Provincial

For those who make Ignatian spirituality the source and foundation of their life, we should be to live it in any context and in any time, in which the Lord calls us to live.

For we are called to take on the history of this new 21 st century, characterized by incredible advances in communication and globalization, we feel the need to communicate and to be united also by means that is the internet, the computer, and everyone of computer science, who is able to know and to communicate with us beyond any distance.

Entering our site, we want you to be welcomed by us who want to live the whole richness of the Ignatian charisma and we want to share with you the realness of our spirituality and the energy of our Jesuit mission for today. More than admiring one aspect or other, highlighting one activity or other, drafting a question or an observation, before anything else acknowledge with us the Lord of the life through the Spiritual Exercises, that St. Ignatius of Loyola left to us.

Through this experience we are invited still today to be called to be under Jesus Christ's banner, so that we are people crucified to the world, capable of giving life for the accomplishment of the creative project that wants us to be happy men and women, capable of living together in fraternity and peace, the fruit of the love in justice that overcomes corruption and of the love of truth that overcomes any lie.

It is the Utopia of Christians, that is made present in us by our commitment of service to faith and the promotion of justice in the present situations of the world, that needs evermore our presence and witness to life. It is the mission of Jesus Christ, from whom we identify ourselves and we are only his humble servants.

Fr. João Pedro Cornado SJ

Provincial of Bahia
November of 2003

See the first letter of the former Provincial Fr. Emílio Magro Moreira SJ., when the Bahia Province Web site was first realeased. Click to see