REDISCOVERING
THE INSPIRATIONAL SOURCES

Seminar on
Ignatius, Francis and Peter For Today's Creative Leadership

ARRUPE DAY
5 February, 2006


Pedro Arrupe Institute
Raia, Goa

Introduction: Arrupe Day, 5th Feb. 2006: General Introduction
Dear friends, welcome to this seminar on the three Jubilee Fathers, Ignatius of Loyola, Francis Xavier and Peter Faber who can be seen models of creative leadership for us. As we know, 2006 is the 450th death anniversary of Ignatius and the 500th birth anniversary of Xavier and Faber. more...
A Blessed 'Companion': Having journeyed with St. Ignatius as a visionary and St. Francis Xavier as a missionary, now let us journey with Bl. Peter Faber. The early Jesuits considered him, along with Francis Xavier, as one of the founding stones upon which Ignatius laid this Society. However, Faber was almost a forgotten personality among successive generations of Jesuits. Moreover, the fourth General of the Society, more...
Ignatian Vision of Transformative Leadership: Part I: Introduction: "Up to the age of twenty-six, he was a man given to the follies of the world; and what he enjoyed most was exercise with arms, having a great and foolish desire to win fame."
Thus begins the Memoirs of Ignatius Loyola, and were it not for the providential.. more...
St. Francis Xavier : Leader Of The Missions Unto Indies: Part I: INTRODUCTION TO THE LETTERS OF XAVIER:Francis Xavier needs no introduction, especially here in Goa, where the figure of Xavier has assumed legendary proportions. In this paper we acknowledge Xavier as part of our Ignatian ... more...