Jesuit superior sets date for 2016 congregation to elect his successor
The general congregation to elect a new superior general for the Jesuits will begin with a Mass the evening of Oct 2, 2016, the order announced.
Dec 18, 2014

ROME: The general congregation to elect a new superior general for the Jesuits will begin with a Mass the evening of Oct 2, 2016, the order announced.
Last May, Fr Adolfo Nicolas, the current Jesuit superior, announced his intention to resign in late 2016 after he turns 80.
Announcing the exact date for the meeting, Fr Nicolas said, “It is providential that we, as a society, are beginning this journey” toward the congregation and election at the beginning of the Year of Consecrated Life.
In his letter for the year, Fr Nicolas said Dec. 9, “Pope Francis expresses his hopes that religious such as ourselves might rediscover the joy of consecrated life, recover our prophetic witness that ‘wakes up the world,’ truly become ‘experts in communion,’ and go ‘out of ourselves to the existential peripheries.’”
The Pope, he said, “asks that all religious discern ‘what it is that God and people today are asking of them.’ This is precisely the kind of deep discernment we, as a society, are called to make.”
The heads of Jesuit provinces around the world and other superiors will schedule and prepare provincial congregation meetings, which must be held before July 31 2015, Fr Nicolas said in a letter to the almost 17,000 Jesuits in the world. --CNS
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