Timor Leste

Ready to be Sent

Jesuits are branded as intellectuals. A Jesuit told me that he once met a young man who wanted to join the Society but thought that he was not smart enough.  The Jesuit’s response was “Do not worry about becoming a Jesuit intellectual. You will soon find out there are in fact only a few of us.”

The Gift of Education

There is an old proverb that says: “If it were not for our hope, our hearts would break.”  Education offers that hope. 

President’s Report on 2012

In 2012, we began to see dreams and plans become reality.  Nowhere was that more obvious than in Timor-Leste with the ground breaking in July for an educational institute. Over subsequent months the first buildings were erected, the first students selected to begin at level 7 in the secondary school that is the first part of the institute, and the first cadre of teachers were introduced to Ignatian pedagogy.  

Caring for prisoners in Dili

Submitted on April 27, 2013 - 2:37 pm

The Jesuits in Dili celebrate the Holy Eucharist at the prison in Becora, Dili on the second Sunday of every month.  Prompted by Pope Francis’ celebration of the Mass of the Lord’s Supper at a prison in Rome, Brother Noel Oliver SJ shares his impressions of the Jesuits’ prison ministry in Dili.

RJM collaborators in Timor-Leste

Submitted on March 24, 2013 - 10:18 pm

In February, the Jesuits in Timor-Leste welcomed their latest collaborators in their education mission – the Religious of Jesus and Mary (RJM).  

Sr Selma and Sr Mary with a student at the school

Teacher turns builder to realise education dream

Submitted on March 23, 2013 - 10:05 pm

An academic in charge of a large-scale construction project? Australian Jesuit Fr Quyen Vu SJ doesn’t understand how it happened either.  “Yes, I laugh about my new role sometimes. I am now immersed in building construction,” he says.

This eight-hectare site in the Kasait in Timor-Leste is being transformed into the new St Ignatius of Loyola Kasait under Fr Quyen’s watch as the vice-principal of the new Jesuit school.

Colégio Santo Inácio de Loiolá opens

Submitted on January 28, 2013 - 9:21 pm

Not all children look forward to the first day of school, but for the 74 first students of Colégio Santo Inácio de Loiolá, January 15 was a much-anticipated day.  Nearly all of them arrived one hour before the school day began at 8.30am.

Whither the way in education

Submitted on December 20, 2012 - 11:25 am

The Jesuits and partners in Cambodia continue to discern the way forward in education.  In October, four educators from the various parts of the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific visited Cambodia as part of the Cambodian Mission’s Preparatory Planning Mission (PPM) team.  The local members of the PPM included three Jesuits, Frs OH Indon and Gabby Lamug-Nanawa and Br Ham Toeun, and two partners, Sr Ljudmila Anzic (Salesians) and Br Terry Heinrich (Marists). 

Timor Leste school on track to open in January

Submitted on December 19, 2012 - 11:49 am

Colégio de Santo Inácio de Loiolá, the new Jesuit secondary school in Timor Leste, is on track to open as scheduled on January 15, with its first batch of students in Year 7.

On December 15, 79 boys and girls were informed they were successful in their application to the school. They had undergone a three-stage selection process that began in August.

Structures for mission

Submitted on November 21, 2012 - 9:16 am

In September, the six Conference Presidents gathered in Rome for their annual meeting with Fr General. Although we came from very different parts of the world, we could experience much in common in our roles of service to the Society’s global mission. 

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