you.

“Human Trafficking is a crime against humanity and an open wound on the body of contemporary society” ---- Pope Francis

The sisters of the Indian Provinces and Regions are gathered for the Online Discernment Process and used this rare opportunity for two special events

This year, the feast of Saint Ignatius of Loyola is a special one. First, because it comes during the year designated as Ignatius 500, which commemorates the 500th anniversary of the wounding of the founder of the Jesuits during a battle in Pamplona in 1521 – an event that changed the course of his life. Second, because we celebrate it during our Online Discernment Process.

Therefore, we want to open this liturgy to the Mary Ward Family worldwide. We warmly invite sisters of the CJ and the IBVM, companions and friends of Mary Ward, teachers and pupils from Mary Ward schools, and all those who are united with us in thoughts and prayers to join the livestream of our liturgy on YouTube.

On the feast day of St. Magdalene the delegates from LEP and Spain had dinner at the Alza community in the north of Spain

Loreto Spirituality Centre in Llandudno

On every 23rd of each month, we remember our foundress, Venerable Mary Ward and pray for her cause

Where are the participants living during our Online Discernment Process? How do they live this time of sensing our realities? Some of them share their experiences in our blog. We happily invite you to discover their posts.

On 14 July 2021, the Online Discernment Process of the Congregatio Jesu began. The time of preparation for the General Congregation began with a solemn online liturgy in which all participants expressed their willingness to commit themselves wholeheartedly to the process over the next three and a half weeks.

Today, on the 14th July 2021, we begin our meeting to prepare for the General Congregation. 59 participants – 51 CJ and 8 IBVM – will gather online for this Pre-GC Discernment Process.

We prepared a picture with a quote of Mary Ward for every day of the Online Discernment Process. You will find them in the blog – one picture and one quote a day.

The General Leadership Report to the whole membership of the CJ for the years 2012 to 2020 is now available in the members’ area of the CJ website.

Sada Sahay Mata Convent Kapoori Meja, Allahabad conducted five days summer camp for children from 21st June to 26th June 2021

This year, at the end of the Laudato Si’ Special Year (May 2020-May 2021), our Mary Ward Family (IBVM/CJ) launched the Laudato Si’ Action Plan: Mary Ward Family Living Laudato Si’ Action Plan.

Day of prayer for the beatification of Mary Ward and for the healing of those who are sick

During the months of May/June, our sisters in St. Mary’s, Nainital following covid -19 protocols, and with the help of the local administration distributed rations to the needy catholic families of the parish, people of various villages, members of the leper colony, families of rag pickers, cycle rickshaw pullers and boatmen.

We are very excited to announce the launch of our newly designed website.

It presents information about the Congregatio Jesu and our mission, as well as the places where we live. It also features information about our foundress, the Venerable Mary Ward and the history of our congregation.

Ignatius 500 is the Ignatian Year that we celebrate to commemorate the 500th anniversary of an experience that transformed Ignatius of Loyola forever ...

To learn more about our union process, their is now a new website.

On 1 May 2021, Sr Shweta Kalapurackel CJ will begin her mission as the new Provincial of the Allahabad Province as Sr Roshni Cheenkallel CJ finishes her term of office.

On 1 April 2021, Sr Silvia Ruiz CJ will begin her mission as the new Provincial of the new Amerindian Province, composed of the former Argentinian, Brazilian and Chilean Provinces.

The English Province supports food banks during the Covid-19 oandemic.

On Wednesday 27 January 2021, the General Leadership teams of the CJ and the IBVM met online. The agenda was long and it was not possible to finish in one afternoon. Therefore, we met again on Thursday 4 February 2021.