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Meet the New Novices
Eric Hanna
Eric Hanna is 25 years old and a graduate of the Jesuit post-secondary institution Campion College at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan. Having been interested in the priesthood and encouraged in this desire by his family and the Campion community, Eric completed a BA in Philosophy with a minor in Religious Studies. Eric has a strong interest in Catholic social teachings and Liberation Theology. Last year, Eric began a program with the Jesuits in Québec City learning to speak and write French. He also worked for six months at Loyola Highschool in Montreal, assisting as a teacher in the areas of philosophy and religion and tutouring in many other subjects. He came away from these experiences with a deeper appreciation for the help and friendship of Christ as comes through living in a Jesuit community and working in a Jesuit ministry. Eric says, "the Jesuits, like my family and friends, have been very good to me: guiding me to this wonderful new beginning. It is marvellous to see Christ working through each member of the Society I have met."
Adam Hincks
Adam Hincks was born in Toronto, ON in 1982 and is the eldest of three children. His family lived in Lesotho, Southern Africa from 1986 to 1993 where his parents were volunteers with Mennonite Central Committee. After completing a bachelor's degree in physics at the University of Toronto in 2004, he moved to New Jersey for graduate work in physics at Princeton University, obtaining a Ph.D. in 2009. His area of research was cosmology and involved several months of field work on the Atacama Cosmology Telescope in the Chilean Andes.
Daniel Leckman
Daniel Leckman was born in Laval, QC in 1973. His love for social sciences, arts and literature began at Vanier College (Cegep) and continued to develop throughout his years at McGill Univ. He graduated from McGill in 1999 with a double Bachelor in History and Russian Studies. After a few years of working in the office world, he completed a Master's Certificate in Community Development at Concordia Univ. in 2007. It was here that he discovered his passion for social justice and where he found his Jesuit vocation.
Edward (Ted) Penton
Edward (Ted) Penton was born in 1974 in Ottawa, ON. After obtaining a master's degree in philosophy he joined the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, and spent two years working with migrant farmworkers at Legal Aid of North Carolina. In 2005 he graduated from Harvard Law School. Following a clerkship with Justice Morris Fish of the Supreme Court of Canada he worked at the Human Rights Law Section of the federal Department of Justice until 2009.
Juan Trujillo
Juan Trujillo was born in Tulua, Colombia in 1987, the second of four children. He was educated in San Ignacio de Loyola Jesuit High School. After graduation, he travelled to Italy where he studied Italian at the Università per gli Stranieri in Perugia. In 2006, he and his family immigrated to Vancouver, BC. There he began engineering studies at UBC but withdrew when he felt God was calling him to become a priest and a Jesuit. Prior to his entrance to the novitiate, Juan spent a year working and living with the Jesuits. His interests include soccer, languages, working with the neediest and sharing with people.
In Memory of Fr. Joseph C. Johnson, S.J.
June 10, 1923 - July 22, 2009
When a Jesuit dies a Memorial Scholarship is established in his name. Family and friends are invited to contribute. By contributing to a scholarship in Fr. Johnson's name, you will honour his memory.
Fr. Johnson's mission was to Parish ministry and he spent the majority of his life in that work.
- 1958 - 1973 — Halifax at St. Mary's University, Canadian Martyrs Parish as Pastor
- 1973 - 1982 — Toronto at Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, as Pastor
- 1982 - 1992 — Winnipeg at St. Ignatius Parish, as Pastor and then 1992-2007 as Associate Pastor
- 2007 - 2009 — Pickering at Rene Goupil Jesuit Community and Infirmary, Ministry of Prayer
Would you like to contribute to the existing Joseph C. Johnson, S.J. memorial scholarship? The scholarship is invested and the interest is used to support a young Jesuit in training doing their studies in preparation for apostolic work in the Church.
Download a donation form (PDF)
Fr. Bisson Speaks to International Alumni/ae Group
Fr. Peter Bisson, S.J., gave a talk on The New Jesuit Forum for Social Faith and Justice to our International Jesuit Alumni/ae group on March 12, 2009.
New Provincial of Jesuits in English Canada
We are very pleased to announce the decision of Father General Adolfo Nicolas, the Superior General of the Society of Jesus, to name Father James Webb S.J. as the next Provincial of the Jesuits in English Canada.
Fr. Webb was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia and spent his formative years in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. He entered the Society of Jesus after graduating from St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish in 1964. After philosophy studies in Spokane, Washington, he worked for two years at Brebeuf College School in Toronto, before continuing studies in theology at Regis College in Toronto.
Fr. Jim Webb, SJ
Fr. Webb was ordained to the priesthood in Toronto in June, 1973. From 1973-86, Fr. Webb worked in social ministry in Toronto, a ministry that included being a founding director of the Jesuit Centre for Social Faith and Justice, Catholic New Times, the Taskforce on Corporate Responsibility, the South Riverdale Community Health Centre and the Canadian Alternative Investment Cooperative.
In 1986, Fr. Webb moved to Jamaica, to continue social ministry, first based at St. Peter Claver Church in Kingston and more recently at St. Theresa's Church in Annotto Bay. From 1997 to 2006 he was the Regional Superior of the Jesuits in Jamaica. In 1998 he became the Chairman of the Board of Management of Campion College, Jamaica's leading academic high school. He also chairs the Justice Commission of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kingston, the St. Mary Rural Development Project and is the Board Secretary of Citizens Action For Free and Fair Elections, of which he was a founding director.
Fr. Webb will begin his term as Provincial Superior of the English Canada Province on July 31, 2008. He will succeed Fr. Jean-Marc Laporte S.J., who has served as the Provincial Superior since 2002. I know Fr. Webb will appreciate your support and prayers as he plans to assume leadership of the Province in the coming months.
Mother's Day Mass
Our Annual Mother’s Day Mass was celebrated on Sunday, May 10, 2009, at Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Toronto.
