EVERYBODY'S CHALLENGE - Jesuit Refugee Service | USA
EVERYBODY'S CHALLENGE - Jesuit Refugee Service | USA
EVERYBODY'S CHALLENGE - Jesuit Refugee Service | USA
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Some of those Provinces which have... encouraged<br />
men to offer themselves for refugee work for short<br />
periods of time, perhaps as part of a sabbatical, are<br />
discovering that <strong>Jesuit</strong> involvement in the refugee<br />
work is attracting growing interest to the Society...<br />
The influence on men returning from time spent<br />
in refugee camps on their Province, within their<br />
communities and on the people they encounter in<br />
their ministries, is real and profound. As one <strong>Jesuit</strong><br />
said: “We want our <strong>Jesuit</strong> brothers to share in this<br />
great experience. It is a wonderful way to have a<br />
deep, spiritual renewal... An experience of total detachment.<br />
You usually practice poverty without<br />
noticing it. But now you are one of the refugees.<br />
You are not attached to anything.”<br />
Dieter Scholz SJ, ‘The <strong>Jesuit</strong> <strong>Refugee</strong> <strong>Service</strong>’, <strong>Refugee</strong> <strong>Service</strong><br />
and Mission Today, 1983<br />
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